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by snori74 11y ago
That's actually a good example of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia. A pretty terrible opening paragraph, and a jumble of snippets of poorly-integrated information - but organised into sections covering a series of issues, and
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by snori74 11y ago
Got me! Re-read as "many".
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by snori74 11y ago
Yes it's a problem, but perhaps less than you might think. First, in most cases PR spin has a "smell". Spotting that in an article an editor may dig into the edit history - where the story will be pretty clear of which links
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by snori74 11y ago
I hadn't heard of this, so on a whim looked at one article at random - "Nordtvedt effect", then compared to the same on Wikipedia. Here's the first three lines of each: Scholarpedia In the years just prior to Einstein&#
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by snori74 11y ago
Notice the MAT (matrix) commands on page 51. When I first came across BASIC in the 70's it was known for three things in particular: (i) being interpreted rather than compiled, (ii) having these MAT commands, and (iii) being simpler an
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by snori74 11y ago
Yes, that stood out to me too. I recall there being two competing camps in the mid 70's regarding whether to 'slash' the O's or the 0's. In search of who these sides were, I came across http://www.circuit
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by snori74 11y ago
Yes, that struck me too. Turns out that the target for the second bomb was Kokura, and they did three bomb runs over it, but they then diverted to Nagasaki.[1] Reading the report - with the rationale for each of those other targets - and th
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by snori74 11y ago
Great to see this. One of the very first examples of client-site Java put up years ago by JPL (or NASA?) was essentially this, but it went down a few years ago. So simple, yet very powerful tool to grok intuitively quite a few things: geost
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by snori74 11y ago
Well, only sort of. The 38 was a radical departure, and is the the true root of this series.
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by snori74 12y ago
Both SCA "heavy" fighting and HMB, as in the "Battle of Nations" are full-contact so tend to use armour similar to historical. Very different spins again on the whole topic, but worth looking into.
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by snori74 12y ago
I'm not VLM, but yes, peer-pressure in another guise. Just think about your attitudes and beliefs on (a) handgun ownership, (b) creationism and (c) Israel. It's very likely that if you're in a social group with strong homogen
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by snori74 12y ago
The fact that "24" with Jack Bauer routinely using torture ran for eight years with high ratings surely reflected the US public's tacit approval.
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by snori74 12y ago
Really? Not sure what makes you think that. The Apple II is one of a number of machines at the time that had the system-unit-plus-keyboard as a base on which a matching monitor was put. The HP 9845A and PET 2001 for example. Later CP/M
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by snori74 12y ago
My guess is that there's similar stories to be told about coffee and chocolate - both of which now have fanatical followings. I'm sure they've been been told, but I have not yet read them. On a related note, This American Lif
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by snori74 12y ago
The SCA do a lot of this sort of thing, so if you're interested, then the links at http://www.medievalcuisine.com/favorites/cookery-pages-by-pe... might be to your liking.
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by snori74 12y ago
Well worth reading to the end of this article, some very good lessons regarding the realities of scaling, applicable for many startups. I'm planning to see "Print the Legend" later this week, so this was very interesting. I s
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by snori74 12y ago
The interesting part for me was that the posted speed limit only really changes the behaviour of the slowest drivers - the 10% who "identify the speed limit sign and drive at or near that limit". Bringing their speed up to match t
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by snori74 12y ago
OK, if that's the case, it's not good - but how many people did it kill? The Israelis can argue as long as they like that Hamas' actions are the cause, but there's absolutely no doubt that it's Israeli bombs and
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by snori74 12y ago
Fascinating, and brutally honest.
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by snori74 12y ago
Hmm, just says "Loading..." for me on my antique old setup (original Galaxy S, Opera) - and frankly the main site actually works fine. In fact none of these alternatives look better imho, and I like to see how many comments are
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by snori74 12y ago
A famous case of this sort was Cadbury, trademarking purple back in 2005 or so - but they eventually lost that last year http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/04/cadbury-dair... Many other similar
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by snori74 12y ago
Powerful, detailed stuff. The most important lesson from this is the need for continual focus - over time things change and develop, and there needs to be good people in the right position to react correctly. Never fun to see comments like
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by snori74 12y ago
Indeed. The whole "never run rm -rf " thing is so ingrained that someone I know took real joy in finally getting to legitimately use this to nuke an old server once the new one was signed off. Pity he'd not considered that
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by snori74 12y ago
British news headlines seem to use these far more than I would expect. However, in this case it's perhaps not unreasonable: These are not yet on sale at that price; while the Mozilla COO "suggested" that they would retail at
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by snori74 12y ago
Yes, but the "bounce message" comes to the sender from their own mail system, saying "could not deliver". This is important, because the receiving system doesn't have a guaranteed way of reaching the sender - mode
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by snori74 12y ago
They should be slightly more explicit, but "...before the e-mails are accepted and reject anything that looks suspicious..." almost certainly means that spam is rejected with a 5xx message - or goes to your InBox, but is never acc
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by snori74 13y ago
Yes, that's probably the case. Note that apparently MediaMonks also have logs which might show earlier exploitation too: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/wild-heart-were-intell...
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by snori74 13y ago
Maybe just a bit too long, and bit too over the top - but he's always fun.
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Freed: Steve's Teeny Tiny Linux Server Course
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by snori74 13y ago
Indeed, staggering how patient and determined some people can be. I love this line when asked by his friend if he would be able to reverse-engineer this scrambling algorithm: "My response was: maybe. Hard to say, but I'm willing

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