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by stordoff 7y ago
It's also easy to ignore a warning you don't understand. I know from helping family they don't particularly care what warnings say - they have work to do, and they do know clicking OK makes it go away.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> If these are their go to examples, seems to very much not be worth the price of admission in my opinion It's an especially hard sell for me as, anecdotally, I've had _far_ more issues with Windows 10 than I ever had with 7. R
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm not sure this analogy really works. Electricity kills as a side-effect of its intended use. If gun ownership makes it more like that you will get shot, it has failed at its intended use (self-defence).
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by stordoff 7y ago
Depends on the currency. If you can get hold of €500 notes, you can fit quite a lot of money in a small space: > Tests by the Serious Organised Crime Agency found it was possible to carry €25,000 in €500 notes in a cigarette packet, €300
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by stordoff 7y ago
Pre-production, but their blog has a top-down shot of the ISO keyboard: https://www.pine64.org/2019/05/06/may-2019-news/
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by stordoff 7y ago
Other than Delete instead of Right-Ctrl, it looks like a UK layout to me: https://www.pine64.org/2019/05/06/may-2019-news/
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by stordoff 7y ago
Do you mean "Third country"? I have not come across the EU using "Third world country" officially.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Looking this up, I stumbled on an interesting observation: > Bald–hairy (Russian: лысый–волосатый) is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders' succession defined as a change
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm unfamiliar with AirDrop, but is there any reason it _has_ to work with phone numbers? Would sending nonce+hash(AppleID+nonce) work? I suspect an email address would have significantly more entropy than a phone number (36^6 * 4 ~= 1
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by stordoff 7y ago
Interesting idea, but the following two scenarios look identical to the consensus algorithm: * One officer sees a suspect drawing a weapon, and reacts more quickly than the others or the suspect is not visible to the other officers, and thu
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by stordoff 7y ago
"They've threatened to kill me the if the police show up." I don't think there can be any one-size-fits-all solution to this - each case must be assessed on its own merits.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> employing five different mechanisms for achieving immortality Are you referring to Hinduism with this line, or is it some other reference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality#Hinduism
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by stordoff 7y ago
Tell that to my cat, who will brush against your leg and climb on your knee until you give him a stroke (he'll start pawing at you if you _stop_ when he's in that sort of mood). Only time he complains is if you pick him up, and ev
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by stordoff 7y ago
Freedom Hosting is a good example of using alternative attacks to sidestep Tor: > News reports linked a Firefox browser vulnerability to a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operation targeting Freedom Hosting's own
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by stordoff 7y ago
As I understand it, part of the risk is proving that you didn't perform the illegal act, and that an investigation itself can be damaging (loss of equipment/public reporting that you are being investigated for being involved in il
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/new
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by stordoff 7y ago
I (non-US) am on (up to) 8 per day, or 2920 per year. To get an average of ~42 pills per year (250/6), it only requires 1 in 70 to be on a similar regime (2920/70 ~= 42). Given that 8% of American adults have high-impact chronic p
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by stordoff 7y ago
> For a number of Key Questions, we identified no studies meeting inclusion criteria. Where studies were available, the strength of evidence was rated no higher than low, due to imprecision and methodological shortcomings, with the excep
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by stordoff 7y ago
Reminds me of looking at a map of where I used to live a few days ago. Turns out there is a sports ground at the the end of the street I used to live on (and it was there when I lived there). Lived there three years and I had no idea.
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by stordoff 7y ago
You may enjoy this sketch from Burnistoun, a Scottish TV programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
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by stordoff 7y ago
Has there been any research/discussion about how this would work for non-dyslexics (I know it would be an option, so not an issue; I'm just curious)? I find myself wanting to go from "quick brown" to "lazy dog"
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by stordoff 7y ago
I typically read at 300-500 wpm (I don't really subvocalise - it's not a deliberate choice, I just don't, and don't remember ever doing, when reading at a 'normal' speed), and I'm always visualising scenes
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by stordoff 7y ago
For me, it's part of the experience. Going too slow for anything written as prose is detrimental - I feel, and this may be a strange way of putting it, 'bogged down in words', and I'm not actually experiencing the narra
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I can't think of a place w/o mobile internet, even mountain treks have decent internet. I went to a wedding in Ireland two years ago, and we didn't have a data connection for most of the weekend. We didn't even have
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by stordoff 7y ago
For a non-US (England and Wales) example: > After seeking brief details of his employment, gross income, and savings, and whether he was a property owner, [the online bookmaker] asked him to specify a password, a memorable question and a
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by stordoff 7y ago
I was completely unaware this had been republished. I think it might be finally time to get myself a copy. £13.69/$20.49 (paperback) is a completely reasonable price compared to what I had seen before.
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by stordoff 7y ago
See also "Things I'm Glad I Don't Do" ( https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin... ) and "How Not to Do It" ( https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipel
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by stordoff 7y ago
Sounds vaguely similar to something I had. My left index finger swelled up to about three times its normal size between the lower two knuckles, and was extremely painful to the touch (going through your A-levels whilst on 60mg codeine four
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by stordoff 7y ago
> what the hell is going on with some of your town names like "Featherstonhaugh" One theory is that it was confused with "Fanshawe". We aren't even _trying_ to write what it sounds like: > So Festonhaw, which
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by stordoff 7y ago
Example of the US being treated differently: > Choose your area > Include the USA or exclude it. It’s that simple. > Area 1 – Worldwide > Area 2 – Worldwide, excluding the USA Adding the US nearly doubles the cost: Foundation: £

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