4ndrewl

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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
It's more likely someone who has studied the philosophy of language and structure - someone who reads Russel/Wittgenstein/Derrida. Reducing everything you don't understand to "must be a bot" seems uncharitable.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Listening to this guy talk about religion makes as much sense as asking a potato about quantum physics.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Bit of a rant, but partway down comes the context "because I mostly work in C#/.NET"
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Mass-hysteria isn't just coincidence, it feeds off itself. The 4 other airports were all in DK, where it's top of the news and where everyone is talking about it. Not in other countries.
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The Mystery of the Gatwick Drones(theguardian.com)
3 points by 4ndrewl 1y ago|1 comments
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Don't get me wrong - at Gatwick there were many reports of people seeing drones with lights. The only problem is they weren't - they were seeing something else and reporting as seeing drones because they must have seen a drone - w
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I wouldn't rule out a mass panic-type event. A similar event which closed London's Gatwick airport (one of Europe's busiest) garnered no evidence and no serious lines of enquiry. https://www.theguardian.com/uk
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
He's regurgitating racist tropes. Whether he knows that or not I don't know. He might be racist, it might just be Dunning-Kruger around whether he can speak authoritatively on social issues (in his post there's no attempt at
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Heard of one of them, not the other. Couldn't tell you what they are or do though.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Outside the US - I'd not heard of either of them too.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I'm not sure the article disagrees on that point. As you say, for most people, testing is better than dsa. (Alternatively you could just argue it's a false dichotomy)
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
That data doesn't seem to be talking about the same thing - ie touchscreens vs physical controls.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Or that, like the de minimus situation wrt post, there just is no process in place to pay the fee and you're left in a legal limbo, or worse.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Having read it (it's neither dense nor verbose), I don't understand which of your points isn't addressed in the essay?
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
File system permissions?
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I believe they're saying it can open, it just can't send the data anywhere. Seems a little excessive, but here we are.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Only useful for random numbers up to 11 though.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Seems to be resolved now, but was quite a big outage. Authentication worked but was returning 502s for all dashboard elements.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
It's classic white-on-white violence. We need to find out why he was radicalised.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I have nothing but good things to say about QGIS.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Which we were told about and ignored.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I did not know that, and I agree.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
It's likely taken the view that "purely personal or household activity" only covers the recording of audio/video in a domestic setting.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
The restrictions are not aimed at organisations, but to protect individuals. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-usi... "If your CCTV system captures images of people outside the boundary
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
GDPR does covers individual's use of eg Ring doorbells insofar as recording video and audio outside of your own property. This would seem to be analogous. GDPR is aimed at protecting _individual's_ personal information, irrespecti
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Oh for sure. To suggest we're only on generation 3 of "databases" is way off the mark.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I'd be surprised if this isn't about data residency and gdpr. As someone using the headphones you may end up becoming a "data processor" in gdpr-legal terms. You've not given the person being recorded any way to exe
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
The three eras of database systems starts with a client-server Postgres, but missed the daddy of the generation before that - xBase (ie dBase, FoxPro etc).
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Doesn't necessarily seem like the worst thing in the world - especially if you can get some vertical integrations and already have a bunch of active users.

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