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by rjmunro 6y ago
When I downloaded it the DMG file was 12.2Mb. I was suspicious of why an app this small in function would require such a large download, and looked inside, but the actual contents was only 1.4Mb, half of which was icons etc., which seems mu
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I'm not sure that college textbooks are written once. It depends on the subject, but they are often replaced frequently e.g. as technology or laws are updated, and each one makes only a small number of sales. Yes, printing costs are re
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I'm not saying the article is wrong in general, but I don't get this last bit: > The government isn’t suppressing the “actual” inflation number. And if they were, they would also be suppressing reported economic growth... Surel
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Trademark law does not stop you saying "my product is better than X". It only stops you saying "my product is X".
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Vitamin D in the UK(youtube.com)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
This reminds me of https://opensafely.org/ , which analyses NHS medical data for research purposes by asking Doctors to run queries on their patient databases and send back only summaries, e.g. "How many of your patient
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Starship SN8 Test Flight [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Why is AMP worse than Facebook's "instant articles", or whatever it is that the Apple news app does?
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SpaceX's Biggest Starship Flight Is a Success – Scott Manley(youtube.com)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
> Can't you just put your phone on speaker and use a second device to record? Only if: 1. You are somewhere where using a speaker phone won't annoy other people (or leak secrets to them) 2. You have another device to hand, and
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Is this picture real? I don't get why there isn't any evidence of bits of cables still hanging from at least one of the towers or any other kind of wreckage. It looks more like someone has photoshopped all the cables out of of an
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I may be misunderstanding - a bit mask only tells you if something is divisible by 16 or 256 (or any other power of 2) I think he's saying in base 16 you can make a trick to check divisibility by e.g. 15 in the same way you can check d
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by rjmunro 6y ago
The underlying technology of git is great, but the UX is terrible. The commands are all named wrong. "To create a branch, use git branch, but that doesn't check it out. If you want to create it and check it out at the same time us
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by rjmunro 6y ago
The main reason you can't force people to vote for you is that once they get in the polling booth, no one knows how they specifically voted. If you allow people to "check their vote" later, an attacker could verify that they
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds – Full Show(youtube.com)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I think more should be spent on fusion research - I think it is just as likely to produce interesting random spin off technologies, but could also produce huge direct benefits to the earth if it can be made into a safe way to produce energy
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by rjmunro 6y ago
That's an unfair way to say it. You could equally say "Louisiana spends about 20% of its local municipal revenue supporting local businesses." I have no idea if that is a big number or how it compares to other states. I also
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by rjmunro 6y ago
That's partly why you have a span like "Copyright 2018-2020" - you are saying some of this material is older, some isn't. You need to keep copies of the older version with the older copyright to be clear which parts were
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by rjmunro 6y ago
You can search for all PRs by a user: https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Asalimjaved18
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Typically the PRs are titled something like "Improve docs" and the change is to add "an amazing project" somewhere in the README.md. Here's a search that finds a lot: https://github.com/search?q=in%3
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by rjmunro 6y ago
The point of the date it to tell people when the material was created. In some jurisdictions / situations, copyright expires N years after it was created, so that date tells people when copyright has expired. Unfortunately, in many cas
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Needs a video or something to explain what it actually does. "Cloud-Based Social Music Creation Platform" is just marketing nonsense. I'm guessing it's a DAW that runs in-browser, but I can't tell. I'm not goin
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RevK 's ramblings: How not to QR (NHS C19 app)(revk.uk)
4 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
You don't get a stack trace from an ordinary loop, but somehow we manage. As long as it is clear that tail recursion happened, not having a complete stack trace doesn't seem like the end of the world.
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When changing a light bulb is a big deal(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
$8000 to dig a 1m hole sounds very high - that's months of someone's salary. Surely the best drilling machines can beat the cost of paying someone with a shovel for a month? But mostly they won't be digging the holes, they wi
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by rjmunro 6y ago
31 people's tax is nothing in a country of 328,000,000 people. Even 1500 people's tax every year, which sounds worse, is still nothing.
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Not exactly the same situation, but see what happened to Behdad Esfahbod, maker of Harfbuzz, which is used in Android, Chrome, Firefox and other things: https://medium.com/@behdadesfahbod/if-you-read-one-thing-fro...
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by rjmunro 6y ago
There's 2 important measures of a battery storage system. How much power can it give you (kw) and how much energy can it store (kwh) when it is full, which tells you how long it will last. Articles like this seem to jump between the 2,
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Anti-scammer can't cancel Google Play gift cards and return money to victim(twitter.com)
1 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments

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