Robadob

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by Robadob 3y ago
I work at a university that is fully invested in Google Apps. We did have unlimited storage, however last week they announced that's soon to change: > A quota will soon be introduced on the amount of data that staff and students at
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by Robadob 4y ago
It's a real shame there's not a built in way to get notified in 6 months to check this stuff out. Guess I'll add it to my calendar.
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by Robadob 4y ago
There are still inconsistencies between NHS dentists, visual assessment of cavities and what justifies treatment is inherently subjective. My first dentist retired after I'd had no fillings to date, their replacement on first appointme
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by Robadob 4y ago
I have two yubikeys too, but I definitely found services which didn't allow me to register more than one when I first set them up (a couple of years ago now).
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by Robadob 4y ago
My favourite example of this in English is adjective order. Native speakers learn that it should be "big red bus" rather than "red big bus", however most couldn't list the ~7 adjective types and order they should be
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by Robadob 5y ago
I received this email about an hour ago, so it must be being sent out progressively.
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by Robadob 5y ago
If I refresh the page twice in quick succession, the same image comes up. By refreshing on my pc/phone at the same time, I managed to get the same image come up too. So it's probably seeded by time.
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by Robadob 5y ago
My parents regularly throw out spare food (bread, meat, fruit) onto their lawn, local wildlife (birds, foxes, hedgehogs) always take it all within 24h.
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by Robadob 5y ago
The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points. > For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary. Section 5 of the official rule
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by Robadob 5y ago
It's not that GPUs don't support fp64, it's that for domestic gamer GPUs fp64 arithmetic is normally ~1:32 performance of fp32 arithmetic. e.g. 1080gtx FP16 (half) performance 138.6 GFLOPS (1:64) FP32 (float) pe
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by Robadob 6y ago
All UK AZ vaccines are being manufactured in the UK, the UK government funded these. The UK did not take part in the EU vaccine procurement program. It's my understanding that only Pfizer/Biontech vaccine doses are being imported
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by Robadob 6y ago
> The suggestion we sell to other countries to make more money is not right because we make no profit everywhere.That's the approach we took and we agreed on that. That’s the agreement we have with Oxford University. It's actua
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Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies(medium.com)
1107 points by Robadob 6y ago|402 comments
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by Robadob 6y ago
Vice posted a new video (about American Apparel) to their YouTube today, was tagged with Quibi at the start and end.
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Fortnite Apple row: Microsoft backs Epic in court filing(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Robadob 6y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 6y ago
Historically there was an emulator mode, where you could build your CUDA code to run on CPU. However, it was removed a few years ago. I never used it, so can't really give you more details beyond that.
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Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy(magazine.atavist.com)
1 points by Robadob 6y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 6y ago
The video here talks about the difference between the two approaches. There's a comparison at 2:50. "I think the computers are winning, because in the upper right you can kind of see that back wall, there's a little strip of
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by Robadob 6y ago
We've come across this problem. The major testing frameworks seem to rely heavily on macros for tests. In particular, we were struggling to handle tests of thrown exceptions, as we couldn't trivially capture the result in a variab
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by Robadob 6y ago
The video's here, in Italy, show the ventilators used with a bag over the patient's head to create a bubble of positive pressure (and quarantine off their head). So presumably in a scenario like this it's less of a problem ab
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by Robadob 7y ago
Recent versions of CMake have also been growing the support for CUDA. There's still a number of edge cases (e.g. passing arguments to the device linker) that have open tickets on their bugtracker, but there's more than enough stab
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by Robadob 7y ago
It states that it's using telethon. That appears to be an MTProto library. https://docs.telethon.dev/en/latest/concepts/botapi-vs-mtpro...
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by Robadob 7y ago
Fortnite has been criticised for it's store. Item's are only available for a limited time (24h?), with no guarantee of when they will become available again. This creates the 'Fear of Missing Out' incentive for people to
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College dropout bedridden for 11 years, invented a surgery and cured himself(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by Robadob 7y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 7y ago
In the UK, 'TheGymGroup' literally tells you to cancel membership by ending your direct debit. They're not all that predatory.
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by Robadob 7y ago
When developers generate Steam keys, it allows them to sell their 'game on Steam' elsewhere (their own website, HumbleBundle etc). This means Steam doesn't take a cut of the sale price. But the developers still get the benefi
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by Robadob 7y ago
1. I was simply trying to clarify what 'shared account' likely actually meant. 3. This I didn't consider.
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by Robadob 7y ago
Those shared accounts might be accounts hacked with known/breached passwords. I previously had my mostly empty UPlay account hijacked by someone with a Kazakhstan IP. As I recall they renamed the account and added new friends and had b
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by Robadob 7y ago
The android app "Google Opinions Rewards" occasionally asks me to rate a video i've recently watched, then follows it with a binary choice of recommendation, which I subsequently have to rate the quality of the recommendation
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by Robadob 7y ago
When I visited Ukraine, a friend pointed out lots of graffiti advertising people that sell drugs on Telegram.

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