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by gcthomas 7y ago
Cost, certainly, is not better with Office 365. And LibreOffice has versions for Linux. It's also much easier to drag and drop cells in Calc than Excel (small advantage, but with my eyes, Excel is tricky) Excel has far fewer file types
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by gcthomas 7y ago
LibreOffice _does_ have a ribbon-like interface available (their NotebookBar). It's still officially experimental, but you might like it more than the _older_ interface. FreeOffice also has a ribbon. (Really - does not using the MSO ri
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Women's bodies _are_ different from men's in a number of ways, so it is likely that their brains are different for similar reasons. But brains are very plastic in their functions - you can live quite happily if born with only half
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Men have bigger brains most likely because they have bigger bodies. Bigger bodies need bigger brains to control them. But there are differences in the relative proportions of grey vs white matter for example, so in this case size most likel
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Brain size doesn't correlate very well with intelligence amongst humans, while average brain differences between men and women are both nuanced and not universal.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
And you'd find that Python is a go-to language for people writing such algorithms. The black hole image which was in the news was produced from massively complex data sets from across the world. Would you like to guess which programmin
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by gcthomas 7y ago
There are FFT libraries written in Cython, the superset of Python that compiles to C/C++. Just because the Cpython runtime might be too slow for this type of task doesn't mean the language is. And why would anyone write FFT code a
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I would be concerned if this investigation was hamstrung by the a priori belief that the unidentified objects/artefacts/blips both existed as a technological device and were extraterrestrial in origin. I suspect, sadly, that &#x27
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by gcthomas 7y ago
But the choice between static and dynamic typing (or duck typing add described here) is not cost neutral. Dynamically typed languages can be much quicker and cheaper to write, making for more rapid business product cycles. The lack of type
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Britain is connected to other countries' grids via inter-connectors, so that provides a lot of backup in the system.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Atmospheric density it a little more complicated: Venus has the same gravity as Earth but a thicker atmosphere, while Titan is a lot smaller and still has a surface pressure 50% more than we do at sea level.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Given the published figures for size and mass, it will be closer to 1.5 - 1.6 g. Still tricksy to walk for unmodified people, but not impossible, especially given how long it will take to reach it. Plenty of time to work out how to change p
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Python 2.7 isn't yet unsupported, so it doesn't compare to the deprecated Postgres version you linked to. Click through to the oldest _supported_ Postgres version, and it isn't clear when _it_ will lose support - no banners a
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I drive a European seven seater diesel car - plenty of space for three adults - and I get better than 55 mpg on road trips. YMMV, of course. ;)
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by gcthomas 7y ago
If I right-click on my launcher icon I get the option to open Firefox in Private Mode (KDE desktop). If you want to always default to Private Mode, then set that in the Options. https://www.howtogeek.com/137466/how-to-a
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Also odd, the driver is barefoot while he is stood on the motorway hard shoulder.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
The "heuristics" are down to Python being _dynamically_ typed, not it's lack of typing, so the type can't be known until run-time. Python is actually _strongly_ typed.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Oxford's Newton Project text of the book has the Newton's Laws in the 1687 version here: [ http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP... ] What makes you think they were not?
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Wiping out the secondary market where students can sell on their textbooks at the end of their courses to those just starting. I can see why such an unregulated market is a threat to their business model - increasing their control of the ma
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Always nice to have data instead of opinion on these sort of topics.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I'm sure some states do. California perhaps?
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by gcthomas 7y ago
The exemption is only for the record keeping requirement to help keep costs down. Every organisation still needs to meet the data protection regulations.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
GDPR doesn't have a lower limit on company size or age - it applies to any organisation that handles personal data.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Is there a US fine in the pipeline too? Only a tenth of the data lost was from EU nationals.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
A £99 million fine is on its way for Marriott after their 2018 breach of 30 million EU citizen guest records, for lack of due diligence over data security. Those who said EU regulations had no teeth last year might need to readjust their ex
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by gcthomas 7y ago
It may well be that the insurance companies are less likely to get their minimum security demands for agreeing cover ignored than the internal managers looking to spend more money on security.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I always feel claustrophobic without virtual desktops. I use them to split out windows in groups according to task, with keyboard switching for speed. i3 and Vim let me keep my hands off the mouse.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Tracking ads are collecting data on people without their explicit consent or knowledge. The trade in bulk personal data is a stain on the internet. I am quite content to block these sorts of adverts and I'm not worried by the site&#x27
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Their.txt list of the top 100,000 passwords to avoid can be found here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/passwords-passwords-everyw...
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The NCSC's first 'UK cyber survey' published alongside global password risk list(ncsc.gov.uk)
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