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by ricksplat 10y ago
I remember going back to college after my "summer of dieting" (proper balanced, calorie restrictive, but not the crazy kind) and having my first chocolate bar. Sent me to the moon and back.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> Don't hate the player, hate the game. Said every gangster ever.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Or for which they could ever possibly have a mandate.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I can say that this corresponds to my experience. I underwent a rigorous transformation from obese teenager one summer, which included a fairly strict diet. I used to have bad acne but since then have been barely troubled by it. I have a nu
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by ricksplat 10y ago
My worry in that case though is you could end up with a whole heap of unnecessary abstractions which can make reading by a third party (or yourself even in 6 months) a little more tricky. I'm seen so many functions of the like of `Util
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by ricksplat 10y ago
all the better for maintaining a clean suite of unit-tests too!
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> while I'm quickly prototyping I think any kind of skullduggery is fair game at this stage when you just want to "get it to work". For me the rule of thumb to go beyond this point is the commit (or push if I'm
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I can't quite tell if these are still on sale or museum pieces ... http://www.ip-extreme.com/IP/16bit_microprocessors.shtml
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Plenty of microcontrollers I would have thought ... or at least a dwindling number ...
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I'd venture that it's probably because Apple don't encourage discussion. As demonstrated in this article and pointed out by other commenters there's a large veil of secrecy that comes down when it comes to detailing spec
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> if people Your mistake here is thinking "people" are one coherent group when in fact what you're describing here is (probably) two different ends of a polarised discussion! You're probably in a more moderate centr
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by ricksplat 10y ago
when referring to human mind these terms describe a similar phenomenon: Salience : facts are more prominent from either highlighting or frequency. Priming : Recently noted topics may be recalled with less effort. Recency : Memories from
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I remember reading, in a computer magazine about 15 years ago about a technology, or else an area of research that claimed to do just this. To infer what is being typed on-screen from subtle variations in radiation emitted from the monitors
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I remember studying "The Catcher in the Rye" back in high-school, and before we started to read we were provided with a few critical analysis pieces for orientation. One of these was a discussion of the difference between the UK
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by ricksplat 10y ago
If you're going that far perhaps factor in the costs of drilling and shipping fossil fuels on the other side ... admittedly it probably is a factor or so less than the proportion associated with foodstuffs - but - the foodstuffs side
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I've never seen this ... I thought it was just the case that they paid whatever fine it was ...
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> Always nice in the front. I'd happily settle for this. I've met many's the type that were just rude, and layed you off anyway. I'll take a bit of manners with my daily beating any day!
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by ricksplat 10y ago
My local parish rag has started writing these click-bait articles to troll their online readership. This one is actually quite funny, and a comment elsewhere on HN about work-life balance prompted me to post it. I particularly enjoyed the p
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Patrick Freyne’s big regret? Having a healthy work-life balance /s(irishtimes.com)
1 points by ricksplat 10y ago|1 comments
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> 5-10 times the salary but 10s of millions sound absurd. and that seems to be regardless of whether you're any good or not.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
You're the first person I've seen make this point. All the way down here, and it's by far the most glaring issue with this picture. Apple's services are kind of a bit flimsy. They're at best an expensive value added
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by ricksplat 10y ago
This may be a controversial opinion, but I do believe that a certain amount of surveillance is effective. It worked in London. It worked in New York. But that is "using" technology. Not "crippling" it. I am sympathetic t
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I really liked the old nuanced "full size" behaviour. Unlike Windows "Maximize" it would only increase the window size just enough so that all its contents where visible. This was neat, and elegant, and really showed con
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Just on my final point, for anybody who wants to look at how terrorism has been "resolved" in the past, I highly recommend researching "The Good Friday Agreement" which was hugely successful in Northern Ireland. It invol
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by ricksplat 10y ago
On your first paragraph, that sounds like the absurdist end of the libertarian spectrum and I'd expect more moderately minded people would take some issue with that line of thinking ... With regards to "Treat terrorism as just an
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Claude Shannon, arguably one of the greatest electronic engineers of the 20th century (which would be "ever" I guess) even went to Von Neumann for advice. The "novelty" of a signal was thus named "entropy" (inv
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Okay here goes: > your mom
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by ricksplat 10y ago
My own personal opinion on this, is that it's all well and good but it's not that students are "Made" to learn three different types of notation but that these are three standard forms that you need to know to work in th
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Maths notation is needlessly complex [video](aeon.co)
195 points by ricksplat 10y ago|138 comments
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I think the downvoter should review this if they think I am unfairly representing Zara http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/07/21/terribly-zara/

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