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Twitter Whistleblower Report Highlights(twitter.com)
14 points by martinclayton 4y ago|5 comments
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Avid Halaby summarises Twitter whistleblower highlights with eye-opening technical details.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
On reflection, it's obvious, but I'd not perceived the the converging of on-line personas before. It's the same on the left and the right. I remain a worried optimist, like Mr. Lanier.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Unlocking history - fascinating. These two quotes in the article seem somehow incongruous: "Simply putting it into a computer and telling the computer to work it out would literally have taken longer than the history of the universe!&q
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by martinclayton 4y ago
It's the first time this particular element has been observed in this context. Other trans-iron elements have been seen in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs before, so not that surprising.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
No, big family, frequent SIMs moving between phones. But it comes in handy for other things that need a similar pointy end too.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
My daughter wears earrings, so she never needs a SIM ejection tool. But I keep one on my keyring - amazing how handy it is. (I don't carry a PIN-locked SIM card!)
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by martinclayton 4y ago
This immediately made me think of Patrick Moore and TLPs (Transient Lunar Phenomena). Here is a list of potentially interesting "in-solar-system" transients for anyone who wants to explore closer to home: https://kgov.c
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by martinclayton 4y ago
... I should have said a bit more about the game: The objective is to reveal all the hidden words by guessing letters, one-by-one. At the outset there is only one word to guess, but each incorrect letter adds another word. Eight wrong let
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Thanks! I think there's more of us than people realise.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Thanks! And thanks for the tip - will look into that.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Thanks! I've not tried to figure out the maths of the difficulty dynamic: more words is harder, but it also increases the chance of a letter guess being correct which seems to balance. In-family testing suggests that it's usuall
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Show HN: It's like Hangman not Wordle(foximax.com)
12 points by martinclayton 4y ago|7 comments
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Steven Wright is dry, at least his powdered water joke is.
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by martinclayton 4y ago
Two died when the Macon itself was lost in 1935.
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by martinclayton 5y ago
A former colleague, a great generalist, calls Perl his second language: the first being English. I started using it in the early 90s and it's paid the bills ever since. Thanks to Larry and the whole community.
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by martinclayton 5y ago
Thank you! I now have it working just fine to access my two headless minis. Small vote of thanks via open collective sent too.
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by martinclayton 5y ago
Works for me on an intel mac mini, needs MacOS 11 (Big Sur) or higher.
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by martinclayton 5y ago
The UK government has taken a different approach to all-out anti-higher-ed. attack: cut 50% of the funding for many university arts courses, while keeping the overall budget fairly flat. In the UK media this is seen as an attack on "l
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by martinclayton 6y ago
Out of context perhaps, but rings true: "...SQL is a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle..."
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by martinclayton 6y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I've got a copy of Knuth's Computer Modern Typefaces (Book E in the Computers And Typesetting series). I don't think many people get to see this book. You can see where some of Kunth's time went.
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by martinclayton 7y ago
I met a long-time collaborator of mine over drinks a while back, and we talked about Perl. “It’s my second language”, he said. “What’s your first?” “English.”
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by martinclayton 7y ago
Could have been Steiger at some point - only Trevor Howard (just) above him in the list predeceased him.
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by martinclayton 10y ago
Modern vending machines are not so easily fooled. But, the old UK 5 pence and German 1 mark coins had quite similar dimensions, and were made from the same material, so vending machines at that time were fooled by the 5p, which was worth mu