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by phillc73 11y ago
Ibex or ibis perhaps. I thought there were other more interesting choices, like Xerus and Urial. I really didn't mind the more esoteric animals, mixed with the common, as I thought it made a good learning experience. I'd love my b
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by phillc73 11y ago
Genuinely wasn't meant to be a pointed criticism. I was curious to learn more about the use, which I just found different to what I'm used to. I guess in this case I would read "wastage" as the reduction of available pow
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by phillc73 11y ago
Thanks. Of the six potential uses, I think this one is most relevant: "Forming nouns indicating a process, action or result. E.g. blockage, slippage, shrinkage" Yet in this case the extension to "wastage" still feels som
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by phillc73 11y ago
As an aside, because I'm genuinely curious, can anyone explain the modern English trend of adding "age" suffix to some words? E.g. Wastage, Usage. The title of this post would read just as well as "Power Waste on an Idle
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by phillc73 11y ago
The 1878 Treaty of Berlin only covered occupation and administration of the Ottoman Vilayet of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Fran...
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by phillc73 11y ago
Pushing the big green NEXT button as many times as I could on the Atom Bank website[0] was one of the more satisfying things I've done this afternoon. [0] https://www.atombank.co.uk/
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by phillc73 11y ago
Facebook is terrible for this. I thought I'd opted out of all communications, yet I still receive these enticer emails and also things about how my "business page" needs updating. The only reason I still have a Facebook accou
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by phillc73 11y ago
Agreeing with you. apt-get purge apt-get autoremove apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Plenty of other uses for apt-get besides install.
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by phillc73 11y ago
Apart from the API, which I just haven't looked into, my Number26 account has all of those things covered. I'm also not restricted to being a London living iPhone user. I just don't understand the Mondo hype. Their service is
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by phillc73 11y ago
> With mondo it is a debit card with a current account which can overdraft and interest rates near a credit card (19.9% according to their papers) What's the advantage here? With my Smile account I have a Visa debit card linked to m
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I guess we might disagree on the definition of major bank, but I've had an account with Smile[0], part of the Co-Operative Bank, for over 10 years. It's an Internet only bank, with no physical branches. I've always done every
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by phillc73 11y ago
This is very nice for evaluation of cljs. I know this is your own project, and adding parinfer could be useful, but I wonder if collaborating with proto-repl[0][1] to add cljs support to Atom could be something you'd be interested in.
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by phillc73 11y ago
Obligatory awesome link: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets
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Toe the Line: Investigating the Lost Sock Conspiracy
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by phillc73 11y ago
Thanks for that. I had no idea things were connected in that way.
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> library(dplyr) # gives us the gift of pipes “%>%” Actually, it was magrittr[0]. dplyr popularised their use. [0] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magrittr/index.html
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> If the claim that the Linux client is no longer able to join calls is true, I think the Skype team really needs to respond. I made a call this morning (6 hours ago) and it worked[0] at that time. I'm not on the same machine right
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I'd also like to suggest the addition of the Co-Operative Bank (they're not dead yet!) and/or Smile. I have a Smile account.
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> For me and all of my friends text messaging is practically free (there's no unit cost, and every plan we would want has no unit cost) I'm guessing you and your friends all reside in the same country. SMS/text messaging c
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by phillc73 11y ago
A bit late responding to this thread, due to sleep. I recently started to mirror my repositories between GitHub and GitLab (they're just really small R packages). It was very simple to update my local git config file so that "git
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Or more concisely, the Hadleyverse. [0] [0] http://adolfoalvarez.cl/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hadleyv...
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by phillc73 11y ago
There are quite a lot of R htmlwidgets which interface with d3.[0] [0] http://www.htmlwidgets.org/showcase_metricsgraphics.html
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I believe that's almost completely false. My wife was raised in a country where one language was spoken in the house, but she was taught at school in a completely different language. Absolutely nothing to do with being middle class or
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How big do the mountains need to be? I moved from London to Graz, Austria[0] a couple of years ago. The city has a population of roughly 300k and is surrounded by large hills. There are some really good universities here, so quite a lot of
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by phillc73 11y ago
Natron, an open source compositor: http://natron.fr/ LiVES: http://lives-video.com/ Lumiera, a re-write of Cinelerra: http://lumiera.org/ I think one also needs to clearly define the term &
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by phillc73 11y ago
It might be worth investigating Lightworks. It's a professional grade NLE[0], with a "free" version, with limits on output format. Five or six years ago, EditStore purchased the Lightworks product, with promises of open sourc
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Investment in what respect? Developer/analyst effort, I'd probably agree. However, one needs to do the analysis to create a worthwhile dashboard anyway and the report can be generated easily with the knitr package.
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Would you consider building the visualisations yourself with something like R and Shiny? Self host the server, develop in-house, no more Tableau like problems. I was working on a project where the client wanted to use Tableau and I pushed i
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by phillc73 11y ago
This is really interesting, although I found it difficult to listen to, as I have spent a lot of time listening to the original. If I try to mentally block this from being connected with Satie's Gymnopedie, I enjoyed it much more. That
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by phillc73 11y ago
I was going to rail against another app I could be interested in which forces an Android installation through Google's Play Store. Then I noticed the link to sources on GitHub and the ability to build the APK oneself.[0] I will certain

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