swilliamsio

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by swilliamsio 6y ago
£15.50, an absolutely insane price.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Student visas are essentially free money for the countries that provide them: unversities charge them more; the students tend to be rich and spend a lot; a lot of students immediately return home and don't actually take any local jobs.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, JavaScript (React) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-alexander-williams Résumé/CV: http://www.swilliams.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> Everything that goes on within it is designed and controlled and can be explained by _a_ human. Emphasis on _a_ human. I've heard that there's so many layers of abstraction and obfuscation, that there is no one person who can
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Yea. A better analogy is asking for receipts, payment card history, search history, etc. All things that tech giants know about you that isn't publically available for anyone to see.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Western as in democratic, high income, economically prosperous, broadly supportive of human rights, etc.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
"What about Chernobyl" is usually outright dismissed as being an edge case owing its disaster to the Soviet regime, more concerned over image than safety. The real important question, as you aluded to, is "What about Fukushim
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Why is this blog called JFDI? What does it stand for?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
$121 million as of few weeks ago [0] - a fair bit off the ~$250 million Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Grand Theft Auto 5 cost. [0] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/74946/cdpr-has-spent-over-121...
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
>But then realized that the coastline paradox must also exist for 3D surfaces (TINs or DEMs or whatnot) so asking “what is the area of a surface on earth” can be a very complex question if dealing with elevation. StandUpMaths did a great
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
In a lot of TikTok songs, the 15-30 seconds of the song that you've heard dozens of times is the best part of the song, with the rest of the piece being rather dry and bland. "Hit or miss, I guess you never miss huh" and &quo
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
If 2 isn't possible, a fast forward button would be a decent alternative.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> it doesn’t understand anything outside of the context of the game it’s playing. Yea, and the game is life and death. A military minded AI won't distinguish between surrendering and fighting enemies, won't distinguish between
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Other people in this thread have mentioned the pandemic, but I'd argue the highly publicised Black Lives Matter protests are having a big effect in pushing away foreigners as well.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia (British Citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, React, JavaScript, Python, Unity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-alexander-williams Résumé/CV:
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Interesting. Where are you from? I've never seen that syntax for centuries before.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
University rankings are next to useless for determining whether a student would be a good developer. Look at the metrics US News uses to rank universities: * Research reputation * # of publications, conferences, books * # of citations * # o
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
A real life easter egg!
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
>s = d/t Slightly worse than that. That equation is always written as v = s/t. v represents velocity and s represents distance, for some reason.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Also https://www.messenger.com/ for Facebook Messenger without the app or the Facebook.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Hey, are you Svip from Paradox forums, of Ulm fame?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> repelled a malevolent empire again That's just straight up wrong. The US started the war when they invaded Canada. The British Empire did not want to fight the war. To them, the United States was just a sideshow of the much larger
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
I think you just answered your own question. Emulators work fine for most use cases. In the other cases, a physical phone is best.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
I completely agree with you that the stats and language bar were iconic and quintessential of GitHub. It is a massive shame that it's effectively been removed.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
But designers and developed don't support one UI, or even two. They support anywhere between three (desktop, mobile, tablet) and effectively infinite (all resolutions between and around those + dark modes + apps which use the same data
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Chess has been played by mail for centuries. It wouldn't be surprising to me at all if it was also the first ever online game.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Make it so only one entry per IP address? The script would very quickly run out, assuming they couldn't spoof (not sure how easy it is to spoof IP addresses).
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, nearly double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019. No doubt the quarantine was a solid motivator to sign up.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was that many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language. Sounds like a potential workaround is t

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