JetSetWilly

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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Scotland is 8% of the UK’s population. 8% of 900 is 72, so it seems exactly in line to me - as though public vs private prosecution made zero difference to the likelihood of prosecution.
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
In Scotland the Royal Mail could not do private prosecutions and instead only did prosecutions via the regular public bodies - the procuratoer fiscal. So if the private prosecutions were themselves an aggravating factor, we'd surely ex
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting! It seems to be an affectation encouraged by the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/ideas/02
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
There's the attractively named DES Slurry technology which I think has even been in shipping devices: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/des-display-electronic-...
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
If learning a language was useful to people in the UK, they would do it. I don't know why you are saying that people in the UK are not in the same position - they evidently are, which is why few bother learning languages. If what you s
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
It doesn't really matter about the UK's status. Nobody is saying "well I live in a hegemon, I won't bother learning another language". For the most part, people learn languages because they are useful. I live in the
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> Samsung allegedly will have 3nm in production early this year while TSMC 3nm has slipped to late this year. You're making the mistake of taking their process names at face value. Samsung 3nm is less dense than TSMC's 5nm whic
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Indeed, I recall the stink when this came out: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secret... She used "Queen's consent" to make sure she is the only person in Scotland wh
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Interestingly hunterston - a nuclear power station on the west coast of Scotland - had a failure of its backup diesel generators. Wikipedia describes it as: > In December 1998, an INES Level 2 incident occurred after severe winds and sea
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Hmn that is an interesting point, maybe then the "City of London" is the UK's smallest county?
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Extremely boring fact check: Rutland is not "the UK's smallest county" - it is England's smallest county, once again English organisations find it hard to tell the difference between England and the UK. Clackmannanshire
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> (We don't remember how awful chickenpox was because (a) we're generally vaccinated in infancy and (b) it's not a killer on the same level as its big sibling, Variola, aka smallpox. But the so-called "childhood disea
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
There were some significant differences. For one thing, slavery was not legal within Britain itself, which is where the industrial revolution occurred. While no doubt slavery abroad meant that some luxury goods like sugar or tobacco were ch
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
When a highly radioactive particle is found outside of a nuclear facility, you don't find nuclear physicists making ridiculous statements about "correlation is not causation" and bending all their efforts to find any other so
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
He would use terms like "bloody hard" or "wet blanket" which I would doubt are taught to foreigners learning English even with British spelling. However - his spelling was a bit inconsistent. The "Len Sassaman"
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
He wasn’t just using British spelling, but British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad. And he clearly wrote at a “native” level. And he was active - writing commits and emails - in UK hours, not American hours. Is it some kind of US n
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
And presumably was getting up at 4am every day to bang out emails and code? Seems like there’s a simpler explanation.
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
I don't understand why, when satoshi used UK english very consistently, including quite obscure references tucked away in source code etc, and was active in GMT compatible hours (more so than US hours!) - nonetheless every theory ignor
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
It is possible although maybe not with a penny - I live in the UK and when I was 6 I performed exactly the same experiment. The only difference is I had to stick something into the top hole to wedge open the shield, before I stuck a coathan
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
I mean, obviously using different languages has different trade offs in many dimensions. If speed were all that mattered then everything would be written in assembler. But the point at issue is that by using java you are trading off speed
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Sure, I would agree that lucene is “fast enough”. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be faster if implemented in another language, and I believe that tantivy demonstrates that it could be. A historical accident isn’t a counterpoint.
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
From what I’ve seen working in the financial industry, hardly anybody uses lucene directly. It is typically behind elasticsearch or solr or whatever - which then takes care of load balancing and replication and all that. For these use cases
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Why did you offer lucene as a counterpoint, if you deny that there’s any equivalent implementation elsewhere that isn’t lucene? That just means lucene cannot be a counterpoint if it just so happens that the only implementation is in java.
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Sure - there's no doubt that lucene is a much bigger and more "enterprise" solution that is used professionally today by many big companies from Elasticsearch to Mongo to Solr. But for core text search and indexing - tantivy
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
That's just because there's no a lucene equivalent C library with the same level of attention? however, there are increasingly such written in C++ (pisa) and rust (tantivy). They handily beat lucene in benchmark suites [1] - so i
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> I wonder what's going on in Afghanistan right now, for instance, and is it worse than an illicit Chritmas party or having someone else pay for your wallpaper? Given the amount of coverage by the BBC, obviously not. News is an ente
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Meta is free to entirely pull out of the UK market if it wants to ignore the ruling. Any country is free to say "if you want to operate here, you must do X" but how onerous X can be before the company concerned pulls out, will dep
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> The only way to get an objective answer is by writing benchmarks, so here they are. The results will be highly dependent on your specific system, so I would recommend simply running those benchmarks yourself if you’re curious. However
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Not everything has a 13 amp fuse in the plug. In fact most things have a 3 amp fuse unless they are kettles or something. There's also 5 amp fuses and it is possible (tho not that common these days) to have even a 1amp fuse in the plug
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by JetSetWilly 5y ago
Ah you are not using noscript but have JS actually disabled in the browser? Hardcore. I would tend to just use noscript but still use smart bookmarks, much easier to just mash a button than mess about with DevTools.

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