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by ajb 2y ago
I meant, it looks like I accidentally flag ~10 per year. Real flags similar to you. Obviously spam needs to be flagged. People who are kind enough to do the work of looking at /newest for the rest of us will use it a lot.
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by ajb 2y ago
Codecs often have many redundant ways of doing the same thing, which are chosen on the basis of which one uses the fewest bits, for a specific piece of data. So you can't inline them as you don't know ahead of time which will be u
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by ajb 2y ago
Yes, most of mine are accidental as I very rarely flag anything deliberately. ~10/year looks like.
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by ajb 2y ago
Well, it's in date order. But they could do with a line or so of explanation
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by ajb 2y ago
It's worth noting that what the security services don't have access to is as secret as what they do have access to. According to the late Ross Anderson, for many years the police were unable to trace calls (or was it internet ac
576.
by ajb 2y ago
The headline, although it's from the original article, is misleading. This is one of the guardian's series of author/artist/musician interviews, usually on the occasion of their new release. in this case the novelist Chi
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by ajb 2y ago
This is true under California law (or was last I heard - I'm neither a lawyer nor in California). Unfortunately California is something of an exception. Many other jurisdictions allow employers to claim all IP, or broadly IP related to
578.
by ajb 2y ago
In a lot of cases, ordinary employees who want to make a drive-by contribution to open source face two hurdles: 1/ Their employment contract specifies that all IP they generate during their employment is owned by their employer. Contri
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by ajb 2y ago
In general, yes. But in the case of obsessive stalkers, I've heard that the standard advice is to "go radio silence", because their pattern if you ever break down and reply is to think "now I know how many times I need t
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by ajb 2y ago
Seems to be one here: https://www.rubank.se/en/veritas-3d-knitted-chisel-roll-fits...
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by ajb 2y ago
The UK now has an offence of "failure to prevent fraud", but it seems to me that it doesn't include this case (it includes things like fraud by employees and associates who "act on behalf of" the organisation). Amus
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by ajb 2y ago
I have seen it schedule the bike at both ends. But it does seem like it assumes the bike is an 'option' like all the other forms of transport, which makes sense for bikes hired by the minute, but not if you're taking your
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by ajb 2y ago
I have done this, albeit on a smaller scale. Partly it was easier to find useful categories with the bugs on paper, and to resort them when I found a better categorisation. I didn't use whole pages, I exported the bugs as a CSV and the
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by ajb 2y ago
Citymapper will do it. Haven't personally tried the results
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by ajb 2y ago
Incorporation is to reduce liability for debt . It's not supposed to reduce liability for criminal negligence. Or other criminal offences.
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by ajb 2y ago
Not entirely sure that's the right way round, but it may depend on your jurisdiction. In the UK, if a psychiatrist recommends some kind of therapy, they will refer you to someone else. But if a psychologist* does, they will do it thems
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by ajb 2y ago
It's true that small businesses and craftsmanship are not efficient, but that's not usually the main reason why houses are expensive. They are usually expensive because of planning controls. Look at the price of land: in places wh
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by ajb 2y ago
Yeah. You really want "mydb::sql" to not take a basic_string, only a basic_formatted_string, so it will not compile if the conversion actually happened somehow.
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by ajb 2y ago
Hah. What's interesting about this is that since it doesn't require everything to actually be converted to a string, one can implement things other than just printing. So you could also implement interpretation, eg: pylist = p
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by ajb 2y ago
Yes. There are three types of bond failure: - adhesive failure: the adhesive splits from the substrate - cohesive failure: the split occurs within the adhesive - substrate failure: the split occurs within the substrate. Whichever of these t
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by ajb 2y ago
Wheeler was also one of the inventors of the "closed subroutine" AKA function, which had to be implemented via a hack as machines of the time did not include ISA support for "return": https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by ajb 2y ago
It does. You don't need to use & on a function or * on a function pointer, this happens automatically (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7518815/function-pointer... ). I suppose the : operator from
593.
by ajb 2y ago
We just built a £5B sewage tunnel bigger than the Elizabeth line[1] across London, it's hard to see why there should still be discharges into the Thames. The other problem is that much of our system was built before it was recognised t
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by ajb 2y ago
A lot of this comes from the assumption that our organs each have a single purpose, so if the obvious purpose is not relevant in humans then the organ is useless. But most organs serve multiple purposes.
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by ajb 2y ago
I agree with your major points, but depression is far from trivial. People sometimes refer to feeling a bit down as depression, but in medical terminology depression is specifically a disorder which has severe impact on your life, as well a
596.
by ajb 2y ago
Yes, that's why I said "to be maximally useful" instead of "to be useful"
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by ajb 2y ago
Capabilities are more general than that. They have been around for a long time; one academic design implemented them in hardware in 1970[1]. they can be used in as fine grained a way as 'you are allowed to access this array in memory a
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by ajb 2y ago
Nice one! Have been annoyed at the new tiny 'fill' button.
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by ajb 2y ago
If you are putting hydrogen in the mix to reduce CO2 emissions, obviously you should not do it by cracking methane and letting out the resulting carbon. Assuming you don't let out the carbon (or use electrolysis) then maybe there is a
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by ajb 2y ago
In town gas, yes. But that was until the 70s. The first climate change treaty was only signed in 1994. No-one wants to go back to town gas. I don't think it burned cleaner, it was made from coal. And it contained CO, which is lethal. I

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