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by mjw1007 9y ago
Maybe I'm being small-minded, but I strongly dislike using the word 'plagiarism' to refer to cheating on your homework by copying someone else. To me, plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's ideas at their expense
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by mjw1007 9y ago
This bit caught my eye: « According to Agner’s instruction_tables.pdf load instruction that I use has 2 cycles latency » and indeed that's what Agner Fog's tables say (and they further say this figure is « the delay that the instr
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I found this part interesting: «Please also provide insight in the legal grounds for transferring my personal data to these jurisdictions.» Do you know if there's really a requirement to provide requestors with your beliefs about the l
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I wouldn't suggest anything so complicated. Rather (if it isn't a technical limitation), I'd suggest they increase the per-base limit for customers who pay for more users, or else add a third paid tier above 'pro'.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
My guess is that it's mostly a technical limitation (and that the reason why services of this sort haven't taken over the world is that everyone else runs into a similar limitation).
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I like airtable, but the per-base row limits (50,000 before you reach "contact us for pricing") are too small for many of the things I'd like to use it for. And there's something a bit odd in their pricing model, isn&#x2
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That's saying that some recently fashionable, and fairly elaborate, theories about teaching children are basically junk science. That includes the ideas that there are left/right brain learners, children who are holistic as oppose
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It isn't just a reluctance to put pressure on the tax havens; the UK government has been actively working to defend them (eg pressuring the EU to keep Bermuda and the Cayman islands off their list of "noncooperative tax jurisdicti
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Neither of those things. Targeting Oreo means telling the OS to disable backwards-compatibility behaviour which would otherwise apply.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Browsers have to worry about things like floats, so that the available width for a line can vary depending on the line-breaking choices made for the lines above it. There's some discussion at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Sure, that work still has to be done. But if you start off by thinking of it as "the job of a manager" then you're assuming your conclusion.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I've sometimes wondered how, or whether, this is guaranteed for companies whose ownership is organised by tradeable shares. That is, whether there's anything that stops a sequence of share sales ending up in a situation where a se
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Similarly from the linked Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report: «Prevention can reduce the incidence of disease, but savings may be partially offset by health care costs associated with increased longevity.» Perhaps a useful way of looking
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by mjw1007 9y ago
From the article: « The British spies appear to have targeted Belgacom due to its role as one of Europe’s most important telecommunications hubs. Through a subsidiary company called Belgacom International Carrier Services, it maintains data
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by mjw1007 9y ago
They have somehow managed to write a 500-word article on their project, advertising that it's "built native", without mentioning which platforms it runs on. The answer appears to be "only macOS, maybe Windows later"
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Some of the information looks off. The chart shows CHECK constraints appearing in PostgreSQL in 8.3, but they've been there since at least 7.1.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think the main change over the last hundred years or so is that most people will no longer accept "we should go to war because war is in itself glorious and we will win", or "to be a warrior is the ideal way for a man to li
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think people telling stories like Star Wars choose to make the antagonists Capital-E-Evil because modern audiences are much less happy to root for people who are fighting a war if they aren't shown that the war is thoroughly justifia
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I don't know whether racing drivers are bad drivers when on the normal streets. It wouldn't particularly surprise me if they were. The kind of game that I think is most likely to cause problems isn't the one that's simul
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It could. Or more simply practising lots of driving in games could improve your reflexes and hand-eye coordination and also make you a safer driver. When I say I think it would be valuable to research this I really do mean it. The results m
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Most people aren't frequently in a position where they have to make a split-second decision about whether or not to fire a gun. I'm worried about people training themselves, in marginal cases, to accelerate rather than brake to av
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The type of game I think it would be most valuable to test is the realistic driver's-point-of-view car-racing game. The risk of someone effectively training themself to drive more dangerously seems much more direct than the "primi
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I can: when they renamed firebird to firefox.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
When people talk about making a single global change to update all clients when they change an interface, are they updating unsubmitted changelists too?
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Maybe 'myrepos' will do what you want. http://myrepos.branchable.com/
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Apple could provide a way for the app creator to add alternative app-install links which also provide a configuration setting. So that from Apple's point of view it's like having a single app which starts with a "please selec
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Yes, I think that's exactly what they should do. Apple wants to have absolute control of what users are allowed to install on their own devices. Maybe that's justifiable as a way to avoid malware, and maybe it's also reasonab
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I'm not sure they've got the boundary between Reference and Explanation quite right. They seem to be thinking of the Explanation category as less than formal, and of the Reference category as organised around individual items (a l
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Some of both (for example, % formatting got added back to bytes objects in 3.5). Also, supporting 2.5 (or even 2.4) together with Python 3 was particularly inconvenient, so things sped up after people stopped caring about those (which took
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That doesn't really fit the way web-crawler-based search engines work. If the search engine is working properly then if the new site looks the same to users it ought to look the same to the search engine. If Google's crawler didn&

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