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by dwd 6y ago
How many sci-fi plots does it take an engineer to remember that controlling everything from a central location is a bad move?
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by dwd 6y ago
There was a documentary years ago about the cats living in the Roman Forum. The alpha male they named Ceasar, and the younger upstart Brutus. The interactions and roles they observed between the female cats was quite interesting. Edit: Foun
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by dwd 6y ago
I thought DDG already crawled their own curated list of sites? There is a DuckDuckGoBot and I think it was an interview or podcast Gabriel did a while back that he mentioned they use it for filling out gaps in the Bing API data to provide t
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by dwd 6y ago
I think (so this is a personal theory) what we are seeing is that a version was circulating earlier that was highly contagious. It got to Wuhan and maybe through an accidental cross-infection, potentially an individual working at the lab, i
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by dwd 6y ago
You always pay for using Google products. When it's in their interest to make it free - to drive usage or gather data to train AI, you pay with your data. Once that data is no longer of any value they then make you pay with cash. Googl
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by dwd 6y ago
I think the bar should be what it is. When published content could result in a credible threat to someone's safety or life then there's an issue. In Bannon's case while he didn't directly call for beheading Fauci his com
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by dwd 6y ago
Unfortunate but very true; it's always interesting to see what other people have in their bag of tricks - but a magician should never tell. I would guess that you have rules based on patterns of observed behaviour, and that they do 80-
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by dwd 6y ago
Very much the next Sia who lived in public obscurity for many years but was well known and highly regarding in the business and independent music scene. Sarah won multiple APRA awards for her work (the ones the Australian music industry car
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by dwd 6y ago
I would have to agree that impersonations still come off as far more convincing at the moment, and some are really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btb8gLy3-E
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by dwd 6y ago
The good old days of floppy disk swapping! I used to spend a bit of time browsing Computer & Game magazines at the local newsagency and library. I think some of what I picked up came from the likes of PCMag, C+VG and a lot of trial and
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by dwd 6y ago
Agree wholeheartedly, I recently came across a piece of graph paper in an old box with the systems and price histories for trading. The Righteous Fire add-on storyline was probably the best. I wrote my own AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS menu
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by dwd 6y ago
When I hear "referee with bald head", I think Collina, who officiated World Cup, UEFA Cup and Champion's League finals. Their training data must have been seriously lacking.
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by dwd 6y ago
I think the Rogen interview opened his eyes up to the possibilities in the world of podcasting (more so than maybe talking with Matt Taibbi who's just getting started). I honestly think that interview gave him the courage to take the l
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by dwd 6y ago
Joe Rogan strikes again... Glenn was on his podcast yesterday and looks like that discussion was the tipping point to convince him that yes, he can do this alone, and he doesn't need the backing of a media organisation to do his work a
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by dwd 6y ago
Learning a new tool when you have limited set of current tools is a good investment. But there is a aspect of marginal returns that comes into play here. It's not just the increased demands on your time, but the knowledge that it'
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by dwd 6y ago
Interesting, I've worked on both sides of scraping and protecting content but hadn't really considered checking for JavaScript frameworks as a trigger. I'm assuming this is something you could configure in a F5 that also inje
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by dwd 6y ago
Selenium lets you add random delays between your actions which could help avoid triggering a firewall to block you. Good practice anyway so you don't overload the site and find your logs empty or full of gaps.
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by dwd 6y ago
I've used Selenium API running in Firefox in the past to scrape customers data out of proprietary .Net WebForm systems requiring a login that didn't offer any option to export the data. Crawling the list pages and then each edit p
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by dwd 6y ago
I would probably disagree on that I would attribute it to an vestigial evolutionary trait rather than a learned or subjective ideal. Cuddling a cat could evoke a man as nurturer, where standing with a dog (a real doggy dog) is evokes the hu
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by dwd 6y ago
I think they need to redo their study and look at the difference between a guy holding/nursing a cat and a cat simply being in the photo with them. The former would be a negative while the second could potentially go either way dependi
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by dwd 6y ago
Portland, Victoria had geothermal nearly 40 years ago. https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/12/13/3910988.htm
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by dwd 6y ago
Makes sense. If you own an apartment a fair chunk of your body corporate fees go into the shared pool for maintenance and it would all be planned out well in advance.
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by dwd 6y ago
Too risque for the NYT? Note the painting of Francois de La Rochefoucauld to the right - it would be interesting to see the valuation of the artwork unless it doesn't come with the property.
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by dwd 6y ago
"Before strongly desiring anything we should examine what happiness he has who possesses it." - Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld "Maxims"
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How do contact tracing systems differ between NSW and Victoria?(abc.net.au)
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by dwd 6y ago
I was once told by an electrical engineer that the whole ban on using a cell phone near a pump was due to potential interference with how the dispenser tracks how much you have pumped. Is there any truth this?
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by dwd 6y ago
Bellingcat (with a lot of crowd-sourced assistance) piecing together the various sightings of a Buk launcher in Eastern Ukraine believed responsible for shooting down of MH-17 and the likely location it launched from. https://www
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by dwd 6y ago
Nice I worked on a Pdf with inbuilt tracking solution that updated the form layout using ActionScript based on the workflow status and the role of the user (ie the line manager had a different group of fields in the form to complete like th
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by dwd 6y ago
Interference is probably way down the list of potential causes. The first customer complaint was likely just one customer to begin with and could have reported that the issue was occurring at a different time of day depending on when they u
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by dwd 6y ago
Reminded me of the problem the Parkes observatory had for many years with unidentified radio signals https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04...

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