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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The Spycatcher affair was primarily British, not Australian.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> Too old or infirm to walk? You need a wheelchair or an electric scooter. The title of this article wasn't "Uber data reveals motoring slower than using a wheelchair". Even with the most progressive, pro-active/publi
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
The issue is "we won't share the information with anyone" is likely to be interpreted by the average user as "we won't share the information outside our cool little startup which makes this awesome Pigeon app",
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> every province does have its own government with some degree of autonomy That's not a federal system as generally understood. Generally, the distinction between a federal system and a unitary state with somewhat-autonomous subdivi
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
A Patchwork client (well, a tool that does some of the more useful patchwork status updating, it's not a full client as such) for notmuch, which has a number of kernel dev users: https://github.com/stewart-ibm/pwnm
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As someone who is not an at-will employee, being a non-American who lives somewhere with at least vaguely sensible labour laws, I'm very glad to have some security of employment provided for by law, which I would not get as a freelance
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> Corporate taxes they pay on profits if you invest a ton you can deduct it from profits. Nothing nefarious going on here. One's definition of "deductions" and "profits" can, of course, depend on how much one spe
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As much as I hate to think about this - what's the probability that Google outlives the GDPR, current trends in privacy laws, or the European Union itself?
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Very importantly, Rust's safety guarantees help with "fearless concurrency", and better multithreading accounts for most of the performance gain we see in these new tools.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
At least to me, Microsoft's desirability has gone up considerably over the last decade.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
NFS is absolutely still in use at my workplace - there's a lot of older infrastructure still in place that makes use of it. Lots of AFS as well. I believe my alma mater's CS department is still using NFS for home directories last
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I too was once under the misapprehension that HT was "just smarter scheduling", until I took a university course in microarchitecture that explained how Simultaneous Multithreading actually works in terms of maximising utilisation
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Indeed in the Commonwealth, my (limited) understanding is that in those circumstances, liability had always been understood as being with the retailer, not the manufacturer, until the landmark decision of Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932 establ
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
My Nexus 5 was also fantastic. And then I heard the horror stories of everyone in my office who, having had a great experience with the N5, went and bought a Pixel.
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Australian worker wins unfair dismissal case over fingerprint scanner refusal(fwc.gov.au)
7 points by ajdlinux 7y ago|3 comments
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Elk v Wilkins (1884) was the constitutional position at the time. Indians were not deemed "subject to the jurisdiction of" the US, as required by the 14th Amendment.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I can't really remember my state of mind clearly, I was a 6 year old when I started partial acceleration in reading and maths in Kindergarten, and a 9 year old when I was generally accelerated from Year 3 to Year 5. My family tells me
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
I was accelerated by two full grades in primary school when my parents realised that _not_ asking about gifted and talented support was going to cause me mental health issues. My family and my school did _not_ raise their expectations of me
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> And this is probably me getting old I realised I was having posture issues with extended laptop use at approximately age 23 or so.
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
As much as I love occasionally getting stuff done in a cafe, I find using laptops without an external monitor and keyboard at the right heights gives me posture-related problems if I do it for more than a couple of hours at a time. If I we
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Separately from our monstrously large Senate ballot papers, which are ultimately scanned and computer-counted at the central counting centre, our much smaller House of Representatives ballot papers still use preferential/instant-runoff
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> In France ballots are counted by benevolent citizens at voting places, and I always assumed it was a necessary condition for free democratic elections. On the contrary, as an Australian who has been employed in several elections, I&#x2
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
> If it's more of a parliamentary system then the head of state needs to put x members in charge depending on the outcome of the vote. So if there's x percentage points of the population who voted for the opposing party then x
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by ajdlinux 7y ago
Can confirm in Australia "emergency" does mean the department with the giant red emergency sign at your local hospital. We have late-night general practitioner services here (at least in the city), which I have used for less-urgen
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Most call centres I deal with will happily give you a call reference number on request, rather than saying it first thing upon picking up the phone. That seems... more natural and human, even if it's a bit less efficient.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
This is literally the CDA 230 approach that every internet company currently relies on. The approach this legislation takes is different, and puts liability explicitly on the hosting services.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
This is a good point. Yeah, the combination of "private monopoly" and "reasonable standards" does bother me. Though in this specific case, the list of material to be censored is very explicit.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Yep, this is exactly my problem - I want higher standards across the industry, but I want it to be about substance, not merely additional process and bureaucracy, and I want training to not be so disconnected from real world practice.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
I'm unconvinced that software development should have the same level of licensing as e.g. engineering. Software isn't the same as traditional mechanical/structural/electrical etc engineering - it's a faster-moving a
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Ad-tech monopolies finally being threatened with some accountability for their impact on society. I mean, perhaps not in the right way, but I like the idea of ad-tech monopolies actually having to do something to uphold reasonable standards

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