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by phireal 13y ago
Having the rate of change rather than the number of words might be a better indicator of how stressed a particular group are at a given time.
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by phireal 13y ago
The distance measurement tool has been removed from more recent versions of Maps. It's why I haven't upgraded to the latest version, as the elevation profiles from the distance tool are really handy.
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by phireal 13y ago
It's interesting to note the slight flattening out in the required power since ~2000 (around 220W). Perhaps the sport really is cleaning itself up.
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by phireal 13y ago
"We compare so you don't have too" should be "We compare so you don't have to"
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by phireal 13y ago
I think that's what the folks at Software Carpentry [0] are trying to do. I went on one of their courses, and you're taught the basics of writing good software, version control and databases (SQLite). I've frequently recommended it to fello
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by phireal 14y ago
If you're on Android, such functionality can be gained by installing something like Airdroid[0] which gives you something approaching a desktop experience of the contents and functionality of your phone. I use it to type out messages from m
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by phireal 14y ago
I think the version in Cryptonomicon was based on actual sound waves (in tubes filled with air) rather than in mercury as the book mentions to noise coming from his laboratory.
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by phireal 14y ago
That depends entirely on your field. A (not insignificant) number of PhD students who've gone before me at my university got their PhDs without having published by the time of their viva.
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by phireal 14y ago
If it's anything like the Windows 7 upgrade licences, since I was doing a clean install, wiping out the existing XP installtion, the way I got it installed was to install it once, then upgrade the existing installation. I seem to recall thi
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by phireal 14y ago
Seriously? Wow. Amazon really are dominating that particular market.
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by phireal 14y ago
Waterstones used to use Amazon to sell books (presumably they couldn't make any money any other way). Not sure if they still do. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/ is pretty good, particularly for difficult to find and second hand books. I've fou
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by phireal 14y ago
Their online banking is fairly primitive, but it does the job. One thing which I find particularly funny is that if you want to have a standing order which continues indefinitely, you have to put a value of 999 in the "number of payments" f
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by phireal 14y ago
I had that too. To fix the flickering, I found installing https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nnevod.log... and setting up my own (slightly brighter) curve made the problem go away. It seems the default auto algorithm doesn'
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by phireal 14y ago
Yes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.cardd... are two of which I'm aware, but they're not free. They worked well when I had my own calendar server, i
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by phireal 14y ago
Combine watch with ls -ltr and you have a neat little way to keep an eye on a given file or directory: watch -n 1 ls -ltr
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by phireal 14y ago
As I see it, the eureka moments become less frequent because when you're starting out, the low hanging fruit become eureka moments. As you get better, what was once a eureka moment is just a I-fixed-it moment, which is much less satisfying,
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by phireal 14y ago
Map showing Dragon's real time position: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=38348
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by phireal 14y ago
It's interesting to see the transition from physical models to blue screen based action. The models of the trains and the DeLorean are great and remarkably intricate, whilst the blue screen shots are being used for some of the more difficul
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by phireal 14y ago
I'll take a look this evening at trying to get it to parse specific events. Like you, it's busy times at the moment.
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by phireal 14y ago
The parse.awk script fails on Linux (no -j option to date). I didn't manage to decode what the date command does in the awk script, so I just used the python script instead. It might be interesting to allow parsing for specific events rathe
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by phireal 15y ago
It must have been shared with at least one other person as it explicitly states that there is only a single copy in existence. For us to be reading it means either the recipient or the person they shared it with subsequently shared it with
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by phireal 15y ago
I don't know, Knock manages pretty well with seventeen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_%28short_story%29