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by pja 9y ago
Kona implements K3 according to its github.
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by pja 9y ago
See the niceguys reddit https://reddit.com/r/niceguys for the full flowering of this interpretation of the "nice guy" trope. The guy who thinks that "being nice" to women is what gets them relations
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by pja 9y ago
Golf is cheap. Hmm. You could say much the same about tennis, surely? I suspect the biggest cost at the top level is coaching time: Is it possible to get good enough to match the elite players without access to a coach who is good enough
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by pja 9y ago
That helps with the external distractions, but it doesn't help with the pressure you put on yourself - the internal mental pressure. There's a reason everyone recommends "The Inner Game of Tennis" in this context.
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by pja 9y ago
There is, right now, a fairy large (for MeFi - something like 1000+ comments at this point IIRC) discussion on that topic on MeFi. I think the moderators have been hard at it given the contentious nature of the topic.
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by pja 9y ago
Sure: The UK moved to a qualified right to silence some time ago. On the flip side, UK police are far more constrained in their actions when interviewing suspects than US police are: @ UK police are not permitted to lie to suspects in int
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by pja 9y ago
Cut from the same cloth then: that guy is so intertwined with Alex Jones they may as well be two faces of the same operation.
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by pja 9y ago
It would have been equally sloppy in the circumstances to use "Mr Beard" had Taleb been arguing with a man. When arguing with someone on their academic specialism using an incorrect title looks like a subtle (but deniable! how cut
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by pja 9y ago
Nice use of the passive voice there. In what way am I 'pulling the gender card' exactly?
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by pja 9y ago
I think ZG might have confused Taleb with Alex Jones? (Taleb is the arrogant loud-mouth[1] who made his money in the financial markets, Alex Jones is similar in aspect but made his money by building an audience of right-wing conspiracy theo
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by pja 9y ago
Mary Beard’s proper title would be Prof. Beard of course. Something she extended the courtesy of to him, but apparently he couldn’t be bothered to extend the same to her. The falling back on 'I got more citations than you, so ner'
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by pja 9y ago
In her article, she points out that the same study failed to find Norman genes either. So I might ask similar questions about them: where are the Norman genes? Is the Norman invasion of Britain a hoax perpetrated by the alt-right of yore? e
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by pja 9y ago
If the number of BTC suddenly doubled, you'd expect the value of each one to halve given rational expectations and perfect knowledge of BTC holders. Of course a) the two BTC variants won't have equal worth and b) participants in t
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Once you get down to PMAs and van Emde Boas trees I think those are fairly exotic by the standards of most programmers - you won't meet them in your standard undergrad CS course IIRC.
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by pja 9y ago
I set it up with SPF and DKIM properly, triple checked. Check your reverse DNS as well. It helps if it matches the HELO advertised by your mail server.
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by pja 9y ago
> There is also the matter of the fridge/freezer, the alleged culprit. Not alleged: It’s known that this is how the fire started. The fire was called in by the resident of the flat when their fridge caught fire. The fire service cam
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by pja 9y ago
Originally the tower was built out of concrete & the outer skin of the building was glass, steel (windows & frames) & concrete. The safety case for the building was that no fire could escape a single unit, or worst case a single
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by pja 9y ago
Vala came out of Gnome/Gtk app development on Linux IIRC. It takes the GObject object layer from Gtk/Glib and promotes it to a first class part of the language: There’s a fairly direct translation from the various parts of the Val
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by pja 9y ago
The £ used to be 1.6 to the $ not so very long ago...
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Much larger attack surface => far easier to find exploitable bugs.
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by pja 9y ago
Doubling calorie needs is hard if you have a sedentary job in the modern world. Walk / Cycle to work every day at a fast pace (1 hour total). Play some kind of sport daily at lunchtime / after work (1 hour). You’ve just used an
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by pja 9y ago
This is supposed to be what backports is for, but it’s very much a volunteer effort. It would definitely be good to see the Debian project commit to supporting a set of leaf packages on a rolling basis in stable. Fragmenting the project in
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by pja 9y ago
I know it’s not as lightweight as a container system, but I’ve had quite good experiences on this front with virt-manager (and it’s associated command-line tools virsh, virt-install et al). It’s straightforward to spin up fresh local virtua
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by pja 9y ago
gcc has the -fomit-leaf-frame-pointer option at least.
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by pja 9y ago
Then your printer will stop printing & demand that it be refilled. (At least some are known to do this now.)
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by pja 9y ago
You’re not going to get an 8 minute response anywhere but in the major city centres, which have armed units on 24/7 standby. I think those units have been around in London for decades at this point. Probably ever since the ring of stee
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by pja 9y ago
Eg, the processor in the BBC MicroBit pulls about 10mA @ 2.5V or so. Of course, it only runs at 32MHz or so & has a whopping 16kbit of RAM, but you can run one off a pair of AA batteries for a week or two without ever sleeping.
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by pja 9y ago
Which is wildly unrealistic of course. There’s no material that can take the tension such springs would have to cope with. Lots of SF books ask you to take one or two impossible things as givens in order to tell the story of course, but thi
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by pja 9y ago
That was entirely by design. You might not have liked it, but it was an expected outcome.
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If a bug is wormable & your OS is still in widespread use then this ought to be the least you can do. If you’re unwilling to put the effort in, then open source the OS in some form so that someone else can. There are vast numbers of XP

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