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by m0nty 11y ago
I was surprised at the volume of changes to this article, the first one I went to: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-yea... Everything below was lost, I wonder why? > Analysis:
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I really like this, and agree that the diffs need to be clearer since it's not easy to get a Wikipedia-like overview of how a page has changed between the earliest and latest editions. AFAICT, you have to step through a version at a ti
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I don't think OP was talking about "sunsetting his career", just that options look limited, so I was trying to suggest some. As for those half dozen technologies - they're not that difficult, which is why I mentioned the
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49 here, I'm not enjoying working in IT nowadays, I think it got old about 5 or 6 years ago. So I quit and I'm pursuing my own projects, doing some programming, and trying not to worry too much. I could have ground it out for a fe
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> The service could present a phrase for the user to say That might work, although it might be a bit like an audio-captcha (i.e. frustrating): "Please repeat this phrase: Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow." &
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What if I have a recording of the account-holder's voice? Could computers be programmed to mimic voices after hearing a sample? What are the fallbacks - presumably old-fashioned verifications which might be subject to social engineerin
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Cancer cons, phoney accidents and fake deaths: meet the internet hoax buster(theguardian.com)
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> Mind you, we are talking about people older than 45. I wish we could drop the casual ageism, age has nothing to do with it. You might as well tell me they're left-handed and that's why they can't "do" passwords
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I've made the same allowance for a visitor to a forum I run. He is incredibly abrasive and snarky in general (especially when people disagree with him, however politely) and vain about his own writing, which is mediocre but he refers t
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> they weigh about the same because of all the stuff they've added to them Buy a decent frame and build your own bike. I have three bikes -- MTB, hybrid and one I made myself. The homemade one is easily my favourite, and I think it&
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by m0nty 11y ago
As you suggest, "a driving wheel 58 inches in diameter" is a big clue here. The safety bicycle (basically what we tend to ride nowadays) was invented in 1876, at least the version which became most popular. The so-called "pen
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I would be interested in that, I'm sure many others would too.
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Thanks for the link to the lists, I'll try rigging that for auto-update on my PC soon.
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I'm using this on my Windows PC: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Disabled all ad-blockers and still don't get ads, and the whole experience seems faster. Presumably it takes longer for JavaScript-based util
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A sigh's not just a sigh – it's a fundamental life-sustaining reflex(theguardian.com)
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Yes, it's a good point - it just looks awful so I suppose it registers. High levels of road-kill also indicate that there is enough of a species to become road-kill on a frequent basis. The wet Spring a few years ago caused a significa
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Wolves might be released in Scotland, there are calls for lynx as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33017511 I can only imagine how livestock farmers will react.
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> The one thing the pressure groups hate mentioning is badgers There is a sub-text throughout all of this, which is touched upon but not explicitly stated: culling of badgers in Britain is a highly emotive subject, and it's become o
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Although, that's not a bad way to learn Python. It's how I started.
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I think it's why Medium is getting a bad name. I used to associate it with high-quality articles, seems they just let anyone in nowadays.
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Just one other data point: a friend teaches IT and cannot find any permanent employment, it's all temporary gigs of three or six months. So in some respects, it might be like IT workers - they are there, but employers are ruling them o
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I too love bash. It's always there. It has no dependencies. It works.
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> Delete non useful (history, astronomy) Where to start? If you knew your history, you would realise that attempts to "reset" the education system generally go hand-in-hand with barbarism or huge social disbenefit. How on earth
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> I don't think online education is a good start or even a viable model Let's suppose you open-sourced education, so rather than it being controlled by an elite and passed down to the masses in varying degrees depending on how
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> we can fill that emptiness that lingers inside That's quite the generalisation, right there. One thing I learned a long time ago is to (try) not to assume the inside of everyone else's head is the same as mine. We're all
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Someone else did some digging: http://www.ourhappy.space/2015/05/25/count/ tl;dr - The figure seems to come from Regina Lark, a "Professional Organizer" who "specializes in working with pe
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> The average American home contains around 300,000 “things” If I broke everything down into its components, that figure wouldn't even be close. In fact, I know of so few people who would come close, I'd question where this fig
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> I generate random strings as answers to my recovery questions. What's your favourite football team? -> Genghis Khan 2nd XI What was your first school called? -> Little Horrors School for Hackers etc. Easier to say, you won&#
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It's interesting you say this, I currently have four weeks to run on a very well-paying contract which I chose to terminate. The money's been nice, and so are the people I work with, but I have enough in the bank now where I can t
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> Wow that imagery is powerfully sad I didn't mean it to be ;) I'm an optimist at heart, honestly, and I'm not sitting here feeling I've wasted my life or anything. But there are some things I wouldn't do again i

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