dfawcus

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by dfawcus 1y ago
Context is not need for any code which can block. Context is only needed where one has a dynamic graph where one wishes to cleanly tear down that graph. One can operate blocking tx/rx within a fixed graph without the need for any Cont
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by dfawcus 1y ago
How large do you deem to be large in this context? I had success in using a CSP style, with channels in many function signatures in a ~25k line codebase. It had ~15 major types of process, probably about 30 fixed instances overall in a fixe
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by dfawcus 1y ago
How about not simply summarising, but creating a broadly similar novel, with similar characters which undergo broadly similar story arcs? I can see how it could end up as infringement, but also how one could avoid infringement. The issue w
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by dfawcus 1y ago
https://archive.ph/910Ez
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by dfawcus 2y ago
It is possibly to earn over £100k as a software engineer employee in the UK, however those tend to be very specialised fields. (Not all of them are finance related). I do recall a software manager (OK apples to oranges) grumbling about 10
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by dfawcus 2y ago
> I worked on projects which refused to use anything more modern than XSLT & XPATH 1.0 because of lack of support in the non Java/Net World (1.0 = tech from 1999). For some things that may just be down to how uses are specified.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Insecure how? The fact that someone could listen in to the phone call is (to me) largely irrelevant. The real point being that it still has wider coverage in remote parts (of the UK), and draws less power.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
He's doing it wrong, the obvious approach being to extract sunbeams from cucumbers! :-)
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by dfawcus 2y ago
I've been using an iphone in lockdown mode for a while now, simply to disable a number of the poor security design choices Apple made. One thing I just noticed this last week after upgrading to 18.x is that lockdown mode also disables
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by dfawcus 2y ago
The media does when writing such things up, stylistic choices. It is also likely to be "one in two" rather than "one out of two", in speech "half", "three quarters", "seven eighths" etc is m
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Because that is just what we do. Expressing things as percentages was a late arrival; when until the mid 70s folks had to be able to cope with, and mentally manipulate vulgar fractions.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
> Why not simpler English -- "half of the country has watched it" I guess as it was aimed at a British audience, and that is not an uncommon way for us to form such sentences. If you hadn't mentioned it, I'd not even
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by dfawcus 2y ago
I'm not celiac, but something in wheat and barley gives me mouth ulcers. I only determined that after I got past 40, and started to experience bloating from bread consumption. In giving up bread, I then noticed that my ulcers ceased.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Likewise. I have a handful of memories from between 18 and 24 months. I know they're from that period, as they relate to a place where my parents lived at that time.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/primevalC.html " A second, less noticeable, but astonishing peculiarity is the space allocation: temporary storage is allocated that deliberately overwrites the beginning of the
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by dfawcus 2y ago
As to "sizeless" arrays - yes. Have a look at the early history of C document on DMR's site, it mentions that the initial syntax for pointers was that form.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Isn't this something which Craig Murray was highlighting in the context of the Julian Assange extradition case? Namely that the US Government argues that the 1st Amendment "free speech" right only applies to US Citizens. The
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Chat Control may well give them a second bite at the cherry, if it get through. It keeps getting resurrected with slight variations, and if passed, then they'd be obliged to implement some form of back door. So I guess all one can say
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by dfawcus 2y ago
sure soft 'c' is used, e.g. century, celebrate, cease, certain
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by dfawcus 2y ago
I'm not sure, but it is possible we do minor servicing on the missiles. e.g. swap out components for spares. However the missiles are regularly rotated back in to the common pool in the USA for servicing. The schedule is such that th
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by dfawcus 2y ago
A "cunning plan" to force upgrades? :-)
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Having scanned through his book, it makes it seem overly complex. At middle school, this was taught after having only done simply arithmetic and learning about fractions (rational numbers) in primary school, then decimal fractions in middle
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Not long. We were taught logs, and use of log tables, at Middle School. So probably around about age 11. I also vaguely recall a couple of lessons where we went over Napier's Bones, and they had us produce equivalents on pieces of pap
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by dfawcus 2y ago
So does a small quantity of Arrowroot, I used to add that when making my own ice cream.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
How about looking earlier in the thread where we both mentioned which part of the Island we're from. We're simply comparing ability to distinguish other regional accents on the Island, not putting each other down. Generally folks
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Again, where is the problem? Close your eyes and _listen_, don't be distracted by the video. Just Clarkson hamming things up.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Yeah - OK. That one took me about 5 plays to be able to distinguish it.
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by dfawcus 2y ago
Yeah - no problem with that section, nor with the rest of the video. As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England. Added: Apparently some folks had difficulty comprehending
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by dfawcus 2y ago
What is the problem? Listening to the piece, the accent itself is quite understandable. Just sounds like they're from the West Country . The only awkward one was where the bloke was talking about fishing in the bright light, I had to
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by dfawcus 2y ago
As I recall, my old Nokia 1616-2 would last over 3 weeks between charges if not used. Only somewhat less if only used for texts, say 2.5 to 3 weeks. It was actually making calls which cut in to the battery, but still it could last 7-10 day

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