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by soneil 9y ago
While I tend to think this is leaning towards taking it too seriously, I’ll bite. The ‘booth babe’ problem. A ‘booth babe’ used in a marketting shot is standing beside the car. If a man was used, he’d be driving the car (or at least prete
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by soneil 9y ago
I feel like the author went to the effort of writing what I was too lazy to. I don't want to donate to WMF simply because I don't want to confuse their metrics into believing this current campaign is working. I've donated be
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by soneil 9y ago
It should be admirable, precisely because it should be exceptional. Sometimes it really does hit the fan, and sometimes it really does need to be now. That is the nature of the industry. We just need to make sure it’s remarkable for the r
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by soneil 9y ago
I think you're entirely misrepresenting the problem. The issue was that the data was being used in Google News, not Google Search. This doesn't just impact "what URL we follow", but how other pages get pulled in as &quo
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by soneil 9y ago
Ironically, I've half convinced this is a problem the "mainstream media" helped create. I think the endless race to get the news out first, has trained us to expect so much information in the first minutes or hours - and crea
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by soneil 9y ago
There is a possible ‘win’ - if a clear & open referendum is held, and the results do not give independence a clear mandate. Both the lose-lose paths - and the government’s current actions - seem to presume independence would win that ma
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by soneil 9y ago
Recent NK tests have been in Space (eg, much higher than the ISS) when they pass over Japan. But that's been sufficient to make Japan quite nervous. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-altit...
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by soneil 9y ago
They're supported, they're just not upgraded to apfs. At the moment, only SSDs get upgraded automatically. Not entirely clear why, or whether that's a long-term plan.
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by soneil 9y ago
So London has "Hackney Carriages" ('black cabs') and minicabs. Black cabs are allowed to pick you up on-demand ('streetwork') or at taxi ranks (a designated place where you can expect to find multiple taxis ju
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by soneil 9y ago
I don't think anyone here is seriously calling it 'the year of the linux desktop'. They're more calling out the hypocrisy that this is what Jim was actually saying at the time. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by soneil 9y ago
I didn't read this as "linux rulz", but more a reminder of "optics" when you place yourself in a position to represent .. anything. If Tim Cook had absolutely no idea what the competition were doing, you'd star
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by soneil 9y ago
What specificity is missing? I think it’s fairly simple. Firstly, I think we can completely ignore "misdeeds". Nothing in the creation of this photograph occurred contrary to anyone else's wishes. In a nutshell, there was t
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by soneil 9y ago
The 'creative input' bit gets really dodgy here. If you put a camera on the table in front of me, I pick it up, point it at my face, and press the button - I think it'd be fair to claim the copyright there belongs to me, not
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by soneil 9y ago
I’m surprised this isn’t more common. I went through a period where I was frequenting the same hotel ~10 times a year. They knew me by name, and I knew most of them. There was no such thing as “full” - they would move heaven and earth to ac
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by soneil 9y ago
This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. The site said “14 bookings in the last 24hours”. You read it as “14 bookings for the date you searched for, in the last 24 hours”. I don’t believe this is an accident.
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by soneil 9y ago
Depending on your definition of reasonable price; http://www.ozmarecords.com/shop (trivia: the replica is on 3 discs as the original was 16⅔rpm)
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by soneil 9y ago
Hah, so cynical. No, this is just how audiophiles describe anything. Even their floorboards.
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by soneil 9y ago
Half of the point of being able to spot each other miles away, is to make this a nonissue. It seems obvious that if you ask a tanker to make a 90° turn, it's going to take them a few miles. But it's easy to forget that if they co
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by soneil 9y ago
It's nothing to do with diversity. They're simply not seamen anymore. Just look at the terminology they're using. SWO - Surface Warfare Officer. Situational awareness long since moved from the bridge and the helm, to the C
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by soneil 9y ago
> Genuine question: All the commercial vessels continually broadcast their position, speed and bearing, right? Correct. AIS uses regular broadcasts, it’s not challenge-response. > Even if the military vessel does not do so, it should
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by soneil 9y ago
I honestly thing they should be “giving away their position”. Pretending they shouldn’t is simply ego, and demonstrably dangerous. It’s perfectly normal to see this in our own waters. AIS will identify the vessel as being named simply “Wa
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by soneil 9y ago
It is speculation, but unfortunately it's also the most likely scenario. - Crew berths were at the primary impact point, so are almost certainly sealed at the bulkheads by damage control. - Incident occurred at 5am local, whe
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by soneil 9y ago
Pretty simple answer really - these things usually happen at night. There's a much higher chance of spotting a tanker during daylight. It's surprisingly difficult to see someone in the water during the day - there's less bod
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by soneil 9y ago
At this point it's turned into a game of hot potato. No-one wants the bad press of being "the one who said yes". They need to find a registrar whose market position is built on taking a stance. Namecheap ain't it.
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by soneil 9y ago
The argument at Skokie hinged on the swastika itself not being "fighting words". That'd indicate to me that these "fighting words" are a pretty relevant concept, and that perhaps showing up armed and declaring &quo
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by soneil 9y ago
It's not just snooping .. that's communication between her and her doctor. Privacy advocates (and I consider myself one) can often come off as going a bit over-the-top - but communication between my doctor & I, and my lawyer &
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by soneil 9y ago
> It seems like there's a lot of underutilized spectrum. There's some good reasons for this. HF is pretty challenging to fully utilize. You have propagation that varies between "worldwide" (so it's difficult to
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by soneil 9y ago
It probably would have got further if they actually managed that properly. eg, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738575 Once you make your 'x86' incompatible enough that it won't actually
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by soneil 9y ago
I was surprised to find that bbc.co.uk/food uses the Recipe schema. Made scraping it much easier when there was some talk about canning it a couple of years back.
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by soneil 9y ago
If the control line for your furnace is just a 24V loop (or a dry loop), a good hint is that you can keep a traditional thermostat in parallel with your 'smart" one - so that if either closes the loop, the furnace fires. Then you

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