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by bsmithers 2y ago
Really? I think we have exactly the same problem in the UK. Granted, my eyes are more susceptible post laser surgery, but headlights are definitely getting brighter and higher as the years go by.
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The forgotten story of Britain’s perilous bid to fly around the world(telegraph.co.uk)
15 points by bsmithers 2y ago|4 comments
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by bsmithers 2y ago
> And yet there have been several recent studies that show the younger someone is, the more likely they are to be scammed online. I think you are misreading the post. Pretty sure they meant you could trick me into believing I was talkin
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by bsmithers 2y ago
One big difference is that there are lots of reviews for $CommonPosition. With this, you'd have to expect that most reviews are the only one for a given property/landlord
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by bsmithers 2y ago
I find that storing the jars upside down works surprisingly well.
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by bsmithers 3y ago
From the article: > Unfortunately, if you’ve been observing the p-values, you’ve noticed that most have been very high, and therefore that test is not enough evidence that the tips/threats change the distribution It doesn't loo
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by bsmithers 3y ago
4.5L of 0.5% ABV beer would not make you drunk. For comparison, this is equivalent to less than a pint of a typical mainstream beer. Indeed a 0.5% ABV drink can be branded alcohol free (at least in the UK). Would 4.5L of 2% ABV make you dru
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by bsmithers 4y ago
Love the game. Couple of nits on the site: - changing puzzle size seems to break the back button - scroll behaviour is a bit strange (Pixel 5, Chrome, if it helps)
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by bsmithers 5y ago
Excellent article. Faceted visualisation is an incredibly powerful technique. Something the author hints at but isn't quite explicit: manual inspection of individual examples from your dataset can help you understand what questions to
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by bsmithers 5y ago
Not to be pedantic, but that's a bit of a non-argument. _Of course_ you can do it with xargs and shell, but imho parallel is generally more convenient, especially for remote execution. It provides a higher level of abstraction for such
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by bsmithers 6y ago
I don't get this at all. What happens if they reply to you - maybe hours later - when you are the one presenting?
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by bsmithers 6y ago
I think it's on you - as the receiver of a message - to appropriately deal with your messaging app of choice such that it doesn't interupt your flow. Otherwise, you are placing an impossible burden on the sender of the message to
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by bsmithers 6y ago
I assumed the intention is to alert a driver who really needs to take a break. I don't see what other use it has, other than to annoy me when overtaking a cyclist.
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by bsmithers 6y ago
The refusal to lock was probably that you'd not fully switched off the engine. I've had this on my Qashqai. The fuel-saving system that automatically turns off the engine when you're stopped and out-of-gear can be confusing.
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Cell Conversion Startup Raises $3.7M(businessweekly.co.uk)
1 points by bsmithers 8y ago|0 comments
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by bsmithers 8y ago
Really interesting. It must take such discipline to collect this data for 3.5 years. Trying to answer the question of "does work make me happy?" is much more complex than comparing happiness levels between work and non-work days -
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by bsmithers 9y ago
An overblown title -- non-protein-coding genes have been known about for a long time. However, the transport of micro RNAs on sperm is a pretty cool mechanism - hope it is correct!
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by bsmithers 9y ago
I find it odd that they refer to this as dynamic pricing. I know someone in this industry and they've been doing 'dynamic pricing' for decades - specifically pricing for expected and actual demand. I suspect they've deli
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by bsmithers 9y ago
So did they compare the total number of steps in the 2 groups? Although the 3x 10 minutes only counted for 3,000 steps, the participants in that group could easily have walked 7,000 steps outside of that 30 minute window. Also, do people
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by bsmithers 9y ago
Whether or not the speciation is "complete" is not really the point - the title of the article says they are "...caught in the act of becoming new species" - in fact the article highlights the difficulty in stating what
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by bsmithers 9y ago
If you haven't discovered issues with your language of choice then you haven't used it enough
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by bsmithers 9y ago
It's interesting that a few people are relating this to team work. I think that is a misinterpretation. By 'others' I would infer something more like 'competitors', though I mean that relatively loosely. Essentially
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by bsmithers 9y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right. I missed that. Apologies.
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by bsmithers 9y ago
>please take this time to at least consider GPL varients (A/L/GPLv3) for as much of your tooling as you possibly can. (perhaps CC0/CCBY/CCBYSA for content) I'm sorry but Creative Commons themselves declare that t
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by bsmithers 9y ago
>We have a perfectly healthy cab ecosystem in my city, app-driven and with fare competition and city regulation Sure, but that doesn't exist in the majority of cities. The user experience is why I use Uber.
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by bsmithers 9y ago
It does now
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by bsmithers 9y ago
I see quite a few people disagreeing with the author but I think there's a key difference between: a.) Learning python when you are also a beginner to programming b.) Learning python when you're comfortable in another language If,
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by bsmithers 9y ago
Thanks. In your example, how could one hope to prove they had rendered the animation correctly? Presumably each node must be able to verify the correctness of this in order to process the contract?