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by harry8 3y ago
Gnumeric is actually a good excel. The stats routines are shared with R so if ever someone demonstrates a bug, it is fixed! Free, fast, accurate. Pick any three! http://gnumeric.org
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by harry8 3y ago
10 year old you say.... office 97.
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by harry8 3y ago
Seen a lot of screw-up by someone taking a databse export (csv or whatever) into excel to work on it, sorting but only sorting one column leading to disaster. This is just unbelievably /common/.
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by harry8 3y ago
Great. Your doc is the right person to advise you on this, not some goose on the internet! ;-)
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by harry8 3y ago
These are great. Get them from fdroid.
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by harry8 3y ago
Please ask your doctor if supplements are right for you and how much.
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Ok so you acknowledge it was well reasoned and you are apologising to op for saying it wasn't. And moving forward you've come to: So many well reasoned arguments can be created so it is possible for people's minds to cloud. I
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by harry8 3y ago
Knowing nothing much about this there are still some obvious points to make. The CIA will not be one singular entity of one mind and focus. There will be factions in that organisation, there will be rogue elements. There does not have to be
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by harry8 3y ago
>But none of this is well reasoned. Conjecture: A is not the culprit because motive xyz does not check out. Reasoning: That doesn't exonerate A, who could have other motives. Without agreeing with it, that looks perfectly well reaso
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by harry8 3y ago
Dog whistles are terrible as is antisemitism. I'm so ignorant I don't know that is definitely a racist dog-whistle or not and I'm not sure I can bring myself to get down into that sewer. Separately I'm not as familiar w
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by harry8 3y ago
> and then on to Russia False. The only people who saw the documents that Snowden had were the journalists chosen by Snowden. In any country, including the USA. Some were less responsible than others hence the nyt got a copy. Hong Kong i
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by harry8 3y ago
First one was not published by the journalists Snowden chose, whom he directed as to the kinds of things he wanted published and not. The NYT got the archive from the guardian against Snowden's wishes and knew better. Your criticism is
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by harry8 3y ago
He gave that data to american citizens in Hong Kong and retained no copy. Obama's people trapped him in transit in russia on his way to south america so that they could claim "russia! russia!" They openly bragged about this.
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by harry8 3y ago
How do you prove a set of weights was trained on, in part, any dataset? "We bought these weights in good faith from Digitus Tertius corp of bermuda."
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by harry8 3y ago
So you don't believe it's a fabrication either and we can agree it doesn't make a strong case that reform is unnecessary and school textbooks are incapable of being improved. Of course the best evidence either way on the latt
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by harry8 3y ago
Ironically your story is dubious, but less compelling than Feynman's anecdotes. My comment is as cheap as yours for illustration purposes. I don't believe Feynman fabricated his stories of textbook corruption. Do you?
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by harry8 3y ago
Anytime school textbooks are mentioned I feel the urge to refer anyone who'll listen to the relevant chapter of "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" Feynman is popular around here and rightly so. Blatant corruption from to
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by harry8 3y ago
> "smartphones are a human right" This works out as "You are required to carry your surveillance device at all times" Thanks to everyone who didn't care forcing the rest of us into being part of your turnkey faci
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by harry8 3y ago
There used to be clear rules about this kind of thing, think cheques. Now, there's a computer attached to a network involved in the path and everything is rancid fudge. Did you see the greyzone had a fundraiser shutdown by gofundme? Re
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by harry8 3y ago
If you're not intimately familiar with GPU drivers and what goes on this gives you a very quick, back-of-the-envelope of the size and complexity of the work involved. 1/7th the size and complexity of the kernel for this one driver
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by harry8 3y ago
You make a strong case about lack of education quality and make-work time-wasting foisted upon children. Education is not a problem the human race has solved despite progress made.
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by harry8 3y ago
>Whether you believe AI is going to be massively transformative to the modern economy on a scale with cars or personal computing is actually not sufficient to start investing in the 'sector' Note that "not sufficient"
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by harry8 3y ago
"Don't throw money at a new sector of transformative tech looking for first mover advantage because you'll lose." Seems actionable to me, was it not clear? You've got to do a lot more, you've got to pick ford w
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by harry8 3y ago
this is another way of saying "If you invested in the first one to be successful." Well yeah. Obviously. Time machines work great for investment decisions. edit: Whether it was first or not the nokia N95 was a smartphone and was d
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by harry8 3y ago
Survivor bias is massive here, watch out for it. Osborne beat apple to personal computing. Facebook did not exist during the dotcom boom. So very many early car companies went broke. "But if you'd only got ford it would have been
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by harry8 3y ago
Transformative tech: cars. If you invested in the early movers you very likely lost your money. Transformative tech: personal computers. If you invested in early movers you missed microsoft and you very likely lost your money. Transformativ
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by harry8 3y ago
>they have it all anyway. I hate that rationale just so very, very much.
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by harry8 3y ago
yeah sure, maybe, but when I look at software i can install which has a purpose other than programming a computer there's a metric f.ton() written in Java (a language I don't like much) and we can count the items on our fingers wr
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by harry8 3y ago
This is an alternative model for quality reviews that's lasted about 60 odd years so far. www.choice.com.au/about-us
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by harry8 3y ago
is early diagnosis useful?

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