njb311

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by njb311 8mo ago
But hang on, Cook has Vision _Pro_!
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by njb311 1y ago
I’d echo some of the other comments that the first priority should be to find ways to stop further damage rather than adding another human impact that attempts to mitigate previous ones. As you have pointed out, this proposal carries signif
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by njb311 1y ago
If you’re scraping the estate agents’ sites rather than striking licensing agreements, I can see how you might justify analysing the images to build a property profile but when you’re reproducing them on your site how do you get round the p
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by njb311 2y ago
According to the source statistics at gov.uk there has been an 8% increase in vehicle miles but a 5% reduction in deaths over the period 2013–23. Unless you adjust for the increased miles travelled, I would say the stats are just showing an
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by njb311 2y ago
That is in theory, not in practice. While it is possible to use WordPress for free without any paid plugins, most professionals/businesses using WP do so for the extensibility and that, in practice, comes at a cost of either paid plugi
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by njb311 2y ago
Very exciting until they figure out the jet is just a Starlink satellite passing in front of the telescope.
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by njb311 2y ago
Yes, because the roads were used for driving herds of cattle or sheep.
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by njb311 2y ago
And because a little black book might be carried in a pocket and potentially misplaced or stolen, some teams use a system of small self-adhesive pieces of paper, each with just a single password on it, that are attached to the front of the
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by njb311 2y ago
A printer’s guillotine that cuts hundreds of sheets at once has a diagonal blade.
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by njb311 4y ago
I read that as Google ‘Stopping Coding’ Competitions, which would hint at the process by which they kill all those projects.
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by njb311 5y ago
The first news story I saw about this only mentioned the amount. I assumed it was one-off for a new app, or maybe annual. Per month is crazy. I don’t object to subscriptions, but in so many cases the pricing is way out of line with the valu
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by njb311 6y ago
Yes, I wasn’t suggesting that this solution was more efficient, but that solutions that are more efficient than what they replace are what we should be focusing on. It’s fine to say that resistive is 100% efficient, but my point was that
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by njb311 6y ago
The article doesn’t say it explicitly, but I’m assuming it heats water on demand, rather than heating a tank which immersion heaters do. You can buy a resistive element electric shower that gives instant hot water and requires up to about 1
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by njb311 6y ago
I remember seeing an episode of Tomorrow’s World (BBC) in the 1980s where more or less this system was used to generate electricity from anywhere there was a change of water height, so even in small scale at weirs which was the demonstratio
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by njb311 6y ago
Of course there is often opportunity coming out of catastrophe, though I doubt the displaced people would see it quite like that. In reality, sea level rise (barring any sudden shifts caused by ice shelves collapsing into the sea) is a slow
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by njb311 6y ago
Meaning that social impact is prioritised over profit. There’s still no constraint on making profit, and there is the same potential to be financially successful. Many, if not most, businesses aim to make profit regardless of their social i
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by njb311 6y ago
A ‘not-for-profit’ does not mean it doesn’t make a profit. It means that profits generated are used to further the purpose of the organisation and not, for example, for shareholder enrichment. A loss-making organisation could only be sustai
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by njb311 6y ago
It’s only taken the last 25 years to add 30% to the human population, and the rapid increases of the last 50 years owe a lot to reduced infant mortality and people living longer. So a rapid decline might come from a reversal of those trends
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by njb311 6y ago
I’m sure that’s true, but if you have poor teachers or poor administrative policies/systems then you have a much bigger problem. As a lecturer that has used TurnItIn (because it was an automated part of electronic submission), I would
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by njb311 6y ago
> Yes, trust and honesty. That is what's wrong with WhatsApp. The quote was it made WhatsApp “potentially more dangerous”. Bad information spread through a trusted relationship can be dangerous for obvious reasons. Marketers and inf
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by njb311 6y ago
No, schools are not parents. Acting in loco parentis means acting in the place of the parent while they aren’t there, not becoming the parent. It places a duty of care to safeguard the child and act in its best interests. It does not mean r
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by njb311 6y ago
While I agree with your points, I’d reframe them slightly: it’s a sucking chest wound of teenage mental health. Schools are having to deal with young people who come to them with problems from outside. Schools can make them better or worse,
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by njb311 6y ago
I wouldn’t say the _whole point_ becomes moot. As you have to have a legal basis for each type of data that you are storing or processing, relying on different legal bases can add complexity to the problem of a deletion request. Just becaus
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by njb311 6y ago
I wasn’t aware of the click to chat function, so I checked it out. On the Whatsapp website it gives clear instructions on how to place the link on your website. It’s a hyperlink that couldn’t be more obvious that your Whatsapp number is in
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by njb311 7y ago
Sure, and humans have hardware exiting the solar system. A very different story to put a person there.
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by njb311 7y ago
> Deploying military to Mars is as likely as deploying military to the Antarctic. Nobody is suggesting we colonise the Antarctic, because there's nothing much (of current economic value) there. There are a handful of people there to
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by njb311 7y ago
I've been excited by the potential of hyperloop since the first time I heard about it maybe 30-40 years ago. The idea isn't new - there have been pneumatic trains in the 1800s and at least a design for a vacuum train in the early
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by njb311 7y ago
The disadvantage of that would be that high-importance leaders who are in a spacecraft far away won't be high-importance leaders for very long.
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by njb311 7y ago
I agree, earth orbit is great for deploying tech that helps us on the surface. The moon may prove useful if there's something of sufficient value to bring back. Mars is pure 'human endeavour', putting it kindly. Some individu
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by njb311 7y ago
True, but they run the risk of taking too long when there are targets in force that require more radical change. That said, what often happens is that incremental change reaches a tipping point where either the demand or supply side causes

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