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by brox 2y ago
Molly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war... . There's a process for
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by brox 2y ago
Measurement of subjective wellbeing has a long history in healthcare and can be very useful for both treatment and research; see e.g. pain scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_scale
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by brox 2y ago
It's long, but do give it a chance. The main premise is how the legend of Feynman (as in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!") is often at odds with Feynman the person. It is neither a character assassination nor a redem
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The sham legacy of Richard Feynman [video](youtube.com)
7 points by brox 2y ago|3 comments
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by brox 3y ago
1.5 hours of complete downtime for our apps now. We're getting "App boot timeout" errors for every request and "One or more of these arguments were missing: uid, gid, gateway, somaxconn, event_fd, out_fd" for schedu
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by brox 3y ago
Case in point: The ongoing Covid-19 inquiry request for access to government WhatsApp messages: https://www.ft.com/content/208263bf-b6bb-4ea6-8e6b-ee2e522ac...
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by brox 3y ago
Later popes did indeed. Popes Leo XIII and Pius X were drinkers of the Vin Mariani coca wine, the former even awarding its creator Angelo Mariani a Vatican gold medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani
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by brox 5y ago
If using Django there are tools like django-docs ( https://django-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) and the recently released django-sphinx-view ( https://noumenal.es/django-sphinx-view/ ).
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by brox 5y ago
She was interviewed on February 4th 2021 as part of their digital events series ("An audience with Ann Wroe, obituaries editor"). Worth a listen: https://economist-subsevents.zoom.us/rec/play/5b6CntzRCPHS
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by brox 6y ago
You can buy it on itch.io as well: https://www.anchorhead-game.com/purchase/
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by brox 6y ago
For those familiar with the original 1998 version, note that a remastered and illustrated edition was released in 2018--worth a replay and a good way of supporting the author! https://store.steampowered.com/app/726870&
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by brox 7y ago
You may be thinking of Ice Station Zebra (1968). The Wikipedia page mentions Project COLDFEET as one of the inspirations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
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by brox 7y ago
I remember young me spending hours on a VIC-20 version of animal.bas ("Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you"). Given enough time and training input the computer could answer any question put to it! It helped open
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by brox 8y ago
Perhaps the life forms with long-term success have learned that it is not prudent to broadcast your location; the smaller the chance of other civilisations knowing about your existence the better.
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by brox 8y ago
For the kind of diagram in your example I have been using Cacoo for some time now: https://cacoo.com It does not take a lot of practice to get decent results and they also have some nice networking/AWS icon templates. I thi
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by brox 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, folks!
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by brox 8y ago
Would like to hear general information security recommendations as well.
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by brox 8y ago
I find Ben Eater's 8-bit computer from scratch series really wonderful, mainly because of his skills as an educator and the effort he puts into the material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXN
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Microservices and Docker for geographically distributed projects(hyvar-project.eu)
3 points by brox 10y ago|0 comments
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by brox 11y ago
Analogy, metaphor or just simple evocative imagery are good tools for making subject matter stick, though: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/lecture...
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by brox 11y ago
Also, any good examples of Django REST with React out there?
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by brox 16y ago
Shannon's original paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", is still a good read: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...
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Craft vs science: thoughts on computer science education(blog.borud.no)
1 points by brox 16y ago|0 comments
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Programming languages for beginners(blog.borud.no)
12 points by brox 16y ago|11 comments
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Sincerial, a general recommendation service, launched(knuthellan.com)
3 points by brox 17y ago|1 comments
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How to get pip/virtualenv/Fabric working on Cygwin(atbrox.com)
1 points by brox 17y ago|0 comments
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Updated AWS/Go Daddy dedicated server cost comparison(thomas.broxrost.com)
4 points by brox 17y ago|0 comments
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Why Amazon Web Services just became a competitive web hosting provider(thomas.broxrost.com)
7 points by brox 18y ago|0 comments
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Ajax with Python - Combining PyJS and Appengine with json-rpc(amundblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by brox 18y ago|0 comments
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Dostoevsky on the dangers of science(thomas.broxrost.com)
18 points by brox 18y ago|11 comments

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