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by yomly 10y ago
An aside, but reading the accounts of the medical treatment the explorers had to endure after is a reminder of how ineffective modern medicine is, or at least how much further we have yet to go: They literally were taking poison and hoping
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by yomly 10y ago
Or just artificially enlongating the game. I quit the original FF when the story basically told me I would need to revisit the entire game's locales for some tenuous plot reason.
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by yomly 10y ago
How to regain my attention span... Quit HN /s ... /s
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by yomly 10y ago
I think when people swap sims in their device it triggers a key change
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by yomly 10y ago
>modestly more readable languages. This is definitely all relative, I would argue lisp is easier to read given that the philosophy of its syntax is that there is no syntax... Though if you've only ever read classical languages I can
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by yomly 10y ago
>These skills make a bit more sense in a world where most of us need to march off to war. Happily, we don't live in that world. Depends how old you are.. some historians are keen to point out that the global climate is very similar
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by yomly 10y ago
Surprised that Racket didn't get a mention in the paper, especially given the authors' interest in building DSLs EDIT: (I consider Racket separate from Scheme)
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by yomly 10y ago
How do we guard against this when it is becoming increasingly the case that both parents work full-time? It seems like parenthood is itself more than a full-time job...
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by yomly 10y ago
Np was able to solve by reading in landscape. Really liked the article otherwise!
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by yomly 10y ago
Think it's pegged at least to the LTS ones so when I was on Rosa it was still 14.04 when 15.11(?)/16.xx were already out
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by yomly 10y ago
I love cinnamon so that's a big plus on Mint but I didn't love being stuck on an old version of Ubuntu and all the associated core packages/drivers. I had some hardware issues that were fixed by using a more recent version (n
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by yomly 10y ago
Are you the author of the blog? Scrolling the code snippet keeps causing prev/next post page changes. It's really frustrating are you able to fix it?
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by yomly 10y ago
>"The response to violence is never violence, it's always to de-escalate it. Only six shots were fired by Japanese police nationwide [in 2015]," says journalist Anthony Berteaux. "What most Japanese police will do is
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by yomly 10y ago
But Facebook has sort of outgrown Facebook itself. The value to outsiders is now about the untangleable web they've built: so whether you're using a dating app, OAuth, Messenger, Instagram or Whatsapp (last one is a bit of a trick
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by yomly 10y ago
What's the reason for this? Is it because an app-user is a much richer data slave? Airbnb are also relentless for pushing users to their app even though the app is an inferior product to their website.
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by yomly 10y ago
Is [[Int]] a nested array of ints? This is because there could be more than one set of solutions to the simultaneous eqn
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by yomly 10y ago
And people have the cheek to complain about parens in Lisp...
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by yomly 10y ago
Agree with this, circumstance can accelerate this process: sharing some mutual experience like going on a tour or living in a foreign country can leave you making friends with people you would probably never have associated with back home
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by yomly 10y ago
Toys which are propping up most of civilization then :) What is holding back more efficient serializable transactions becoming more mainstream? Is it: A lag between academia and industry? Entrenched software which makes it hard to implement
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by yomly 10y ago
I like this idea as I am pro-history keeping and prefer not to make irreversible changes like an update. What are the space concerns for keeping data in this way? For something like a retail bank (audit issues aside which probably make this
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by yomly 10y ago
>trying to put an unfairly negative spin That's very hard to define and the line between a fake story and a heavily agendaed opinion piece is blurred but it reads to me as the kind of lines the people who make the rules would use. A
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by yomly 10y ago
But are they really held accountable? If they were they would stop doing it. A slap on the wrist fine that is filed under "cost of doing business" in their P&L isn't really accountability...
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by yomly 10y ago
Tabloids have a long history of fabricating stories. Will they be held accountable? Whenever I read about fake-news it is generally associated with the alt-right but people seem to forget that the established news are equally as guilty. I r
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by yomly 10y ago
AI ought to lead to a disruption of the industry. Currently, the legal industry has managed to entrench itself using technicality which makes it difficult to replicate and leads to very expensive fees. When a software solution comes along -
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by yomly 10y ago
Yep this is my takeaway from the story. I will not be sad when AI automates away the majority of the legal industry. Really really terrifying that one's access to justice is dependent on their access to finances. Luckily this guy was s
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by yomly 10y ago
Part of tinnitus can be caused by physical issues - neck strain can exascerbate it
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by yomly 10y ago
Despite being a fairly rational person, I have come to believe that there is some wisdom to the phrase "you make your own luck". The experience is purely anecdotal, but you see it manifest in all walks of life, granted you would e
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by yomly 10y ago
Whoa huge news - great bit of business for a UK tech company.
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by yomly 10y ago
Where do you even draw the line? Once you appreciate that everything is a "chemical" does binge-eating sugary foods count as intoxication? It's excessive by its definition and is harmful to the body and society. Should we sta
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by yomly 10y ago
Our laws on drugs are really quite arbitrary. In the UK people have factual evidence showing that drugs such as MDMA causes both less physiological and social harm than alcohol[0] so it's not really that we are trying to prevent harm r

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