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mykhamill

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About mykhamill

My website is http://mykat.co.uk

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    Comment #43653928

    A warning IS graceful degradation, an error or unexpected behaviour would be ungraceful. The channel that warnings come over is separate from the channel the content is being rende…

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    Comment #43240789

    We were seen as failing a security audit recently for having firefox installed on some of the development laptops and got ordered to remove it by IT who conceeded that it was stupi…

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    Comment #37813960

    So land based internet feeds 1 tree and Starlink feeds 30 trees. Guess the Ents will be using Starlink then.

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    Comment #37172545

    There are two scale systems at play. pico, nano, micro, milli, unit, kilo, Mega, Giga... Which relates to the SI units. And Micro,Meso and Macro scaling system that centers around …

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    Comment #34310930

    NJW posits that Real Numbers and Set Theory are based on the notion that it is possible to do an infinite number of calculations which he considers disingenuous. He highlights in s…

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    Comment #29623655

    Kind of reminds me of how tight beam communications are used in The Expanse universe.

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    Comment #25377665

    Application Performance Monitoring https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/getting-sta...

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    Comment #22897203

    What can be imagined is what can be discovered. The etymology of invent has the terms 'contrived' and 'discover' baked in. if we take the contrived root, rather than just dead-endi…

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    Comment #20332925

    Is the time difference between the neutron experiment results due to time dilation? One of them had the neutrons moving at high speed, I.e. In a particle beam.

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    Comment #9891888

    Spoken like someone who only knows one natural language. As the article stated all languages are about communication. Each language has its own syntax (ie words and word order) but…

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    Comment #9452884

    Reminds me of this game. http://nothing-to-hide-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

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    Comment #7972375

    My personal thoughts would be that if computer interfaces catch up to the point of being able to use them in a redwood forest you won't be looking at the redwood forest you would b…

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    Comment #7664110

    I wonder if this is what being a telepath would be like. Hearing all the vile thoughts of everyone in a certain radius. If everyone had the ability would we develop a sense akin to…

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    Comment #6844408

    However after the list he states "And with the sixth example I have reached imperceptibly but unavoidably, the most hairy part of this talk: Educational consequences." which is inc…

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    Comment #4888253

    The only problem I see it that MS win either way. Not that I like MS, I don't, but all these companies [ http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2011/10/24/does-microsof... ] produce a…

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    Comment #4828584

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #4467437

    Thanks for that, it is like you read my mind :)

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    Comment #3583609

    Any particular reason you didn't go for the list comprehension? def pyChallenge(): print sum([el for el in range(1001) if not((el%5==0) or el%7==0))]) # this call is needed to test…