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by tejtm 8y ago
electronic devices in the service anything other than the human holding it
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by tejtm 8y ago
Good practice, because in not so long you won't have a choice if you want to read the screen.
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by tejtm 8y ago
be afraid. if you must, use a distinct browser you can kill.
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by tejtm 8y ago
alas it ees archived
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by tejtm 8y ago
phylogenetically[0] [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mod...
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by tejtm 8y ago
You can likely change the apparent gender by increasing/decreasing contrast with high contrast looking more F and low contrast looking more M would be fun to see if the high contrast M v.s the low contrast F maintained apparent ge
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by tejtm 8y ago
True, I use it as a social filter to avoid my time being wasted those so easily deceived
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by tejtm 8y ago
the traditional country club, or other snooty members only organization, perhaps golf clubs in the U.S.
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by tejtm 8y ago
"I'm guessing it was written roughly around year 1995" I think you are on to something http://copar.org/par/par19_references.pdf
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by tejtm 8y ago
from them: best practices for physical media I would add: on the digital side, practice good identifier hygiene [0] [0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
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by tejtm 8y ago
websites were already extremely aggressive about forcing you to consent before GDPR (and they still are) the difference is that some of what they are doing is a little bit more visible now. Benefit for me is; knowledge is power. When I kno
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by tejtm 8y ago
Finally, my lazy habit of ending up with several hundred open tabs may be considered a safety feature, diluting the cache fingerprints to a faint whisper
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by tejtm 8y ago
for unixy tools ... well there are lots more, some have made concessions to be less particular as to who considers them nice or friendly. `ls` is very much in the public relations camp, the flamboyant front man, first point of contact. B
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by tejtm 8y ago
Stake holder profit this quarter and a sweet holiday bonus for me.
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by tejtm 8y ago
and then they had a feature where they warned you with a changed color, then they were made bright enough to alert the other people around you, then there was a social stigma for not displaying one, then they were mandatory.
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by tejtm 8y ago
well there is the glow from the returning ejecta turning the entire sky into a broiler oven for a few days ... hate it when that happens, control of the planet goes back to to the meek who were hiding deep underground at the time.
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by tejtm 8y ago
In addition to collapse, climate change, etc which would be relatively predictable, there would also likely be a potent feed back mechanism in the form of global war bringing the extinction tipping point closer much more quickly than we are
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by tejtm 8y ago
When IBM bought Informix they replaced competent database support with aggressive DB2 marketing droids and presented us with an annual bill sixty times more than Informix had charged.
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by tejtm 8y ago
Hear tell it was begat of an unholy tryst between PHP and Excel, but I am not judging. A much less flippant answer it was a work-a-like intended as a successor to a (licensed) stats language 'S'. [0] https://en.wikipedi
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by tejtm 8y ago
Alas I doubt the colliding bodies were solid and cooled enough for non vapor water yet, so fossils if any, would be limited to things like volcanic vent single cell organisms or virus.
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by tejtm 8y ago
For any looking for more info on non warm blooded life being dependent on ambient temperatures to accumulate the energy to perform protein reactions, see the concept of Growing_degree-day [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by tejtm 8y ago
I got over all caps SQL keywords a very long time ago. If anything, I think it hurts readability while taking (me) longer to write.
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by tejtm 8y ago
and on a different rock
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by tejtm 8y ago
The same things that make them die at three years old. The point is the rate of those things which kill, does not increase as much with age as it does with the rest of us mammals.
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by tejtm 8y ago
note the now gone post this was in response to, asked (and I am paraphrasing) ... ~~~ Is this not just a subset your phenotype ~~~
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by tejtm 8y ago
Even assuming spherical cows ... not really. Taking phenotype as most general 'observable trait' there is far too much environmental interaction/influence to count as an individual's trait.
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by tejtm 8y ago
In case there is some interest in learning hardware iCEBreaker FPGA The first open source iCE40 FPGA development board designed for teachers and students. https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
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by tejtm 8y ago
I picked up a stray (ok, so she jumped in the car) took her to the vet for the eye crusties found out she was unadoptable due to FIV+ they said they could put her down, or I could keep her indoors and she would just have a shorter than aver
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by tejtm 8y ago
Will make an attempt to answer, hopefully without starting anything. Mysql aimed for lowering bar for non-dba-app-developers. Postgres did not. In some cases it matters, in many it does not, especially if you have the dba skills on hand
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by tejtm 8y ago
their lifespans don't overlap with their offspring's very much

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