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by chippy 8y ago
I lurk and post. Sometimes I won't add a comment because of the chilling effect of a future employer or online mob finding it and reading something into my words. It's not worth being contrarian on the internet, or there's no
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by chippy 8y ago
"We find it easy to remember the position of many items as one unit when arranged in large open spaces. Hence, large corridors, roads, and entrance areas that provide a broad overall view enhance wayfinding." I think this is somet
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by chippy 8y ago
One could imagine him thinking about him taking the job as a sacrifice. He will sacrifice his morals and what he cares about for the security of his family and children. He knows that he will sell his soul and be crushed, but he also knows
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by chippy 8y ago
Does this mean WhatsApp is okay to use now?
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by chippy 8y ago
"It should be noted that the malware was not downloaded from Twitter and that we did not observe what specific mechanism was used to deliver the malware to its victims."
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by chippy 8y ago
Yeah, what's that about? Is that the default Blogspot experience?
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by chippy 8y ago
Reading about toxoplasma (a parasite of rats which can infect humans and alter their behaviour), I recall something about the common cold (a virus) and behaviour. My memory is fuzzy but there was a study that indicated that those with initi
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by chippy 8y ago
> maintains hundreds of packages Might be worth looking over some of these to see if he has also given access of them to some dodgy people. As most of them appear to be as old as event-stream and are also probably as unused by him. And i
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by chippy 8y ago
Every time I've called a hotel they have offered me a more expensive rate, so now I don't.
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by chippy 8y ago
Yep, I think the current understanding is that all EU laws will still apply - they kind of grandfather them in - with the understanding that they could repeal them at a later date (as they can for any law).
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by chippy 8y ago
> Thought "who is this crazy lady" Did you become a psychologist?
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by chippy 8y ago
I think it's because web design used to be a branch of graphic design, and now it's not - it's now a branch of web development. Designs for websites were made in photoshop by creatives. Now designs for websites are made by f
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Duchamps Urinal: How the liberal West is dismantling itself(unherd.com)
4 points by chippy 8y ago|1 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
I think there is a preference setting "extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true which will turn off these notifications. Thank you for prompting to do so. I often prefer to find and install extensions when I get the itch,
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by chippy 8y ago
openstreetmap in this example!
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by chippy 8y ago
> It would be hard to find "nearly empty" flights given that load factor. Isn't the load factor a type of average? In that case, there could be a number of flights with low occupancy, and a number with 100% occupancy. Wha
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by chippy 8y ago
> This code of conduct that requires members to honor Christ Does it? It says that it requires developers to conduct themselves in a manner that honors the overarching spirit of the rule.
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by chippy 8y ago
Discussion on the sqlite-users mailing list: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-CoC-td104277.h... From Richard: "Yes. Clients were encouraging me to have a code of conduct. (Having a CoC seems to be a tre
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by chippy 8y ago
But the landlord didn't get charged, the people who leased the building from him did.
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by chippy 8y ago
It's not going to make it any cheaper. This will mainly effect the cost of others shipping goods to you.
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by chippy 8y ago
At it's core, it shouldn't be a conservative meme at all, if anything it's a "free thinker" or a libertarian / anarchist point of view. I think it is labelled "conservative" is because the left have
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by chippy 8y ago
This assumes that you would be not around people who will tell you in normal conversation important things that you should know. That would be the unhealthy thing. Most people can safely give up reading and watching the news and still be aw
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Conserve the Sound - an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds(conservethesound.de)
1 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
I am slightly cautious that this hoax is itself a hoax and no actual hoax papers were published by actual academic journals.
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by chippy 8y ago
I've been talking to academic neural net / ML experts in computer vision and OCR / NLP and the thing they try to stress is that for almost all cases an algorithmic approach works better.
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by chippy 8y ago
I think that's the aim, not the failure of this plan. The key difference is that instead of companies storing, owning and exploiting your data, the user maintains their own data store and companies can then access and exploit it. It&#x
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by chippy 8y ago
It loads but it takes the same amount of time to start that Gmail does.
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by chippy 8y ago
There's some delay and/or timeout related to the huge amount of tracking scripts they include.
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by chippy 8y ago
I believe (from scanning the website quickly) that you can host your own pod, but you can also put your data with third party. Currently, it offers 2 free options from a commercial provider and a community provider. So in terms of securit
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by chippy 8y ago
"Anyone could log in as any attendee by providing an email with no password. Many MPs had registered with their public parliamentary email addresses, making it simple for any member of the public to access their mobile number."

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