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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Do you have a version of that web page for people who want to run Linux? That'd be particularly helpful.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Sure, I have one sitting on my desk right now. It uses an Intel Core m3, and it's 7.5 years old, so it can't exactly be described as high performance, but it has a fantastic 3200x1800 screen and 8GB of RAM, and since I do all my n
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Uh, no, it's definitely not. Hero begins with a consonant, so it should be preceded by "a", not "an".
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The best counter-argument I can provide to your wonderful ideal is that people are stupid, and they are vulnerable to being manipulated into believing dangerous peace-disrupting falsehoods by propaganda.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I was going to say, at the point they aren't letting you out the door, aren't they committing false imprisonment? Besides, most places nowadays you have to explicitly ask for a receipt or press extra buttons within a 5-second time
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The more conventional acronym is ANPR.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
You are correct in that most "hobbyist telescope mounts" are good for tracking stars at ~1 arcsecond, only where those stars don't move across the sky very quickly (up to 15 arcseconds/second). However, it is quite withi
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
In this case, a precision transit instrument can be the two corners of two houses (or some other structure that won't move) that are separated by a reasonable distance, an eyeball, and an accurate time. Stand at one and sight along bot
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The aim doesn't need to be that accurate. Laser beams diverge due to diffraction. You can't break the laws of physics - a non-divergent laser beam would need to be infinitely wide. A 1cm wide laser beam of 700nm light will have a
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The best way to determine the exact position of a planet is not to have a highly calibrated telescope mount that knows exactly where it is looking. Instead, it is to take a decent picture with the planet approximately in the middle, and fee
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Admittedly, the whole stupidity of the article aside, they do make a valid point with their "triggering processes" bit. GET should not perform side-effects. That's what POST is for. Also, for your blog, have you considered pa
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
No, you absolutely own the book, but you have a licence for the information in it.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
This is kind of the case. Under GDPR, the data can only be used for the specific purpose for which is was collected, unless explicit consent is obtained. Terms buried in contracts do not count as consent - a contract has to be clear about t
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
At the moment, holding data about someone is not a significant recurrent cost, but it is a liability in the form of a risk that could get you in serious trouble if you get something wrong. However, that particular business risk doesn&#x27
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Logically true.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I totally wrote my own TODO system. It's actually quite featureful, and it works as a command-line program that stores its data in a human-readable text file. And can produce graphs. Admittedly, it's more of a time-tracking system
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
As I mentioned in a parallel comment, the opposite is likely true due to the bias in the selection process for Biobank.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
But there was a BBC documentary called "Should I marry my first cousin" for which the main conclusion was basically no.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The UK Biobank definitely has a bias, but it's in the opposite direction to that you are suggesting here. It's primarily healthy people who are enrolled only when they reach the age of 40 and still have no significant health pro
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Wow, that's some joined-up thinking.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Surely that should be fortunately .
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I don't think anyone is seriously considering that this article was flagged as NSFW for the reasons you quote.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I agree. Different people have very different thresholds for what is "sexual", so it's incorrect to make a blanket statement that it is not sexual. It's sexual for a decent proportion of people - just the fact that this
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
FWIW, Xenon was discussed, but it didn't go into enough detail about why Xenon matters and how it can create transients.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Agreed, but I'll often be looking at one window while typing into another.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
?! - I'm clearly missing something because I'm failing to understand how people don't know about engine braking or have just tried it for the first time, and actually have a licence. It's approximately lesson number four
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
If you drive down any significant hill, you either use engine braking, or you overheat your brakes. It's a fairly basic part of driving tuition and the driving test for a good reason.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
The road sign pointing to the Secret Nuclear Bunker is perhaps one of the more surreal road signs you'll see.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
My stock reply to this used to be that you can send emails from anyone - who the email is sent from is not authenticated. It's a little less true now with some of the newer protections, but only today I received a fairly subtle spam&
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I'm just investigating why the nightly backup of the work server is taking so long. Turns out python (as conda, anaconda, miniconda, etc) have dumped 22 million files across the home directories, and this takes a while to just list, le

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