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by thombat 3y ago
Generally the problem for a company is being entirely sure that the OS codebase is theirs to donate. Are there any third party components, if so were they correctly classified so that now they'll be filtered out of the code dump? (And
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by thombat 3y ago
That seems to imply that they're notably heavy-handed - would you like to expand on this?
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by thombat 3y ago
They didn't actually do it. The Ryanair CEO, Michael O'Leary, has a well-practiced approach of making outlandish claims about Ryanair's thrifty innovations that echo around the internet; discount publicity. About the same tim
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by thombat 3y ago
Thanks - it's probably time to try DigiKam again since I can see quite recent discussions of improved face recognition (and I like that it's open source; pity Google didn't open Picasa but that's quite in keeping with th
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by thombat 3y ago
Amen. I'm still using Picasa: periodically I go prowling for an equivalent app but there's still nothing to touch it. Fuck their photo cloud: I have ADSL so uploads are sluggards. I need local storage, fast searching, good facial
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by thombat 3y ago
Possession of land doesn't give absolute untrammeled rights in most countries, e.g.: * Exceptions exist for subterranean mineral wealth, e.g. mining licenses can be issued against the wishes of a land owner * Similarly the landowner ha
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by thombat 3y ago
How about: * Acquire treasure in dubious circumstances ("jury heard that Pilling, from Rossendale, Lancashire, was in possession of the coins knowing they should have been declared. Pilling has never disclosed the full identity of the
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by thombat 3y ago
Tove Jannson, the author of the Moomin stories, credited her English translator with improving the originals, because after the necessary dialogue about the true meaning of the text she had a better understanding of her own text and wanted
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by thombat 3y ago
But it already has CT, and I guess a lot of US citizens know where they are relative to the other US time zones?
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by thombat 4y ago
That map clearly shows that only a few locations are experiencing a fall, so neither "plenty" nor summing to zero as claimed. But I'm interested to learn more about the evidence that the pre-industrial trend was the same, sin
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by thombat 4y ago
For that to be true there would be plenty of places where it's falling. Are there?
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by thombat 4y ago
Much too small. Using Wikipedia's figures: volume of Qattara Depression = 1,213 cubic kilometres, volume of Greenland ice sheet = 2,850,000 cubic kilometres. And the project is only useful as a long-term power source if the contents ev
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by thombat 4y ago
Next up: we tell a Scotsman that putting a slug of vodka into a malt extract drink gets you 90% of the way to whiskey.
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by thombat 4y ago
I understood the criticism to be of submitting the kottke link rather than "dereferencing" it to get to the original full article it excerpts.
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by thombat 4y ago
The issue is common to all account types, ie also affects paid accounts.
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by thombat 4y ago
My elderly mother is determined to end her days in the city she spent most of her life in. Fair enough, but that's at least five hours drive away from where I'm living with my family and job. She has had a couple of minor strokes
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by thombat 4y ago
Still makes them a benefit to that family: if his wife was at home doing more housework the 1920s way then they wouldn't have the same house.
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by thombat 4y ago
The analogy is closer to being: the state will prosecute the murder victim's family for failing to properly protect them AND won't be able to locate or punish the true murderer. So in this situation, what's the family going t
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by thombat 4y ago
Whatever the form of a demonstration, if potential fraud is a concern then you want somebody with expertise in fraud in that domain. So for a demonstration that is statistical, a hotshot statistician is needed. For a physical demonstration
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by thombat 4y ago
Try blocking it and see. My last HP inkjet would refuse to print off it hadn't phoned home for permission within some timeframe.
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by thombat 4y ago
Titled "Liar!", which is Susan Calvin's final bitter remark after she destroys it in revenge for having supported her infatuation with a colleague, motivated as it was to spare her immediate pain but causing worse pain in the
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by thombat 4y ago
It starts with "no monitors facing windows" and "all visitors hand over phones and any other devices with photographic possibilities" and moves up the paranoia/professional caution scale from there.
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by thombat 4y ago
But then you can enjoy arguing with Bing about why its answer isn't actually the true answer, and see how long it takes before you're reprimanded for being a "bad user" "Bing, what would you think about an AI system
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by thombat 4y ago
That cold corner risks becoming a condensation point and so developing mold.
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by thombat 4y ago
The problem of dumped munitions in the Baltic is compounded by it being a good place to find amber, which looks quite similar to white phosphorus: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/two-women-injur...
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by thombat 4y ago
Sounds like a shortened "Your health!" which as a toast should be accompanied by all present having a charged glass in their hand.
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by thombat 4y ago
Giving sources helps with the preservation: readers can follow-up to find out more
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by thombat 4y ago
The Deputy Minister of Information explains it well in Terry Guillam's "Brazil": INTERVIEWER: And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce .
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by thombat 4y ago
Weather balloons have been pretty standard for decades, so if you want to start using a markedly different kind to blend in with your spy balloons you'll need to establish their plausibility first. Like showcasing them at metrological
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by thombat 4y ago
Yep, how about a nice zero-hours contact coupled to a non-compete clause. Bring your own stool so you can sit in the lobby and wait to see if you'll be making any money today.

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