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Thank goodness, now I know my private keys have not been leaked ...

One interesting group is the compactly supported RBFs, for example those of Wendland https://math.iit.edu/~fass/603_ch4.pdf the advantage being that the resulting linear systems ar…

British politicians are notorious sloppy eaters, lots of crumbs to be had.

RBFs are splendid, but you don't need to have them "decay with distance", indeed, ones which don't (mutliquartics etc) often have better approximation properties and better-conditi…

As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...

I wish there were more people like this.

Peak HN

Off by 2, not so bad

That's air-conditioning rather than alternating-current (both legal in the UK).

A friend and I bought a car with a busted door for £100 some years ago, we got a cheap replacement door, incompetently resprayed it to be roughly the colour of the rest of the car …

Anyone who would run a random binary downloaded from the internet will probably be using the password "password"

Nice apples.

Typical rural plod brutality.

Interested readers might like to read my original submission at https://drafts.csswg.org/css-mixins/ which details the mixin proposal. No idea why it was changed to this earlier da…

40's a breeze, 41 is the bastard.

That would be helpful, there is a (badly placed) README https://github.com/farukalpay/Apple/blob/main/DriftPoC/READM...

Implicit rules are our friends, in life as in make.

C's still the boss.

I doubt it; JavaScript would suffer.

Nothing ever, dreadful town. Oh, reading ...

Would this be the same Guardian that sold out Sarah Tisdall? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Tisdall

"Look how much we'd save if we outsourced our IT to Tata!"

Why you shouldn't use it (by the author) https://github.com/LLNL/yorick/issues/39#issuecomment-274632...

Don't say that near Richard Dedekind, he'll cut you.