benj111

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by benj111 3y ago
The ban is on single fuel gas boilers. New ones will have to be able to use hydrogen.
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How would the sums work out if you were actually paying for electricity?
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You could say the opposite and say there's no such thing as western, or eastern thought. Even within countries people have different ideas and have very different world views. We can nonetheless generalise certain things.
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No. Let's take the more direct approach and move the ship entirely and replace it with a copy. Have you stolen the ship? I suppose legally you could argue you haven't. The registration etc still applies to the customers ship, and
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>It should be looked form the frame of how long is appropriate to promote the creation of the arts etc I agree, I don't see how 20 years isn't long enough from that pov. What company is going to wait 20 years before signing a b
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>No, it's an issue with the patent office's current process for approving patents Potato potahto. >Yes, but that doesn't mean a car is worse than a truck. Is the truck a metaphor for hardware patents? That depends if th
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>hardware patents just cover algorithms that have steps involving arranging atoms. Yes. Further steps have been done. Its the difference between copywriting the idea for a book, and copywriting an actual book. >That the software equiv
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That hardware was developed on computer is irrelevant. A piece of hardware designed with a ruler and protractor is indistinguishable from one designed on a computer. Re 2. If you 'invented' some trading cards based on HN members.
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To me there seems to be 3 issues. 1. You're basically patenting algorithms, which aren't supposed to be patentable. 2. There seems to be an assumption that anything new is unobvious and therefore patentable. And in computing that
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I'm surprised there isn't much discussion of data structures here, as that would inform an undo algorithm. I infer from 'PieceTree' That this is a binary tree based piece chain. That makes undo really easy, especially ch
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True, but then someone will pop up and announce UB! (This probably isn't ub though). Anyway, my main point was that c has more boilerplate. It's never 'a+b'. Second, printf is complicated, that's aimed more at the o
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Can this scan barcodes aswell? That seems like a useful feature.
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It still isn't simple #! /Usr/bin/python Print(a+b) V #include <stdio.h> Int main (){ Printf("%i", a+b); Return 0; } And printf is basically a DSL, so it still isn't 'simple' And this is a
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Easier for whom? The whole point of high level languages is that you put in effort upfront to make everyone elses job easier. By you logic, using machine code directly onto toggle switches is easiest. No assembler to write, no test editor t
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by benj111 3y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction. In the UK you can be charged with theft. For joyriding and dumping they created the crime of twoccing (taking without owners consent). A 'twoker' is also a derogatory term for a certain class of person
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As a father of young children, the internet wasn't quite there for watching porn until the turn of the millennium. And a few more years again for mobile. Compared to today's landscape where teenagers and younger have a mobile phon
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He wasn't indulging in 'hobby talk'. He did a comparative assessment of solders using a (presumably cheap and simple) kit. The example just so happened to include a 'hobby' You're taking the piss, and then biza
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>LED bulbs have been associated with migraine symptoms, and are all around terrible for reading Are they? on the other hand they use less energy, last longer. They aren't exactly worse. Cling film on the other hand. That's rubb
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by benj111 3y ago
Why is 'old fashioned' bad? Further, why should a logo even be fashionable? Sure if I get this week's fashionable hair cut it'll be out of fashion next week. So why get the fashionable haircut to start with. To extend th
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Is obviously in inverted commas not enough of a hint?
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Yes, but 'obviously' because they aren't physically limited, ticket prices will approach the level of an iTunes download, because they'll be able to appear everywhere.
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I just don't get why companies change their branding every 5 minutes. What do you gain? Did everyone suddenly start thinking Google was new and fresh after they spent however many millions on their rebrand? And then there's the in
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Even within a non repairable system, it could be improved so much. Why can't we have dumb screens that I can plug my Amazon stick or whatever into. My girlfriend's TV actually crashes and randomly resets. Presumably because they c
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Upvote for atomic shrimp. He's one of the few YouTubers where it feels like an old style blog. In fact his (old style) blog is worth an explore. Unfortunately not really updated any more.
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Have you never been given some bs excuse by someone? Or maybe he said "it could be" and that got left out of the quote.
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Ok, my only other guess was digital audio cable. TLAs (three letter acronyms) are hard.
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>Similar to but slightly different from pull-up/pull-down In what way? I've only ever come across pull up and pull down. Edit: Wikipedia seems to equate strapping with setting a jumper. I can't seem to find any other refer
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>suggest using it in a file server and a workstation, with a copper DAC in between What is dac in this context? I'm guessing it isn't digital analogue converter.
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>strapping Bootstrapping? Is that a hardware people thing?
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I'm in 2 minds. It seems like a good story telling device, and it is a view of evolution that's unusual. I just question whether evolution was dominated by the male view. Hunting for example has an important advantage in leaving b

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