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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
I feel uncomfortable about the idea of controlling children, even my own. Certainly there is a requirement to protect children from others but I feel like putting in guard rails to prevent children from themselves only leads to making thing
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
Or Blockbuster being a massive real-estate company. Or McDonald's for that matter.
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
We're not even a decade beyond some poorly conceived software crashing two otherwise functional aircraft into the ground and now it's going to save us all...
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by VBprogrammer 7mo ago
I'm not sure it was a brain fart, more I was expecting an area of industry rather than geography.
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by VBprogrammer 7mo ago
Not being obtuse, I even googled it, but I have no idea what SFBA is in this context. I'm assuming it's not to do with windsurfing in the San Francisco Bay Area or some kind of insulation. Could you elaborate?
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
I live in the UK. Most of our farmland is divided into relatively small parcels owing to geography and history (they were divided long before mechanisation). However, when you come across a field of wheat, rape or corn it's notable how
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
This might be a bit of a tangent but I couldn't help but wonder if the appearance of 20ma here is related to the old fashioned, but I understand commonly used, 4-20ma current loop signalling in industrial applications.
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
Before we even get into the complete lack of morality in forcefully separating a married couple, removing him from his home and his business; you might want to check what happens to people who do agree to be deported. Plenty of examples whe
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
> defendents have rights and due process. As they say: you can beat the rap but not the ride. If a state wants to make your life incredibly difficult for months or even years they can, the competent ones can even do it while staying (mos
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
A common technique used by racists is to pretend they are only care about illegal immigration.
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
And yet without the video evidence provided by other protestors you'd still be spouting the line that Alex Pretti was brandishing his gun.
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
I've seen pictures of someone with a damaged finger. Given the wild differences between video evidence and what the top levels of the administration claim happen, I think a healthy degree of scepticism is warrented. Could easily have b
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
> If you are not resisting arrest, you don't need three officers to pin you to the ground. If three officers decide to push you to the ground and jump on top of you, you have three officers on top of you. This says nothing about whe
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
The obvious retort is "obstruction". Of course it doesn't hold up to scrutiny because courts have consistently held that obstruction has to be a physical act. Simply being nearby, filming or calling them names doesn't co
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
Law enforcement only works when the people have trust in those doing the enforcement. ICE have lost the trust of a significant portion of the people in Minnesota because they are using unreasonable force, eroding constitutionally protected
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
I've recently been trying to avoid news. Particularly US political news. Sadly for some reason blocking sites on my Eero router doesn't seem to work. Thankfully Facebook recently put up a modal dialog asking me to subscribe or acc
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
New York is the worst security I've ever come through for just being needlessly horrible. Like screaming at people because they didn't literally put their feet on the "footprints" on the floor. Toronto was fine. Just a s
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
Trains are a much easier target in most countries. Generally only the high-speed / cross border ones have any security at all. Until maybe 10 years ago you didn't even really need a ticket to get access to one (now ticket barriers
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
Yeah, I for one am getting pissed already about having legitimate parts of the internet cut off unless I'm willing to submit to ID verification. For example, discussions about recent killings by ICE in the US. This example is one wher
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by VBprogrammer 8mo ago
For my home laptop I ended up going for 13" specifically to avoid off centre / number pad layouts. I'm sure there are plenty of better options if money is no object but it was mainly for light gaming, personal projects, video
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
This government have been in power for less than 2 years. Despite launching a lot of trial balloons on raising taxes they haven't actually raised the headline tax rates (other than allowing fiscal drag to do so). Overall the tax burden
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
Where does it stop. My dad is a decent guitarist but a poor singer (sadly, I'm even worse). He has written some songs, his own words, some guitar licks or chords as input material and AI turning it into a surprisingly believable finish
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
One of the most relaxed flights I ever had I was window seat in the back row with a pleasant elderly couple. When everyone else was busy queuing to get off the plane they were sat knitting. I'd got into my novel and just sat enjoying i
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
Even when travelling for work I could never bring myself to get a laptop out on an aircraft. I only do it on the train occasionally if I've got something I'm deep into and a table to myself.
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
> throw a rager That was not a phrase I expected to read on Hacker News! Haven't heard it since I was about 13. I always assumed it was a Scottish phrase.
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
BGP is outside of my skillset, and I'm sure the analysis is fair and accurate. However, had billion dollar US based company Cloudflare detected widespread manipulation of routing tables by the US secret services, I certainly wouldn&#x2
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
I imagine, purely as a thought experiment, if you asked a sample of US expats what their reaction to the "forced removal" of the current president from office you'd get a similar response.
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
You know when something doesn't annoy you until someone points it out? It's so obvious in hindsight. Shows like the Big Bang theory, House and Scrubs I very rarely caught two episodes consecutively (and when I did they were on som
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
Yeah, the wires in the new London tunnels are XLPE. Despite being first used in the late 60s it took a long time to be commonly used. Though much of the infrastructure around is still very old.
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by VBprogrammer 9mo ago
Overhead conductors use air as the insulator. Underground cables use an insulating jacket. In the past it was really difficult to build cables with voltage ranges in the 10s of thousands of volts without additional complexity like a dielect

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