jlg23

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by jlg23 2y ago
Exactly. 25 years ago in university none of my professors or assistant professors bothered with syntax, that was left to the compilers or interpreters of the language we were supposed to do our assignments in....
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by jlg23 3y ago
> they should really temper the response on future calls So I should swat myself in the morning when I want to go on a rampage in the afternoon? As inconvenient as it is for the victims, the 100% response rate is the only guarantee the s
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by jlg23 3y ago
> There's an argument to be made that for something like temperature control with its various modes (heat/vent/cold, strength/temperature, fan speed, which combination of vents), a large touchscreen is actually a far
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by jlg23 3y ago
> Similarly when this happens in summer, you can bet many people don’t have any water with them. When I lived there in 2010/2011, I regularly saw signs posted at tube stations "bring water, it'll be hot!".
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by jlg23 3y ago
I think the problem is also that a lot of committees are too detached from some of the groups they deal with. I once was invited, as a member of a European drug policy group, to a FSF conference in London with the aim to get more grassroots
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by jlg23 3y ago
Hilarious: > Do strings like com1:9600,n,8 turn you on? You might be a serial port!
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by jlg23 3y ago
> Maybe as an aside, but why should this research be done at university level? In this specific case: Because it started there and institutions that claim to be neutral or to use scientific methods should not stop research because they a
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by jlg23 3y ago
I'd assume the National Library of Australia also maintains a few traditional indices and maybe there are even one or two librarians around to help those who never had to find a book (or books on topics) in a library before computers.
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by jlg23 3y ago
~"Sensitive optics" A list of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack#Applications
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by jlg23 3y ago
No, the German thing would have been to have the printout of the telefaxed scan of the court order collecting dust because the scanner in the receiving department is broken...
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by jlg23 3y ago
The page has some devices that are known to work with this software listed: https://github.com/barracuda-fsh/pyobd#prerequisites
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by jlg23 3y ago
> And keep sane having some sort of structure (when to wake up, when to go to bed, when to eat), monitor tidal changes. Though you could just stick a piece of wood into the sand, mark shadows thrown at sunrise sunset and divide the circl
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by jlg23 3y ago
This "good enough writing style" must also be able to cross cultural borders - I dare to say even journalists don't get it right most of the time: * I've heard Kiwis say "F*ck you?" in lieu of "Seriously?&
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by jlg23 3y ago
> In such a scheme if a work is particularly valuable (either because it's being mass distributed, or because it has value in not being mass distributed), then the owner could maintain the copyright, but it would just be totally fin
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by jlg23 3y ago
As long I am not working the same hours as people in the far east of China, I would not really care about what the clock reads at sunset: I'd just get up around sunrise at n o'clock, spend my hours at work and finally go to bed at
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by jlg23 3y ago
> Why does non-urban, non-commercial (retail) Internet access suck so hard in Germany? Lack of competition and laws tailored to the privatized Deutsche Telekom: If I dig up the street to put fiber optics, they may join in for free. So ma
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by jlg23 3y ago
That "enormous bias" could also simply be that someone is using polar coordinates a lot. It's hard to not encounter rho and theta in literature about it... That's just one example, Greek letters have been used in science
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by jlg23 3y ago
I'd speculate that in audio studios a lot of thoughts/work go into acoustics of the rooms themselves. And it is done by professionals who have to work in that environment every day for several hours.
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by jlg23 3y ago
> Quite a few people speculated in my Original thread that the more expensive HD595 headphones must also be using a more expensive driver. However, Head-fi member MCC posted the smoking gun; a picture of the original Sennheiser replaceme
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by jlg23 3y ago
> She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle. > "She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush,
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by jlg23 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Posthuma
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by jlg23 3y ago
> New bluetooth standard? New advances in noise-cancellation? You won't get them. > Wireless headphones last a couple of years, where wired headphones last decades. Those wired headphones that last decades also won't get any
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by jlg23 3y ago
> How will grandma/pa be able to understand these instructions. They are not the target audience and they are most probably not relying on bootable media?
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by jlg23 3y ago
From a "fortune -o" message my BSD threw at me a long time ago: ~"It is a sad comment on society that this message is being flagged as offensive just because it contains the word 'fuck'."
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by jlg23 3y ago
Clunky? Version control built in, distributed FS built in...
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by jlg23 4y ago
Trust me. It's me. Trust me anyway.
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by jlg23 4y ago
APL predates the first documented thoughts (not specification/implementation) of unicode by roughly 20 years.
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Selden and Dobson proved that there is enough freely floating information in libraries and on the internet using which any technically-savvy person with the right resources could create an atomic bomb, and this include terrorists. That
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by jlg23 4y ago
Or maybe it is the result of filling hollow, generic advice with some meaning. I'd really love to hear the original advice given by western consultants.
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by jlg23 4y ago
The "12 crew and 12 passengers" would, as far as I remember, require one doctor on board. The number of passengers a cargo ship may take without dedicated medical staff was ridiculously low and explains why it is so much harder&#x

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