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by tleilaxu 3y ago
Armed with a lightning gun.
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
Teslas may not I see you, but we do LispSporks22. You matter! ;) I wonder how many deaths and crashes it will take for regulators to decide to start creating test frameworks that car manufactures must implement and pass. It seems rather tha
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
The pictures do indeed speak for themselves! Goodness me. What are the statistics on lithium-ion battery failures? Are they dangerous full stop, dangerous in certain scenarios (e.g. heat), or do we only hear about the failures when 99.9999…
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
The Mirror is one of my favourite films but I always fall asleep 2-3 times while watching it! I find it so relaxing that I’ve just learnt to enjoy the whole experience and enjoy the dozing as part of the experience of watching the film.
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
When I rewatch Solaris I always skip the first 30 minutes or so (the part on Earth). Makes it a much easier and less slow watch!
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
The whole article is tongue in cheek.
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by tleilaxu 3y ago
Given that the current prime minister is a non-dom himself… seems rather unlikely to be in his or any of his friends interests.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
I think part of this is down to a failure of the English language around the word ‘lake’. If we had a word for “inland freshwater sea” then we would be able to distinguish between a lake and a _lake_. The best we can do right now is add “gr
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
I listened, derefr. I listened. ;)
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Who on earth would look at what Twitter are doing right now and think “Hey, we should copy that! That seems to be working well!” Facebook… apparently.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Damn, that’s rough. I am sorry this happened to you. I hope it’s taken down soon. Doesn’t detract from the fact that your books are excellent, though! Thank you, they’ve helped me very much at certain points in my career! Edit: They’re refe
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Maths is correct in the UK.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
> But the long tail is killing them. I imagine their engineers have said they’re “90% finished” once or twice in the last few years… Always a red flag!
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Fortunately Dobby lived to be a grandfather, right?
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Eeesh. I really do not like using language in that way (“model”) to dehumanise in such a way that makes us feel better. I think it says quite a bit about the speaker. Perhaps sometimes things require testing on animals, but the best we can
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Sounds like a good manager, giving useful feedback!
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
“Wow factor” as in “wow, what are you doing” presumably.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Visas, in the short term at least.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
>Ah yes, I recognise that particular md5 hash value from memory. Excellent, I certainly know I am reading HN.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
>anxiety has been a constant through my life, and molly showed me what it was like to not feel it This is so interesting to read, because I had exactly the same experience - primarily with social anxiety. I sat on a hill at a festival wi
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Really good brief explanation, thank you! I can feel your exasperation from here.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Homeschooled here, and I fully agree with all the above. Described me to a tee.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
As a child homeschooled since 5 years old myself: _do not do it_. Any academic gains are not worth the social stunting, especially if the child is already shy. Happiness in life is rarely based on academic achievements, but rather on the re
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
Dedicated. Like a missionary must be to do the things they do.
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
To add something further to this excellent comment: Join a start up with a legacy code base, e.g. dodgy old PHP that they’re pulling out into modern domain services. Within a year you’ll be able to analyse performance and scalability issues
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
I believe they’re saying that we might as well say “multi-week” rather than “multi-day”, given that it was 14 days! Multi day seems to imply a time period of 2-5 days, not 14…
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
> pulseaudio would sometimes stop working, and periodically be broken after upgrades Some things never change!
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
British plugs are the only thing I will ever get nationalistic about. They’re great. Hurt like a sod to stand on if the prongs are face up though!
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
I’ve seen some of these bows on seismic survey ships out the window where I live. I assumed the funky bow shape was due to them being ice breakers/science ships, but looking the ships back up they’re indeed examples of this X-BOW desig
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by tleilaxu 4y ago
I was going to say - it’s Germany. They still use cash for everything anyway. Infuriating, really.

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