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by jamessb 4y ago
The slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XqWF7h8ScimDFbQgLcXP... The speaker Michael Stapelberg had a few blog posts about his home 25 Gbit/s fiber connection that have been discussed here previous
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I initially had similar concerns, but the idea seems to be endorsed by the GitHub Developer Experience team: https://githubnext.com/projects/flat-data/
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GPS signals can be jammed [1] or spoofed [2] by terrestrial transmitters; and the satellites are controlled by the US military, who could in principle decide to deny access or degrade service. Navigational errors that could result in ground
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by jamessb 4y ago
They criticise the comment: "This is not worded correctly.", by saying that "Comments like this are unhelpful… ", which is true. However, I don't think that even their example of an "actionable" comment (&
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That project url doesn't currently work, but http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/ does
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> Extremely lightweight but also quite flexible with its permissions model since we have a shared family calendar. How are you doing this? A while ago I skimmed the documentation for a couple of CalDAV servers to try and figure out how I
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by jamessb 4y ago
> There is a strategy about this as far as yes minster goes about nuclear bomb detention This is the clip about Salami Tactics and the Nuclear Deterrent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4
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by jamessb 4y ago
> You had me at "My own toilet all to myself". I understand not everyone in the world is loathe to use a public restroom, but Jesus H. Christ, people use public restrooms like apes in a zoo. It's not just cleanlines: I&#x
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by jamessb 4y ago
"Introduced in 1991, DART had by 1995 offset the monetary equivalent of all funds DARPA had channeled into AI research for the previous 30 years combined" Thanks for the link - someone at BBN had told me a similar story, but I did
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by jamessb 5y ago
The book "Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence" is a good introduction [1,2 ] to a range of techniques. [1]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bio-inspired-artificial-intel... [2]: https://baibook.epf
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by jamessb 5y ago
The ownTracks docs for beacons is at [1,2], whereas there an open issue on the Overland repo suggesting something similar [3]. Getting a location [4] and detecting the presence and proximity of beacons [5] use different parts of the Core Lo
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by jamessb 5y ago
> am I missing an alternate use of 'conceive'? "conceive" is also used in the sense of "to imagine something" [1] or "to apprehend by reason or imagination: understand" [2]. However, an alternative
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An alternative is the Overland app for iOs [1] or Android [2], logging to compass [3] Each has features that the other doesn't: OwnTracks can apparently determine a location using iBeacons, whereas Overland can't (though it can de
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by jamessb 5y ago
> Is it a materialized remapping of the underlying .hgt or is it done client-side, in some webGL-shader? The map loads pre-rendered map tiles as JPG images from Amazon S3 (you can confirm this in the Network tab of your browser's de
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by jamessb 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're downvoted. The name immediately makes me think of the submarine-launched ballistic missile system that proceeded Trident [1, 2]. TBH, I was expecting the link to be to an article about the history of SLBMs.
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by jamessb 5y ago
> The Royal Mail is (like until recently the RSPCA) one of the few entities in the UK entitled to bring its own prosecutions No, the ability to bring a private prosecution is not restricted to specific entities - it is a right everyone h
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by jamessb 5y ago
Previously, a man in Malysia mistakenly received a telephone bill for 84 ringitt (£125 trillion [1], or $218 trillion [2]). Also, in 2003 a man received a final demand letter for £2,320,333,681,613 from British gas [3]. [1]: https:/&#
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by jamessb 5y ago
> If Zoom were even skirting the line here, their lawyers would put the kibosh on it real quick Their lawyers didn't stop them from claiming to provide end-to-end encryption, a blatant misrepresentation that resulted in receiving a
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by jamessb 5y ago
As a reformatting tool should only change the formatting, you could check that the Abstract Syntax Tree is unchanged. The ast module in the standard library gives access to the AST [1]. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/li
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by jamessb 5y ago
> What's the current UK scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate
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by jamessb 5y ago
See also "The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems", a book by Mark Levi [1]. [1]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691154565/th...
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> I do not know the specific background of Mr Lee As an undergraduate, he studied maths at Trinity College Cambridge. Béla Bollobás said [1]: > I certainly taught him more than anybody else in Cambridge. I can truthfully say that he w
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Image of this example: https://imgur.com/a/Mjo1c0j
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The message for the PR (under the Conversation tab) justifies this as: > plugins/mac-capture/mac-display-capture.m:621 - The __MAC_10_15 define may not exist on devices running < 10.15, resulting in this section not being ap
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by jamessb 5y ago
Copy the env files into your password manager?
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Yes, but they're relatively small so circles are not too bad as an approximation. The Leaflet.Geodesic plugin can render (polygonal approximations to) geodesic circles correctly. Based on playing around with this demo [1] (drag the cen
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It is a very literal encoding: the colors are the actual colors of the lights (unless you uncheck the "Show real colors" checkbox), they flash in the same pattern as the actual lights, and the radius of the circles is proportional
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The README [1] says it is using data from OpenStreetMap, fetched with the Overpass API. [1]: https://github.com/geodienst/lighthousemap
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by jamessb 5y ago
A previous discussion on the"Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg" mentioned in this article had 677 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595598
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by jamessb 5y ago
> Is ten classrooms per school a reasonable average? That sounds low: a secondary school with no sixth-form will have students in 5 different year groups, and will typically have more than two classes per year group.

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