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by tspiteri 11y ago
Maybe it's not just because you are more exposed to germs on the plane. One possibility is that air on planes is quite dry, and you are not drinking enough, which would stress your system. Or there can be a combination of conditions th
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by tspiteri 11y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3169
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by tspiteri 11y ago
You'd need to be a pretty good athlete to burn 1000 calories in 45 minutes straight.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Simple sugar is really more poisonous and addictive than some of the banned drugs Saying that eating large amounts of simple sugar is worse than small amounts of some of the banned drugs is one thing. But saying that sugar is poisonous, o
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by tspiteri 12y ago
What is interesting about comparing reactions to GPL copyright against music copyright? Without saying that either of the two copyright cases is right/wrong, there are major differences. In GPL copyright violation, the violation hinder
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Thanks.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
From the title and description, where the ORG is described as the "UK's EFF", I got the impression that the ORG is affiliated with the EFF, but on the website it seems that it isn't. Maybe it would have been better descr
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Or the way we look at people who thought heavier than air flying objects are impossible by laws of physics. Did any people actually think this? That would be weird, considering how we are surrounded by heavier-than-air flying animals.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
I know it's normally a good idea to avoid code duplication, but in this case I would have copied the function inside kms_functions into both kmsn and kmsp, since this removes the dependency on readlink and also makes it possible to mov
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by tspiteri 12y ago
I had not read your article properly, and I got the impression that you were still considering whether to join the PhD programme. Now I have reread it and you said you had already started the programme, so you are right, apologies. But then
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by tspiteri 12y ago
The title "Leaving Academia" made me expect the author to have been in academia for some time, and not as a student, and to have decided to move on to something else. The article is not about leaving academia, but about not joinin
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by tspiteri 12y ago
That depends on what you mean by touch. If by touch you mean modify the code, then you may be right. But if by touch you mean use, you are wrong.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
The free software philosophy is about giving freedom to people to modify and share code. Code is not a person, it does not need to be free or to be treated ethically for its own sake. The GPL is in no way like PETA.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
The GPL makes a contributor agreement necessary if the original developer wants to distribute a version that does not comply with the GPL. With the MIT license, the original developer can distribute a proprietary version without a CA.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
That's the only place in C where I use the postfix decrement operator. for (u = 5; u-- > 0; ) {
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by tspiteri 12y ago
If your distributed object code includes a library that is under the LGPL, then you must also make the source of that LGPL library available on request, and users should be able to change that LGPL library in your project with their modifie
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Your sentence describes what the Fourier transform is, whereas the sentence in the article tries to describe how the Fourier transform does it. What the article does is translate the mathematical notation to a sentence in English, attemptin
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by tspiteri 12y ago
The whole quote I am contesting is "economically significant but existentially loathsome", and my point is that not only are tourists not existentially loathsome, but they give purpose to the maintenance of attractions.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
I find that quite a conceited view of mass tourism, borne of the fact that the author has a "fantasy of being a real individual, of living somehow outside and above it all." Sometimes it is fun to be a tourist at a place where the
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by tspiteri 12y ago
In many cases they use story as boilerplate to present some technical marvel. I find that to be more true for Clarke than for Asimov. Clarke likes to present technical marvels, and the stories themselves are quite bare, but Asimov focuses
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by tspiteri 12y ago
I used to have to wait for a fix as well. What works for me is that when I'm preparing for the run, I put the watch in a window for enough time to get a fix, which sometimes take a long time. Then when I go out to run later, it gets a
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by tspiteri 12y ago
For the shipping charges, it used to be like you say, but since some time now, if I go to the basket, a little below the "Proceed to Checkout" button there is an "Estimate VAT, Postage and Packaging" option.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Don't worry too much about the many sequels, they can get a bit too weird. The first book stands alone just fine. True, but if you decide to read the sequels, only read the Frank Herbert sequels. The Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Ander
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Red Big Barn does not always sound wrong to me. If there are ten big barns and ten small barns, and one of the big barns is red, I would call it the red big barn, not the big red barn. But if there is just one isolated barn, and it is red a
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by tspiteri 12y ago
To me, it doesn't work at all. The whole point is that they are not-meat talking about meat . In the sketch, they look very meaty indeed, and their speech sounds like flapping meat, so that it does not work at all.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
You are entitled to believe whatever you believe. But you cannot assert that your belief system is unique because of proof that depends on that same belief.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
You are only considering the censorship aspect, and seem to be ignoring the privacy aspect. When people call this EU policy censorship, I can't help thinking that they consider all forms of privacy protection as censorship. And I see i
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by tspiteri 12y ago
Bureaucracy is very expensive. But sometimes, accountability makes it worth the expense.
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by tspiteri 12y ago
In this case, the goto is into the loop, not out of it, so named break/continue would not help. And the only point of having named break/continue would be to not use goto. I don't see the point in that, since to me, this:
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by tspiteri 13y ago
It depends on what you are doing. There are tools in the Xilinx tool set enabling you to design filters or other things in MATLAB Simulink, which are very convenient. But if you want to write a processor, however small, you cannot really do

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