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by phillc73 9y ago
> There is even a well known movie that has that as a key plot element: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/ (Man gets drunk, accidentally flies to another city, which had an identically named street, apartment
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by phillc73 9y ago
Not a great reference, but best I can find on short notice: https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-a-Yorkshire-Accent Part 1, Section 4. Edit: The Vocabulary and Grammar section here discusses Definite Article Reduction: https
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by phillc73 9y ago
> PS. Using the 't' contraction instead of 'the' makes this really hard to parse. Only in some cases. "...by a young man of large fortune from t'north of England;"[1] This is just about the perfect edit
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Ghostery the same.
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I was trying to find some global sporting event television audience figures for 2017, but haven't found a good consolidated single source. The UEFA Champions League final in 2016 attracted 350 million global viewers.[1] I am supposing
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by phillc73 9y ago
En Route Supplement Australia (ERSA) might be helpful: http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/aip.asp?pg=40&vdate=... Unfortunately, you'll need to deal with PDFs, but they are data rich: http://ww
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by phillc73 9y ago
Exactly this. I'm currently planning to move a small community off a SimpleMachines self hosted forum where I upload files every day. I was looking at GitLab as an option, because I can automate daily file delivery by cron pushing to t
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Exactly this reason. You just know it will always be installed. And I still type "pico".
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Maybe it is and I'm just not aware of it. I left TV about four years ago, so not sure if the technology has made it to consumer file transfer tools, but as far as I know clients for services like Dropbox (mentioned below) don't us
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Yes, that's a nice workflow for non-technical users. However, if you're transfering 50GB files, this takes some time. UDP behind the scenes could fix that. I guess consumers just aren't punting 50GB of data around all that mu
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UDP for fast file transfer. Working in the television industry at the time and a few companies were making tools based on UDP, for sending large files across public networks. Smartjog, Aspera, Signiant. The companies are still around, but o
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by phillc73 9y ago
> - Firefox has built-in tracking protection ( https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/12/firefox-to-offer... ) Is there a way to selectively unblock certain trackers on a specific page? I currently have th
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by phillc73 9y ago
As game mechanics they seem about right to me. The landlord's going to take the rent whether you're working or not. If you don't work (play the game) you don't earn.
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Back in the day, early 80s, I remember my father not wanting to know the rugby league scores. Generally, the match of the day was played at 15:00 on a Saturday afternoon. However, it was also replayed early evening, around 19:00 or 19:30 I
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by phillc73 9y ago
What was Julia lacking? I know and use R, but have been considering Julia.
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Yes, but some of them aren't available yet, specifically dplyr: http://packages.renjin.org/package/org.renjin.cran/tidyverse
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Hadley's book, "Advanced R" has a specific performance related chapter[1]. As well as techniques to boost performance within R, there's a section on "Alternative R implementations," which says in part, "Th
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by phillc73 9y ago
Regarding Rcpp, their package library says "A Renjin-specific version of this package is available."[1] Looks like Renjin can also be used from GNU R as an R package[2]. I'd assume any installed R package should also work in
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Renjin: a JVM-based interpreter for the R language(renjin.org)
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Database-Inspired Optimizations for Statistical Analysis [pdf](hannes.muehleisen.org)
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Then host the APK on GitHub. They don't have to host source there as well. And I'm sure they can design a page in such a way that only the more technical potential customers go for the direct download. It's also rather ridicu
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by phillc73 9y ago
How about a choice of Google Play Store or direct download, for "Advanced" users? That's all I'm asking, just a tiny little 8pt font link to directly download the APK.
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Thought I'd give these guys a chance. Your brief write up piqued my interest. Their website says, give us your phone number and we'll send you a link to download the app. I'm thinking this is great, a direct APK download and
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by phillc73 9y ago
Just to add another data point, TransferWise have been the single most useful financial service for me over the last three years. In 2000 I moved from Australia to the UK. Transferring money between AUD and GBP accounts was always a bit pai
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by phillc73 9y ago
If you had of continued reading, you would have been informed about the fully electric Polestar 2, scheduled to arrive in 2019. An SUV Polestar 3 is a little further in the future. The thrust of the story is that established car manufacture
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by phillc73 9y ago
The Betfair prices depend on market depth. It's data available through the API, so you can have a pretty good idea of what price you will be able to strike for any given bet size. My experience with traditional bookmakers has been seve
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by phillc73 9y ago
Thanks for the correction. I put that, and other spelling errors in that post, down to fat fingers on a mobile keyboard.
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People say their contact details are in their profile, but I never see contact details in any profile I view. Am I missing something?
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by phillc73 9y ago
Do you mean the Betfair lines? I think their market is pretty accurate. More so than many traditional bookmakers, although a lot of them use Betfair to make their own markets now, so there's very little chance of arbitrage between them
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Betfair is for sure the most liquid. Smarkets and Matchbook are growing. I've not used Betdaq. However, if people are worried about hitting the Premium Commission levels on Betfair, and the other exchanges are mirroring prices, then su

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