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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I don't like the word coder . I don't write code , I write programs . I'm a programmer , or a software engineer , or a software developer , not a mere coder . Low-code and no-code tools are often sneered at, and admitt
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The article is mainly about IPv4 and IPv6. The Wikipedia article is much more informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Lord Willetts is now a Conservative peer, but was a demographer for the Conservative Party. The policies that have impoverished the young are all Conservative policies: allowing the cost of housing to grow faster than wages, privatisation,
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
In this case, they were the 'Wrens' of the Women's Royal Naval Service[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
If you need more dirty puns about the figure, the Metro has you covered. https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/29/volunteers-polish-giants-erec...
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
This is a great loss, and we should perform or listen to PDQ Bach's loss- lieder to mourn.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
A lot of interesting comments here about the technology and the bias of the Torygraph, but there's also a fundamental reality of car ownership in the UK to take into account. The overwhelming majority of the UK's housing stock pre
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The author of the article also rediscovered this vulnerability in June 2023. https://eaton-works.com/2023/06/06/honda-ecommerce-hack/
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
> the best way to help the project is to keep contributing for it for years. to do that, you have to avoid burning out, which means you have to treat yourself well. When I was a schoolteacher, the way I expressed this is that you have to
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
If the legacy infrastructure of the current cities becomes too difficult to maintain and operate for smaller populations, we might see the populations establish newer communities in adjacent areas, like mediaeval Lundenwic and Lundenburg.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I try to avoid making moral judgements as much as possible, because moral judgements are thought-terminating clichés.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Is anyone making RISC-V SoCs outside of China? Trade restrictions have given China serious incentives to make RISC-V CPUs domesticly, unlike every other country that can just buy AMD64 and ARM chips. Given the geopolitics of the situation,
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
As far as I can tell, this feature has not yet been released.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
> Bosch officials emailed a statement that included the usual lines about security being a top priority. This is my new benchmark for quality journalism: calling out half-arsed boilerplate press releases. This requires a journalist who g
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
When we talk about the 'Uncanny Valley', we talk about things that are very humanoid, but not quite humanoid enough. But the obvious target market for humanoid robots is retail and hospitality, where there's a high degree of
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I like the fact that it doesn't know what to do with its hands while waiting for the Keurig machine to work.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Python isn't the language of scientific computing, data science, or high-performance computing. Python is a popular user interface for scientific computing, data science or high-performance computing.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
It's shown on OpenStreetMap, but not as a street: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.3682/1.0330
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Would this be the same 8 hours for everyone worldwide, would it be by the user's timezone, or would we get to choose our own 8 hours? This question was brought to you by memories of not being able to set the timezone of my tamagotchi a
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Some non-military context. > with what he got, instead of partying, went to Edinburgh to get a first class education in moral philosophy Scotland was the place to get such an education at the time.[0] > decided to get elected. went to
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The Bureau of Meteorology has form when it comes to computer security incidents[0]. [0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-08/bureau-of-meteorology...
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
> Fiendishly, I proposed that to guarantee the gun only be usable in an off-course landing (its official purpose), it be stashed in compartment accessible only from outside the Soyuz, after landing. There never was any response to my h
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
This is only the first part; it'll get more complicated when the Western Harbour Tunnel is built and connected to it. You can see the opened parts and the planned parts on OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#m
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
IIRC, they still need humans to watch you as you take things from the shelves to work out what you've taken, which causes a delay of around an hour in being charged for your shop.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The King doesn't have all that much to do with this. He reads the speech, but he doesn't write it, and he reads it in a flat monotone so that no one knows whether he personally agrees with the government's legislative agenda.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
If you represent Unicode codepoints as unsigned 32-bit integers, you have the eleven high bits free for representing modifier keys. You can even represent changes of state for the modifier keys without a normal key press by sending the modi
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
It's Latin for 'he/she/it flourished'.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Antecedents from the UK include the Railway Mania of the 1840s[0] and (to a lesser extent) the Canal Mania of the 1790s to 1810s[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania [1]: https://en.wikipedia
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Massive reductions in the number of police support staff was a part of the coalition government's austerity plan and the reduction in service quality in the police recruiting agency was a (positive!) case study in a degree I did in org
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