paddyoloughlin

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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Your post seeks to minimise the issue (it's not about tech in general/just a few bad apples) something which is directly addressed in Part II of the original post: http://randi.io/wp/archives/91 I think
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I have not downvoted you, but the zoe post wasn't slammed because its author's experiences were considered invalid but because it is a textbook example of slut-shaming. And now you are saying that the target of this was an abuser.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Ireland too
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I'm not against them using slow-mo at all. But they showed the drop several times, and I would have preferred them to show it at real speed at least once.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I love how professionals who work at that facility and have probably deeply understood those principles for decades still display so much wonder at seeing this experiment with their own eyes.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I wish the producers were less enamoured of their slow-mo and showed us the whole thing in real-time. The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
When reading a Wired article, holding down shift and pressing left or right cursor loads another article. Often, when reading articles, I highlight the part I am currently reading and then track where I'm reading by extending the highl
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Wired: Stop making cursor keys initiate navigation! This drives me nuts!
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I agree with that and I'm not sure what that jMyles' point was there, but I still don't think he/she was victim blaming, but rather making some sort of observation about the nature of privacy and popularity.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I am not a downvoter, but using your own analogy, your post is like saying "Why are people complaining about the existence of minefields?", criticising people for suggesting that something should be done about the minefields and i
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I read that differently from you. I think the author was simply pointing out that well-known people are well known, so their privacy is, almost by definition, limited anyway.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Also, the default action of the cursor keys is more useful for paging in less than in view. In view, cursor keys move the cursor; in less, they scroll the screen. And less has built-in tailing which you can start and stop at any time. That&
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
It's probably not that simple. The article indicates that the refactor removed support for a lot of old platforms which the project may very well prefer to keep.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
One thing I have noticed is that less's filtering ('&<pattern>') is sloooooooooow compared to grep. If that were improved I'd never have to use tail -f ever again. Someday, I'll look into it.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
More like "386 emulator in javascript", methinks.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Possibly it refers to him being allowed to _return_ to Russia if he travels abroad.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Really? I wouldn't expect the likelihood of winning given getting a hole in one to be much. A hole in one is only 2 (or extremely rarely 3) under par, the spread of scores in a game would usually be far greater than that.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Amusingly, a lot of Python's hits appear to be hacking the import logic. [0]: https://github.com/search?l=python&q=ugly+hack&ref=cmdform&t...
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Python seems to get a leg-up on the beauty stakes thanks to the popularity of the BeautifulSoup library :)
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
The history is a property of the shell (bash, zsh), not the terminal. Edit: I wrote a thing here about the difficulty of carrying history across terminal sessions and how can you associate a tab you open now with a tab you had open in a pre
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iPhone kill switch cuts thefts(theguardian.com)
1 points by paddyoloughlin 12y ago|0 comments
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Does anyone know of a good "get up and running with emacs" style tutorial which includes setting up of package management/repositories aimed at the emacs newbie? The built-in tutorial is great for learning to edit with emacs,
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised. It was the sensible thing to do. My point is that it is also sensible for Uber to claim that it has resulted in a massive success for their company. It makes themselves seem savvy and the
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Company's PR says that possibly controversial event for company results in huge benefit for said company. Hm. I'm not saying it not true, but it's playing in to an expectation that a lot of people had when they heard about th
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
I believe there is a large investment in becoming a taxi driver in London. It takes years of training (see, the Knowledge[1]) and money. Uber drivers presumably do not have to make such a big investment, so permitting them to go without the
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Looking at all the reactions, it doesn't seem that clear they were a joke.
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by paddyoloughlin 12y ago
Your point seems valid, but from my reading the article appears to be explicitly describing Linux's /dev/urandom as a poor source of entropy. And it seems to be implying that while use of the arc4random_buf function is platfo
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by paddyoloughlin 13y ago
The beginning of the PEP (linked document) has a rationale for it, including an argument that matrix multiplication has a combination of features which distinguish it from other binary operations. Check it out. Like most Python PEPs it is q
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by paddyoloughlin 13y ago
You can already script Vim with those languages. Vim needs to be built with the support enabled, though. Python: [1] (more info [2]) Ruby: [3] [1] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_pyth.html [2] http:/&#x2
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by paddyoloughlin 13y ago
I would not say it is weird: there is only one Facebook and most people only sign up to it once. There are many email address providers and many people have many email addresses. Many people have their email address provided by their employ

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