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by stordoff 6y ago
> A judge wouldn’t simply allow “otherwise objectionable” to mean “literally anything.” Only matters to a limited degree when read in the context of: > The examples described in this Policy are not exhaustive. We may modify this Polic
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by stordoff 6y ago
> We had already had created this anonymous favicon service for our private search engine. Which presumably means you've already created the logic for determining favicons. I'm not sure why this couldn't be implemented in
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by stordoff 6y ago
I had someone try that on me about a year ago (shortened as it was a _long_ email): > You probably noticed your device is acting strangely lately. That's because you downloaded a nasty software I created while you were browsing the
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by stordoff 6y ago
Does anyone have an explanation of what I should be seeing here? I've been staring at it for a while (both full-screen and in the article), and I haven't noticed anything other than black and white.
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by stordoff 6y ago
> First they said "health and safety", they can't get a man to bring the cable up to 2nd floor. I suspect this depends a lot on the installer. When my grandparents had it installed, they ran it up the drive, straight over
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've suspected for a while I might have _very_ low grade synesthesia. Almost nothing triggers it, but for certain types of white wine, I can't describe the taste as anything other than blue, and my mind fills with that colour (som
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by stordoff 6y ago
Reminds me of a Dell CRT I used to use - 1600x1200@80Hz, and 21" IIRC. Every monitor I've had until fairly recently has felt like a compromise in some way compared to it, but taking a CRT to university was a non-starter. HD-DVDs p
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by stordoff 6y ago
I don't think it's quite as cut and dry as that. In some sense, the restrictions _enhance_ THE thing I bought it for - playing a wide range of games. A platform where piracy is trivial is less attractive to some publishers, which
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by stordoff 6y ago
Absolutely certain. It's in Nintendo's FAQs[1] and I have played physical games from the EU, US, and Japan on my EU Switch, and have accounts for both the UK and Japanese eShops. [1] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Supp
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by stordoff 6y ago
3DS was region locked - I had to import a Japanese 3DS to play the Japanese version of Persona Q2 (or I could have used CFW, but I didn't want to risk the downloaded content I have).
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by stordoff 6y ago
Nothing immediately jumps out at me as being terribly important, but it's interesting to see how it was initially reported as a "small plane" then became a "commuter type plane" and "twin eng plane", along
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by stordoff 6y ago
I wouldn't really see the players as victims, but A) crossword constructors are potentially having their work ripped off and/or receiving less work and B) Uclick/USA Today are paying someone to do something when they could ha
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by stordoff 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they shuffle games between external drives and the SSD _almost_ on demand. The HDD might not give the random access and burst speeds new games need, but if they can maintain 100MBps they can transfer a 100GB
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by stordoff 6y ago
Letting people essentially pay their way out doesn't seem the fairest way to do that. Surely it should be based on risk to the public, not ability to pay some arbitrary amount. Also, person A _might_ be dangerous is in some way putting
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by stordoff 6y ago
> If they were arrested then statistically speaking they are far more likely than the average person to be criminals. That was never the comparison - the bit you didn't quote was "than those who had bailed out for the same crim
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by stordoff 6y ago
Coming at this from a slightly different angle, I have recurrent headaches (present at some level most of the time, and severe for a few hours a most days). When I'm feeling OK, light mode and dark mode are basically equivalent - I _pr
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by stordoff 6y ago
I believe this is what you are looking for: > Food Production to Supply Ratio is calculated as the farm-gate value of raw food production (including for export) divided by the value of raw food for human consumption. It provides a broad
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by stordoff 6y ago
Particularly when it's just notes for yourself. My own writing has a variety of influences, mostly for speed and legibility, used fairly inconsistently: * (ab)uses of mathematical notation (three dots - ∴/∵ - for therefore/be
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by stordoff 6y ago
I had the opposite experience with one of my old electronics teachers. The place was was replacing a bunch (40-50 or so) of 100Mbps rackmount switches with gigabit versions (this was mid-2000s, so 100Mbps was still more than adequate for ho
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Though in many parts (whole London area for sure) you are now not allowed to drink and it is illegal Only TfL it seems. I've been on a London-Doncaster train and was served alcohol before we even left King's Cross (complement
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by stordoff 7y ago
> At my "not MIT" school, it was expected that most incoming CS students understood some basic programming before they entered school. At Cambridge (UK), this is _not_ the case. They merely note that "some knowledge of pro
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by stordoff 7y ago
How much of a difference does learning on a manual actually make? I learnt in the UK, where it's the norm to learn in a manual, and I know after about 5 lessons, it's not really something I thought about. It became habitual very q
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I think you would find that the vast majority of drivers in the US don't parallel park even once per year. In the UK, I had the exact opposite experience. Immediately after passing my test, I was parallel parking daily, and I&#x27
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by stordoff 7y ago
I liked the approach Cambridge took for computer science (at least while I was there). Practical assessments: * Year 1, term 1: ML, on a Windows machine, using Cambridge ML (for the practicals; the actual course, Foundations of Computer Sci
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by stordoff 7y ago
Maybe they should take a little wisdom from Isaiah (20:26): > Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
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by stordoff 7y ago
No OP, but IMO the Ivey incident can be distinguished because he tricked the croupier into acting on his behalf, whereas Larson just observed normal behaviour and didn't seek to influence it (beyond normal play of the game). Indeed, I
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by stordoff 7y ago
Depends if it's an update people/organisations would apply: > Over the years, Microsoft has shipped several software updates to help decrease the likelihood of namespace collisions that could create a security problem for compa
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Try to stay away from stimulants, like caffeine Something of an aside, but I've actually found caffeine (400mg/day + variable amount in drinks) _helps_ with OCD-induced panic attacks. If I do have an attack, it seems somewhat
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by stordoff 7y ago
> if he has an anxiety problem, he would straightly start by talking about it In my experience, with an OCD component with general anxiety, it can twist your thoughts so much that it's difficult to unpick what the root problem is, o
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by stordoff 7y ago
Incidentally, I went the other way. I somehow got fixated on my breathing[1], and "thought" (rationally I knew it was wrong, but the anxiety overrides) that I wasn't breathing enough unless I forced myself to, to the point I

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