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by biddlesby 6y ago
See "it's less infectious than airborne viruses, like measles" at https://bestlifeonline.com/coronavirus-facts/ It seems like the primary transmission mode is through droplets, not air
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I saw a very simple visualisation of floating point by simply plotting points along the number line and zooming out. That gets the idea across very quickly!
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by biddlesby 6y ago
A woman can just as easily write a bro-culture article as a man, and you don't have to have worked in Silicon Valley to pick up on the culture. It's splashed all over the internet. If the article reads like bro culture, that'
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Has a blockchain hash ever been successfully used as a piece of evidence in a real court case?
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by biddlesby 6y ago
What are org-mode files?
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Exactly this
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by biddlesby 7y ago
It's a trade off. We've started using a code formatter recently: the overwhelming majority of the code in our team is more readable because it's so standardised. There are a few sub-optimal lines here and there but I wouldn&#
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by biddlesby 7y ago
It doesn’t break existing code. Code written for Python 3.7 might break on older versions of Python
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by biddlesby 7y ago
I don't get this reference: what happened at Yahoo mail and how did it work out?
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by biddlesby 7y ago
> previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off - though Twitter said it would be a gradual process, beginning with users outside of the US.
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by biddlesby 7y ago
Ha! Bravo
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by biddlesby 7y ago
Did the black hole impart any energy to the leaving star? It sounds more like there were two stars each under the other's influence and the black hole removed one star, freeing the other to go off on an adventure
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by biddlesby 7y ago
A quick Google suggests some difference in the US, in law if not practice. In particular that the internship experience is for the benefit of the intern and the company derives no immediate benefit from the intern's activities (and may
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by biddlesby 7y ago
It's wishful thinking that it would reduce energy consumption! If the format is more efficient people will just load more.
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by biddlesby 7y ago
How does this quote demonstrate that the service provider was not at fault?
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by biddlesby 7y ago
I was working at the visual effects studio responsible (Double Negative) at the time. I didn't work on that project but it was pretty cool work they were doing, and was in close collaboration with Kip.
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by biddlesby 7y ago
Companies also need to pay tax and other per-kWh costs on top of the spot price: are you taking that into account?
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by biddlesby 7y ago
Do the regulators take into account whether the firm is actually at fault? Without considering what happened in this specific scenario, surely there are cases where companies take the utmost care, follow standard security principles and sti
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by biddlesby 7y ago
> Well guess what, that's a design decision and we live in a free market - so if you don't like it you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone. This shifts blame off suppliers and on to consumers. Suppliers can do wh
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by biddlesby 8y ago
The status updates are bearing a remarkable resemblence to a Windows loading bar. • We aim to serve fully consistent data within the next 2 hours. • 45 minutes later . On track for serving fully consistent data within the next 1.5 hours •
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by biddlesby 9y ago
In other words, it's just the kind of effect natural selection is renowned for: odd, hackish solutions that work to solve proximate problems Funny, this is industry-accepted programming practice too. I'm going to call it "e