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by arp242 1y ago
> Why is it no neighbouring country will allow Gazians to come there. Same reason you wouldn't want millions of refugees to suddenly appear in your country. All the hubhub about refugees in Europe over the last few years is typicall
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by arp242 1y ago
Everyone dislikes some things. Not everyone likes classics such as Monty Python or Only Fools and Horses either. You're confusing "I don't like it" with "it's bad".
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by arp242 1y ago
BritBox is available in a very limited set of countries: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States.
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by arp242 1y ago
Their "Paedogeddon" special would have been highly controversial in any time and was also far beyond what they did before. Do you really think it could have been made in the 70s or 80s?
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by arp242 1y ago
There's an interview with Bob Monkhouse about making TV in the 50s/60s; he wasn't allowed to say "condom" on TV, and would get fined if he said "bloody". There's as always a "taboo" on some
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by arp242 1y ago
Would anyone like some toast? Muffin? Teacake? Buns? Baps? Baguette? Bagel? Crumpet? Pancake? Flapjack? Waffle?
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by arp242 1y ago
When I last benchmarked Redis vs. PostgreSQL for a simple k/v cache it was about ~1ms for PostgreSQL to fetch a key, and ~0.5ms for Redis. Faster, but not really noticeably so. I haven't benchmarked SQLite, but I would be surprise
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by arp242 1y ago
This is just wrong. I have nothing more to add, because this is just not the case. Maybe it was true 60 years ago, but not today.
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by arp242 1y ago
> I am well aware that I am taking a huge risk You're not the one taking the main risk though: that would be the cyclists and pedestrians around you (as well as other motorists, to a lesser degree). I appreciate the difficulty of yo
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by arp242 1y ago
This post seems to be a McNamara fallacy: "if it can't be quantified and measured then its irrelevant and can be ignored". Look, I don't have any answers here. I'm not involved with teens. I don't really know m
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by arp242 1y ago
> freshly registered email accounts can be blocked almost in real time. How does it detect if an email account is freshly registered?
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by arp242 1y ago
The thing is I can understand wine tasting, or microtonal music, or poetry, or lots of other things. I don't really "get" those things either, but I can see how it's something that other people do "get". I do u
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by arp242 1y ago
Lotus 1-2-3 famously considers 1900 a leap year (carried over in Excel for compatibility), presumably because it just does the "(y & 3) != 0" check (arguably a reasonable optimisation given the hardware of the time). I'd
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by arp242 1y ago
> Expressive design makes you feel something. It inspires emotion, communicates function, and helps users achieve their goals. I sometimes wonder if the people writing this sort of thing really believe what they're writing? Their ca
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by arp242 1y ago
A Dutch speaker read Afrikaans without too much effort; understanding spoken Afrikaans is a bit harder, but depending on the person it can be fine. A Dutch speaker can't read or understand German. Some words are similar, but the same c
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by arp242 1y ago
According to their "X" account, "Elizabeth Holmes has zero involvement in Haemanthus": https://xcancel.com/haemanthusinc/status/1921644626085024047... I would assume that in a strict legal capa
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by arp242 1y ago
So the website seems to be https://justblood.com (?) She got got convicted on federal charges, so I think they're targetting Trump for a pardon/commutation. The "MAGA-like" aspect isn't a coincidence, it
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm not sure if it's "a lot", or more than the general population. I think last time I checked about 40% of the US population still approved of Trump... :-/ But yeah, there's definitely a streak of that, and it
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by arp242 1y ago
You're bringing in all sorts of unrelated things here. The simple reality is that expecting a 70-year old to leave their entire life behind and move to the city just because of a relatively simple issue like this, is deeply and profoun
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by arp242 1y ago
I don't doubt what you're saying, but whatever the reason, the end result is the same: Google Apps have a "first-party apps privileged access".
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by arp242 1y ago
It just saddens me that you can be so devoid of empathy.
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by arp242 1y ago
> tmux is great but it's way too powerful for the 90% use case of screen - which is "let this process continue to run even if I disconnect or logout". I guess, but does it really get in the way? I use tmux only for scrollb
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by arp242 1y ago
Add "set -g status" to your tmux.conf. You can even bind it to a key to toggle if you want.
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by arp242 1y ago
I don't know what the best solution is to be honest, but a wild west where improbable VC-funded nonsense is flung in to orbit isn't it. Leaving it only to the public sector is the other extreme end of course, and I'm not advo
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by arp242 1y ago
Reading the paper this sounds like space Theranos. If they start producing results then I'd double check to make sure it's not just calculated on regular data centres and that they're just pretending its from their space stat
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, because in an apocalyptic scenario what we all will be clamouring will be space data centres training AI and mining bitcoin.
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by arp242 1y ago
> I don't remember the exact number of CPU cores amounted to a single SWE but IIRC it was in the thousands. I think this probably holds true for outfits like Google because 1) on their scale "a core" is much cheaper than a
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by arp242 1y ago
> I'd add, to some extent conspiracy theorists keep government and industry honest No one claims conspiracies never happen, but what conspiracy theorists bang on about is mostly just noise. If anything, conspiracy theories make eas
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by arp242 1y ago
"Boo hoo I need to start X11"? Seriously? I have some unconventional workflows. And I try not to bother anyone else with it, especially in a volunteer driven open source context. It would be selfish to do otherwise. To be honest b
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by arp242 1y ago
Jacques Philippa, a member of the SS, spent 29 years in the attic of his parents after the second world war to escape his death penalty. He was only found out because his mother died and elderly father could no longer take care of him. It s

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