chrisseaton

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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Aren’t they like $100 a meter or something? And unreasonably thick and stiff?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I think drone operators actually notoriously experience high levels of PTSD compared to other operators, but can’t find a source right now.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
They seem to shoot dogs, unarmed people, actual crime victims, when there’s no fear for their lives.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> One wonders how many botched drone missions wouldn't have been performed in the first place had the operators been physically present in the areas they were attacking. They wouldn’t be any more connected to the people if they were
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I wonder what counts as 'watching'. Like if you measured it I probably spend ten hours a day 'listening' to the radio - as in it's on in the background in the kitchen most of the time. I'm not sitting there int
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> almost two terabytes Stick it on a little encrypted USB drive and put it in your pocket? Maybe with a couple of spare drives in your checked luggage, and post one as well. Nobody will care. Wipe the devices if you really want. Not the
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> If I want a function to restore certain registers, wouldn’t it be simpler if I was the one that save them on my memory, call the function, and then override the registers with whatever values the function set? That's a waste if th
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> If there were no advantages gained from C99, it wouldn't exist (people don't release language updates for no reason). Why isn't it possible that the updates aren't as good as the people who wrote them thought they w
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> the question should be: "How did I initialize an Account without a Contact?" Well yeah that's exactly what static analysis can tell you - what code path led to that. You're saying this project should be what it alre
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I wonder if you could give a universal metric of the differential from the source.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Meta fired a lot of serious staff/senior-staff people.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I don’t get it - which bit do you think is tone-death? Companies definitely try to keep engineers even if they don’t really need them to deny to others. But even if that’s not true how would it be ‘tone-death’?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Yeah people forget a movie can be 4k pixels but not a lot of bits to encode them. I wonder if we should start quoting bit-rates for quality.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Yeah really struggle to see the point in investing in a standalone Blu-ray player, let alone committing to storing all that physical media.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> So this explanation would only make sense if the blind tests are also using sipping and the unblinded tests are using drinking. Yeah that’s what they’re doing.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
A joke in the UK is that the unofficial slogan of Pepsi is 'yeah fine whatever mate' because when you order Coca-Cola in a pub and they (for some reason) stock Pepsi instead they always have to ask 'is Pepsi ok?'.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Just give replying to me a rest will you, if you don’t like my comments.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Or is it a cost-centre because most people wouldn’t work under those conditions and so you don’t get the best people to make profit with?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Do you have my comments bookmarked or something? You reply to me with something negative to say far more frequently than if you came across them randomly. Can you give it a rest if you can’t manage to tone down the snide please? As other co
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers, obviating the need to explicitly order the polygons during the rendering process. You can’t mean that all the polygons in a game world are now sent
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> They make $115k a month of employees buying coffee ... parking we have to pay for, or lunch, or snacks Lol what? Why are they making you pay for these things?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
The unionists there already describe themselves as British. The republicans don't but they wouldn't want to be UKish either, obviously.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
And there are many other overlaps like this - such as RoI people can join the British Army.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> In political terms it doesn't include NI ... It often does - for example someone from NI can join the GB Olympics team.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> acre-feet That’s an incredibly strange unit.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Earlier this year it seemed like all the Tesla owners in my village in the UK overnight got rid of them and bought Polestars.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Finally it's not a tax, it's a fee. No you're mistaken - it is actually legally a tax and has been since 2006.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Those retirees are "forced" to pay for roads they may not be able to drive on Well no they're not because most of them don't pay tax as they're below the threshold.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Politicians put their positions on the BBC in their manifestos and you can pick a representative which has the views on the BBC most similar to your own. Just like almost all other issues.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
If you look at international research rankings rather than US college rankings (because it's about Horizon) it's very different. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un... Only one EU in

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