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by dwd 6y ago
After working 20+ years in the industry I'm always surprised by the aversion (or lack of thought) to draw up a Venn diagram on a white board to visualise the relation, let alone then write it out using set notation.
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by dwd 6y ago
Try Reader View in Firefox for reading the text uninterrupted.
453.
by dwd 6y ago
I'm surprised they didn't classify and weight for facial features such as general symmetry or eye distance.
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by dwd 6y ago
Seeing characters from the original be the bad-ass your younger self imagined they were but couldn't be is what The Mandalorian achieved. They crafted a story that allowed that to happen.
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by dwd 6y ago
Pricing it appropriately would be key, and a price on carbon emissions the obvious solution - and the market should respond.
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by dwd 6y ago
There's already a solution in the works... https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/flatulent-...
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by dwd 6y ago
...and why guys like Martin Galway were absolute genius in the music they could get out of the C64 SID.
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by dwd 6y ago
This takes me back to when I played around with sound using the C64 midi. There were four attributes that you could adjust to try and emmulate the timbre of a particular instrument: attack, delay, sustain & release. Was a lot of fun whe
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by dwd 6y ago
This list didn't include the craziest drink I found in a Japanese vending machine - a can of Boss coffee latte. I was expecting an iced coffee, instead it was hot enough I could barely hold the can.
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by dwd 6y ago
The first thing I thought of was the Cloaca (poop machine) at MONA Hobart which is a functional digestive system. The output is not quite as palatable.
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by dwd 6y ago
Thank, wasn't aware that was in the spec. Makes sense, unfortunately allows for businesses (generally SMEs) to be relying on very sketchy setups.
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by dwd 6y ago
I have come across companies who are hosting their mail via a provider (usually cPanel-based) and don't have MX records in their DNS at all; the provider has a failover to route them to the naked domain IP. Absolutely insane because so
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by dwd 6y ago
FaceBook has Boosted Posts and there's Google Ads, so there is a paid channel for getting noticed if you're not a household name. It also worked for places like NewsMax to get noticed.
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by dwd 6y ago
Here's the thing - FaceBook is not the Internet, but unfortunately a lot of people seem to think it is and don't bother to venture out of it's closed garden. It's the early days of Compuserve and AOL all over again. This
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by dwd 6y ago
My guess is that Rupert Murdoch didn't think Twitter was a problem. Possibly because its feeds are not filtered and it doesn't scrape content in any form. It's also short form so you're not going to get a more than a bri
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by dwd 6y ago
It's only a cosy relationship with the incumbent government if said government does what it's told. Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull are examples of what happens when you try and dictate terms with NewCorp and they turn on you with
467.
by dwd 6y ago
I'm in Brisbane, Australia and we only had mandatory mask wearing recently due to someone testing positive to the UK variant. Been life as usual more or for six months, but that's the advantage of getting it under control early so
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by dwd 6y ago
Sounds a lot like evolution. Lots of random trying things out in various places and times until one of them sticks.
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by dwd 6y ago
The role of moderation is soul draining - all communities suffer from an Eternal September effect. There's always a someone new who didn't read or disregarded the rules. I do agree there are those who are simply attracted to the p
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by dwd 6y ago
The problem is that truth is always nuanced and never as simple as it needs to be to get a clear message out. It's fluid and a lot of people don't understand it can and will change - or worse conditioned to think changing your opi
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by dwd 6y ago
I'm in Australia and have a few air filters around the house. They're good when you live in semi-rural and have neighbours who like open fires, not to mention occasional bushfire. A couple of different sized Philips which I like f
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by dwd 6y ago
The irony is that Google discourages businesses from being on Google Local when they do not have a staffed public-accessible office.
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by dwd 6y ago
Same, that was the last F1 race I ever watched. I still have a sketch I did for my school art class from a photo I took of his 98T rounding the hairpin at Adelaide in '96 during qualifying.
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by dwd 6y ago
Prost was boringly good but had his limits. The defining moment that differentiated the two was Prost refusing to race in heavy rain at Adelaide '89. Senna was obviously better in those conditions as that's how he drove. If the ca
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by dwd 6y ago
4. Domain knowledge Though I would have it as #1 in any job. Having some idea of what the business using the software is trying to achieve (at both the macro and micro levels) is far more valuable. Basically knowing the why, you can use as
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by dwd 6y ago
Every site is a JS-application monster because of the 3rd party add-ons people feel they need to have. Running Google or FaceBook ads? You need analytics, pixels and event trackers to know if you're ads are working optimally. ReCaptcha
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by dwd 6y ago
Make that at least 17 when you count the employee + lawyer who file the patent.
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by dwd 6y ago
Dan did alright. My parents (lifelong Liberal voters) had nothing but praise for him and his daily stand ups. He did well to bring it back from the brink at the time and the rest of the country got a good lesson in how quickly it can take o
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by dwd 6y ago
Just don't count of The Greens putting any such pressure on them - you might as well rename them The Australian Woke as they seem more intent on just being politically correct on everything than actually focusing on environmental issue
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by dwd 6y ago
As much as I dislike Morrison, he's done an alright job keeping the economy ticking over by throwing money at it as needed. Probably better him than a Labor Gov as you would have had nothing but endless politicking about them turning t

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