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by scandox 7y ago
It often seems to me that SF ideas and concepts are treated as mere notions, whereas the mere notions of scientists are treated as - grander sounding - hypotheses.
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by scandox 7y ago
The only figures I could see casually were that there were approximately 2,000 per year in England during the reign of Henry VIII...so I guess it's not insane to imagine a mid-size town in Germany having 10 or 15 a year? Which would su
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by scandox 7y ago
We're self hosting Gogs on a Hetzner VM and it's been a great experience. Of course it has less features. But it's simple and fast and I do about 10 minutes sys admin per quarter.
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by scandox 7y ago
I agree. Tedious, sentimental garbage. It makes the original appear even more remarkable.
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by scandox 7y ago
Did anyone at all watching the movie in the cinema at the time think that the character's name was "Neil" but spoken sort of London style "Neeh-ul" with the final "l" more or less silent? I ask because des
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by scandox 7y ago
> Once the difference between two human beings’ intelligence becomes too great, all communication becomes impossible. Would an intelligent person use such meaningless, imprecise exaggeration? Maybe we shouldn't conflate IQ with gene
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Irish state told to delete “unlawful” data on 3.2M citizens(irishtimes.com)
2 points by scandox 7y ago|1 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
> ...or at least what I imagine poetry is like to people who like poetry. Which isn't poetry. Poetry is its own thing. We are not required to compare non-comparable things.
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by scandox 7y ago
That's a Toyota which he explicitly excludes
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by scandox 7y ago
I still know people in Dublin that have coin operated electricity, though I think nearly all of them have been moved to card based systems.
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by scandox 7y ago
Isn't this in itself a big story? How the hell are they being so lax with their source code?
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by scandox 7y ago
He was involved in Netflix early on. I'd say that will keep you rolling a long time.
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by scandox 7y ago
Yoke is used pretty freely in Ireland and certainly can reference people, things or ideas. It doesn't handle verbs though. It's thing or thingie really but with flair.
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by scandox 7y ago
Most people in the world will never be able to visit the United States but they seem somehow to survive.
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by scandox 7y ago
But there's a gap between what the advertiser knows and what the intermediary knows. Often even when the advertising account is directly held by the advertiser there is an intermediary managing the ad spend. And the intermediary is inc
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by scandox 7y ago
This is an absolute gem. Thanks for sharing that. Sometimes you just need to see it written down to know it's right.
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by scandox 7y ago
J.G. Ballard died and went to heaven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel)
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by scandox 7y ago
Just to be clear to everybody who hasn't walked through one of these "forests": five minutes is enough to know that these are literally dead zones. In addition the company that manages all this land and all this planting won&
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by scandox 7y ago
I read Don Quixote in a 4 volume edition printed in 1796. It had been sitting on a shelf in a house my parents bought for 200 years quite readable.
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by scandox 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_aspects_of_the_e... It appears to be quite a nuanced picture.
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by scandox 7y ago
The movie is not very good sadly. It is a strange attempt to romanticize a man who ultimately just wants to make a really big gun because when he was a kid he wanted to build a really big gun.
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by scandox 7y ago
My long term bet: computing will move towards an interface driven by "emoji as command". Custom iconography will fade out as the interoperability (and familiarity) of popular unicode symbols becomes dominant. So much of the existi
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by scandox 7y ago
I will pay for this IF they improve their PDF view/print. I know a lot of people say this, but it's just a really important feature for me which is really poor in Firefox. And I do pay for software and contribute financially to op
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by scandox 7y ago
Yes the consensus is "pretty boring"
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Huawei must raise 'shoddy' standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official(theguardian.com)
34 points by scandox 7y ago|24 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
Big shoes to fill and it seems like history shows us those shoes rarely get filled. But he seems like a very happy guy and that's important too.
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by scandox 7y ago
These are beautiful. Rather more boring is the Topre I bought last year. I think I've finally found the keyboard that I will never need to change. I tried both Das Keyboard and WASD and was quite disappointed.
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by scandox 7y ago
The title is poor and there are a few angry typos but overall this appears closely reasoned. I say appears because it would take a lot of unpicking to be sure. I don't understand why this is flagged really.
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by scandox 7y ago
Good point. The number certainly struck me as a strange approximation!
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by scandox 7y ago
> The truth is that any software program will probably contain one error for every 500 lines of code. The Therac-25's software program, relatively crude by today's standards, probably contained 101000 lines of code. At one erro

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