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mbrookes

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    Comment #33067194

    A joke that doesn't get repeated virally isn't a meme.

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    Comment #31467920

    For which there is some evidence [1] that you are less likely to be involved in an accident doe to external causes when not wearing a helmet than when wearing one - in essence the …

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    Comment #27721647

    Ignoring the joke that you were replying to, no it isn't. "A small portion of the hypogea was opened to the public in 2016." I've visited twice, and on the more recent occasion we …

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    Comment #24104796

    Also in the immediate vicinity. Who knew there were so many of us! (And only those who have seen this on a Sunday & bothered to comment.) Perhaps a mini meet-up is in order? :)

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    Comment #22701547

    You might consider checking whether what you have fills any gaps in the Internet Archive's collection. You would still be able to keep / sell the disks – they only need a copy of t…

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    Comment #20700230

    Because he works as a rigger / repairer in the entertainment lighting industry, he has an unfortunate fixation with simple lighting devices. There are so many other interesting sim…

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    Comment #20340436

    The author means real-time location of pupils. This is not gaze tracking though.

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    Comment #19996566

    Let's not confuse Personally Identifiable Information (PII) the US definition, with Personal Data, the EU definition. From the UK ICO [1] "Personal data is information that relates…

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    Comment #18791605

    You mention comic-like - for charts (as opposed to diagrams), XKCD has been a source of inspiration for a more casual style. Here's one example: http://xkcdgraphs.com/ (there are p…

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    Comment #18450648

    Could they not simply have put it flight mode? I appreciate that may not be possible for all makes of phone, but this was an iPhone X.

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    Comment #17326774

    A few seconds of "research" (despite no interest in the subject): https://speakerdeck.com/eregon/parallel-and-thread-safe-ruby...

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    Comment #17297757

    > > We learned about the formation of the solar system, then dinosaurs, then Cro-Magnon Man Consider yourself fortunate that they were covered at all. In some schools those are tab…

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    Comment #17102545

    When development of v1 started, JSS was the only solution that (with some tweaking) met all the needs of component library (as opposed to say, an application), as well as being one…

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    Comment #17102472

    That's absolutely the plan now that v1 has landed, along with Material Design v2 components and themes. Material-UI has been designed with customisability in mind, so you can get t…

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    Comment #16663684

    LightWave 3D, Cinema 4D, Realsoft 3D, Aladdin4d, Amiga Reflections, Sculpt 3D, Dkbtrace, Imagine, Turbosilver, Real3D. On a home computer. In the 80's to early 90's. The future is …

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    Comment #16663607

    Let's go back a bit further - MIT Lincoln Labs, 1963: https://youtu.be/t3ZsiBMnGSg?t=190

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    Comment #16114305

    PII (Personally Identifiable Information and its variants) is predominantly a US term. PII is much narrower in scope than Personal Data, as defined by GDPR. If your tool has broade…

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    Comment #15837203

    Or after seeing Veritas Data Insight? [0] Data insight is targeted at more user oriented unstructured content repositories (CIFS, NFS, SharePoint, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Box)…

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    Comment #15596775

    The main page video is of someone running and leaping along a narrow path on a precipice. There is a significant risk that they could trip or slip and fall. Such a fall would not b…

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    Comment #15594151

    Someone risking certain death for a promotional video is pretty nauseating.

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    Comment #15594022

    That did the trick, thanks.

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    Comment #15593566

    Anyone figured out how to get this working? I was able to open the index.html in Chrome to see the various panels, but not to load a bot. I tried pasting the relevant parts from th…