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    Comment #48192751

    shame the bishop behind looks a bit flat though ;-)

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    Comment #35992193

    Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far

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    Comment #35376831

    they work in single cells...

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    Comment #35060684

    tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human err…

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    Comment #35034634

    671 flips, lol

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    Comment #34178943

    > Absolute privacy still results in tyranny, what are the examples of this, can't think of any?

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    Comment #34178776

    false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number p…

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    Comment #34015266

    linux only i am afraid

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    Comment #33959554

    overlapping b and i elements he ll o w or ld contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case charact…

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    Comment #33709276

    this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary dr…

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    Comment #33113919

    https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learntla/

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    Comment #32322451

    Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions …

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    Comment #32110732

    Contextomy, happens all the time https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016344370505397...

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    Comment #31307201

    Something like games these by Jane McGonigal https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/ > I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real proble…

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    Comment #30678735

    I do not believe S3 is written in Erlang... do you have a source for this?

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    Comment #29812473

    sounds like "cognitive load" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load

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    Comment #29524548

    Assume you are in Oz and they are in US so be aware that laws are different, as well as scooe of any marks granted (doubt they have an internatonal mark), as daid by others marks a…

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    Comment #28710288

    and Windows NT and Digital Vax WNT<-VMS

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    Comment #27859817

    Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.

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    Comment #27787723

    https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ... it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely…

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    Comment #27563444

    4th... agi, mice, dolphins, humans

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    Comment #27563343

    love it! is there a Sunset Commission for the Sunset Commission? :-)

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    Comment #27553111

    this could be many different concepts. fault tolerance is the most obvious, and self-healing and auto-rollback a good read is ROC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery-oriented_…

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    Comment #27281199

    the phrase maybe, but the gdpr article itself provides more "Article 20 Right to data portability 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning h…