4ndrewl

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721.
by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Important to note the "The NHS" is not a single entity and the GP practice is likely a private entity owned in partnership by the doctors. There are a number of reasons why individual practices can refuse to register. Take your po
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"I don't know why you would feel the need to publicly cast aspersions on actual experts" You new here? /s
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Don't have a reciprocal rating system.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Strong Darwin Award vibes here
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
What a time to be alive
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
How do you know they didn't think it was perfect and needed no improvement?
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
There's probably a couple of things missing from the early days - Flash - we quite often built components in flash to provide app-like experiences - the Browser Wars - how difficult it was sometimes just to reliably target a DOM elemen
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
DNS? Might be that we need a radical (for some) change of viewpoint. Just as there's no privacy on the internet, how about 'theres very little trust on the internet'. Assume everything not securely signed by a trusted party i
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
In which jurisdiction?
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Yes indeed. That's the joke.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Apart from intelligence
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
From the owners manual: Don't wash in direct sunlight. Do not expose to bright lights. Do not let it get wet. No charging after midnight.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
"After filing a ticket with Tesla to get the truck rebooted". Filing a support ticket to reboot your own car. What a time to be alive.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
There's no common go-to cure sadly. That's the problem.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Ugly precedent? Squatting, and more generally adverse possession laws have been around for literally centuries? https://www.gov.uk/squatting-law/squatters-rights-to-propert...
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Thank you for this. I had totally forgotten about "web safe colors"!
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Wait, what? The Muppets was a failure during pilots in the US and only became a worldwide success after it was bought by ATV in the UK - the Muppet Show was produced at Elstree studios in the UK...
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
tunnel it over ssh?
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Never thought I'd see a Sister's reference on HN. Well played.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Most of the large chain supermarkets in the UK have this, but my anecdata is that it's relatively less used that self checkoit by a ratio of 3:1
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Wasn't perjury and witness tampering significant here though? Messing with the actual justice system should end with heavy punishment I guess.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
"journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Just came here to post the same!
744.
by 4ndrewl 3y ago
It's to comply with the EU AI regulatory framework. This step is just additional cost they wouldn't have voluntarily burdened themselves with.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
What's the story behind this? In the UK you've been able to file your tax returns online for well over a decade.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
QA was the dev doing manual testing with one eye closed...
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Tim Bray is still a nice guy on Mastodon https://mastodon.me.uk/@timbray@cosocial.ca [Edited - added Tim's name to help future searchers]
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Wide events are fine until someone puts personally identifiable information (PII) in them. Then you're in a bit of a mess as you've presumably taken PII out of an environment with one set of access controls, and into a separate, d
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Everything is political, some things are fashionable.
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by 4ndrewl 3y ago
But what level of 'accuracy' do people want though? Vikings never wore horned helmets.

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