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by larkeith 7y ago
I would suggest that the SRP applied here would be organizers calling outreach groups to assist with application diversity. Real-life activities have side-effects which should be mitigated, such as nonrepresentational conferences reinforcin
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by larkeith 7y ago
Oh, that's a good point. It might be sourced from crell's post: "According to them, they had only a single woman submit a session proposal this year...", which was from conversations with the organizers, so potentially n
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by larkeith 7y ago
Agreed that it's outreach, but it also seems necessary, unless <=0.4% of the PHP community is female (ratio of applications by gender).
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by larkeith 7y ago
From the second and third links (both blog posts rather than Twitter), only 1 out of 250+ submissions was from a woman, so the latter. Presumably a similar situation occurred in 2018, as there was a single female speaker out of the 39-perso
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by larkeith 7y ago
That's a shame, but I can't say I disagree with the two blog posts linked in the page. Such speaker lineups only exacerbate the lack of diversity in tech, and, given the prior year's lineup, the organizers had the opportunity
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by larkeith 7y ago
There's a world of difference between eating something that you've cooked, to a quality standard you know, in verifiably sanitary conditions, with limited exposure to bacteria, within a relatively short timespan after cooking, and
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by larkeith 7y ago
That's a false dichotomy, to say the least. There's a much different public view of e-cigarettes and non-e. Moreover, smoking bans are currently more widespread than vaping bans [1] - in many places, vaping is legal in situation
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by larkeith 7y ago
IIUC, the traditional tobacco industry is disallowed from marketing to minors. I don't know if those regulations apply to Juul, but if they do, producing advertisements targeted at underage audiences while claiming they're for adu
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by larkeith 7y ago
"preening narcissists" isn't exactly a respectful, discussion-engendering term.
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by larkeith 7y ago
This seems like the sort of thing that will get used in many small teams' internal communications, and occasionally cause awkward situations when someone outside the team gets wind of them. They're definitely not appropriate for a
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by larkeith 7y ago
Don't forget about the massive amnesia Google has - try searching for anything over a few years old. And gods help you if you are looking for something both old and by keyword, because Google sure won't. Unfortunately, DDG has a l
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by larkeith 7y ago
Regarding maneuvering, might it be feasible to place the detector as a statite somewhat shy of one Hill radius for slightly more ray extinction but functionally unlimited maneuvering capabilities? Presumably we'd want solar sail tech t
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by larkeith 7y ago
He contributes code and operates a store, while using very few of the amenities taxes pay for. How does that count as "living off others"?
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by larkeith 7y ago
> He was also charged with violating the city’s administrative code, which prohibits landing a plane on the street. Is that a standard clause in city administrative codes, I wonder? Impressive foresight in whoever got it put in.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Hey, as a heads up, you've got a cert mismatch on your linked page (you're serving the one for https://www.reasi.com ).
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by larkeith 7y ago
Absolutely not. Even as we start to see major changes to weather patterns globally, most people put up little more than nominal effort to avoid CO2 emissions and other damaging activities - for example, air traffic continues to grow [1]. We
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by larkeith 7y ago
From another comment, original issue [1] was closed at 9:12, so looks like they got it back up for a bit over an hour before it went down again. Post-mortem will be interesting. [1] https://status.cloud.google.com/incident&#
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by larkeith 7y ago
Also RiotX (full rewrite of Riot Android) is hopefully landing soon, so that should improve the mobile experience a lot for people who want a full client.
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by larkeith 7y ago
It seems you could make a law out of this - something like, "The amount a site values its community is inversely proportional to the community's size." Anywho, seems it's time to look at federating Q&A.
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by larkeith 7y ago
For maximum security, use username "password" with password "admin".
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by larkeith 7y ago
While this is certainly true for a few thieves, at least for other high-fraud industries, it's a case of running away from a bear - you just have to be harder to defraud then the other guy (in this case, other online marketplaces). Add
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by larkeith 7y ago
This is not an excuse. A company making any effort to be legitimate should use one of the several identity verification services available in combination with any sort of nontrivial fraud detection, which should easily dissuade 99.9% of thi
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by larkeith 7y ago
Interestingly, this is one of the ways we could deflect an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth, if we detect it early enough.
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by larkeith 7y ago
The test you described is useful for determining how many words in a text you will know - i.e. what percentage in a given set of English. That's probably a more useful number, but it's not what parent asked: "I was hoping for
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by larkeith 7y ago
I found the test significantly easier on subsequent attempts, as I familiarized myself with how strict (as it turns out, not very) their definitions are - I wonder if they will do any correcting for this? (Scores for reference: 70, 77, 87,
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by larkeith 7y ago
From their FAQ, "...a proficient native speaker will know some 40,000 words of the list (i.e., 67%) ... [for second language speakers] our estimates range from 6,000 words (10%) for a medium proficiency speaker to 20,000 words (33%) fo
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by larkeith 7y ago
Their FAQ claims 60,000 ("The word list should contain almost all English words...") so 48k+ works known, which is somewhat more believable. OED 2nd Edition (1989) has 171k full, current entries [1] (and another 47k obsolete, whic
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by larkeith 7y ago
From the FAQ: "The master list includes 60,469 words and 304,275 nonwords. From these you get a random sample of 70 words and 30 nonwords. The word list should contain almost all English words (non-inflected forms)." So just multi
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by larkeith 7y ago
It's especially weird to claim Apple is eliminating competition when it's replacing subscription-based apps (from which Apple gets a significant portion of the revenue) with a free feature. What are Apple supposed to be competing
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by larkeith 7y ago
> Did 1.0 fix the crippling resource consumption of their "reference implementation" or are they still tinkering on something half done? From the fourth paragraph: "...we have deliberately not focused on performance or fea

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