din-9

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by din-9 5y ago
Given the effort required to put cabling in e.g. mine is underneath plaster, future proofing it as best you can could save aggravation in the kind of timeframe that people live in houses for.
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by din-9 5y ago
It would be fairer to compare by wealth, where the USA is at 30.2% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wea...
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by din-9 5y ago
Half Life 2 was a big one https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...
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by din-9 6y ago
I found https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths an interesting take on this.
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by din-9 6y ago
It does not have to be taken daily - https://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/how-to-take-prep/
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by din-9 6y ago
I've been happy with my Kobo.
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by din-9 6y ago
Modern homes are built with it, but we have a lot of old houses here too.
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by din-9 6y ago
They were referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle I assume.
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by din-9 7y ago
The linked page has four steps, the last of which is "make requests".
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by din-9 7y ago
I think the greater reactions are due to the targetting of individuals rather than the entity acting.
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by din-9 7y ago
The #MeToo movement covers a lot of people. Any mass movement will include some more extreme than others. I don't believe your characterisaton of the movemnt is a fair description of the average person who is part of it.
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by din-9 7y ago
Gmail alone is easy - use POP in a mail client, set it to mark stuff read, leave it on the server etc https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828?hl=en
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by din-9 7y ago
Is point 5 true for the newest tunnels like the Jubilee Line Extension? I think the DLR has an emergency walkway in the tunnels to Bank. I am expecting Crossrail will too.
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by din-9 7y ago
Understanding that we all have different mental models, and that affects how we learn. Understanding my own vs my students' helped me to get them to understand what I was trying to communicate.
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by din-9 7y ago
Superheroes and fantasy have become mainstream over the last few decades. Things do change.
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by din-9 8y ago
I would be very surprised to see them take that reimplementation path as their backwards compatibility has been so important for decades (yes I know not everything runs still; but a large amount does). They have provided an evolutionary pat
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by din-9 8y ago
The Docker images are smaller for Linux for one. Our team use the Linux version in tests during builds just for that. We are relying that Microsoft manage to keep the two versions close enough that it's meaningful.
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by din-9 9y ago
As much as I love Ricciardo, the share of bad luck has been most unequal and it's not Max's fault he is so far behind.
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by din-9 9y ago
Android was bought in though.
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by din-9 9y ago
The Mail article of course ripped off as usual; check the timestamps against the Guardian article posted earlier that same day. edit: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/0...
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by din-9 10y ago
It is a good thing for the driver writer as they have less difference between their targets. It is a bad thing for the targets as they implement both the driver functionality and the abstractions required to make the same code work cross pl
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Humble Bundle cuts jobs following 'too ambitious' expansion(polygon.com)
4 points by din-9 11y ago|0 comments
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by din-9 11y ago
Subway lines need stations, ventilation and often big shafts to build the tunnels from.
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by din-9 12y ago
Reasons for not wanting to fire people also include: basic humanity.
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by din-9 12y ago
The following lines appear to still be creating a string starting "2.6.".
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by din-9 12y ago
I would argue that it is a professional index dressed up for non-recruiters as a social network.
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by din-9 12y ago
As noted in the bug, it is not just writing a fix but writing one that works against all supported configurations that is the cause of a delay.
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by din-9 12y ago
You can provide resources in multiple sizes, and Android will also scale as needed https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_suppor...
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by din-9 12y ago
The inherent reason is that -1 is the most common error return code in C based APIs. The problem is not naively handling an error case, it's not handling an error case. Using a different value might avoid calling killall -1, but the pr
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by din-9 12y ago
>> What I mind is people closing bugs and not admitting mistakes. > So Torvalds is saying he doesn't like dictatorial project maintainers who reply in an abrupt and abrasive manner to contributors? You have quoted what he did

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