DamonHD

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by DamonHD 3y ago
Actually that would break so many things (the cent as the smallest unit in law and in custom where that is currently the case) that governments may by preference issue a whole new currency instead of stir that pot.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Every banking client did use double for the actual calculation phase of their derivatives trades. (And some of our back-end systems then did ludicrous broken wrong-headed rounding to turn them into fictional currency values... Ho hum.)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Not true for any of the finanical systems I've worked for the credit/derivatives/FI/etc desks of some of the largest investment banks down to the systems for the virtual card e-money issuer in the UK that I founded.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
If you actually want to do something useful and accurate and auditable and performant and space-efficient, because you have a lot of money values to bank with, you really don't want too much abstraction. My experiences in various bits
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Marrying is getting to be a minority pursuit [0], bringing its own implications and political correlations. [0] https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2019/04/01/married-by-30-youre-now-i...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Because some tape drives could only read and write whole (512B) blocks, and the way to be relatively sure that you didn't have a new file was to see two blocks of zeros. The Wikipedia item explains this.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Nearer 30 years!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
This format was developed a long time ago before the luxury of (a) experience and (b) newer more capable storage hardware. It's really strange to complain that a legacy format is full of bad features for modern tastes and hardware - ho
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Because because. TAR was written for very simple/tiny machines by today's standards, and was designed to read/write full valid blocks on physical tapes with constraints on spool-up and spool-down times/distances. The des
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I note that comp.lang.java and comp.arch (which I used to follow avidly back in dialup/uucp days) that I tried at random seem largely to be fine at a glance. Edit: the good old days: some of these nodes were mine! https://gr
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by DamonHD 3y ago
That sounds pretty good. I'll think harder about where I should consider doing the same! But if you are self hosting then it ain't a "Web" font IMHO, and you contain the time/latency and page-weight cost, and proba
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Please note that in this case the Bill refers to the "original" so no subsequent changes can be taken into account, which we agree is bad. This Bill was simply designed to be performatively cruel to a small out group, not actuall
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Oscar Wilde said "The truth is never pure and rarely simple," and legistating as if it is does not work well. There has to be acceptance of difference and nuance. The point may be to try to avoid women (or anyone) being harassed
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Well we may have to disagree. But if this whole issue is because women are frightened of predatory men in that circumstance then this issue is with predatory men not with (other) people that happen to be LBGTIQ+. The intersection is likely
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I don't know whether you are claiming that Helvetica is beautiful or not! In any case I think that it is available in most browsers locally, with a fall back to sans-serif easy if not? I haven't looked lately. I value locality a
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I suspect that you haven't interacted with the police much. Especially very conservative ones. If a woman is screaming that there's a man in their toilets, attempting to argue with them about your birth certificate isn't goi
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I find it implausible that this can catch all the ways that C programmers actually do mess up (as one for ~40Y). I can make even languages such as Java leak memory even though it shouldn't be possible, nominally, so just knowing that s
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by DamonHD 3y ago
To put it directly, if your original birth cert said "female" but you now have a penis (eg to match your actual XY chromosomes: could have happened to the subject of this story), and you go in to the female toilets as the new Bill
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by DamonHD 3y ago
There is a bunch of interesting ML stuff going on at Surrey, where I'm doing part-time PhD research now (not in ML, but thinking about it often, as it happens). Eg https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-vision-speech-signal-pr
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by DamonHD 3y ago
They may have had one thing originally written on their birth certificate and ended up later with different physical genitalia, at which point they could have been arrested for either breaking this new rule or some other 'public decenc
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Her point was to dress pretty and feminine and shock those who would casually assume that would mean something about genes and phenotype (and consider making a pass at her) into possibly realising that their presumptions are just that, and
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Please understand that I was not suggesting that you personally were playing these unpleasant games for personal gain, but many politicians and media outlets are and have been for a while. (I also accept that some of these people actually b
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by DamonHD 3y ago
The point here is that anyone that doesn't fit into the Bill's presumed binary was going to be hurt, and that binary doesn't exist. The 'I' element was only part, but a very clear reason why the Bill was wrong-head
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by DamonHD 3y ago
No it's not fair. I suspect that you have not found yourself in an out group on the wrong end of other people's prejudices very often. a) "Vast majority" is what we seem to be arguing about here, eg when you tot up all
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Why the US? Why not some other part of your own uni? I was able to do other subject modules for course credit as an undergrad, and helped with the research of a group in that area a little, and got my name on a paper. Also I raised seed fu
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Maybe one can play games with words and divisions and so on, but any claims that human sex is absolutely binary falls on my friend's experience however it is labelled. Disease descriptions are messy too.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
That would come as a surprise to my friend who had to have a lot of surgery.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
WORKSFORME (in the UK, and with URLs including 'sharepoint' which may matter)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I don't know why Turner Syndrome should be excluded from this, but in any case the person with it may well not fit into any sort of binary. The one I know best doesn't.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
There are other ways of being intersex, and one can have "ambiguous genitals" without being intersex. They are not the same thing. I know well (at least) one person in each category.

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