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by soneil 7y ago
> Of course, this will only work if you buy many tickets; buying one or two, you're unlikely to win anything at all. That's the important part here. You can always win the lottery if you can buy enough tickets. To match all (
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by soneil 7y ago
That's the weird part for me. Surely inventing a whole new game mechanic, must be their industry's version of rolling your own encryption?
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by soneil 7y ago
I think the irony is that from the organizer's point of view, it's essentially working as intended. The "windfall" mechanic was supposed to make rollovers more enticing by increasing the payout amounts for everyone. Th
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by soneil 7y ago
What we seem to be missing now is things like .. a lot of the artists (70s-80s "dad rock") I listen to have "the BBC sessions" LPs - or even better, The Peel Sessions. I've lost track of the number of artists that
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by soneil 7y ago
I read it as “(most) developers will have little need to spend $6000 on a 6k monitor just to code”. It’s not that developers aren’t the target market for a vertical monitor - it’s that they’re not the target market for a $6000 super-duper-
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by soneil 7y ago
Ironically, the talk was at WordCamp ..
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by soneil 7y ago
I suspect that's easier said than done. The whole take-down process is setup to keep them within the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512 ). Th
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by soneil 7y ago
It seems a little disingenuous to say the evacuation was completed in 55 seconds. Over half the passengers perished - the evacuation was never completed. I think it'd be accurate to say there was a survivable window of 55 seconds, an
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by soneil 7y ago
I read that in surveying passengers who hadn't been in an emergency evacuation, about one third of people said they'd try to take at least one bag. In surveying passengers who had been involved in an emergency evacuation, about
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by soneil 7y ago
If you consider news like https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/leadership-op... .. it doesn't seem they're hugely afraid of openjdk
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by soneil 7y ago
The surviving inner structure would block the light anyway. The same structure that stopped the roof falling into the building too much.
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by soneil 8y ago
It's worth remembering the core mission for the Pi was to be an affordable educational computer. In that context, this publication is entirely on-point for the foundation. There's an almost symbiotic relationship going on where th
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by soneil 8y ago
Do you really think that's apple's job here? They made a police report, stating that someone did 'this', and used 'this ID'. That's it. An entirely factual report. It's not apple's job to inves
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by soneil 8y ago
I've always thought on the moon would be more interesting than "beyond" the moon. A ground-based dish on the dark side of the moon, isolated from a large majority of the noise we're pumping into space by the body of t
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by soneil 8y ago
British English - the author is Australian.
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by soneil 8y ago
I believe archive.org does have a physical presence in Amsterdam, which may not help in this context.
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by soneil 8y ago
That does seem to rather miss the point. What if you substitute "bounty hunter" for "the private investigator your ex-wife hired". "The stalker who's willing to put a couple of hundred dollars into an internet
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by soneil 8y ago
I don't think it's nonsense at all. The vote was a binary yes/no. Whenever someone ascribes shades of grey to a "yes" or a "no", I'm also curious about where they derived this from. Because what he
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by soneil 8y ago
I really wasn't expecting Ireland to be on the list this soon. I mean, we're still waiting for "visual voicemail" ..
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by soneil 8y ago
If Belgium and the Netherlands don't agree on a timezone, you could probably do that in the space of half a mile at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
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by soneil 8y ago
It's more that the decimal is always rounded down. So you don't want a value between 205 and 205.9999999, as it'll always be rounded down to 205. you want a value between 205.5 and 206.49999999, so when rounded down it has
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by soneil 8y ago
It's not really an either/or choice. And it's not really defence. The vast majority of American personel medically airlifted from the gulf & afghan conflicts, made their first stop "out of theater" in Germany.
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by soneil 8y ago
I had in mind the 27” imac which technically has replaceable storage, but you need to be comfortable taking a pizza cutter to the glass. While I’m glad for the trapdoor RAM slot, it does feel like a shame there apparently wasn’t any spare
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by soneil 8y ago
I do understand most of their trade-offs. But these little m2 nvme sticks should be just as easy to expose as ram is. That'd make a huge difference for me. Being locked in to a purchase-time decision doesn't sit well with how q
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by soneil 8y ago
I'd assume he means as a possible solution to the "crabbing" effect the article describes, where the "forward" view is centred on the plane rather than the pilot (your field of view should be a conic with you at the
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by soneil 8y ago
I currently have the right to live & work in 28 countries. I do not know if I'll have that right in 6 weeks time. (Still, today, 6 weeks out, no-one can tell me what will happen to those rights. Which is quite awkward for me pers
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by soneil 8y ago
I don't believe this needs to be the case. Joining the EU gave British Citizens new rights by treaty. I think it should always be easier to grant more rights and more difficult to strip them.
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by soneil 8y ago
It is in-house, GDS is part of the cabinet office, a govt department - https://gds.blog.gov.uk/about/ I do get your underlying point, but gov.uk has been near-universally lauded as “doing it right” - I think it’s impor
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by soneil 8y ago
The easiest way would simply be for their website to template out a .mobileconfig. It’s just xml, it’d be relatively painless, even more so than trying to fill in the settings yourself. The only sensible reasons I could see for an app are e
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by soneil 8y ago
I'm in a similar position, and actually found I had more interaction with family once I got off facebook. It turned out I wasn't actually interacting with them at all. It felt like I was, having consumed what felt like a few thou

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