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541.
by billpg 7y ago
"Models"? They're modelling?
542.
by billpg 7y ago
DeBeers are losing money? "Hello? Is that the Tiny Musical Instrument Company? I'd like to make a bulk purchase of violins."
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Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware(zdnet.com)
2 points by billpg 7y ago|0 comments
544.
by billpg 7y ago
Should companies making human-driven-cars also stop making cars should one of them kill a person?
545.
by billpg 7y ago
Which message? I have a UID that's no longer valid and the message IDs have all moved.
546.
by billpg 7y ago
I'm an IMAP client and my user has clicked the delete-message button. Accordingly, I've sent a command to make the change and I'm waiting for the response from the server. Oh no! Before the response came back, my connection t
547.
by billpg 7y ago
XML with only tags and attributes (nothing but ignored spaces between '>' and '<') is a reasonable structured data format.
548.
by billpg 7y ago
"Hello IMAP server. I'd like to deal with the message with this UID." "The UIDVALIDITY has changed since then." "Can you tell me the new UID from my old UID perhaps?" "No."
549.
by billpg 7y ago
I remember seeing that the "zero page" instructions were all significantly faster and thinking "This Changes EVERYTHING!" As if I could rewrite my code to run in only 256 bytes of working memory.
550.
by billpg 7y ago
I would love to live in "a society which vociferously opposes sexual violence". Where is this place? The society I live in falls over itself to excuse rapists.
551.
by billpg 7y ago
I would instead ask if watching videos of women being raped and beaten up (even if fictional) harms children or sets up teenage boys with unreasonable expectations of what sex is like.
552.
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient(infoq.com)
1 points by billpg 7y ago|0 comments
553.
by billpg 7y ago
Someone actually built the "Enhance" process used by TV police forensics?
554.
by billpg 7y ago
Exactly how terrified should I be right now?
555.
by billpg 7y ago
Julian Assange?
556.
by billpg 7y ago
Free State Project.
557.
by billpg 7y ago
The second page you saw then.
558.
by billpg 7y ago
What license (if any) are these images under?
559.
by billpg 7y ago
Minus one times.
560.
by billpg 7y ago
Current members of parliament were elected by the people in 2017 for a five year term. They should stay until 2022.
561.
by billpg 7y ago
The women in porn aren't enjoying it. Also, that Nigerian prince isn't going to give you millions of dollars.
562.
by billpg 7y ago
A company with margins cut to the bone in the internet era should have spent money they don't have, just in case the UK government does something stupid that causes the currency to tank?
563.
by billpg 7y ago
It hasn't helped. The fall in the value of the pound caused by Brexit has made their service significantly more expensive. Thomas Cook might have been able to position itself, in the internet era, as a local trustworthy service that ta
564.
by billpg 7y ago
We're not talking about peeking at the underwear section any more. How about teenage boys looking at incredibly violent porn with the women presented as enjoying it.
565.
by billpg 7y ago
I suspect .va (Vatican City) is up high on the list.
566.
by billpg 7y ago
"This device is not compatible with the Google Pixel device." Aren't these things standard yet?
567.
by billpg 7y ago
Wind power ferries. I think they tried that in the days before electrical motors.
568.
by billpg 7y ago
Brexit.
569.
by billpg 7y ago
Last time I looked for work, I made a nice CV in PDF and I put it on a custom website with a simple URL I could say over the phone. People still asked for it to be emailed in DOC format. Let's just say I experimented with the then curr
570.
by billpg 7y ago
I'd like to see a solver that works in a similar way to how a human would solve a puzzle. "This square must be a 5 because a 5 can't appear in any other cell in this row."

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