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by kovvy 9mo ago
The sleeping kitty is from, or perhaps descended from, https://webneko.net/ To the decorative text behind the kitty, I would add that it's almost always helpful to include some form of praise and redirect, for example,
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by kovvy 9mo ago
A related alternative would be that the listed tv price included the price of time spent viewing ads, and the sale price of your usage data (and that changing the price, say by showing more ads, required agreement). A DUMB TV costs $x, whil
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by kovvy 2y ago
Reusability increases costs if you don't reuse often enough. The shuttle would have been much, much, cheaper per launch if it had flown more often. The expected costs for the shuttle included a range based on how often it flew which tu
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by kovvy 2y ago
The figures are about the change rather than the absolute value, so it's not too terrible, but even given that, they could have been normalised by being relative to year 1. A quite warm mess, perhaps?
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by kovvy 4y ago
I have high hopes for Daggerfall once they finish fixing the main bugs and it goes into beta.
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by kovvy 4y ago
Was that a complete ban, or was it an attempt to get your phone number and other personal details? Instagram has always banned my accounts for suspicious behaviour on whatever page is first used after the account is created - the only way t
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by kovvy 4y ago
There is also 'homeograph' - "A word similar — but not identical — in spelling to another." That seems a better fit for your needs.
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by kovvy 4y ago
A lot of humour consists of buildup followed by a twist - the humour is in the contrast between the expected and the actual. This is very similar to explaining a concept that is flawed or misunderstood by building up a scenario where the ex
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by kovvy 4y ago
On my map it seemed like the road consisted of a few points, rather than the points plus lines between them (or however it's described). Selecting intersections (maybe bends?) lowered the distance.
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by kovvy 5y ago
I find that students talk to each other and spread interpretations of the assignment. They might be correct, they might not - either way the interpretation spreads (never through anything like 'official' course forums set up for s
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by kovvy 5y ago
It's all so ... readable.
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by kovvy 5y ago
They're pretty similar concepts. Either way, they're administering drugs to affect health.
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by kovvy 5y ago
"Remove dead code"
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by kovvy 5y ago
Many people put answers to assignments and exams in the course material and very few people get it.
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by kovvy 5y ago
Generally, anyone writing a paper about something that could benefit from bugfixes would love to accept them, but doesn't have the time or resources to actually do so - unless there's another paper in it. If they have somehow mana
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by kovvy 5y ago
There's already a lot of published work in that area. Are you looking at confirming earlier work, or is there a particular focus that introduces novelty?
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by kovvy 5y ago
I had zero problems keeping myself still for an MRI, but I really wished I had picked a more comfortable position. Standing still, now there I have all the problems.
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by kovvy 5y ago
Research is also hampered by non-obvious changes in the product. Even when a good, reliable product is released, it can be modified to be cheaper to make/more expensive to maintain with no external indication. This isn't even nece
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by kovvy 5y ago
Politics has made it very likely that we will never know where it started, but that's okay. More important is how the next one could start, which is being investigated more thoroughly now. If we survive the current and future variants
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by kovvy 5y ago
My most cited paper has the head of an institution down as an author. Most, but far from all, of the citations are from students there. A previous paper introduced the concept and tools to apply it, while the cited paper just adds an exampl
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by kovvy 5y ago
The hard part of fixing it can be that the manufacturer used a range of sources for each part. The parts are available, but it can be difficult to tell which easily available part is the right one. This is only a problem for fixing a single
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by kovvy 5y ago
Perhaps start with a set of blocks representing available resources. The 'top' equivalent could be a stream of blocks falling down the screen. Manipulate and rearrange the blocks to create new sets of blocks representing your desi
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by kovvy 5y ago
Souffle: https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle Used by projects such as Doop: https://bitbucket.org/yanniss/doop and Ddisasm: https://github.com/grammatech/ddisasm
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by kovvy 5y ago
The personal massager. After 53 years of sales it's still very well regarded.
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by kovvy 6y ago
If you miss a word in a conversation, you automatically fill it in. This is usually pretty reliable even with unfamiliar material, since if you follow standard grammar rules there's a decent amount of redundancy. Sometimes, though, thi
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by kovvy 6y ago
I'm close to this, and if I make an Instagram account it's banned before a single page is loaded.
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by kovvy 6y ago
Instagram insists I'm a bot and immediately blocks any account I make. Using Instagram without an account is a rather dismal experience since it blocks viewing any posts, or scrolling too far through previews of posts. I also deal with
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by kovvy 6y ago
I had a protocol fail repeatedly, and expensively, because of a combination of a contaminated reagent and a tiny amount of sample. Took me ages to even approach being able to debug that one as the protocol worked for everyone else. Turned o
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by kovvy 7y ago
Changing from Blackboard is a lot of work, and the replacement isn't guaranteed to be better (although while you're using Blackboard it does seem that any replacement at all would be better). Blackboard has a lot of useful feature
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by kovvy 7y ago
Recommendations used to seem to be affected by your ratings. That may still be the case to some extent, but Netflix's preferences seem to be way, way more important now. That aside, I don't live in the USA so it would be nice if N

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