andylynch

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by andylynch 2y ago
This is quite idiomatic for R; packages like ggplot do the same thing to, for instance, build up graphics- see https://r4ds.hadley.nz/data-visualize for some nice examples
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by andylynch 2y ago
For regulated firms like the French one I’m at, checking personal email on work devices and the like is simply blocked. If you want to check your private email, you can just use your personal device.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Let’s do alcohol and tobacco. Oh wait, we’ve been doing that for centuries. As for why, most people _like_ a functioning government.
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by andylynch 2y ago
They are cheap enough now, that they are appearing on disposable vapes (?!)
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by andylynch 2y ago
Gradle is no different here. Ditto many other build tool.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Are these US payment startups not regulated? Here and unblock the EU payment systems are themselves regulated , distinctly from banks but along very similar lines. A big motivation for this was to avoid such failures.
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by andylynch 2y ago
According to the ruling, yes, given the public interest as stated, in protecting the right to organise. This is broadly similar in principle to laws like those in many places allowing one to not disclose spent criminal convictions.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Yes, bearing in mind too that Crown Court trials are now often scheduled 2 years out, quite possibly.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Yes, CF tunnels are $0 for very small users. I have this, as do many others, as a reverse proxy for stuff like Home Assistant and it works great.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Good. Now, when are they getting compensation, and where are the indictments for Post Office’s senior management?
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by andylynch 2y ago
The likely target users for this are analyst/ quant types. Very likely they are also using Python on the same tasks already.
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by andylynch 2y ago
I’m sure the folks from Cheltenham can find them if they want a chat. But given these guys appear to have been running this as part of a bigger spam/fraud game rather than for curiosity/ general mischief they might be too far in t
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by andylynch 2y ago
The City Police have a very, small patch and little violent crime, but are geared up to deal with IRA/ISIS-type threats. Part of this means they have surveillance coverage of virtually the entire areas. It also mean that they can get
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by andylynch 2y ago
It’s not a conspiracy; the City of London police, alongside normal local duties, have a national responsibility for many kinds of economic and cyber crime. This almost certainly comes from long experience investigating fraud and other finan
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by andylynch 2y ago
This repo is written to be read alongside an existing book; the book was originally written with Linux in mind. The first chapters of the repo describe what’s different on Mac, particularly how to use the XCode/Clang toolchain instea
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by andylynch 2y ago
It’s probably because it’s traditionally relatively solemn, given like the Queen’s funeral it commemorates a person’s death.
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by andylynch 2y ago
It’s niche, but a large part of the financial industry relies on it, for the heavy lifting of pricing and modelling, often with higher level APIs in Python or Java. Incidentally, if you run into a group full of Northern Irish developers
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by andylynch 2y ago
The environment is very interactive. It also helps when you can fit do much more on screen, quite possibly the entire program.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Easy, thousands of smart, motivated people, billions of dollars invested and decades of work!
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by andylynch 2y ago
This is a great find- Ogham’s been in the news a bit this week, mostly thanks to Eurovision (!)
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by andylynch 2y ago
That’s roughly where q comes in, as syntactic sugar on top of k
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by andylynch 2y ago
Sometimes Google seems / seemed to decide its idea of your location should trump your browser or even account settings. At one point our (Swiss, in England) office often had Google.com deciding we should be reading in Polish. Never
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by andylynch 2y ago
Even for English it’s problematic. Do you use the flag of the UK?, the USA?, England?
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by andylynch 2y ago
All London kids should use a Zip oyster; contactless is always adult fare but with zip it’s child fares (and free buses)
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by andylynch 3y ago
It’s not anymore, the current version is WebView2 and much faster.
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by andylynch 3y ago
The search bar is excellent and being keyboard driven fast too. The ribbon is also entirely keyboard-drivable and fast that way. I’ve seen the data on why it was introduced; it was a scaling issue- the old toolbars simply could no longer f
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by andylynch 3y ago
Teams and Symphony are my industry’s weapons of choice. But I guess we’re just playing around.
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by andylynch 3y ago
Bloomberg’s old ‘guy yeeting the monitor’ one. Sadly missed.
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by andylynch 3y ago
That’s not what happened; the actual story is very well known and so I won’t repeat it here but between the consent, and copyright issues it should have never been used in this way. It’s been controversial vigorously years a symbolic of muc
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by andylynch 3y ago
This is underrated. Eg I have Garmin Pay on my watch. It works anywhere Apple/google etc works, even though the merchants and quite possibly whoever set up their terminals have never heard of it.

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