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by gmac 8y ago
I've used Zotero for about 10 years. Its one-click citation saving is awesome. But since I am a LaTeX/LyX person, I also wrote an extension that lets Mac users automatically add newly saved citations to BibDesk: http://
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by gmac 8y ago
Microsoft and Adobe keep me off Linux and on Apple more than Apple do. If I could have current Office and Creative Suite on Linux, I'd be there.
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by gmac 8y ago
Open up Script Editor and paste in: tell application "Notes" to get body of every note You might of course want to build a little around this — save the results, etc.
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by gmac 8y ago
mysql> select 0 = 'banana'; +--------------+ | 0 = 'banana' | +--------------+ | 1 | +--------------+ 1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec) vs pg# select 0 = 'banana'; ERROR
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by gmac 8y ago
Thing A having specific advantages over Thing B in no way implies that Thing B is not clearly superior overall. I have used both MySQL and Postgres, although admittedly I haven't touched MySQL for a few years (the last time I tried to
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by gmac 8y ago
Seems like the only correct behaviour, really, would be to ask the user for clarification.
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by gmac 8y ago
This doesn't appear to address the two main issues I encounter when choosing UK broadband, which are that (a) advertising of upload speeds seems entirely unregulated, so that some providers offer ridiculous deals (e.g. 38Mbps down, but
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by gmac 8y ago
Relevant: http://stickk.com
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by gmac 8y ago
If you're looking for some more guidance on how to bake the loaf itself, I've been making bread in the following way several times a week for most of the last seven years, and it is easily adapted to sourdough: http://m
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by gmac 9y ago
"Type I" and "Type II" errors are some of the stupidest and most obfuscatory academic terminology ever invented, and (as an academic) I absolutely refuse to make the effort to learn which way round they go. Just call the
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by gmac 9y ago
Indeed, and the TomTom interface for reporting speed cameras becomes instead an interface for reporting 'hazards' (with no prizes for guessing the kinds of 'hazards' that people then choose to report).
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by gmac 9y ago
Is that because you want date/times in JSON? Shouldn't it include a timezone, and maybe implement ISO8601?
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by gmac 9y ago
Not all of Europe. It's £8/month in the UK. But lots of things say they'll come next day, and then usually do. And the movie selection is arguably better than on Netflix.
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by gmac 9y ago
Definitely a feature, not a bug. :)
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by gmac 9y ago
Yeah. I have thought about it. They're just a lot more expensive than the big guys, at least when you factor in cashback etc, and with data caps.
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by gmac 9y ago
I tried BT's "fibre" for a year, and I probably never will again. When it was connected, the speed was as advertised. But it disconnected several times a day, sometimes for half an hour at a time, and they didn't seem ab
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Apple fixes KRACK attack for AirPort Wi-Fi routers(support.apple.com)
2 points by gmac 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 9y ago
Vote with your feet if you can. Meanwhile, use a VPN. https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup https://github.com/trailofbits/algo etc.
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by gmac 9y ago
The broader problem is that expressing changes as percentages is often intrinsically ambiguous. I'm not sure that the way you're choosing to signal the difference is widely appreciated or understood.
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by gmac 9y ago
The problem is that the public discourse cannot handle risk. If climate change makes big weather-related disasters X% more likely, even for large X it remains impossible to state whether climate change 'caused' any particular disa
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by gmac 9y ago
Looks like an interesting alternative to Google DNS (8.8.8.8), and possibly a little more anonymous. Google logs your IP address for 24 - 48 hours[1], while Quad9 appears not to[2]. [1] https://developers.google.com/speed&#x
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High Sierra 10.13.1 addresses KRACK bug in WPA(support.apple.com)
1 points by gmac 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 9y ago
Indeed. http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
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by gmac 9y ago
I agree, and I find scripting a web browser via the developer console a really productive approach. First, it's completely interactive. Second, it's the browser, so absolutely everything works. It doesn't matter if the data y
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by gmac 9y ago
A really good dark chocolate need not be an acquired taste. In the UK, Co-op's own brand 85% dark chocolate is excellent. It's rich enough that you'll probably never want more than a square or two at one go (which I count as
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by gmac 9y ago
Or we might not. This is a kind of high-risk counterfactual.
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Is beaming down in Star Trek a death sentence?(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by gmac 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 9y ago
My understanding was that recent versions of Mac OS have an upgrade process that works a bit like this anyway — i.e., behind the scenes it's doing a fresh install, then copying your files back across. But I could be wrong.
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by gmac 9y ago
I found the Manning book 'Deep Learning with Python' by François Chollet (creator of Keras) a fantastically digestible and practical intro.
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by gmac 9y ago
There's a nice comedy sketch on this point by Mitchell & Webb: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

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