domwood

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by domwood 14y ago
I'm literally here to bitch about how fucking inflammatory this title is. Fuck titles, man.
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by domwood 14y ago
This has been around for quite a while, I distinctly remember it doing the rounds on Twitter. Still nice, though.
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by domwood 14y ago
Guilty, ha. Recommend editing to: "New Evidence Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial (no, not aliens you fool) Impact"
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by domwood 14y ago
This. This is why I love games. There's so much passion and humanity in every little pixel.
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by domwood 14y ago
rant/ Nothing instills rage in me more than companies, knowing how essential what they sell is, slagging each other for petty, pointless money. I hate to be dramatic, but these are disabled adults and children for christ's sake, people wh
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by domwood 14y ago
Kind of difficult to ignore being litigated. Kinda stupid too.
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by domwood 14y ago
What if it goes wrong? There's very good reasons why drug trials take so long.
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by domwood 14y ago
I can't reply to the five or so comments that say the same thing but I'll put it to you this way: My grandparents are both dead of cancer-related complications in the last few months, they didn't have ten years to wait for a cure. I very mu
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by domwood 14y ago
Well, the fact it's not causing liver failure/brain damage/bouts of pedantic arguing/etc is a good thing. Waiting another decade to see if it actually works isn't too bad either, we haven't had a vaccine for the last 10,000 years of human c
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by domwood 14y ago
Braille would be easy to implement too, both Android and iOS control fonts at the system level (well, usually on Android) so all you have to do is add a Braille font and you're done.
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by domwood 14y ago
I can sorta do that with the ICS keyboard, the actually half decent predictive/auto-correct's what makes it possible.
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by domwood 14y ago
The immediate benefit is that this makes, or with a little refinement (not sure how small the tactile areas can be), touch screens properly accessible to the blind without changing anything on the software interface. That is a very good thi
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by domwood 14y ago
Oh, the beautiful but saddening irony.
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by domwood 14y ago
Upvoted a thousand percent. This sums up everything that is wrong with education. (EDIT: spellchecking my dumb arse)
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by domwood 14y ago
I think that we're largely missing the point here. He's worried that his fundamentally harmless research will end up powering horrific weapons of mass destruction, enabling them to attack even more precisely and with more devastation. And q
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by domwood 14y ago
Indeed. So there's no small degree of irony in taxing people on their tax funded benefits.
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by domwood 14y ago
Actually, most benefits count as taxable income in the UK, it's just the tax is taken before payment. And no there isn't a correlation, I'm not saying there is. I'm pointing out that, considering the tax band isn't proportionally that much
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by domwood 14y ago
Not where I live. I live in a largish town called Ipswich, in the UK. Now, we have a wildly diverging GDP demographic, we have people from the poorest 5% and people from the richest 5% of the population and the council tax rate only goes
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by domwood 14y ago
It's fascinating how subtly our environment reflects our livelihoods. For example, I look out of my window and see two, make that three trees. I advance fifteen minutes up to a much more affluent district, lo and behold, many trees and well
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by domwood 14y ago
Nice! One of the biggest issues I have with jQuery is the fact that animations are just JS and not CSS with JS fallbacks. I suppose that's a deliberate design choice, but still.
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by domwood 14y ago
Thanks, and the same to you, IPF isn't fun and neither is lung cancer. That's one of the reasons something like this is important, it's a life extending drug that's from legitimate sources, which means it's thoroughly tested and isn't som
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by domwood 14y ago
No, it's no wonder drug, it's not a cure, it's a treatment. Yes, it probably will become redundant eventually, but as cancer's a genetic thing, it'll be on a patient by patient basis, that means even if a patient's cancer start to develop a
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by domwood 14y ago
As someone who's grandfather and grandmother both died of cancer-related complications (edit: in the last four months, my grandmother not even a week ago) and with a grandfather-in-law who has terminal cancer, for once I'm going to abandon
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by domwood 14y ago
Well put. I'm no kid, and it excites me! I think it's important we don't overlook the levelling effect stuff like this has, the same way Gutenberg took books to the masses, things like this take the ability to create with technology to the
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by domwood 14y ago
Exactly. Each device is potentially a self-contained unit of a whole, and things tend to get a damn sight more efficient if each is exclusively host to a specific tool, with the environment exclusively designed to match that specific tool.
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by domwood 14y ago
They're also cheap enough to make distributed computing more immediately viable in those projects. A few of these chained up could probably do quite a variety of complicated tasks. I'd bet you could make stuff like self-driving cars a lot c
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by domwood 14y ago
In rudimentary terms, I suppose at least it's a step in the right direction. It doesn't necessarily suggest the US government is going to immediately embrace openly disseminating its data, but it's still a step in the right direction. Third
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by domwood 14y ago
It's a good way of putting it. Arduinos are probably more directly rewarding and usable (if you're an Engadget reporter anyway), but if I was setting up an under 16's Comp Sci class, It'd have to be the Pi, just 'cause it's more.. education
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by domwood 14y ago
I sort of agree and disagree with you on the accessibility of the command line, it's definitely a lot less difficult that it was a decade ago, what with the proliferation of the internet and therefore stuff like StackOverflow, but it's stil
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by domwood 14y ago
And doing stuff like that is going to make stuff like IT/Engineering education a hell of a lot more fun, rewarding and accessible.

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