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by fian 9y ago
But not too much protection: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-great-a...
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by fian 9y ago
I am often both requesting and receiving verbal problems related to the software I maintain (an Engineering simulation and analysis tool). When receiving a problem verbally is to slow the other person down by challenging any assumptions th
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by fian 9y ago
France, like much of Europe, is well covered by towns and cities. So there is often not a great distance for emergency services to cover which means the cost of mounting a rescue will not be excessive. As a counter point, Australia is spar
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by fian 9y ago
Which makes me think there might be utility in always running Windows (or other OSes) in a VM. If the malware assumes VMs are bad and self exit in response, then it should be safer to run everthing in a VM. A side benefit would be you can
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by fian 9y ago
I mostly ride to work across the CBD in my city (Perth, Western Australia). Three times I have been knocked off my bike by cars, with many more near misses. Luckily the worst outcome was one day off work and a couple of weeks off the bike.
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by fian 9y ago
Perth drivers are way better than they used to be. 20-25 years ago I had food or drink thrown or squirted at me while cycling on a monthly basis. Most drivers would not look for bikes and many assumed they always had right of way over bik
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by fian 9y ago
If your application needs to do some heavy lifting on the client machines, then yes desktop technologies will be better. Web browsers are sand boxed for security and can be too limited for some purposes. Desktop applications can avoid sec
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by fian 10y ago
There has been some interesting discoveries related to sudden onset red meat allergies in eastern Australia due to tick bite: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/02/25/3951271.ht... When the
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by fian 10y ago
By old Paris, I assume you mean the area inside the Peripherique? Apart from Montparnasse Tower the building heights inside the Peripherique are limited to seven floors. This has the same effect as San Fran on restricting the density of t
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by fian 10y ago
I work as a developer of Engineering Software. I have seen E1, E2, SE and PE used as abbreviations for level of experience (Graduate Level 1, Graduate Level 2, Senior, Principal). These levels might have been applied to a RE (Reliability E
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by fian 10y ago
A bit late to this discussion, but the question of why someone would want to hide information from the government of today is not necessarily the right question. Governments are not permanent. Significant changes in government can occur th
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by fian 10y ago
I have done both week long MTB touring off road with about 20kg of gear plus the bike. And 12 day off trail hikes through river gorges and crossing some steep ranges starting with about 24kg on my back. On the MTB I got more fatigued each
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by fian 10y ago
Absolutely. Over the last year an interest in woodworking has caused me to shift from almost 100% Streaming TV/Movies to maybe 40% Youtube and 60% TV/Movies (Netflix type services). Youtube recommendations occasionally put me ont
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by fian 10y ago
The approach he took to analysing his condition reminds me of bug fixes through logging and debugging. He took and analysed blood samples over many months -> logging. When he identified something in the logs that looked odd, he took a dr
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by fian 10y ago
The pollies get too much money from the gambling sector (casinos, pubs, RSL clubs etc) to ever take real action in the eastern states. WA gets pinged by NSW and Victoria whenever GST distribution comes up for not having pokies as an alterna
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by fian 10y ago
I have used a couple of license management systems for an engineering simulation tool. We first used the Sentinel Super Pro USB hardware dongles. These provided strong license protection and were easy to integrate. The downsides were tha
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by fian 10y ago
In some sense it is a profit sharing strategy. The owners will still have strategic spending goals for profits (growth, R&D, acquisition etc). Also, depending on how long the company has been around, the owners may also have to pay do
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by fian 10y ago
Don't tie bonuses to individual contributions. Individuals will work to meet their individual KPIs/metrics often to the detriment of the organisation. If every employee gets a bonus based on the organisational performance then th
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by fian 10y ago
The chain and gear sprockets are progressively getting thinner in pursuit of lower overall bike weight. This is driven by the racing side of cycling, similar to automotive tech coming through R&D in Formula 1 racing. A lighter bike is
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by fian 10y ago
I wonder if this might also go some way towards explaining the salary-man phenomenon. Where employees do excessive overtime at the office. Presumably at the office, they have a work provided laptop/desktop and internet connection. A
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by fian 10y ago
I have introduced Cogz: http://cogz.raez.net/ to a few friends. They all liked it and a couple bought it to play with their children. The rules are reasonably simple, setup takes about 5 mins. Success requires some strateg
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by fian 10y ago
Team sports require you to process a large stream of input information as a stream for a 1-2 hour window. In my experience (social league basketball, volleyball, soccer, mixed netball) I switch off subconscious (deep) thought processing an
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by fian 10y ago
Sounds like something you could build on top of Retroshare: http://retroshare.net/ If you can export the meta data you want from Facebook et al then you should be able to find a way to share it in an encrypted peer-to-peer
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by fian 10y ago
> Moonlight is around 4100K. So it is even more "natural" than 3000K. Should we blot out the moon next? I was on a hike in July during a full moon and those who were sleeping in open air (no tent or bivy bag) struggled to sleep
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by fian 10y ago
Check out Retroshare: https://retroshare.github.io/index.html
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by fian 10y ago
Expensive carbon bike frames can't be stamped with serial number. I have had a few carbon frames, I think only one had a visible serial number on the outside...on a sticker. None of the bike shops could provide a serial number at tim
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by fian 11y ago
So sleep is something like garbage collection in Java? Some perceptions/thoughts you experience during the day need to be mived from a finite sized young generational heap to a long kived heap (ie convert important short term memories
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by fian 11y ago
I agree there has always been an amount of violence. In the past 15-20 years, at least in my opinion, there has been an escalation in the severity of the violence. As a 20 year old, going out to a pub or club, there was always the risk of
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by fian 11y ago
There is a high likelihood that Joe became a Night Owl because of inconsiderate colleagues. Many developers will report higher productivity either early in the morning or late in the afternoon/early evening if they work in an office en
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by fian 11y ago
My understanding is that the OS X EULA does not permit OS X to be run on non-Apple hardware or in a virtual machine that is not also running on Apple hardware. So if you want to test on OS X (including Safari) then you need at least one Mac

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