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10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.
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Well I stand corrected. I was judging from the examples in the linked article, so will have another look ...
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I rather like Cypher, easy to get into with the (node)-[edge]->(node) construction, difficult in the middle (until you realise that WITH is very different to SQL's), then a delight. Gremlin, …
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I hadn't really followed the story up-to now, followed the link from the first of this "one every day" (this is the fifth of this series, hardly a deluge) and have been completely appal…
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Made me laugh ...
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The Register's take on this story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/26/nsa_calllogging_pro... …
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My first work encounter with Unix (SunOS, Solaris) had a weather phenomena naming scheme, "lightning", "thunder" and so on, all very exciting. When I and the other new hire called…
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Thank you for the second link, absolutely astonishing
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The courtroom has 14 seats for the public and press, so don't expect that many sources ...
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If I buy a cheese sandwich and there's no cheese in it, then I'm entitled to my money back. Same here, give the "purchaser" their money back.
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This, 100 times. Mathematical understanding can only be obtained by doing, fighting with the concepts, causing that pain that you get behind the eyes. Just reading the text will give you a surface k…
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I stand by it, if you're not prepared for exhaustive (and exhausting) problem-solving then don't start down this road, try something easier like Philosophy or bear-wrestling.
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It can be really hard. I'd suggest: 1) Don't take on something too ambitious, it will demoralise you, 2) do _all_ of the exercises, even (especially) the ones that look easy, 3) Learn the …
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I stand corrected
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I guess this is not unrelated to the ECMWF departing Reading for Bologna https://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/workshops/ecmwf-bologna-20... …
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I'd rethink the name, it shouts "Nudge theory", the rather unpleasant strand in B. F. Skinner-style behavioural manipulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_the…
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I'm seeing the same thing (and have also rolled-back).
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... and US diplomats would never do anything like that ... https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/cars/foreign-diplomats-d... …
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In the IRA's campaign in the mainland UK in the 1970s, they would provide a codeword along with the tip, after the first bomb the receivers would know that subsequent calls with the same codeword…
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> Thread support is [more or less] standardised in all major OS-es now More-or-less, but no barriers on OSX (at least I had to hack around that for a user 6 months ago)
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Not the OP, but I find `PRAGMA synchronous = OFF` makes the creation of DBs vastly faster ...
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First time I saw this word used in this sense (as a column in a database) I was baffled: in the UK a nonce is a paeodophile.
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Er, wasn't that the plot of I Am Legend, "... three years later ..."
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Mandatory: https://xkcd.com/895/
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Woit's take on this: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11537 …
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I definitely saw it in the English music paper, the New Musical Express, in the late `70s (very Punk at the time), I remember having to look it up ...
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Not that recently, it's been used italiced and capitalised for a century, only recently it's been properly absorbed by losing those decorations. In contrast, the French absorb foreign words…