setrofim_

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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Seems to be back up (10:41 GMT)
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Down for me too, as of 10:38 GMT
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
> It is the most populus federated network I have seen. Yes, same; but that's kind of the point. Mastodon is the best effort I have seen so far; which is why it was disappointing to see it falter shortly after it started to really
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
> but still - is that the consensus now? That federated protocols are dead and "no longer have a place in the modern world"? Having see what has happened (is happening?) to Mastodon, I can see where Moxie is coming from; as muc
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Yes, fair point. This is a common problem for social studies. One must keep in mind and be explicit about the population the study sample is drawn from; and very cautious about extrapolating the findings to other populations.
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
First of all, thank you for sharing your experience. It was insightful, and I completely agree with your criticism of the article. I would like to make a small, and perhaps somewhat pedantic comment regarding your last statement: >In my
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
> In that case, surely the professor should be commenting on the original assessment, not any paper that accepts the published literature? She does. Most of the criticism in the blog post is directed towards the findings in the previous
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
You are right, the authors of the paper only claim that their results demonstrate a); they are, however, assuming b) based on previous studies. What the Professor is arguing, as I understand it, is that those previous studies do not necessa
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Yup, it's kind of surprising "traditional news outlets" didn't make that list.
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
It's nice to see something like this being proposed, but, the NHS probably have a tonne of bespoke software running on top of Windows, all of which would need to be ported. And given the fact that they don't have the funding to ev
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Well, there'd be a massive box for systemd in userspace, udev, dbus...
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
Reminds me of: here was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
It's misalignment of incentives rather than stupidity (well, in some cases, maybe also stupidity). Governments make decisions from one election cycle to the next. So taking on debt that will be some future administration's problem
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by setrofim_ 9y ago
> I don't know what the bias is called but there is this belief that many successful people have or try to bestow that they "did it all themselves" and "you can too". This is a combination of egocentric bias[0] a
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
> 1) Happiness is not as subjective as people think. Research suggest that what people state about their own happiness correlates very well with how friends and colleagues would describe a person as. This just means that how happy a pe
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
> Most researchers probably can't afford to pay an outside lab to duplicate their research. Even if they could, we probably don't want the researchers paying for their results to be duplicated. This would create perverse incen
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
>have already seen improvements in concentration and a decrease in anxiety. Interesting to hear. Meditation is something I have considered looking into for a similar purpose. Do you have any recommendations on a good place to start?
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
>>You can trade off future maintenance by spending more initially, or vice versa > Umm is that really true ? Maybe not universally, but often, yes. E.g., you can build using more expensive materials that will last longer/are m
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
> I wonder if the cig companies have coped by pivoting into the global market and pushing hard that way. That is exactly what happened. Global tobacco business is better than ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
The issue isn't just the lack of EXAMPLES, but also with how man pages tend to be structured. They tend to be very "encyclopedic". There is a set ordering for sections, with a lot of them very verbose, and examples, when pres
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
You might find this intersting: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
What would your example achieve? You're making the format more verbose and error-prone (someone might easily forget to match a paren), without imposting any additional structure over what is already implied by line breaks. Though I do
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
Essentially, yes -- it will be down to whether the company is willing to risk having to withdraw from UK market. And if a company does choose to cave in into UK government's demands for backdoors, you can't be sure whether or not
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
@grandparent: In other words, no, they can't read the texts you've sent up to this point. But they may be able to a month or year from now. Your texts up to the point the law passed are safe , but you can't be sure about the
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
The answers to your questions will come down to which a particular company values more -- their UK revenue or the privacy and safety of their UK customers.
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
- Seamlessly use Vim to write and edit email - Can easily deal with large volumes of email -- quickly tab through unread messages - Highlights text from previous emails in a thread, making it easy to see who replied to what - You can also s
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
> but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing it. I've made it 30+ years without side-effect ... ha If anything, it's probably been of some marginal benefit -- keeping your immune system on its toes.
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
For Firefox, Vimperator FTW! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimperator/
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
awesome[1] has pretty decent mouse support, as far as tiling Window managers go. [1] https://awesome.naquadah.org/
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by setrofim_ 10y ago
Could have gone with "TITAN XX" then. The added advantage is that the next one would be "TITAN XXX", and think of the marketing opportunity there!

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