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by scandox 6y ago
Also The Futurological Congress as a film: how to take one of the funniest books I've ever read and turn it into one of the least funny movies. I think his sense of pessimism and the absurd is antithetical to modern filmmaking in some
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by scandox 7y ago
Has anyone used LibreOffice Online (the browser based version)?
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by scandox 7y ago
From the luxury items RFC: Luxury items MAY be high quality but they MUST be aspirational.
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by scandox 7y ago
I used Clickatell for years before Twilio and it really wasn't hard or mad expensive.
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by scandox 7y ago
Yeah the big kick in the pants I got this year was using nullable columns in composite keys in MySQL and finding out that when their value is null, the result key is considered unique, because NULL is literally unknowable. So: col A, Co
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by scandox 7y ago
I've used this for a while but I'm never really sure about the results. Honestly I had no idea that identifying trees accurately could be so difficult - and I mean as a human with access to photographs and Wikipedia and books and
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by scandox 7y ago
I think this is a bit distracting. It's an ancient name. Probably a better paragraph to fixate on would be: > Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg&#x2
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by scandox 7y ago
There is a story from the Golden Age of Science Fiction called Pandemic by JF Bone. It postulates a global virus the cure for which in the end turns out to be smoking tobacco. And the improbably beautiful nurse marries the curmudgeon who is
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by scandox 7y ago
> people need to get from place to place, and it’s very hard to build and run an airline. Why is it hard? Seems like the dumbest possible business. I mean I think a restaurant would be harder. There's more subtle unknowns in food th
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by scandox 7y ago
I get that something has been setup and that some serious heads are involved but with respect to ownership / control of the .org tld what is being proposed if anything? Or is this simply a representative organisation to protect the int
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by scandox 7y ago
I remember standing with a few people discussing a RAID failure of this kind and asking each person how it could have happened. All of them could explain the benefits of RAID 5 for the specific application but not one of them could explain
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by scandox 7y ago
Yes they just say take pay cut or we make you redundant because we cannot afford you.
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by scandox 7y ago
Yeah they made an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour based on that scam. So it's a golden oldie.
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by scandox 7y ago
Fair comment, but these claims form a very major portion of his argument on the ramifications of an accident like Chernobyl and therefore what it really means. So I think if these claims are lacking in substance then he would be guilty of a
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by scandox 7y ago
> Considering that coal is responsible for more radioactive emissions than nuclear per TWh produced including Chernobyl and Fukushima, that is a totally irresponsible and dangerous course of action. Don't concentration and distribut
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by scandox 7y ago
This is fantastic. I was dying to do something like this. Tried with an ESP32 and an LCD, but just didn't have the chops to get it working. Love it. If you're willing to make me one by hand, I'll certainly pay you for it.
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by scandox 7y ago
I am fascinated by the notion of factories just changing what they make. In my imagination a factory is a highly specialized machine for making one thing alone...
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Nassim Taleb: The UK's coronavirus policy is not scientific(theguardian.com)
3 points by scandox 7y ago|1 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
Headline seems to be totally baseless https://www.passmark.com/forum/pc-hardware-and-benchmarks/46...
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by scandox 7y ago
I remember the drugs company Elan[1] here in Ireland. It got hit bad in the early noughties by accounting issues and other problems, but they had this potentially killer drug called Tysabri and so, as they tanked, there were "smart&quo
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by scandox 7y ago
It's a funny one because it's potentially one of the most serious crimes. You're stealing from everybody, undermining the basis of trust in the entire system in which we live and probably in the long term eroding the basis of
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Windows 12 Lite(reddit.com)
1 points by scandox 7y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
It's very similar to the US: extremely high tech in some respects and low tech in other respects. Both countries lagged heavily in Chip and Pin which would the most obvious thing to a visitor.
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by scandox 7y ago
> As the Passion Economy grows, more people are monetizing what they love. As a sentence this just fills me with dread. And it's hard to say why because I know, for example, that a writer making a living from selling their books cou
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by scandox 7y ago
Oh gaps are usually pretty interesting. I once dug into a big gap (3 years) and went down quite a rabbit-hole with a candidate that was in every other respect excellent. But the gap: Let's just say it was the worst thing you can imagin
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by scandox 7y ago
Well if it made VOIP a great experience instead of an so-patchy-you-have-to-survey-users-after-every-call experience then it might be a big deal.
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by scandox 7y ago
Immersion is something I find I get much easier in a terminal window. Also absolutely no lag ever. Also it's a really excellent program.
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by scandox 7y ago
> "Bob was incredibly talented, but his work ethic was non-existent" From a story point of view, this is the guy I'm interested in knowing about. Reading to the end it appears he committed suicide in 2005. His Wikipedia is
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by scandox 7y ago
Yeah they'll never go down. Why don't these systems support local storage as well? Is there greater security risk in syncing to a local device? Edit: I do not mean browser localStorage
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by scandox 7y ago
I'd guess Andre Norton should be on this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton Met someone connected with ACE books back in the 1960s and they said she wrote so many books and under so many different

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