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by dwd 6y ago
Australian politics has been pretty boring of late. While not as polarising as a Jim Jordan or Ted Cruz, people like Christopher Pyne and Paul Keating made Australian politics mildly interesting. We seem to have two very centrist parties ri
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by dwd 6y ago
Everything these days seems to be politicised, but politics isn't so much the problem, it's the tribalism that it generates and why you were probably brought up to never talk about politics, sport or religion in a social setting.
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by dwd 6y ago
Google has their own complicity as their algorithm similarly encourages monetising conspiracy theories - which is the problem. Facebook just have a bigger problem in that their monetisation requires a captive audience which amplifies any gr
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by dwd 6y ago
Did they filter for Parler users who were legitimately in the Capital building, such as Ted Cruz?
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by dwd 6y ago
You can to a degree that left-leaning users were generally banned as soon as they were identified, as the site was primarily to collect data/demographics on right-leaning voters to target for fundraising and organising. Follow the mone
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by dwd 6y ago
There's been a bit of talk that Parler was only ever a way for alt-right Republican operatives such as the Mercers to have their own social media and data gathering platform after the Cambridge Analytica fallout. This is the data they
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by dwd 6y ago
I think there's a lesson in Chapter 6 for most (if not all) politicians. Though they're probably a lost cause when it comes to Chapter 7.
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by dwd 6y ago
This is FlashPlayer. The underlying JavaScript-like language is ActionScript which was originally developed by MacroMedia to provide animation for Flash. It's quite useful for creating PDF SmartForms that adjust their contents based on
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by dwd 6y ago
I think the only perceivable different is likely the size and placement of windows. Also prisons are highly unlikely to not have security bars or screens on every window (excluding a public entry foyer which is not part of the actual prison
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by dwd 6y ago
If you pick 1994/1995 as the cutoff, you then have Java, JavaScript and Ruby in the latter group. So I'm calling bullshit on an argument framed around one the biggest years in software language advancement. Not to mention ignoring
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by dwd 6y ago
I once worked at a place where I would constantly suggest switching to GoLang to solve some performance scaling issues. I recently got a call from a recruiter asking me if I was interested in a job programming in Go...
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by dwd 6y ago
As in Sweden? You can simply compare them to Denmark, Norway and Finland on infection rates, death toll and economic impact. If those countries manage to immunise their populations quickly then Sweden's approach was a huge failure in c
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by dwd 6y ago
Nice timing on this question - I'm actually deconstructing a website mockup (PDF) this morning and needing to find the originals of the images the graphic designer (who is off on holidays) used. It's not just the dozens of Pintere
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by dwd 6y ago
Been listening to Glass's excellent score for Tales from the Loop for a few weeks now. It's my current goto album for coding.
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by dwd 6y ago
Not even that: a culture where you are expected to meet your goals, deadlines and performance criteria can lead to shortcuts and ethical breaches when the company is relying on you "making it happen". For an engineer the end justi
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by dwd 6y ago
Second that: the partnership/cross-promotion suggestion is a good idea.
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by dwd 6y ago
One of the surprising things from working at home, was how noticeable the pollution was when venturing back into the city for in-office days. Just one poorly maintained diesel 4x4 or an older bus and you can taste the particulates/VOCs
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by dwd 6y ago
Your best marketing people are your current users. Reach out to your fans and consider offering some incentive for them to sign-up their friends and family if they are not doing that already. Something like get 6 months free for each new ac
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by dwd 6y ago
The logic of deciding on a course of action based on a single determinate decision was not a new concept. I would think Soren Kierkegaard deserves a hat-tip to his existential work: Either/Or.
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by dwd 6y ago
Engine rich exhaust seems to be the current consensus. The footage SpaceX got with this launch, particularly that pad view Manley had of it falling directly towards the camera and then flipping was insane.
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by dwd 6y ago
While I'd listened to some of his music previously, Spotify highlighted his score for Tales from the Loop with their end of year "Missed Hits" and it is excellent. Been listening to it the last few days.
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by dwd 6y ago
He was not what I was expecting, having previously read a lot of his stories on moxie.org. While Rogan called him a hippy sailor a few times, he really came across as just a regular guy. It felt like Rogan was trying to grill him on all the
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by dwd 6y ago
Thanks, now I can't read "Computer" without it being in Patrick Stewart's baritone.
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by dwd 6y ago
Thanks for the link - do they actually promote that anywhere as it's perfect on a mobile. The rain radar map seamlessly combining radars is awesome.
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by dwd 6y ago
A typical case of people not really understanding randomness, and assuming there was fraud when it appears less random than they would imagine.
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by dwd 6y ago
As a Radiohead fan I could live with the occassional misplaying of Ok Computer.
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by dwd 6y ago
They can't do mobile friendly either, which is a pain when you're trying to determine how quickly a storm is moving in on your phone.
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by dwd 6y ago
That's likely to get the source of the leak shipped off for re-education. Most likely not one of the authors of the document, but they'd possibly be able to find out who had access to all those files.
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by dwd 6y ago
Not to mention MSDOS wasn't case specific so the name was probably GUYBRUSH.LBM. I dont remember there being lowercase filenames until Windows.
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by dwd 6y ago
At a quantum scale our brains will look like the universe with a whole lot of empty space. Our visual perception seriously gets in the way of our understanding of reality, I think if you were able to zoom out far beyond the edge of the univ

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