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by GJim 2y ago
> spectrum monitoring".... is definitely a thing that is done in many places Not by Ofcom it isn't! (At least, certainly not on any scale as far as RF interference/spoofing is concerned).
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by GJim 2y ago
Putin is doing his ridiculous nuclear sabre-rattling again? It must be Monday. (Frankly, we are all rather board of it.)
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by GJim 2y ago
> It used to surprise me how crudely made the various British civil defence structures I could see were They were crude because they were built in the immediate aftermath of the second world war, when Blighty wasn't exactly brimming
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by GJim 2y ago
> Nothing from BBC about Russia should be trusted prima facie, as should about UK from Russia Today. Good Lord! Comparing the BBC to Russia Today is a false equivalent (and troll bait!) as I'm sure you perfectly know.
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by GJim 2y ago
My grandfather recalls (what he later found out to be) a rocket landing in London's east end during his youth. There were quite a lot of them at the time.
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by GJim 2y ago
> “Reporting” on Russia by the likes of BBC is just war propaganda now. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please site your evidence the BBC is broadcasting war propaganda. Both BBC and Al Jazeera have been quite impart
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by GJim 2y ago
> GPS coordinates *Coordinates, or lat/long Other navigation systems are available, including other GNSS! > 51.014903961182846,5.814442712946816 I'm not sure localisation to the level of the atomic lattice is entirely relev
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by GJim 2y ago
That's a problem due to the American peoples acceptance of authoritarian policing; something that would be inconceivable in more enlightened countries.
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by GJim 2y ago
Agreed, though that would make it harder for OP to track his customers. As pointed out by user 'Sneak' below app phones home with a bunch of unique identifiers and the app privacy label says those are used to track you across oth
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by GJim 2y ago
> It’s actually comforting to non-believers in a way that religion is to believers Summed up rather nicely in the Galaxy Song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
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by GJim 2y ago
> Look how small and insignificant we are ..... It seems almost nihilistic. It isn't nihilistic. It is a simple fact. As an aside, if you have not yet listened to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy radio plays (and you should!) yo
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by GJim 2y ago
YOu can't make that comment without justification! Email for sharing documents just works for me and the vast majority of the business and IT world. Frankly, I don't agree with you.
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by GJim 2y ago
Petty virtue signalling is very much a curse of social media, even modern discourse. It is at its worst when used to pile-on a speaker or post for uttering some perceived slight, or daring to suggest an unpopular idea or political view. It
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by GJim 2y ago
> It is not just about programmers, it is just that the Earth is not considered an accurate enough clock anymore. Computers (and those who programme them) are there to serve humans (with a biology regulated by the Earth), not the other w
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by GJim 2y ago
It's disappointing to see a well made argument like yours downvoted on HN. Downvoting is meant for text that detracts from the conversation. Not as a tool for suppressing well made arguments one disagrees with.
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by GJim 2y ago
Computers (and those who programme them) are there to serve humans (with a biology regulated by the Earth), not the other way around!
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by GJim 2y ago
That really is the motherload of technical debt. This discussion really is highlining the cultural differences between software engineers and other engineering fields.
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by GJim 2y ago
Without them, one can compare the eventual correction that will be required to bring our clocks back into line with the Earth (and our biology!) akin to the shift from the Julian to Gregorian calendar?
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by GJim 2y ago
> while UT1 is astronomically interesting, it's not actually a sensible basis for day to day living. Hard disagree! Allowing ones clocks to gradually drift from the behaviour of the Earth (which regulates our biological lives) is a
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by GJim 2y ago
Input to BIPM to abolish leap seconds was overwhelmingly from the IT industry.
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by GJim 2y ago
> Why were they invented and implemented? Because one cannot ignore nature? I suspect the vast majority of those programmers who have problems with leap seconds should really be using (and are unaware of) TAI.
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by GJim 2y ago
> At least leap seconds will be eliminated by 2035 The arrogance of programmers who think it is possible to ignore reality to suit them :-) I suspect the reality is many are unaware of TAI which would be more than 'good enough'
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by GJim 2y ago
Sir clearly hasn't watched the opening scene to the classic Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me . It's on Youtube :-)
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by GJim 2y ago
Meh Sellafield visitors centre was open until 2008 and only closed because of falling popularity and visitor numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Sellafield_Visitor_... (Yes that Sellafield)
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by GJim 2y ago
> under certain conditions This is very different from allowing the loan to be recalled "at any time" as you first stated.
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by GJim 2y ago
I've never seen this in my life! (The exception being overdrafts in Blighty which don't have fixed repayments agreed. Even then, the bank can't act unfairly). Where do you live where this is the commonplace? Such terms would
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by GJim 2y ago
Starbucks and McDonalds are 'restaurants'?
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by GJim 2y ago
> You're telling me that people go to lunch, drink a bottle of wine in an hour and go back to work? Social lunch != working lunch Though a pint or two or sharing a bottle of wine (not one each) at a working lunch is hardly unusual i
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by GJim 2y ago
You really haven't been to northern Europe have you?
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by GJim 2y ago
Consumption != Culture

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