jacksonkmarley

TIL there is such a word as 'ax'.

Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

A Walk Among the Tombstones - Lawrence Block

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Use of Weapons - Iain M Banks

Blood Song - Anthony Ryan

Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

The Short Timers - Gustav Hasford

Must admit this was my question as well. It seemed from the post that the browser was still working but the extensions couldn't be installed. Not ideal but seems like a weird response.

Is the point that there should be a separate source of extension packages or something?

> I deployed a Py application (Pandas, PyQT) at work ...

>In the end I threw all of that out , rewrote the UI and deployed it as a web application on a server. Now the users are happy.

This sounds familiar.

2 to 3 did come up at one point, yes. At the time I chose 2 but nothing much came of the choice since I didn't continue with python at the time, and nothing much came from what I was working on either.

The updates to 3 have a bit more impact now that I'm doing most of my work in python. Some of the features dropping seem too cool to not update.

Soon after going through the python environment selection dance (pyenv fwiw, although sometimes conda), I went through the python binary tool selection dance and ended up on pyinstaller.

However I eventually abandoned hope that I was on a fruitful path, and changed course for web server land, embarking on the python web framework selection dance.

Tried that with Teams just the other day, sadly no go.

Anyone got a good reference for pratical implications of floating point vs fixed point in measurement calculations (especially timing measurements)? Gotchas, rules of thumb, best practice etc?

Agree to disagree I guess, but I have read a lot of things on Twitter that I found interesting and useful (amongst a lot of crap, obviously), and this I didn't like.

I guess you found it funnier than me, but making points seemed like a huge part of that article.

Wow that seemed like a lot of effort to make a point. Often twitter oversimplifies things, but that could legitimately have been a tweet of the offending graph and a few words about how older/sick people are more likely to have been vaccinated, and also more likely to die because they're old/sick.

I do like the original Ghostbusters movie, but I'm not sure that really added to the effect for me.

Agree that the caffeine 'rules' about not drinking it after a certain time of day don't apply to everyone. I experience increased sleep difficulties no matter what time of day I have it.

Interestingly it does not seem to affect the initial falling asleep time for me, but causes difficulties getting back to sleep when I wake up during the night.

The only thing more annoying than having a wire between my ears and my device is having a bad connection between my ears and my device.

I liked the premise of this article, but I didn't see much use for anything after it started talking about how to achieve it.

...Except the 'personal stack overflow ' idea. Because so many of the answers to my questions are there, or in rando blog posts, having a personal SO full of actual SO answers (that I found useful) would actually be pretty good. Then a personal Google to search it and I'd be most of the way there.

Nice article. Now I'm inspired to go back and reread Paul Theroux's travel books (mostly by rail except for the one where he walks around the coast of the UK, I think).

Haven't read that, might take a look. Off the top of my head here a couple of books also with interesting related themes:

Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan (Also probably my all time favourite book along with the other two in the series. Lots of stuff about consciousness transfers.)

Timeline - Michael Crichton (Basically the topic of this question with time travel instead.)

A short story I vaguely remember about a cloning process a rich guy uses to create a new him - Stephen King(?)

This article doesn't really address all of the assumptions, culture, psychology etc. wrapped up in the concept of a person dying. What exactly do we mean by that? Without considering that, all of the other considerations will be incomplete given that the original question is based on it.

Same. In fact the obvious question in the absence of photographs is how blue they really were.

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How does this help with asking alumni of your school for referrals? Can't you do that with a regular account?

As the wikipedia article notes, you don't get much energy from lightning because it's such a short duration. Interesting for research though.

I think it was a request from a French police investigation to provide the data, which makes the Swiss government ordering PM to reveal user details seem very generous IMO. If I were Swiss I would probably want a bit more restriction on potentially arbitrary foreign government requests.

That certainly puts a different light on how I was looking at the topic.

> Have you heard of parallel construction? Perhaps he and his wife had discussed the cash in private messages.

That's why I said they had some other reason to think he had cash.

> If he did this (and he may have done) why do you think they would give him his money back?

As the article explained, if he can provide evidence of how he came by the money legally, he gets it back. Otherwise the federal government is breaking the law, no?

Seemed weirdly specific to me, but I guess in certain areas with lots of drug sales or whatever it could be more generally applicable.

> The stop was a pretext to ask Stephen about his trip, and “a bunch of silly questions,” like “[are there] any large amounts of United States currency in the vehicle.”

Haha, what a silly question...except the guy actually did have a large amount of United States currency in the vehicle. Either that cop is the world's luckiest guesser, or they had some reason to think he had a bunch of cash in his car.

If the DEA really didn't comply with it's legal obligations about returning the money/explaining though, I guess the guy has a pretty strong case to get it all back plus a bit extra.

Not sure why he couldn't just send the bank receipts he already showed the cop to the DEA or whatever. Principle?

I have a lot of questions about this story.

Would be good to have some other sources for this story.

So a Swiss company has been apparently forced to provide details of a user who is under investigation by police in another country? I'm curious about the way that actually works, that a Swiss court receives a request from a foreign police force and a private company has no recourse to refuse or appeal the resulting order. Seems a bit weird to me, although I don't know a lot about the legal system there.

Well it will be interesting to see what is actually implemented. The reduced hours trial was an SNP election promise earlier in the year, and the recent news is of a report getting published rather than any official statement from the Scottish government, if I understand correctly.

It seems like there isn't a widely available service to just bundle everything and serve what you want (?) Anyone kmow is that a cost restriction or do the companies disallow it?

> We’ll, for one it’d ruin sports

Do you mean ruin professional sports? And for the professional sportspeople only? If so that doesn't seem on its own like a restriction that would need to apply society-wide.

The thing that looks weird imo is when the robots are running on flat ground, something looks off about their feet. Can't tell what it is but they look like they're floating. Anyway it's pretty amazing, and interesting to see the improvements over the years in how the robots move.

And clearly the two robots should fight.