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by ectopod 5y ago
Please do, that would be brilliant.
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A version of the image that has had the picture data removed or obscured (so only the metadata can be reviewed) is consistent with that statement. This is how marketing works. A company comes up with a plan and then the marketers come up w
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by ectopod 5y ago
Exactly. I do not believe that Apple will be reviewing the actual images. More likely they will be reviewing the metadata for "chain of evidence" purposes. When Apple pass evidence to NCMEC they will be able to say "this w
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by ectopod 5y ago
Why do you say that? It extracts the bits using doubleToRawLongBits which does not do NaN canonicalization by design. And it gets back to a double with longBitsToDouble which "returns the double floating-point value with the same bit
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by ectopod 5y ago
A fun thought experiment: how can one own and use two phones without the authorities being able to correlate their ownership? It would have been hard to avoid ten years ago. Unless you use both phones very infrequently (which is of no use
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by ectopod 5y ago
That is not a blanket exemption. It is for "the owner of a copy of a computer program". If you stole a copy of Microsoft Office on CD from a shop (back when that was a thing) it seems clear that using the software would have been
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by ectopod 5y ago
Looking at figures from two years ago, the US government was spending about $3600 per head and the UK government about $3000 per head. For the latter money everybody in the UK got free healthcare.
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by ectopod 5y ago
> Well, if you end up using any amount of storage (like backing up the device), they are going to want you to pay for it. You'll probably end up typing in a credit card number and all of that stuff. I don't get this bit. Are y
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by ectopod 5y ago
That's the problem with wealth inequality: outsize wealth comes with outsize political power. The money doesn't matter.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Not the OP. I do about ten minutes a day but I'm only actually lifting for three of those, and it's made an enormous difference. As an office worker my arms were getting pretty much no exercise. The change from nothing to somet
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by ectopod 5y ago
They should embrace this reality and rename it to grumbleclub.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Excel actually defines a simple XML-based alternative to CSV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#XML_Spreadshee...
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by ectopod 5y ago
You can freeze bacon for a few months. Any longer and it will start to taste rancid.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Asian importers pay for containers of clean, recyclable waste from the UK. When it arrives they find they've got a container full of general household waste, which is of no use for anything. I don't know how common this is but th
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by ectopod 5y ago
For big infrequent allocations (like your example of loading a huge image) it is easy to use a non-default allocator that returns an error rather than aborting. As the article notes, this is all moot if you are running on Linux though. The
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is so nearly awesome, but the hint only works for emoji. So I can type "<WIN>+. sad <ENTER>" for a sad emoji but, e.g., "<WIN>+. gamma" doesn't find the Greek letter. There seems to be no wa
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by ectopod 5y ago
Around the UK too. The North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland contains ~1,000,000 tons of munitions. It was supposed to be dumped in the deep channel, but in rough weather the boats would dump it a few hundred metres offshore
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by ectopod 5y ago
Or Rab C. Nesbitt.
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is a scam against people who are actively seeking out stolen credit card details. Which doesn't seem like something an elderly person would start doing as as a result of cognitive decline.
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by ectopod 5y ago
That is the old policy. > But starting in April 2022, that yearlong delay will no longer be permitted: Researchers choosing green open access must deposit the paper immediately when it is published.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It's not a precedent, it's a central part of patent law, right there in the statutes. You pretty much can't do anything with a patented invention unless you have permission. If you could get round it by saying "oh yeah
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by ectopod 5y ago
They should have been prosecuted. Instead, Obama gave a blanket pardon for everyone involved and the US has threatened sanctions against the ICC if they attempt a prosecution.
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by ectopod 5y ago
"Nurse" covers a huge round of competencies in the UK. The standard full-time pay scale goes from £18K to £105K. https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nursing-pay-guide/
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by ectopod 5y ago
> Larry Page had a 12 year old son that was sick enough that a 1500 mile medivac seemed like the best option. Best option for whom? It is entirely possible that the child wasn't especially sick and could have been treated in Fiji,
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by ectopod 5y ago
The clock hasn't started. He is not serving a sentence. He is being held as a flight risk pending the US government's extradition appeal.
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by ectopod 5y ago
My local had the Dunlop Book of Facts as an inane argument ender. Although some people considering it cheating.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The use of fiat currency is usually enforced for debts. This doesn't apply to a cash purchase in a shop, but credit card purchases and most B2B transactions (with invoicing or a credit card) involve creating a debt.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Don't forget outright fraud. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884233
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by ectopod 5y ago
>> Anecdotally, based on questions on tex.stackexchange.com ... > Do you speak from anecdotal experience? I think we can agree that people don't read things properly.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Do you think Amazon wasn't using personal data contrary to European data protection law?

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