frobozz

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by frobozz 5y ago
One thing would be not violating the Open Source Definition by forbidding use by under 13s.
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by frobozz 5y ago
> I would really, really love to have been in that sales pitch meeting. Me too. I could do with getting a bit of extra cash handed to me in a brown envelope.
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by frobozz 5y ago
Yes! Several months of doing most of the higher grade work to prove yourself worthy of promotion. Then you actually get the promotion (normally with the smallest possible payrise). They still won't let you let go of all your old duties
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by frobozz 5y ago
This looks like a long-winded version of those boomer memes about how they used to return glass bottles to the shop and buy groceries on the high street, mocking the supposedly eco-aware younger generation who buy single-use plastics and dr
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by frobozz 5y ago
Same for me, but I do think it is a good introduction. It could just be my bias, but everyone I have met who did some Prolog after Java and C said they found Prolog difficult. None of my fellow Prolog-first cohort seemed to have any problem
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by frobozz 6y ago
Can you explain your counterexample? Perhaps with with some rates? I don't understand it. I can't see how it is would be financially beneficial to accelerate the payment of the smaller/cheaper loans over the biggest/cost
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes, but you'd pay the highest interest one off even faster if you direct all your spare cash to it, then you can pay off the smaller/lower loans really, really quickly by directing the money for that monthly payment to them. Snow
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes, the cut canals are one way at a time, with passing in the Great Bitter Lake. For some of the canal north of the lake, there are two channels and ships go both ways, one in each channel: https://zoom.earth/#view=30.51082
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by frobozz 6y ago
In most sports, when a goal is scored, the game stops for some kind of reset. Surely a game with more goals is therefore more boring, because it has more time with everyone dawdling back to the centre line and the referee holding the ball&#
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by frobozz 6y ago
The trouble is, even people who would challenge things don't want to be forced to do so unnecessarily. I'm happy to speak up if something isn't right, but if that happens too often, I'll speak up using my feet. If an ad
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by frobozz 6y ago
Also, if it can spot an incapacitated person amongst all the other swimmers, then it must be able to recognise when people are not incapacitated, otherwise it would just be going around randomly grabbing swimmers.
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes, and that's the other thing. To reliably distinguish between drowning and breath-holding, you need to wait (or have more context) This device (which has to come out through a secret underwater hatch and propel itself amongst people
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by frobozz 6y ago
For decades, all sorts of devices with very simple processors have been able to detect when the force against an actuator exceeds a certain amount and reverses or disengages it.
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by frobozz 6y ago
> Does it really try to strap the person to a hospital bed, underwater...? It looks like it folds two barriers against the sides of casualty to pinch them in place. I imagine that if you are not completely incapacitated, you can dodge or
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by frobozz 6y ago
That book was bunk. By the time Edison made a light bulb, incandescent light had been initially demonstrated by Davy 70 years beforehand, and shown to practical by Lindsay 35 years after that. Jobard, de la Rue, and de Moleyns had made exp
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by frobozz 6y ago
Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.
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by frobozz 6y ago
As if you can drive faster than 15mph in London without smashing into the car in front.
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by frobozz 6y ago
This is one of those situations where the overlap between colloquial and technical usage can cause confusion when one leaks into the other. In colloquial usage, asymptomatic encompasses presymptomatic. In technical usage, they are different
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes! I rarely see others mention this. It's always just "licence to call yourself an X." As though the job title itself is something important. The other thing to note is that certain jobs can be easily offshored. If you can&
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by frobozz 6y ago
I don't mean physiognomy, though such things periodically arise and are roundly and rightly ridiculed. I mean "Our computer says we have footage of you robbing a supermarket" (higher error rates) Another way for issues to ari
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by frobozz 6y ago
If face detection defines them as not a person, then things that rely on there being a person in the field of vision will not work for them. (Like the racist soap dispenser that went viral a few years ago) If face recognition makes the old
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes. Even then, a lot of the tech jobs remain in the US. Look at the job listings for US tech company EMEA HQs. It's almost all sales and legal. Occasionally a pre-sales Engineer position comes up. Meanwhile, they are hiring dozens of
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by frobozz 6y ago
An analogy I like is that they know you called a suicide hotline from a tall bridge in the middle of the night, but they don't know what you discussed.
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by frobozz 6y ago
What's the visualization? I'm always curious about how other clusterheads cope. I "push my consciousness" into the pain-free side, essentially detaching the painful side of my head and picturing it not being a part of me
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by frobozz 6y ago
> Investors did work for wages (or their ancestors did) and then instead of consuming they spent it on others in exchange for a pension. That is pretty much the definition of the nobility. Someone many generations ago did something perce
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by frobozz 6y ago
I wrote my MSc in markdown with Pandoc. Loved it.
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by frobozz 6y ago
You are confusing positive and negative claims. 1) Vikings were definitely at point X. 2) Vikings did not get further than point X. Yes, due to the likelihood of undiscovered evidence, you can assume that things happened for which we don&#x
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by frobozz 6y ago
Pretty much all security is relative. However, it's not just about the better lock, but the apparent value of what can be stolen. You can have the best lock in the park, but if you have a brand new top-of-the-market ebike and all the
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by frobozz 6y ago
The cost of filling one more seat in a massive lecture theatre is marginal. At university, I audited a number of courses with no impact on staff or students. The cost of marking one more essay and giving comprehensive feedback is more sign
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by frobozz 6y ago
Then we need you to sign off on it again after we change it next week, and the week after that.

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