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by philbarr 8y ago
I have a car with voice control and it's terrible for navigation with my 4 year old in the back seat. Seems it can't understand the phrase, "Drive to home why are you saying that daddy what did you say are you talking to the
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by philbarr 8y ago
You still have to drive it to the stores once it's on land though...
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Not really - you can reduce it to one but you don't quite have enough information. So I think it goes like this: - you have 12 coins, and each one has an equal chance of being heavier or lighter than the others - so that's 24 poss
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by philbarr 8y ago
Which you can use to solve the puzzle: "You have 12 coins that all look exactly the same. One is counterfeit and is either heavier or lighter than the other 11. With a balance beam scale, isolate the counterfeit coin in three moves.&qu
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by philbarr 8y ago
So are they selling access to the SS7 network? Or just a continually updated dataset?
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by philbarr 8y ago
Depends how stoned you are.
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by philbarr 8y ago
Hey, and we in the UK are going pretty much exactly the same way!
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by philbarr 8y ago
I'm assuming that the term "slapper" is not a derogatory term in the US - because it sure as hell is here in the UK.
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by philbarr 8y ago
Whilst you're correct that we shouldn't be worrying about body attributes at all, and I agree with your vision of the future, we still need a way to get from where we are now to where we want to be. In the meantime the best we&#
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by philbarr 8y ago
If you're going to go way past the deadline, let your manager know as soon as possible and be honest. Explain why. They may be able to schedule more time or get you more help (possibly from someone with intimate knowledge of the legacy
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by philbarr 8y ago
> utf8mb3 is an alias for utf8 which was introduced after utf8 I didn't know this - and although I don't use MySQL much these days it good to know, thank you. > in SQL, each Unicode encoding is a CHARACTER SET.... I see what
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by philbarr 8y ago
Can't reply to the sibling comment by Chris, but there isn't a "utf8 character set". There's just different encodings of a character set. Even after hunting around after going to the 404 you pointed me to, I still g
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by philbarr 8y ago
> Can't each character be up to 8 bytes long I don't think so. Not to point you to the wiki again but [0]. That's a pretty good description of how it works, so you don't get to use the all of the bits in the first byt
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by philbarr 8y ago
ok - but parent referred to "utf8 character set". As if things weren't confusing enough already!
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by philbarr 8y ago
> not Basic Multilingual Plane, and so stupid hacks like the utf8 character set (I seriously don’t know why anyone ever thought it was a good idea in 2004) are now obviously insufficient for full Unicode support From [0]: UTF-8 was desig
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by philbarr 8y ago
This looks great! The background page says you were scraping the data from websites. Are you still doing that? If so: - did you ask permission? Did you feel you had to? - do you have problems with sites accidentally/deliberately breaki
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by philbarr 8y ago
My favourite part of the wiki page is: i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
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by philbarr 8y ago
But then what would we all do at work?
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by philbarr 8y ago
I watched this the other day which was more informative than I'd imagined [0]. Main take away for me was to eat fibre rich foods - so instead of potatoes eat squash and celariac, instead of rice eat bulgar wheat, and so on. [0] The Tru
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by philbarr 8y ago
Besides having decent source control habits so you know you can go back if you mess up, I usually have a "playground" project that is pretty similar to the app I'm working on. I can do what I like in there, experiment, break
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by philbarr 8y ago
Sometimes it can be better NOT to discuss with friends and family - they are much more likely to tell you what they think you want to hear in order to cheer you up.
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by philbarr 8y ago
I had never heard of it but was curious enough to google it: https://archiveofourown.org/ "A fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, an
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by philbarr 8y ago
> Also this year the art non-profit I work for submitted a story to a free paper and it was published Isn't that just a press release? When I was taught about press releases the idea was to make them as simple as possible for the pe
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by philbarr 8y ago
It's interesting, though. When I was a child "octopi" was the classic pluralization exception. There's even the joke, "if the plural of octopus is octopi, what's the plural of whatatwitamus?" I have never
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by philbarr 8y ago
Octopuses? Octopi, surely?
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by philbarr 8y ago
> Examples. We are hosting example projects with the most popular project starts: create-react-app, Next.js, Gatsby, CDN and Parcel. "Example projects" link is broken. But the master branch seems to contain them: https:&#x2F
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by philbarr 8y ago
It's interesting you mention "beating". I've heard of, but not actually seen in action, a method where a piece of paper is placed on the strings with the guitar on a flat surface. If the guitar is strummed and the paper
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by philbarr 8y ago
In a sprint review recently I brought up the issue of, "Hi Phil." This is where someone IMs you with just "Hi Phil" and then you have to sit there and look at the "X is typing", "X is not typing" for
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by philbarr 8y ago
For anyone interested: https://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/money-opinion/p-s-investiga...
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by philbarr 8y ago
Yes it's a rant. It's born entirely out of frustration on a bad day. I called him crooked because he dealt drugs to his favourite staff, or gave them coke as a reward. He was eventually on Crime Watch UK for fraud. The pay rise wa

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