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by manicdee 8y ago
USA by far.
872.
by manicdee 8y ago
Values mean nothing when the behaviour is the same.
873.
by manicdee 8y ago
Remember that bias is just as much about how they filter what facts to report as it is about how they distort the facts they do report. Just because what they report is factual, doesn't mean they're unbiased. A newspaper that repo
874.
by manicdee 8y ago
Also: - maintainers are all on holidays, that PR is not getting touched this week - the person who accepted that issue has not been active for a week, perhaps I can pick it up - the person who accepted that issue is active today, maybe th
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by manicdee 8y ago
Preach! Also as irritating as vacation mail can be, at least now I know that you aren’t talking to me because you aren’t here, rather than you’re just giving me the silent treatment because I made a disparaging comment about Tori Amos’s lat
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by manicdee 8y ago
“It’s been a year since you touched this code. Do you still use it?”
877.
by manicdee 8y ago
Looking at github to see if the maintainer is on holiday seems great to me. Perhaps my pull request isn’t complete junk, and the only reason it hasn’t been merged is that there’s nobody around to merge it?
878.
by manicdee 8y ago
Linux in the 90s was figuring out which distribution had usable versions of the software you wanted to use, and hoping that an update to one package didn’t break everything else. That, or rolling your own distro from scratch and spending AL
879.
by manicdee 8y ago
Once the shell is sealed the rocket becomes its own clean room. They have access ports for workers to climb through and for air conditioning ducts, and the 9m diameter interior should provide few restrictions for workers.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Once the new high pressure Raptors are working, most of that dream will be a reality. The only things holding SpaceX back at this point are the heatshield, the engines and Planetary Protection.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Also: SS has longer service life than composites or aluminium due to being less susceptible to fatigue. This is important on a spacecraft intended to be reusable, and SS is highly reflective to infrared aka heat, which is important for hand
882.
by manicdee 8y ago
The iPhone 4 has less real estate, so far fewer pixels, so less graphics processing required. Also less energy required for the same brightness. Also the case doesn’t have to be proportionally thicker, so the extra thickness is entirely for
883.
by manicdee 8y ago
The responsibility is on the airport to confirm sightings. The responsibility on the police is to confirm sightings before arresting people for flying drones over the airport (the police arrested a couple for flying drones over Gatwick when
884.
by manicdee 8y ago
Heck just pick up any book about portrait photography and you will see the same thing: male postures are typically steadfast, female postures tend towards vulnerability (geometrically weak, camera looking down to subject, shoulders not squa
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by manicdee 8y ago
Replanting all the forests in the world that have been cut down will only replace all the firsts in the world. Eventually we run out of room for new forests. The major battle in combating AGW is the quantity of carbon we have dug up from th
886.
by manicdee 8y ago
The iPhone 4 is significantly thicker than the later models, somthere’s plenty of space for a battery. The backlight of the screen is a large power consumer too so smaller screen means less energy used for backlight, more energy available f
887.
by manicdee 8y ago
The person who spends money has money, so I expect the correlation between cheap phone and low store spending is fairly high. No idea about the whales though.
888.
by manicdee 8y ago
Roughly speaking, from the beancounter perspective, selling one phone for $50 profit is better than selling two phones for $30 profit each, because you only need ongoing support for one customer.
889.
by manicdee 8y ago
For that kind of reading my iPad is right here in my bag. For quickly sending messages, playing music or arguing with Siri, the iPhone 4 or 5 were much easier to hold or pocket.
890.
by manicdee 8y ago
Apart from a better screen, faster processor, T2 and A-series chips with far better graphics performance, Touch ID, inductive charging … what have the Romans ever done for us?
891.
by manicdee 8y ago
1Password is a great option for everything password related on iOS/macOS. Just watch out for the sticker shock :D
892.
by manicdee 8y ago
And then we find that mathematicians have wicked senses of humour so use words like “common sense” as a self-deprecatory reference to the decade they spent finding the proof :D
893.
by manicdee 8y ago
Given the wisdom of experience he doesn’t announce that anymore.
894.
by manicdee 8y ago
Call me when multiple longitudinal studies independently verify that opinion.
895.
by manicdee 8y ago
Is the middle ground “feed it to someone else’s kids”?
896.
by manicdee 8y ago
The article also says 3000 pounds of confetti. The article makes no mention of the other garbage the accumulates as a bypoduct of this event, much of which is not biodegradable. What is the point of dumping this garbage in the street?
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by manicdee 8y ago
There’s also the issue of week-of-year calendars being useful for a very small niche, so it’s basically technical jargon of one speciality imposed on the rest of the world, the same way lawyers debate commas and treat and & or completel
898.
by manicdee 8y ago
I can choose who to serve in my pub. If you start mouthing off at the other patrons, you will be asked to leave. That is not censorship or silencing, it’s simply advising you that my place is not the place for that kind of behaviour.
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by manicdee 8y ago
No. What you put in “see notes” notes is the boring technical detail such as how week numbers are calculated and which document or paragraph this particular implementation holds authoritative over conflicting alternatives. What you put in t
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by manicdee 8y ago
Well one option is to hold designers, developers, builders and inspectors separately liable for the work and inspections they do for their entire lives, not limited to the period of solvency of the company they did the work for. We’ll see a

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