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by geenew 4y ago
I'm lazy, so I'll just post this, from Office Space. I'm sure most people here can guess what quote it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-bp_A61MI
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by geenew 4y ago
'To build a folly upon a fair bit of land is not to waste the land, but to occupy it for some short time in enjoyment' - Unknown
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by geenew 4y ago
j'ai concu une blague..
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by geenew 4y ago
Need to know <=> Need to log
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by geenew 4y ago
Thanks! Wasn't aware of that spec.
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by geenew 4y ago
Need an epoch on that
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by geenew 4y ago
I wonder if the idea of giving an irregular offset at regular intervals is in the cards. Having a unknown offset of x seconds every century, say, seems easier to implement than a known offset every unknown interval.
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by geenew 4y ago
Perhaps another moral to add: ISO8601 solves a lot of problems.
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by geenew 4y ago
Canadian Tire Money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money Used to be able to use that at the local video rental place.
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by geenew 4y ago
The book goes to great pains to say that the store in question is a knockoff brand of Ikea. To be honest, those parts of the book felt a bit stilted; I had imagined them being added at the request/requirement of the publisher to avoid
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by geenew 4y ago
Since 'Web' refers to a web of links between pages, I would personally side on the combination of HTTP with HTML, but your point is well taken. There's also the choice between whether 'invented' refers to the moment
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by geenew 4y ago
That sounds like an application of an old aphorism I once heard: "every good filing system has a 'miscellaneous' folder". Could maybe call it the Godel folder :)
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by geenew 4y ago
This graph in the article is pretty fascinating: https://i0.wp.com/semiengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/Pic... (not really a png, apparently, but a webp file)
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by geenew 4y ago
It says, near the top of the story, "There were so many photons per second that they couldn’t keep up". Not a single photon. Not easy (not possible?) to distinguish signal from noise with a single photon, afaik.
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by geenew 4y ago
s/manor/manner :)
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by geenew 4y ago
This made me look up a link to my old favourite for this kind of thing, CelesTrak.org . Unfortunately, they discontinued their visualizer due to licensing problems. For posterity, this was the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by geenew 4y ago
I'll take this opportunity to plug a good comedy-horror book: Horrorstör, by Grady Hendrix[1]. It's set in an ikea-like store, and much of the intro is a comedic jab at the ikea store layout tricks. [1] http://www.grady
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by geenew 4y ago
Office workers approving applications are not the only people who will see these. Users may include (disgruntled) neighbours, and anyone who will at some point need to know what the measurements on a site are to do their job correctly, lega
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by geenew 4y ago
Your example is a poor one, since no reasonable person could confuse those two items. A reasonable person could confuse the plans produced by the website and legitimate plans produced by a professional surveyor, though. More to the point, t
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by geenew 4y ago
I largely agree with you, but it may be a situation where a disclaimer on the plans themselves would assuage the professional board. The site itself includes a disclaimer (“THIS IS NOT A LEGAL SURVEY, NOR IS IT INTENDED TO BE OR REPLACE ONE
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by geenew 4y ago
For me, at least, the fundraising banner is drawn on the page after the main content. Which means that the main content loads, displays, and then is pushed downwards by the banner. I don't know whether this is intentional, but if it is
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by geenew 4y ago
At this point, there's been - Inadvertent climate modification* - Global Warming - Anthropogenic Global Warming - Global Heating - Climate Change - Climate Crisis - Climate Emergency I don't disagree with the thrust of your point,
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by geenew 4y ago
Doesn't it seem more likely that that was a cliched hyperbolic statement than a threat?
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by geenew 4y ago
Does anyone have a quick summary they could offer on how forestry tiles are added? It's clear that they are added in blocks - edges to forest-cover data are at edges of very large (100km?) tiles. I wonder, though, where that informatio
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by geenew 4y ago
He does say 'Wouldn’t you think you’d get a notification on your Apple Watch, allowing you to dismiss the crash alert'. Notification on the watch is a reasonable and safe change. I wonder too whether a filter could be applied for
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by geenew 4y ago
I did not know that, I'll have to check next time it comes up. To be clear, I use them as a backup, like when I'm traveling and didn't bring my normal headset.
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by geenew 4y ago
Linux, windows, Mac all work. The mic works too (on windows at least), so they make a good backup if you don’t have a headset for a teams/etc call.
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by geenew 4y ago
The monarchy has only fared well if it changes with the times, which it has, gradually giving more power to parliament over the centuries. We have gone from a system of divine right to a harmless institution that provides an apolitical cent
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by geenew 4y ago
The Canadian system is a mix of private and public, with a mix of national and provincial funding, some national standards (tied to funding), and provincial jurisdiction. For procedures covered by provincial health programs, doctors in priv
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by geenew 4y ago
Am I reading it wrong, or does the article say that 90% of _accounts_ are pro-Ukrainian, 7% pro-Russian? Section 3.0 describes how they got the dataset (all tweets in a timeframe with a "#IStandWith[Ukraine|Russia|Zelynskyy|Putin]&quot

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