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by try_again 2y ago
Congratulations, you're a sensible human being who has figured out that listening to your body and intuition works much better than all these "optimal" solutions everyone is chasing after. I've suspected for a long time
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by try_again 5y ago
The death toll of nuclear energy is only a minute fraction of the casualties brought about by coal and oil. The most pessimistic estimations of deaths caused by all nuclear power accidents that ever occurred and waste that has been produced
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by try_again 5y ago
My dad had a workshop where he made woodwind instruments. For some applications he required lead. I recall entertaining myself as a kid by melting some small pieces of lead with a welding torch and looking at the pretty liquid metal. It was
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by try_again 5y ago
When you state "in this country", please specify what country that is. Despite the use of English as the lingua franca here we're amongst a geographically diverse group. I'm going to assume you mean the US. If that'
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by try_again 5y ago
That's really just a failure of input sanitation or not properly escaping special characters or putting the comment in CDATA when constructing the XHTML. Basically that blog allowed an injection attack. Not XHTML's fault, the same
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by try_again 5y ago
Not really. Tests with two lines generally have one "control" line and one "test" line. If the control line fails to appear, then the result is invalid and you should try a new kit, regardless of what the other line said
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by try_again 5y ago
Look up "Time Cube" and prepare to indulge in a bit of insane internet history.
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by try_again 5y ago
Consent is too often treated as this magical concept that makes everything right when it's present in some form. Many people seem to think of consent as a "yes" when often it's more a lack of "no". Someone not
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by try_again 6y ago
There are of course the ways to share your digital collection. Your games list on Steam, books on Goodreads, music on services like Spotify and last.fm. On the one hand it's less immediately visible but on the other people can see it w
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by try_again 7y ago
I'm glad to hear this perspective and know it's not just me. I live in Europe and parking in a garage here always raises my heart rate. I don't think I'd make it without parking sensors. Some people I know just slam thei
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by try_again 7y ago
Does someone know if this is purely a property of languages and their evolution or if there is a biological or neurological foundation for this? I understand that you could make names for colours as fine-grained as you want with visible lig
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by try_again 7y ago
Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow because printing is a subtractive process. It's the complement of the additive RGB that monitors use. For example, cyan acts as a filter for red, so a combination of magenta and yellow filters out
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by try_again 7y ago
It won't protect against a newer version of an established library introducing malicious behaviour.
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by try_again 7y ago
Having the means in place for total surveillance and thinking it will be kept in check with "strict control" is a total delusion. Who determines what constitutes proper grounds for using the captured data? The government, I suppos
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by try_again 7y ago
A well-known quote is that whoever doesn't understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352
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by try_again 7y ago
It's exactly like the premise for Black Mirror episode "Nosedive"!
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by try_again 7y ago
There are certainly situations where that can work well, but there are also many instances where running two solutions in parallel is anything but trivial and adds another layer of complexity. Possibly to the point or multiplying the costs
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by try_again 7y ago
I also recalled hearing exactly this. In fact, in my recollection Burger King had a vegetarian burger option for some time before dropping it due to complaints of it being prepared on the same grill as the meat patties. Meanwhile McDonald&#
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by try_again 7y ago
I'd wish that not every other article I read these days feels the need to focus on detecting misogyny or racism. It is absolutely important to identify the ways in which outdated world views led to injustices and move towards a brighte
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by try_again 7y ago
Complete rewrites seldom tend to work out well. Using a current version's behaviour as a "requirements doc" rather than the code or an actual up-to-date document probably misses out on a good deal of functionality that is rar
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by try_again 9y ago
Slightly ironic that a system which has scalability as one of its goals went down due to traffic. Although I guess few things are prepared for an onslaught of catching attention on sites like HN or Reddit.