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by dfawcus 6y ago
The proposed NUBI ABI[1] for MIPS was interesting here in that for call by value if a struct was register sized, it would be passed in a register, but if larger it would be implicitly passed by reference. See section 3.4, Arguments. It was
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by dfawcus 6y ago
Well there is this: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ownership-of-copyright-works I've generally interpreted it as meaning acts performed in fulfilling your role/position as an employee. So if you're essenti
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by dfawcus 6y ago
As far as assigning copyright, that clause probably has no effect, simply due the legislation already saying the employer holds the copyright. The IP rights part may have an effect depending upon how it is phrased, and what it covers (say p
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by dfawcus 7y ago
> In the UK embossed numbers on cards are gone now Nope. The only ones I know of which do not use embossed numbers are Starling Bank, and (for premier customers) RBS and NatWest. All bar one of my cards is embossed. Supposedly as of Janu
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Except we're still on the elevator until Dec 31st 2020. January 31, 2020 is when we're no longer allowed to push the elevator buttons.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
> The EU Convention on Human Rights bans debtors prisons. FWIW it is the "European Convention on Human Rights", drafted in 1950, usually abbreviated as ECHR (with its court being ECtHR). It is distinct from the EU, being a pro
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by dfawcus 7y ago
So maybe we should define a DNS SRV record ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2782 ) for WWW, and work to get the browsers using it? e.g. _http._tcp.example.com and _https._tcp.example.com It seems there was such a draft:
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by dfawcus 7y ago
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. When the bow breaks, the army will fall. When the bow breaks, the actor will fall.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
If you're going to mention 'bow' one should also remember 'bough' for additional fun.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
re 'about' - it can have a lot more meanings than those two. e.g. 'about his person' (carrying something with you) 'he is about' (he is close / near) 'he is out and about' (he is some distance aw
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by dfawcus 7y ago
So given the new regulation ( https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... ), will the Irish PSC be altered to conform to it?
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by dfawcus 7y ago
We still have and use Cheques. If the Solicitor had instead posted a cheque to the heir, then the problem likely would not have occurred, and if it had would have been reversed a lot sooner.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Most UK IBANs can be trivially derived from the sort code and account. I have some accounts where the sort code and account are not directly embedded in the IBAN. So for those possibly there is a mapping table one could refer to.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
A lot of the banks have contract terms which allow them to correct erroneous transfers (i.e. incorrect deposits to ones account without ones approval), so waiting for a court order would not be necessary. Maybe Barclays do not include such
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Almost all the UK banks still use sort code and account for transfers, even though the accounts have IBANs. It is often possible to perform foreign transfers using destination IBANs, but they seem to prefer (or require) the traditional appr
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by dfawcus 7y ago
That page generates no response for me, https://archive.is/I1WO6 does.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
I would say that anything harder is not beyond the ask. It is just that our word list is now bigger, meanings have split, and we often use the newer words. We can still say and ask the same things with the old words, but the extra vocabular
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by dfawcus 7y ago
That is largely down to the choice of multiple words to express similar concepts in English (due to its mongrel roots), and those having subtly different meanings, hence the high information density in English. So in one having access to an
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by dfawcus 7y ago
'understand' is from German, 'comprehend' is from French. We get 'Fort' from French, but the equivalent concept 'Stronghold' has Germanic root words and construction. What does that prove? Yet your ce
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Or try the converse, in the UK almost all foreign language content is still dubbed. Then for foreign language (French and German) classes in state schools in England around 1975 onwards: We'd often have around 30 pupils. Time was spend
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Corporate speak: 'leverage' when 'use' is perfectly functional, and less of a mouthful. Only occasionally is it used in a sense when a magnifying effect is implied.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Which has a link to https://www.ef.edu/epi/ , where neither England nor the UK are listed. So I guess we don't make the grade :-(
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by dfawcus 7y ago
I'm not aware of any EU regulations relating to computer "misuse". Also AFAIK Europol is a co-operation facility, not a front line policing organisation. It is a means by which the member states co-operate and share intellig
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Or for the Mac, just leave the machine in normal mode, and use the "invert colours" hotkey. I've been doing that for years.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Don't worry - assuming the Tories do win a majority, and the UK leaves the EU: Then with the loss of the SM, and no trading relations (probably for 7+ years), our economy will take a serious hit, and we'll likely suffer some form
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by dfawcus 7y ago
"there hasn't been an intra-european war in a long time" However is that really attributable to the existence of the EEC? Or was it the fact that the Cold War was ongoing, and that Germany was essentially disarmed and occupie
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by dfawcus 7y ago
and our (UK) tax system still hasn't caught up, starting on the 5th April.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
I recall learning of the z80000 (via a datasheet) in '88, but never managed to find a machine using it. I know of machines designed and built with the z8000, but I've only heard of the z80000 being used for embedded devices (possi
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by dfawcus 7y ago
Acorn Business Computer model 210 aka Acorn Cambridge Workstation (ACW/443) running panos. See http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/ACW.htm... or wikipedia.
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by dfawcus 7y ago
In the UK: Monzo - yes; Revolut - no

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