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by Robin_Message 6y ago
In many ways, this is very cool. But, I have to admit, I don't love it. I would love to have an integrated environment where client/server doesn't matter, but I don't think this gets far enough. Working in a spread of ht
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I like one of the Bene Gesserrit maxims in Frank Herbert's Dune series: Seek freedom and be a slave to your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Just wondering as I have no special knowledge, but suppose I am a senator and I receive a number of classified briefings on a particular issue. Could I use Outlook to take some notes on my thoughts on that issue? Say as a draft e-mail? I do
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I guess IT will soon be adding a system to lock all computers after the "building invasion" message is sent. (Because, whilst users ought to lock screens whenever they leave their desk, I can understand why that wouldn't happ
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I'm guessing "dove sorry" is diversity, but who knows!
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Inappropriate (or rather, best-we-can-think-of-at-the-time-which-we-later-improved) treatment still saved many lives compared to the toughing it out at home approach. Doctors already know ventilation is bad for people; they were only doing
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
In the UK, founder agreements and similar with IP clauses are signed as deeds, not contracts. I understand the salient legal point is that a deed does not require consideration. Might be different in other jurisdictions.
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
If anyone is involved in choosing software for schools, I used to work at Firefly Learning which had an excellent attitude towards actually serving our users (students, teachers, parents, generally in that order) rather than the decision ma
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I've always understood Deprecated to mean "This works, but we don't want you to use it in new code, and we plan/hope to remove it in the future."
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A Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference(microsoft.com)
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I'm not sure that the researcher did any actual damage? I guess they could have taken over one domain to show the vulnerability rather than all of them. But, if anything, they did the work to collate a useful set of abandoned domains,
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Because only in this case did Voldemort even consider sparing a parent. Note that James is already dead and his love is not believed to have any extra power. It was only that Lily had a rare chance to flee and refused to take it that Harry
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
To expand on this comment, UCS-2 defines a fixed-length, 2-byte encoding of Unicode. It can therefore only represent the first 65536 characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). UTF-16 allows representing characters outside of the BMP
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I have showdead on and I don't see any "flagged" links. Are you claiming a link you tried to shared is being silently suppressed beyond HN's normal moderation tools?
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Yes, from the paper "A first-digit anomaly in the 2009 Iranian presidential election" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2789.pdf ): "The total numbers of votes per voting area in the MOI’s data vary from about
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Thank you! That sounds about right. Must put Player Of Games on the re-read pile. And yes, I remember not getting invited to parties is the ultimate sanction.
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Benford's law only applies to numbers drawn from a distribution with a wide spread over multiple orders of magnitude. So, financial transactions in a big company would show this. Votes in US districts, not so much. So there, we've
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Indeed. If he has silenced, we wouldn't be hearing about it, would we? And even "fact checked" is somewhere between Orwellian and jargon. He is being asked to provide evidence for the truth of his claims; and other alternativ
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
The "slap drone" of Iain M. Banks' culture performs a similar function in a different way: IIRC, convicted murders are allowed out, but followed forever by an autonomous drone that will stun (slap) them to prevent further cri
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Many people who need visas to travel to the US are not current in the US and do not have a congressperson...
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
No problem per-se, but to give a simple example: Suppose a developer, let's call him Salvatore, lives in a modest apartment in, say Italy, and would live very comfortably indeed on three hundred thousand euros a year. And let's sa
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Interesting that when they finally checked the time, it was just five minutes after the alarm. If you consider they were trying not to look at the time (and so probably spent a while deciding whether or not to finally "give in"),
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
One issue is that donations implicitly promote a cost-plus pricing model (I'd like to earn 10k a year doing open source, so that's how many donations I need to fund me working on this). Whereas something like dual-licensing promot
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
What if we could have both, just by sending an email? Hit compose underlying!
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Kinder Scout is the worst. Miles of featureless bog, and if any of those rights of ways are paths, I never found them. If you haven't got a GPS, your best bet is just to take a bearing and walk in a straight line.
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I'm not sure if fault is that binary. Sometimes, you're right, the other driver is at fault and there is nothing you could do. But often, you can drive defensively in a way that protects you from even serious mistakes by others.
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Even then, what if one salesperson builds up better longer term relationships (e.g. by not pushing options the customer doesn't really need) and thus their future sales will be better but their initial productivity looks poor? Or a tea
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I think geo engineering is not heartily pursued out of an abundance of caution: having established we can seriously damage the climate, many of the solutions that try to put the breaks on look even riskier because we don't want to over
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
You can progressively raise your feet off the ground for something harder than a press-up but not as hard as a handstand press. And one-legged variations are possible for legs which instantly doubles your equivalent weight; I believe they a
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
I don't think UK primary schools use textbooks. There is a curriculum for state schools which is reasonably proscriptive (and set by the state directly), but in terms of planning, creating, and delivering lessons, each teacher seems to

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