rbancroft

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by rbancroft 4y ago
Thanks, I see it now. I thought I looked everywhere but I missed it.
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by rbancroft 4y ago
I don't see any square button. 2/3rds of the horizontal real estate of my screen is empty... it's wasted space. This might look ok on a smaller monitor, but on 4K it is very sparse.
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by rbancroft 4y ago
@JxckSweeney, @RUOligarchJets and @spacexjet also just got suspended.
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by rbancroft 5y ago
Metafilter was extremely toxic. If it's sanguine now, it's only because everybody with other views was driven from the site.
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by rbancroft 5y ago
The bar is being set high for these vaccines because they are being pushed and mandated with very exaggerated justification, that they will end the pandemic. Rational people will agree that there are significant benefits to the vaccine, but
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by rbancroft 5y ago
ok I'm wrong on the grammatical analysis, it's not a noun but rather an idiom meaning to lack or need something.
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by rbancroft 5y ago
noun: want; plural noun: wants 1. a lack or deficiency of something. "Victorian houses which are in want of repair" In this case it's a double negative, OP means you'll always be able to find work as a skill
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by rbancroft 6y ago
I also read somewhere that the majority of the bitcoin "engine" was located close to renewable power sources that did not otherwise have good markets to sell their power. Whether that's actually true or not, the possibility
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by rbancroft 6y ago
I am sorry to have to be the one to say this but you are making a pointless semantic argument. Nobody is saying the USA is not a republic, it's a democratic republic. This must be some kind of political talking point because I have he
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by rbancroft 6y ago
I noticed this too. Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have both tweeted weird endorsements of Signal lately.
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by rbancroft 6y ago
you can also do tasklist /svc in a command prompt to get a list of svchosts.exes, pids and the services they are running.
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by rbancroft 6y ago
Thank you Dan! I hope all is well.
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by rbancroft 7y ago
Congratulations Dan and Scott! Well deserved recognition and I learned a thing or two about you that I didn't know. All the best from Ryan in Calgary.
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by rbancroft 10y ago
I first thought the article was a bit of a fluff piece, but after seeing this thread and the misunderstanding and over-simplification, it does seem apropos and worth discussing. The toolkit that makes a scientist does not necessarily make a
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by rbancroft 10y ago
I agree that it's not a great article, perhaps typical of philosophical writings, which I have always struggled with. It's hard to digest, I read it about 4 times. But the author is a philosopher of science, I am pretty sure he ha
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by rbancroft 10y ago
The tl;dr as far as I can tell is: scientific reasoning is a subset of reasoning, and not necessarily superior to other forms of reasoning. I can agree with that. There is a need for philosophy and purely theoretical pursuits, we can't
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by rbancroft 10y ago
We want abstractions to make things easier to do, but we don't want to pay for them with CPU cycles... that's what a zero-cost abstraction means. It's not about adding in useless abstractions. The ideal is software that is fa
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by rbancroft 11y ago
The app came pre-installed on my sony xperia phone. Wasn't even given any reasonable warning about it.
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by rbancroft 11y ago
oh thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I don't live in the US but I am glad they are being held accountable for it.
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by rbancroft 11y ago
I believe LinkedIn effectively stole my contact list without my permission when their app came pre-installed on my Sony Xperia and I logged into my Google account on the phone. I never consented to it and don't recall being informed th
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by rbancroft 11y ago
I agree they most likely were Islamist, although incidentally saying Allahu Akbar is not a very precise way of identifying an Islamist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir To quote from the page: 'In videos relea
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by rbancroft 13y ago
I only have TortoiseHG installed, but I use a standalone pageant (not the tortoise one) and TortoiseHG doesn't seem to have any problems using the keys stored in there. Even if you just use the command line client, I think it's wo
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by rbancroft 13y ago
With TortoiseHG, ssh does work well out of the box on Windows. I only know the webserver routes, but I don't see the problem with that. We use nginx on a Windows server and host our repositories there, it's not too hard to set up.
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by rbancroft 14y ago
That spike seems to exist in a lot of countries, including the US, France, etc.. My guess is that it has more to do with the swine flu panic than actual cases of flu.
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by rbancroft 14y ago
Great description and I have to say I really liked the broader context of the outage. The severity of the storm was something I had been curious about but hadn't looked up myself yet, and so I appreciated the extra education!
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by rbancroft 15y ago
I wouldn't take it personally. People get hired for all kinds of reasons, and not getting a specific position just means that they didn't think you were the best candidate for that position. It certainly doesn't mean you are a bad developer
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by rbancroft 15y ago
that icy box thing looks cool. I have been looking for something like that for a while, trying without luck to use some other non-backplane devices that haven't fit properly in the case, or have pieces broken off after very light use. As fo
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by rbancroft 16y ago
about.com actually has some interesting information from time to time. Secondly, the first link that appears for me when you search for experts-exchange is wikipedia.
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by rbancroft 16y ago
Yes, that was a cool one. murder: pretty cyclical and consistent rape: massive spike in the 80s and 90's, and declining a bit fraud: blip after WW2, then pretty stable up to around 1995 nazi: interesting trends there oil: some more interest
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by rbancroft 16y ago
Perhaps, but as I mentioned in my last comment, formal reasoning often breaks down when dealing with anything more than the simplest of systems. What kind of axioms can you reason from in software? The network is always slow: not always, me

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