mbrookes

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by mbrookes 4y ago
A joke that doesn't get repeated virally isn't a meme.
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by mbrookes 4y ago
For which there is some evidence [1] that you are less likely to be involved in an accident doe to external causes when not wearing a helmet than when wearing one - in essence the same effect that helmet wearing has on the cyclist (taking g
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by mbrookes 5y ago
Ignoring the joke that you were replying to, no it isn't. "A small portion of the hypogea was opened to the public in 2016." I've visited twice, and on the more recent occasion we found one of the few tours that offere
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by mbrookes 6y ago
Also in the immediate vicinity. Who knew there were so many of us! (And only those who have seen this on a Sunday & bothered to comment.) Perhaps a mini meet-up is in order? :)
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by mbrookes 6y ago
You might consider checking whether what you have fills any gaps in the Internet Archive's collection. You would still be able to keep / sell the disks – they only need a copy of the bits.
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by mbrookes 7y ago
Because he works as a rigger / repairer in the entertainment lighting industry, he has an unfortunate fixation with simple lighting devices. There are so many other interesting simple electronic devices he could explore. I used to subs
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by mbrookes 7y ago
The author means real-time location of pupils. This is not gaze tracking though.
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by mbrookes 7y ago
Let's not confuse Personally Identifiable Information (PII) the US definition, with Personal Data, the EU definition. From the UK ICO [1] "Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. (E
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by mbrookes 8y ago
You mention comic-like - for charts (as opposed to diagrams), XKCD has been a source of inspiration for a more casual style. Here's one example: http://xkcdgraphs.com/ (there are plenty of others if you search for them
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by mbrookes 8y ago
Could they not simply have put it flight mode? I appreciate that may not be possible for all makes of phone, but this was an iPhone X.
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by mbrookes 8y ago
A few seconds of "research" (despite no interest in the subject): https://speakerdeck.com/eregon/parallel-and-thread-safe-ruby...
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by mbrookes 8y ago
> > We learned about the formation of the solar system, then dinosaurs, then Cro-Magnon Man Consider yourself fortunate that they were covered at all. In some schools those are taboo subjects, as they conflict with the religious ethos
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by mbrookes 8y ago
When development of v1 started, JSS was the only solution that (with some tweaking) met all the needs of component library (as opposed to say, an application), as well as being one of the most performant. The thread that this comment[1] is
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by mbrookes 8y ago
That's absolutely the plan now that v1 has landed, along with Material Design v2 components and themes. Material-UI has been designed with customisability in mind, so you can get the functionality of the components without necessarily
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by mbrookes 8y ago
LightWave 3D, Cinema 4D, Realsoft 3D, Aladdin4d, Amiga Reflections, Sculpt 3D, Dkbtrace, Imagine, Turbosilver, Real3D. On a home computer. In the 80's to early 90's. The future is where you have been.
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by mbrookes 8y ago
Let's go back a bit further - MIT Lincoln Labs, 1963: https://youtu.be/t3ZsiBMnGSg?t=190
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by mbrookes 9y ago
PII (Personally Identifiable Information and its variants) is predominantly a US term. PII is much narrower in scope than Personal Data, as defined by GDPR. If your tool has broader application than PII, you might want to rethink the name.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Or after seeing Veritas Data Insight? [0] Data insight is targeted at more user oriented unstructured content repositories (CIFS, NFS, SharePoint, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Box), but the fundamentals are very similar: content classifiact
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by mbrookes 9y ago
The main page video is of someone running and leaping along a narrow path on a precipice. There is a significant risk that they could trip or slip and fall. Such a fall would not be survivable. They are not risking a fall with some possibil
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Someone risking certain death for a promotional video is pretty nauseating.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
That did the trick, thanks.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Anyone figured out how to get this working? I was able to open the index.html in Chrome to see the various panels, but not to load a bot. I tried pasting the relevant parts from the a raw bot file, but it wouldn't run. Also, having dev
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by mbrookes 9y ago
I believe it's a mistake to try and cram everything into the README. We've gone the opposite direction with Material-UI. Compare 0.x (before): https://github.com/callemall/material-ui/blob/master&#x2
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Very impressive. I was even able to open it on an (old) iPad, and draw with my finger.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
If you're providing a consumer storage service, and users are uploading their own data for personal use, this is outside the remit of GDPR. If you're providing a storage service to a business that handles personal data, your a dat
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Any personal data is subject, whether it is contained in Word documents, PowerPoints (that could be image based scans that will need to be OCRd to make them discoverable), spreadsheets, text files, database dumps, PST files, CSV files, et
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Ah, got you. I misinterpreted your statement as a defence of ARC, but rereading I see that's not the case.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red... To be clear, this article is about the American Red Cross (which is not to say that other branches and other NGOs aren't as bad), but
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by mbrookes 9y ago
You're correct, but for avoidance of doubt, it's both: "Who does the GDPR affect? The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but it will also apply to organisations located outside of the EU if they off
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by mbrookes 9y ago
You'll need to be able to delete certain customer data in response to a valid request. To do so, you need to be able to find and review all such data, not just in databases, but also in unstructured and semi-structured forms such as fi

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