jwdunne

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Mindfulness classes offered in UK schools to help mental fitness(bbc.co.uk)
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That's what the bits and pieces of docs I read said it was. I'm fairly new to it as a format and "human readable" made me double take.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
No, I pulled it from Wikipedia. I wouldn't ever share real data, especially since it's the transmission of STI testing results. Very telling about it's effectiveness though: you didn't spot "nickell's pickles&q
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Funny this crops up. I've had to quickly get to grips with a somewhat related subject: a human readable healthcare interchange format called HL7 v2 (v3 has, somewhat rightfully, replaced the custom format with XML). Here's an exam
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by jwdunne 11y ago
23 for me - this year in fact! It's somewhat harder for PI adults I think because there's a long trail of failures that are perfect explained through the lens of ADHD-PI. Even harder with vivid long term memory. All the school rep
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by jwdunne 11y ago
No no, it's fine. I understand your point. Looks like we hail from different countries. In the UK, at least, there is simply no rampant mis-diagnoses. My diagnosis has taken 2 years and this is average, perhaps quick, given the state o
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In fairness, what I've written is only a very small facet of the larger set of problems I face on a near daily basis - a lot of which I'd really rather not write about (mostly out of embarrassment, some of which purely because of
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Great tips, I too am a programmer with ADHD. I have ADHD to thank for my self-education and following career, where by I cannot resist spending hours on things that are highly stimulating, such as the next interesting thing to learn in comp
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Whatsapp could be banned in the UK within weeks(express.co.uk)
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Could the same be said for the USA? Though a bit more tightly knit, states tend to have a degree of autonomy, each with representatives - the adjacency of States is also similar in a way to the HRE. The model of electing an emperor from the
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Would be good to know how that figure came about! Are you sure this isn't skewed by maritime empires, such as the British and Spanish? The landmass based empires I study with interest have typically lasted more than twice that. The Rom
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In true hacker spirit, we could use ML to find the reason and give a message like "It's probably because x". Not sure what algorithm we'd have to use but I'm interested now.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Not just goofy. Most people in the UK would associate glasses like that with ali G: http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/deedfyOGpiI8a2UWYdSCFLjbX... In all seriousness, how do they affect colour? If you'r
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I like this. Familiarising newcomers to the community's ways as opposed to a blind downvote is a good way to welcome them. We must remember that these sorts of posts are acceptable on other discussion forums, news aggregates and 99% of
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I agree with you in that Greece's debt does need to be substantially restructured because it's unsustainable. I just think the whole "setting of precedence" is what's keeping us fixed in the same place. I don't
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I don't see an unemployment rate of 25% plus more spending cuts inbound as doing rather well. It was falling but very slowly.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I haven't down voted you because this has been on the tip of my tongue but I've held it back because it's such a low-ball response which achieves nothing. I think this whole "look at X" is why we're in this cha
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Except that major spending cuts during a downturn are harmful, which is what Greece has been in pretty much since austerity. Greece has problems, I admit, but austerity during a downturn only makes that worse. Party comes along and says it
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by jwdunne 11y ago
When having staples inserted (and also removed a year later) into the growth plates in my knees, I was given the option of having my legs numbed too for pain relief. I'm glad I took that option now - unless it was post-op only. From th
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Installing dependencies... will take some time but will report back if I get it working.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
What would be really nice is a Firefox/Chrome window hosted inside an Emacs frame, which would be controllable via an elisp api so I can bind hotkeys to control it. Would make web development easier by keeping web based documentation l
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I also think it undermines the ending, which is probably one of the best endings I've ever read, which ties everything together rapidly so you have to re-read the past few paragraphs again. I remember thinking "woah". The sta
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Wow, I have no words because I've just eaten them. I wonder if there's anything that would stop a European country from copying the Eiffel tower?
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Which is fair enough because they are easily reproduced but we're talking about famous landmarks here. I don't think I will find the Eiffel tower's light arrangement anywhere but the Eiffel tower any time soon simply because
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In this particular case, I just don't see a copy of the Eiffel Tower's lighting arrangement appearing in exact form anywhere else...
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is similar to what I experienced, sort of like an enlightenment moment. In C, I see a thin veneer over assembly, but that veneer has been designed to look thicker than it actually is. I came to appreciate the abstraction and now unders
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I think PCSOs do deter from petty crime when patrolling, especially teenagers in deprived areas.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
The police are facing and have experienced funding cuts. I wonder if CCTV is a more efficient approach than PCSOs.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I think there is shameless and there is shameless. I don't see the examples the OP mentions as being shameless really. Perhaps riding on the back of a notable death or otherwise serious, negative event is shameless. For example, in the
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Similar to my experience. My parents always had high levels of debt and lived close to the breadline. I remember once there was a bit fear of home repossession. They managed to get my a second-hand PC from a friend when I was ten. Had 4gb H

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