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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Perhaps it’s about responsibility. It’s not the compilers fault if you chose to compile and run malware. But you could blame the compiler if it ran malware during the compilation process.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Interesting! I’d always assumed the yellow objects UK soldiers seem to have on the ends of their rifle barrels when simulating an engagement were to catch an accidental live round, but perhaps they have the purpose you suggest.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
This app counts your bricks and then matches that count with user submitted builds you have the correct bricks to build. It has no magic AI creativity.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
The article does a good job conflating the parliamentary process of Queen’s consent and lobbying of the government by the Royal family. You may think both are bad/outdated, I do, but there’s a lot of journalistic spin going on here. Ri
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
I can see that users comments both when I go from their comments list and also when I go directly to the posts comment section. Is there something I am missing? It doesn’t seem to be downvoted or dead and has multiple replies.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Interesting, I've not read about that on the various lists of HN undocumented features like [1], not that that means it does not happen. Do you have an example? [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocume
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Makes me think of Testudo aubreii . Time to re-read all the Master and Commander books again. Thank you for the push! :D
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
You say that, but the government is currently engaged in a new reform of the NHS. Having previously pushed decentralisation, competition and increased use and engagement with private providers (Health and Social Care Act 2012 [1]) they ar
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Teslas or people in general people should absolutely not break-check, but no, cars that drive so close to the car in front that they cannot safely stop in an emergency are tailgating. I do agree there is some nuance, but it really saddens m
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
In this circumstance (crashing into the back of a tesla breaking hard) you would have been the person primarily to blame. Yes tesla sells a dodgy "autopilot" that does unexpected things (and in my opinion should not be road legal
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
The world would be a very boring place if the only value of thought was its accuracy of reflection of reality.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Marcus Aurelius writings that are collected together in the Meditations were never intended to be published, they were his thoughts and advice for himself.
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
I'm from a biology/healthcare background and come to HN for the interesting tech discussions, trivia and the different perspective. I've learnt loads over the past few years and got into a few amateur programming projects in
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Just to support your point, currently the Northern Ireland fiscal balance runs at a deficit of £10 billion per annum and has run a deficit since the Great Depression. [1] https://factcheckni.org/topics/economy/how-
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
To quote wikipedia: To date, no widely accepted neural or computational models have been put forward to describe how mirror neuron activity supports cognitive functions. There’s lots of guff in the media and lots of speculation in the dis
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
The author of this article wants me to believe wikipedia has been taken over by the "super woke" but frankly they just come across as having an unhealthy obsession with IQ as a heritable trait and desperately want to use this to t
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
Here is a transcript of the video: https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/2/9/what-really-happ... Thought it was an interesting example of all the holes in the Swiss cheese lining up with a subsequent f
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What happened during the 2003 blackout? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by daedalus_f 4y ago|1 comments
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
You might find the retriangulation of Britain in the 1930s and 40s interesting [1]. A network of ~6,500 triangulation pillars (trig points) were built across the country, each of which were in line of sight of at least two other pillars. Th
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
One of the things I find frustrating about talking to Americans online is they often seem to assume your opinions must be defined by the same left-right divide that characterises their politics. You accidentally signal to them republican or
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by daedalus_f 4y ago
> The honest, good-faith communication would be like… Perhaps I don’t understand your point, but the experiences of people in the states annexed by the Soviet Union would beg to differ.
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
I love neuromancer and its sequels, and like this blogs aesthetic, but good god the tracking makes it hard to read.
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
> I'm not arguing that the military is inherently wrong, or that military service is. Just that everyone who signs up for the military of a developed nation is morally compromised at the extreme very best . Can you square that sta
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
> Modern economic powers like the UK do not use their militaries for self-defense. Modern economic powers have militaries and alliances that make attacking them unattractive. They have sufficient teeth to dissuade conflict. If you are fo
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! Aargh!
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
As pointed out by hprotagonist in a comment below, there have also been claims of research misconduct claims made against the principle researchers involved with this group. So not exactly promising. https://news.ycombinator.com
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Anecdotal, but quite a few of twitter users I follow, particularly in the OSINT community, have said that they seem to be seeing less “patriotic American right wing” trolls (paraphrasing) in their mentions, etc, since the Russian twitter ba
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
I think fear of countermeasures unbalancing MAD is also what’s driving development of Russia’s non-ballistic missile based warhead delivery systems, like status-6 [1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Mu
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
Well I stand corrected. I've only seen it prescribed under a home office license for treatment of addiction in a single case. Many of your examples seem to relate to paediatrics and maternity care which perhaps explains my ignorance as
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by daedalus_f 5y ago
It's aside your point, but you may be thinking of fentanyl rather than diamorphine (street name heroin) with regards to the NHS. The former is often used in NHS hospitals for intraoperative and postoperative pain relief, the latter alm

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