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by jka 4y ago
Tangentially-related tourism fact: between 2008 and 2012 it was possible to book airship sightseeing tours in California with Airship Ventures[1]. (not a journey that I've experienced, so I can't answer questions about what it&#x2
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Shameless appeal for code commentary review: This reminds me of a code comment I wrote about some web crawling code that is intended to maintain a continuous web address "flow graph", matching any origin URL(s) (the 'water ta
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> what would be the global policy on abortion? The U.N. Human Rights Committee has a recent (2019) publication[1], "General comment no. 36, Article 6 (Right to Life)" that contains an entry that is relevant to this question. Pa
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by jka 4y ago
> There sort of is. Are you referring to MusicBrainz[1]? [1] - https://musicbrainz.org/
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by jka 4y ago
"Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1] (Ken Thompson, 1984) is up there - it's a brief read, with high information density, and fairly profound implications. [1] - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145&#x2F
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Banks, UK government set for showdown over Covid-19 loan guarantees(spglobal.com)
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A possible response that I'd predict from GitHub would be to attribute much/all of the responsibility to the user. The argument would be along the lines of: you as the user are the one who asked the eidetic programmer (nice termin
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That doesn't sound great; a couple of questions spring to mind: Is there information from the students about the reason(s) that they don't want to consume school-provided meals? And is there a sense of how often this is occurring?
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Condolences on your loss. My father passed away a couple of years ago, before the pandemic. The grieving process can be complicated and is unique for everyone. I don't think I've fully processed it yet. Take your time. My bigg
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Would many companies pay for user data if they weren't allowed to store it?
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Re: video input - does the same problem occur when using the (unofficial, in maintenance-only mode) teams-for-linux[1] client? (I haven't tried using the Windows version under Wine, sorry) [1] - https://github.com/Ismae
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HOWTO: Installing RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi(riscosopen.org)
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If you believe in the product/service that you're creating, should you worry about someone else building it more effectively? (self-response: maybe, if they're going to cut corners in some areas to provide a more popular but
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This article provides one possible approach (and includes links to an example implementation): https://blog.jakubholy.net/2013/09/05/blue-green-deployment-...
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I don't know what the best answer to that potential problem is: I think users should continue to be allowed to comment on any issue. However I do think that the amount of analysis and effort that the user has done for each comment is r
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Consent-o-matic: automatic handling of GDPR consent forms (browser extension)(consentomatic.au.dk)
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Good news: it looks like the server-side crawler code that the browser extension sends content to is open source too: https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-server
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Fair point, yep. Generalizing your statement slightly: > Be generous if you expect additional <reward> to come from this generosity. Options for reward could include (without being limited to): "profit", "platform a
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> The directors have a legal responsibility to the company and to boost the share price, not for the betterment of humanity. That's an often-repeated maxim, but it's not universally agreed to be true. Quoting https:/&#x2F
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At the time of writing, the upvote:downvote ratio on the announcement issue is almost 1:20, so I'm initially skeptical about your implication that this is some kind of fringe part of the developer community. To me it seems more likely
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Qdrant – open-source neural search engine(qdrant.tech)
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Soybean Prices Hit Record as Inflation Stays Hot(wsj.com)
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That's not a use case that it's been designed for so far, but I'd be interested to hear whether it provides any assistance as-is, and equally if it doesn't. Equipment availability, ingredient weight, and nutritional cont
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Designed to help with questions like "what meals can I make with the ingredients I have in the kitchen?", RecipeRadar is a free and open source recipe search engine. The RecipeRadar interface is designed for use with both desktop
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Show HN: RecipeRadar – a free and open source recipe search engine(reciperadar.com)
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Hehe, ah, of course :)
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I wasn't able to find out about that, from a quick scout around - could you share a link to it? (I did find BotHack[1] and a video of its' first ascension[2], both of which are cool) [1] - https://github.com/krajj7
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One interesting result from this challenge that could stoke debate is that symbolic (rules-based) agents are clearly achieving better results than neural (machine-learning-based) agents. Maybe that's related to the nature of NetHack it
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A conversation about open source design and ethical funding(opensource.com)
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> The body said "purpose-based access control" was a term which had been used in the computing industry for 20 years I can find references to "policy-based access control" (same acronym) going back decades (and plenty

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