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   by pserwylo 13y ago

   "REPENT FOR THE END OF THE UNIX EPOCH IS NIGH" [0] ... was a very entertaining and interesting talk from linux.conf.au 2013. The first ten or so minutes is amazing theater and quite hilarious (at least it was when I saw it live), and the re
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   by pserwylo 13y ago

   Haha, yeah, I have experienced both ends of the stick. One supervisor I get along with beautifully, we've been meeting essentially every week for the last two years, and she has full access to the JIRA install I'm using to log my research t
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   by pserwylo 13y ago

   I completely agree. The only point where I fail at this is when I compare it to the 8 hour days I do once a week as a web developer (unrelated to the PhD). It seems so easy to power through the 8 hours and still feel like you could get more
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   by pserwylo 13y ago

   Just saw a link to this while checking the local weather. I think it is amazing that the Bureau of Meteorology is investing in retaining information like this. I have colleagues at uni who are working on making sure that the various stories
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   Indigenous Weather Knowledge(bom.gov.au)

   1 points by pserwylo 13y ago|1 comments
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   by pserwylo 13y ago

   I feel like this is useful information for much more than just people involved in work. Specifically, as PhD students, my partner and I (and pretty much all of our colleagues) often face burnout, and are always looking for ways to combat it
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Yup, it sure is noisy. But let me indulge in my (not so realistic, but still potentially feasible) thought experiment :) What if it turns out there is actually a predictable pattern to the noise on a ceramic surface. Perhaps there is a way
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   Thanks for the links. Your comments about the "OLDEST HUMAN VOICE RECORDING OF ALL TIME" reminded me about a thought experiment I once heard. Imagine a pottery wheel spinning thousands of years ago, and people talking as it spun. Then imagi
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   by pserwylo 14y ago

   I imagine for the bots you mentioned, that they are programmed with specific logic for those games. As for the NES emulator capable of playing the second player, I imagine that would be a similar story. The research here is not a computer p
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I've tried to write the above comment as un-biasedly as possible, just to give you the info and what the arguments are about. For what its worth, I think that the 50% extra price to connect an extra 71% of homes directly to fibre is worth i
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    For those unfamiliar with the current state of Internet service in Australia: The current government has founded a company called NBNco (National Broadband Network Company) to connect 93% of Australian homes via fibre. The remaining will be
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    Australian opposition announces National Broadband Network plan(abc.net.au)

    2 points by pserwylo 14y ago|2 comments
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I think that a tool like this will, with time, become much more efficient than a simple search replace. As mentioned in my sibling, there are edge cases which need thought, and a proper refactoring tool will excel. I'd love to see a tool li
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I am using Ghostery, which does a pretty good job of intelligently blocking (and also notifying me) of trackers. However, there are some sites that stupidly execute JS that is vital to the running of the page after attempting to initializ
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Another is https://github.com/mischat/shareNice . They look like they do pretty much the same thing: Serve the icons themselves, and just make them a link to the respective services. For example: - https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.p
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Thanks for the list. We were quite literally discussing this at work only yesterday, because the IntelliJ interface doesn't do anything. They use the Java Swing toolkit, which doesn't have any special treatement of sub-menu's. I was still d
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I think the limitation is only on older versions, so they would probably only do the hack if it was pre Gingerbread. They mention that ICS works as expected, so I would be more than a bit mortified if they did this hack for new working vers
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of a great talk on simplifying legislation so that law people can actually read and understand it: http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_ja... In the talk, Alan discusses how the
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Also, there was a bug (feature?) in the win 3.1 version where if you sat yourself under a seat, and then held the up arrow to slowly go up at the same time as the lift, and your score would rocket up by the 1000s. We used it to increase the
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    Australian court supports patents on human genes(reuters.com)

    1 points by pserwylo 14y ago|0 comments
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I mean comparable, in the sense that it has a similar set of features, and allows you to perform similar tasks with similar amount of effort.
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I'm curious, how does this compare to something like The Gimp, which I've always considered comaprable to Photoshop in almost every way)
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    I wonder how this fits into Australian Consumer Law (ACL) [0]. We have a relatively robust set of rules that govern how a business selling a product/service interacts with their customers. For example, if you purchase something and it is no
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    History of papal resignations(catholiceducation.org)

    1 points by pserwylo 14y ago|0 comments
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    With Ghostery running, it should not even load anything from a Facebook domain. The (buggy) code to redirect people to facebook.com would no doubt be served fromFacebook themselves. Stopping that code from being served to your browser means
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    The tool gives more meaningful statistics about test runs during benchmarking, e.g. by running two commands and seeing which performs better. Here is some example output (taken from the slides linked to in the article): +---------------
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    Compare-perf: CLI tool for simple benchmarking with statistics(anholt.net)

    1 points by pserwylo 14y ago|1 comments
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    You should check out a tool I heard about recently called "ministat". An example of how to use it to benchmark multiple runs, and then compute the statistics from each run are available here: http://anholt.net/compare-perf/ Example output
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    Sounds pretty cool. Starred already. I hope it works out nicely, I'm happy using a mish-mash of unison and git (depending on particular needs) for my own stuff, but I'm using rsync for my fiance's entire PHD folder (including large amounts
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    by pserwylo 14y ago

    My resolution is to actually contribute to some open source projects this year. For upwards of five years, I've been attending linux.conf.au and the Open Source Developers Conference in Australia. Each time, I have a great time; discuss int