benj111

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by benj111 2mo ago
Trust? In ye old days, you had newspapers who sold ads, and had to at least satisfy their customers. What the newspaper advertised reflected on the newspaper, and where the advertiser advertised, reflected on the advertiser. Now we have a s
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Could you not just go after the deeply nested spans? I assume they aren't messing up everything else like that.
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The thing is, that's the start. But then it will expand. Next it will be tracking and identifying people who went to protests etc. I don't really want to say never to these kinds of things, when the use is limited. But at the mome
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Sarcasm? Hard to tell.
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Visit the homepage https://sebsite.pw/ That's a nice bit of understated 90s design right there
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Have you any examples? I'm kind of in the same boat as I don't agree with the identity politics, but I still count myself as left of centre.
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TBF, do we actually know how goto the statement was intended to be pronounced? It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....
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So 2 languages are the same if they have the same syntax but 1 is interpreted, and not safe, whereas the other is compiled and safe? Where one has a large library and runs on many platforms, and the other doesn't? Where one behaves lik
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>Eiichi Goto Is it nominative determinism if it's 2 years before the introduction of Goto (1956, Fortran apparently) Or maybe it was named in his honour?
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Strange to think of WH Smith as being at the forefront of technology. Also weird that in the space of 5 years, they'd gone from an idea, got national buy in, and then got an international standard sorted.
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> Interestingly, he has a lot of people on what he calls the "Woke Right" (e.g Tucker Carlson) who also hate him. Is that interesting? I get accused of being a labour supporter in conservative areas and conservative in more lef
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>One issue with electric motorcycles is that they are inherently disadvantaged by the fundamentally poor aerodynamics of motorcycles Not necessarily https://www.craigvetter.com/index.html Good web site to explore btw. Gl
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As in it's sloppy. If you're at a BBQ would you take 5 plates just because?
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That still isn't a good look.
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Well it's comparing it to apple's weather app, which is a fair comparison I suppose. 100mb still sounds like at least an order of magnitude too high to me though.
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Half this cost is related to security to actively stop people looking at the art work. If it's not acceptable for banksy to cost tax payers £50k to remove the graffiti, why is acceptable for the powers that be to waste another £50k on
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>clear LEAVE vote isn't enacted Except the catchphrase of the day was "Brexit means Brexit", because no one bothered to define what we were voting for until we'll after the fact. There were plenty of options such as a
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I find it slightly disconcerting that lena has a mustache.
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So? If you're directly elected by the people you can behave how you damn well please? Except trump isn't because you have the electoral college. I live in the UK, on paper we have an absolutely terrible version of democracy. No co
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>The EU is too chicken to let citizen vote every 20 years on whether we should stay in Europe, because then answer would be a big NO. Well us Brits tried that experiment and it isn't seen as a success.
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I think part of the problem is that assert is used for different things. You can use assert to cover a case that should never happen, you can also use assert to catch programming errors during development. It's arguable that you don&#x
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https://web.archive.org/web/20260808232424/https://classicbi... As its been HN'ed
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Agreed with the Linux thing. We have multiple different bin folders still, because some hard drive on a PDP 11 wasn't big enough?!? On the other hand it has package management so you don't have to worry about it so much.
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Wind, hydro, some kind of storage? Nuclear? Gas and coal peaked plants? We can at least plan for an eventuality that is likely to happen. How much planning is/was there when gas suddenly gets cut off?
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Interesting. How do you prevent rounding errors etc for different screen sizes? Some things could be 1 pixel in one version and 2x2 or 1x2 in another version. And why does it play top to bottom when the 'net' suggests it should be
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Why no branch predictor at all? Even a brain-dead one that predicts all branches always/never taken is going to provide some benefit, it's not as if the processor can do anything else while it's waiting. Or am I missing somet
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Or the advert increases sales, this paying for itself, and why the advertiser advertises in the first place.
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Well yes. That's why you see many westerners complaining about the cost of living even though all things told they have a good life. I would modify this slightly though. I think there's an expectation of things getting better, and
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I also agree. Yes, humans need to be reminded that not all humans are just like their immediate group, but that goes for all humans, not just the white ones. And I certainly don't get accusations of racism that come along with it. But
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I grew up in a 250 year old weavers cottage. We were weaving wool before the industrial revolution. Yes we probably did dominate during the revolution. Feel free to add your own local history, but around here the weavers went from piece wor

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