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by jwx48 3y ago
My 2009 Macbook Pro 13 (5,5) had firewire. Could you be referring to a different model?
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by jwx48 3y ago
As a native English speaker, my brain has a strange habit of processing foreign-language films with subtitles seamlessly, while viewing subtitled English-language films/shows feels much more cumbersome. Now that I think about it, the E
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A Disaster Expert Prepares for the Worst(newyorker.com)
2 points by jwx48 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwx48 3y ago
I've seen many on the campus of Elon University.
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by jwx48 3y ago
Then you have my apologies.
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by jwx48 3y ago
Gotta be. I've never flagged anything before now, but I think this merits it.
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by jwx48 4y ago
I assumed that "WMD" meant something other than Weapons of Mass Destruction , but, no, that's exactly what was meant.
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by jwx48 4y ago
As the East coast of the United States wakes up and checks in, yeah... this place is, for too many people, a food desert. The amount of doughnuts, sweets, chips eaten in my workplace boggles my mind.
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by jwx48 4y ago
Ah, I see it's pronounced more like "Krull" than "cruel".
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by jwx48 4y ago
From the article: > Even when data are publicly available their use can breach what we call textual integrity. Yet, the link embedded in the text leads to a Washington Law Review article by Helen Nissenbaum titled "Privacy as Con t
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by jwx48 4y ago
In my particular American-English dialect, it means flatulence.
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by jwx48 4y ago
I currently live in Charlottesville and would recommend against it. Its general infrastructure is crumbling. Sidewalks and bike paths, while they exist (barely), are neglected. The city government just bought a parking lot, for example, w
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by jwx48 4y ago
> ...anything that can hold the input of a user, that a scraper or content mechanism will eventually naively come across Good way to put it, and I'm going to share this.
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by jwx48 4y ago
I'm quietly waiting for my IT department to swoop in and chastise me for downloading and running it. Worth it.
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by jwx48 5y ago
Dune, by Frank Herbert. Bear with me on this. It was a bridge into politics, ecology, religion, and economics, as well as an amazing world-building narrative. It got me interested in philosophy and literature, and the roles they play in cre
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Personalization vs. Privacy(americanlibrariesmagazine.org)
2 points by jwx48 7y ago|0 comments
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by jwx48 7y ago
As a huge fan of OpenRefine, I want to say thanks for introducing me to Sequel Pro.
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by jwx48 7y ago
It's possible I saw a member of the Fugate family back in the '80s. I grew up in West Virginia, not terribly far from the Kentucky state line. An older woman, perhaps in her seventies, was shopping in a local grocery store. I was
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Humans Are Doing the Hard Work That Algorithms Can’t(medium.com)
3 points by jwx48 7y ago|0 comments