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by lampington 5y ago
A 50s computer would have been largely glass vacuum tubes and dropping it would cause quite a lot of problems. And a modern computer would be fine in an earthquake if it didn't fall off something or have something heavy fall on it.
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by lampington 5y ago
How much tipping these days is cash vs card? I would imagine that cash tips are underreported on tax forms.
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by lampington 5y ago
Purchase was national, rollout per-country (though they did all do it pretty much the same way, with broadly similar results)
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by lampington 5y ago
Anyone can test, true, but you need the machine in front of you to do it. There's definitely value in knowing before you buy that the manufacturer has made sure that their hardware works with your favourite distro -- and that they&#x27
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by lampington 5y ago
I was checking out Linux laptops last night and came across Star Labs ( https://starlabs.systems/ ) who look pretty interesting. They're based in the UK and seem to be focusing on thoroughly testing their machines on as
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by lampington 5y ago
IIRC toxoplasmosis affects the brains of rodents making them less afraid of cats, which means that they're more likely to be killed and eaten by those cats, which spreads the infection to the cats. I think there have been claims that p
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by lampington 5y ago
It's possible to jog at that speed if you try hard - I've been doing some low heart rate training recently and can get down to 11m/km while still jogging, and I'm pretty tall so the biomechanics are weird. It does look r
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by lampington 5y ago
That's interesting! From my (admittedly very weak) understanding of Cyrillic, I'd expect Беларусь to be pronounced with a "y" sound as part of the "e", similarly to the vowel at the start of Ельцин (Yeltsin). P
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by lampington 5y ago
You mean 1918, I think?
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by lampington 5y ago
In the UK here. You're pretty much right; the goal as stated was to get a first dose into all of the clinically vulnerable people (long term illness, diabetic, severely asthmatic, etc) and those over 50 before moving on to second doses
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by lampington 6y ago
Python almost managed to blow itself up over the move to 3, though, in a very similar manner to the 5-6 transition for Perl. It was only through a lot of hard work that disaster was averted.
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by lampington 6y ago
Interesting article. I have occasional (every few years) periods of anxiety. Last time around I went through a course of CBT, some of which I found moderately helpful - don't try to suppress feelings of fear, just acknowledge it and mo
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by lampington 6y ago
The black death originated in central or east Asia but I don't think there's any indication that it was in China. Given the proximity, China might have been one of the first nations to be affected with the ability to document it,
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by lampington 7y ago
Yeah, that happens to me too.
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by lampington 7y ago
From the article: "Formerly known as the CSeries, the 110-130-seat A220 was designed by Canada’s Bombardier (BBDb.TO) and was one of the first to adopt the new Pratt & Whitney technology. Bombardier sold the program to Airbus last
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by lampington 7y ago
Agreed. I was planning to set up a pi as a media server sharing out a synced Dropbox folder, but the long term reliability of the storage made that impossible. Sure, you can attach USB storage (and that should be pretty fast with the Pi4)
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by lampington 8y ago
"When I was a child" [posts video from 2008] Ouch. Now I feel really old...
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by lampington 8y ago
Using that in the article would have made things much less confusing. But journalists tend to avoid titles - perhaps especially when the person in question has apparently done something bad.
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by lampington 9y ago
The problem is that it's a staging kernel, not a full release. I've not been able to get it to boot on m3.large AWS instances, though it seems to work on xlarge.
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by lampington 9y ago
Unless they meant "smaller hosting companies [than OVH]"?
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by lampington 9y ago
If you think the life experiences of gay/trans people in 1930s Europe aren't remotely related to development then you might want to read a little bit about the life of Alan Turing. While it's a little over-dramatised, the re
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by lampington 10y ago
ITYM EMU. The UK joined the EEC in 1973.
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by lampington 10y ago
TBH I don't think London matters that much to him. The Tories' heartland is outside the capital, or on its borders, in areas that voted leave.
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by lampington 10y ago
+1 to that. I'm on week 4 and every week apart from the first one I've learned interesting stuff that wasn't covered in my undergrad CS course.
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by lampington 11y ago
Depends how they're stolen. If a site that wasn't using unsalted hashes for storing them was hacked, then it doesn't matter how guessable they are.
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by lampington 13y ago
The original story above is from March 27, 2013. Perhaps the OP didn't see the year?
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by lampington 13y ago
Interesting, I always thought bampot had a first syllable rhyming with "lamp", but would pronounce balm to rhyme with calm. But then I'm from the south of England so bampot isn't a word I'd normally outside of readi
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by lampington 13y ago
Oh no, not again!
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by lampington 13y ago
+1 to that. If you want intros to VCs then identify target companies, then mine LinkedIn to find out who you know who knows people there. If you're not just starting out in your career, you're likely to find a bunch of avenues.
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by lampington 13y ago
I'm in the UK and had an AmEx card for many years. Visa and Mastercard dominate the market, though.

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