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by cnorthwood 6y ago
This isn't 100% true. Prisoners serving sentences of less than a year can vote in Scotland
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Under UK law it wouldn't be, once the walls exceed 50% of the perimeter it's no longer classed as outdoor
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
No, GDPR considers collection, sharing and use of personal data to deliver targeted advertising optional. You can still deliver advertising that doesn't use any personal data.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Many private rail operators in the UK have been allowed to collapse, UK gov has set up "operators of last resort" which are run by the government to take over services when that happens. Pre-pandemic, the East Coast Mainline and N
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
India is closer to 60/40 versus the 80/20 in most western nations
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
The BCS have a code of ethics for their members (note the BCS goes beyond software development and incorporate roles such as business analysts amongst their members). It's pretty good imo https://www.bcs.org/membership&
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Yes, unless the technology has no societal implications.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
For personal projects I use Gandi, for work I use AWS Route53 Domains.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
By many measures, the EU is more democratic than the UK. The problem is more the perception of it.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
No, consent is just one of the legal bases you can use to justify handling someone's personal data, legitimate interests is another. Their privacy policy should explain if they're using another basis. The ICO have a list of the va
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Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you(leaddev.com)
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
If you're deploying your own application, you should probably build your image from a known maintained base image, rather than from a community supported one, and then periodically rebuild it - it's like how you'd have to red
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
It's not just "1 single VM" though, as you'll have to configure the applications on top of that. Configuring/installing a Postgres instance on a VM, nginx for your load balancers, iptables for your firewall, user ac
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
I believe this is something that already happens in certain countries with Coca-Cola bottling plants, where when local droughts happen, the plant is protected over the local population.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
This must be phonetically confusing to the very different piece of software also used a lot in the HE sector: Blackboard. I have also received this from the University of York. The timescales in play here seem terrible from Blackbaud's
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
This just seems to be a list of answers to common "trivia" questions, which are becoming much less popular in interviews, and often are just one part of it, rather than a guide to a whole interview
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Median by what bar? Global, Silicon Valley, relative to their local area?
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Living without electricity – one city’s experience coping with the loss of power [pdf](lancaster.ac.uk)
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
There was an issue with flooding in Lancaster (a mid-sized English city) which had this exact issue. The report is a fairly interesting read: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/conte...
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Managing latency is a problem, as you can only encrypt fairly short packets at a time and send each one out, rather than the whole message, and the structure of the data being different can lead to information leakage
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
These are fairly common clauses. I've normally found that asking your manager for permission to work on a side project is sufficient to waive the appropriate rights and most will agree (I wrote a tech book with a similar clause in my c
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
In the UK, I have a "full fibre" provider (Hyperoptic) which pretty much exclusively serve apartment blocks. They run fibre to a switch they install in the building, and then ethernet cabling from that switch to every apartment. T
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
I don't see GraphQL as an ORM type solution, I see it more like a replacement for REST.
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Show HN: How do we fund a universal basic income(pling.org.uk)
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
As far as I can get the argument boils down to "the model is stochastic", "Fortran is old" and "the code is spaghetti". Of which the first one is deliberate, the second one I don't see as a problem, and th
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
I think the creativity here should be applauded, it's an interesting novel improvement to an existing pattern. I think it'd be very interesting to do a bit of a formal usability study on this: set some metrics for common tasks and
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
There are a significant number of low contrast warnings from a cursory glance through an accessibility tool: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://jgthms.com/hacker-ne...
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
16 fibre pairs doesn't seem like very much? I wonder what the constraining factors are, as surely the material costs of having hundreds of pairs are negligible compared to the install costs? Is it amplification?
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Europe is more than the EU, unless you're suggesting countries like Switzerland or Norway are also not "of Europe"
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists", changed my political outlook completely

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