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by eponeponepon 8y ago
On the other hand, this is often enough cover for not knowing where to go. Listen to the original recording of "How Could I" by Cynic - it fades just as an absolute shredfest gets going. Then listen to the remaster from 2008(?) -
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm fairly sure that '@' is a character that's wandered around keyboards and character sets over the years - could it be that the command is a different character these days?
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm not sure it would've been mentioned quite so often if these guys had also been a barbershop quartet in their spare time.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm not sure what makes you think commercial endeavours are less susceptible to human frailty than government. The problem here is not which type of organisation holds the data; it's the fact that individual humans are involved in
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
You won't be buying any cars in future...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> 90% of the time I just have to sleep more I don't know about a lot of the rest of your post, but this bit is key. If you aren't getting enough sleep, nothing will help. The legends of politicians and executives who sleep 3
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
A shameful secret: I firmly believe that the moment I became a programmer was when I discovered Debug.Print in VBA in some elderly version of Excel (97, probably) while bodging pretty charts together for someone to print and fax to someone
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Definitely - the Museum of London is sadly under-known in my opinion. I suspect it's mainly to do with being located off the usual tourist track - and even when one gets there it doesn't exactly measure up to the Kensington museum
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I tried using TiddlyWiki some years back but never really reached the stage where I felt I could definitely trust my use of it to result in it saving my notes properly. The real utility of it, I'm sure, comes with a large corpus - but
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Sadly, I would still read and think on all three of those articles.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I can't answer your question authoritatively, but there are plenty of organised criminal enterprises in the world with state-level resources.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Anecdotally, I heard of a toy radio control quadcopter belonging to western military personnel in Afghanistan that turned out to be trying to phone home to ${badguy} when they plugged it into a laptop to charge. This stuff is everywhere, an
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Do you do this incrementally? Or just grab everything every time? If the former, I'd be interested to hear how you go about it :-) edit: actually, scratch the 'if', I'd be interested to hear the rough shape of your scrip
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Man I miss Usenet. Last time I used a news client was 2006, working at a firm that had an internal NNTP server for announcements, general chatter, for sale ads etc. I don't think anyone under 30 would have a clue what to do with news
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Seems to be the fashion these days. I do not applaud it.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
You're conflating the act of building a product with the act of writing code. Even in the most expressive of languages, there are objectively good and bad ways of instructing your hardware to perform a particular calculation or set of
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Interesting! What really intrigues me is how very familiar, at a very very hindbrain level, this layout is to me. If someone asked me to sketch a generic kitchen, I would certainly draw something recognisably similar. Sets me wondering how
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Seems to me we'd do better to shut the Cincinnati Zoo...
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
All they actually care about is "Wikipedia - Canada". Which is right there on the page.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I believe the expectation regarding carbon nanotubes in the sphere of space elevators is that they would be woven and layered into a sheet of human scale; these sheets would be used to construct a curved ribbon for the gondola to climb. You
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Let them do it themselves.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I'm unsure about this class of problem. On the one hand, it most definitely is a problem (the quote about 'engines of personalisation' being engines of radicalisation was particularly resonant here). But on the other hand,
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
How does the parser distinguish between in-p and in-em to substitute in the corresponding entities? It seems to me that when it reaches the second asterisk it's not going to be able to know whether to open or close the em element. Is t
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Possible? Sure, anything is possible - but apply your argument the other way round. People contain molecules, molecules contain atoms, atoms electrons and so on - does it then seem reasonable to ask whether that goes on forever? And if
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
There's some genuine gold in Netflix's library, if you go looking. An awful lot of dross too, to be sure, but there really is quality tucked away in amongst the mediocrity. That's one of the reasons I find this particular ess
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
He does himself no favours with his compulsion to rename things - "media services" becoming "media dis-services", "Goober" for "Uber" and so forth. Many of his arguments are strong and worthy of discu
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
But when the people who hold the pursestrings are looking no further ahead than their next election, "useful for decades" means nothing at all to them.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
The two are one and the same thing, I'd wager. The act of translating abstract thought processes into physical action (whether that's speaking or just pointing) forces you to examine it in a different way, just in order to make it
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
The washable aspect is key - they will have to take steps to work on that too. As a foreigner, when I'm in India, I know that I have to pay attention to (for example) which chai sellers the locals know to wash their cups properly, and
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> This comment would have been better with a whiteboard. Actually, I think you nailed it. I'm no physicist, but you made the mechanism behind it very clear and intuitive :)

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