rmtew

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by rmtew 10y ago
> I like it! I just wish it weren't fixed. Now there's just a bar I'm ignoring that's obscuring part of the useful information.
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by rmtew 10y ago
The old UK sci-fi television series, Blakes 7, which aired in 1970's had this as one of their predicted technologies. Entire portions of machinery would regenerate after being exploded in sabotage. Grids of "radiation mine wire&qu
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by rmtew 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
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by rmtew 10y ago
This was covered.
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by rmtew 10y ago
Worse than that, I used to be very knowledgeable about a topic and having not played the game and not scored any points, it was too frustrating to answer questions there. The unfortunate thing is that people often see it as the github of pr
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by rmtew 10y ago
I have home edition, it is set to reboot in the middle of the night. The laptop goes to sleep or hibernates when I go to bed, one or the other, the update is still pending when I start the laptop in the morning. Updates can be put off ind
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by rmtew 10y ago
Have you tried to read a page on facebook without an account? It's intended to be an almost unusable experience. On loading a page, I get a modal popup obscuring all content insisting I "register" or "login", with
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by rmtew 10y ago
Make that 7km, at 7km/hr, 3 times a week and I believe you hit the sweet spot of the Danish study that came out a couple of years ago. If I recall correctly, it monitored ~20000 people over ~19 years, and provided bell curves of the be
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by rmtew 10y ago
I used the arc archiver mentioned by others, back in the 90's if not earlier. I've probably still got archives on a disk somewhere.
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by rmtew 10y ago
The article was about some woman who was unhappy and quit her job, and had some resources to fall back on. I am sure lots of points can be projected onto it, but the long and the short is she didn't do a very good job at saying anythin
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by rmtew 10y ago
When I programmed in university pre-2000, I used gopher in place of google. Applicable matches were limited to source code file search, which gave examples of function calling out in the wild. There were no books of use available, and the
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by rmtew 10y ago
Did you read the article? It mentioned unlimited guests to meals, with an open bar. As well as something like a gym washing service. It's clear in the article that there were more than meals, with these given as specific examples of
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by rmtew 10y ago
Back before decent search engines, there was gopher or ftp search. I used to search for function names or some part of some API in gopher (or ftp search), and find source code in projects where the code was already in use. Then use that t
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by rmtew 10y ago
Regarding: > Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected. I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content. And
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by rmtew 11y ago
cue
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by rmtew 11y ago
I quit drinking coke zero on purpose for months at a time, and come back to it, just to appreciate it again. At no time have I ever thought it tastes sickly sweet. Of course, diet pepsi is another matter.
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by rmtew 11y ago
Lot's of dependencies are used that they do not own the rights to do this with. Not practical.
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by rmtew 11y ago
There are <a href=" http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80875">comments on</a> one of the Amiga communities most popular forums by a Olaf Barthel, a developer who modernised a more complete versi
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by rmtew 11y ago
Similarly, back when I used to maintain Stackless Python and do merges in from mainline Python, my benchmark was to only have the same set of failing tests post-merge for the same merged revision. More often than not I would have failing te
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by rmtew 11y ago
All my different devices have shoddy software. From every smart phone I've bought to smart televisions and not so smart satellite decoders and bluray players. None of them have source code available to fix the problems, and the firmw
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by rmtew 11y ago
The copenhagen study is one that stays with me. Over a period of 35 years, and ~17000 people, there are some interesting charts showing guidelines to optimise jogging for longevity. If I recall correctly, the best benefit was for joggers t
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by rmtew 11y ago
From what I recall, the results in a study showed that the primary care giver of an alzheimer's patient was more likely to get alzheimer's themselves. The argument against transmissibility was that primary care givers tend to be
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by rmtew 11y ago
If you have multiple google accounts like the gmail website in a browser on a PC, you can switch between them by just choosing the account from the google accounts menu. Tremendously convenient. Google can have my figurative "soul&qu
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by rmtew 11y ago
I was wondering this myself, there's about 9 wifi connections around the samsung "smart" tv I use.
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by rmtew 11y ago
> ..., while people not writing asynchronous code can pretty much ignore it if they want to. I don't think this is strictly true. If there is code which is available only in async form, then it's either unusable or awkward to
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by rmtew 11y ago
> The largest change in Microsoft Edge security is that the new browser is a Universal Windows app. .... This provides the user and the platform with the confidence provided by other Windows store apps I see it's going to be a Windo
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by rmtew 11y ago
What this curated press release reminds me of, is when OpenCyc was released. Defining an ontology it contains detail and rules, which model things from materials and processes, to projectile weapons and of course swords and what not. In th
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by rmtew 12y ago
What is the difference between describing something as extreme group think, and describing it as a circle jerk? How does one differentiate between this being a valid description, and an unwillingness to accept that one's position is t
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by rmtew 12y ago
This sounds like you're saying that it suits your needs, therefore we should take that as meaning it fits our needs. Unfortunately, things are not that simple. I needed to do something and looked at using powershell, but in the end I
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by rmtew 12y ago
Did you read the article? The only reason this information took so long to become available, was because scientists had to fight to prove that the provenance of the bones was not Native American. And the article states that the bones are m

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