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by fredley 8y ago
With regards to climate change and global warming, what about putting this in between the sun and the earth to block some of the energy reaching the planet to allow it to cool?
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by fredley 8y ago
This is what I'm doing at the moment, but dragging around 2-3 desktops every time I wake my laptop is an extremely draining experience.
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by fredley 8y ago
The problem is they always switch around between each other so I'm not sure that would solve the problem.
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by fredley 8y ago
Yup, I have a by-now pretty trashed-up Pixel One, and when I travel I only need to take my mac power adapter and a couple of USB-C cables (although one is fine for short trips). Everything connects to everything seamlessly and charges rapid
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by fredley 8y ago
This is something I cannot stand. I have two external monitors, and each time it wakes from display sleep they switch around - so the desktops are reversed. It's infuriating . I have tried and tried to find a solution but so far have
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by fredley 8y ago
This is interesting. What this says to me is that the UK is essentially saying to China "Yeah we'll play your game". They're expecting some sort of attack, but they reckon that they've got the capability (at GCHQ or
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by fredley 8y ago
In a word, no.
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by fredley 8y ago
Not really secret. To join one of the guilds is to become part of a small club of extremely wealthy and/or well connected people, and the establishment in particular. One route to entry is through charitable donations, and it's on
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by fredley 8y ago
There are positives if you live on an ice-clad mountain, or a country that's mostly ice-clad mountains. There aren't many if you live in a river delta, or a country that's mostly river-delta. 8.5m people live in Switzerland,
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by fredley 8y ago
> it's settled science I don't think you understand how science works.
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by fredley 8y ago
Because that is a user-facing page, and this is a developer(/hacker?)-facing page. Anything listed on the contact page, particularly for larger organisations will get contacts from any slightly annoyed user who hasn't been able to
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by fredley 8y ago
That Skype for Business and Skype are two totally un-interoperable things is inexcusable.
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by fredley 8y ago
I agree it's a different but good design, however the issue was our flights weren't even on the board, and when they were bag drop was already closed!
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by fredley 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I was flying out of a German airport last week. Luggage, peculiarly, was checked at the gate, there was no separate area for checking hold luggage. The gate was announced about an hour before the gate closure, and by the time
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by fredley 8y ago
> As these are very large trees, establishing large colonies can have a relatively meaningful impact in carbon capture. Surely it's not size but speed of growth that matters? Wouldn't forests of Leylandii (a fast-growing conife
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by fredley 8y ago
Holy crap, these pages load fast. Honestly the best possible advertisement for a javascript framework at the moment is how quickly the page paints. For me it was virtually instantaneous. Bravo.
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The battle for the future of Stonehenge(theguardian.com)
3 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
> The audit shows that tracks in seven stations -- just 3% of the 276 underground stops -- met New York City Transit's cleaning schedule, once every three weeks. More than half the stations got between four and eight visits from an
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by fredley 8y ago
"The public infrastructure is terrible! Why should our taxes go towards this awful system?" Rinse, repeat. There are politicians pushing this in the UK (most notably with the NHS) - starve [public institution] of cash, make it wor
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by fredley 8y ago
Not entirely. The feeling imparted to you by the space you're in can have quite a profound effect, particularly if it's the kind of space you're reasonably likely to get trapped for hours at a time under stressful circumstanc
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by fredley 8y ago
> much smaller and more recently developed countries Like China?
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by fredley 8y ago
Flying into America (from Europe) is like landing in an airport stuck in a time warp from 50-70 years ago, it's so strange. The first time I landed in New York (can't remember which airport) I was really struck with how old the
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by fredley 8y ago
> starts adding Oh believe me, this stuff was added a long time ago. This is a benefit though. Of course these people will want to offload some of that heavy ML computing onto the browser so they don't have to pay for their own clus
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by fredley 8y ago
[Atwood's Law] This was inevitable I guess, but does anyone know if there's a decent Pandas equivalent for Javascript? I'd love to be able to handle reasonably large datasets in Javascript as easily as I can in Python.
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Burger King 'launches' its own range of Big Macs after EU rejects trademark(gizmodo.co.uk)
2 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. (edit, I'm posting this in support of the parent comment, as it has overtones of this famously chilling phrase)
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by fredley 8y ago
> or destroy the industry I don't think the fine art sculpture 'industry' is affected at all by the ease of making copies.
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by fredley 8y ago
I lived in India for a year and I remember this experience very well! Essentially nothing would change during the day on British/American news sites, and I had no interest in domestic news.
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by fredley 8y ago
I agree, I actively tried to go on a news diet last year, it was really hard. Especially in the current climate (in the UK and US at least), avoiding news chatter is nearly impossible, and trying to cull your curiosity to read up on such
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by fredley 8y ago
You still want the law to be there to go after the bad guys though. I agree any sensible solution will incorporate both approaches.

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