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by ectopod 5y ago
I found that section really helpful. I've been writing Haskell (on and off) for years but I hadn't realised that the noun thing had created a sort of mental speedbump, which is now gone.
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by ectopod 5y ago
In years gone by social media sites would try to login to your email provider using the social media password to scrape your contacts. This often worked because people reuse passwords. More recently, they were explicit about what they were
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by ectopod 5y ago
Is there any version of C++ in which this interleaving is permitted?
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by ectopod 5y ago
I thought a chyron would be some poetic form I'd never heard of. It's actually the text and graphics at the bottom of the screen on a news program. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron
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by ectopod 5y ago
FWIW, I assume the GP is referring to this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...
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by ectopod 5y ago
But Chinese companies do have to comply with these rules. China cares about total surveillance more than they care about blocking foreign competitors.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Businesses have shown an enormous appetite for hoovering up personal information. Why are you sure that businesses won't use an alternative verification app that stores the names and dates of births, shares them with their marketing p
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by ectopod 5y ago
For those of us who grew up with 8-bit home computers low latency was the starting point. On my first computer you could detect a keypress, update video memory and (assuming the beam was in the right place) see the results on screen in a f
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by ectopod 5y ago
4GB is standard on cheaper laptops in the UK as well. 8GB is midrange and if you want more you're paying a premium price (or upgrading it yourself).
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by ectopod 5y ago
Businesses are not literally people. Treating a business as a legal person is sometimes convenient, but there is no reason to cling to this fiction in all circumstances.
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by ectopod 5y ago
> I'm not saying 118 is for everyone but if you have shade you won't die. Yeah, barely. I once spent a day in the shade at 113F waiting for a bus with a friend. We played chess and it was the dumbest game ever. We could bare
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by ectopod 5y ago
> Unfortunately the BBC do not always own all the rights to broadcast something This is not something that happened by accident. For the last thirty years governments of all stripes have been forcing the BBC to outsource more and more o
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by ectopod 5y ago
The mansions from feudal times are mostly gone. Many enormous mansions built with the profits of slavery in the West Indies still exist.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Slavery was profitable. Many mansions in England attest to this. It just wasn't optimal.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It's not just those shortcuts. There is a weird keyboard focus bug where it gets confused if you use both the mouse and the keyboard.
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by ectopod 5y ago
RAII and smart pointers definitely were a thing in the 90s. I wrote lots of COM code using these techniques. According to wikipedia, RAII was invented in 1984-89.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Clever. Completely avoid the question. As an excellent middle manager, is having your staff working from home a problem for you? If so, why?
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by ectopod 5y ago
I have stepped off the hedonic treadmill. I prepare nearly all of my own food and I eat extremely well. Ingredients are cheap. I don't live in the USA so my healthcare is unaffected. The internet is a thing so I can (and do) contin
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by ectopod 5y ago
Volunteer for the police? No chance. https://medium.com/@ScottMcGready/breaking-the-lock-on-cscv-...
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by ectopod 5y ago
Driving. When you are not killing people quickly in accidents, you are killing them slowly with particulate pollution. And if that's not enough, you are also making a big contribution to global warming, an existential threat to our ci
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by ectopod 5y ago
You can convert from an opcode to an index into a lookup table of mnemonics quite efficiently, and vice versa. You can also pack a single three character mnemonic into two bytes, so the lookup table may be hard to spot. Assemblers and dis
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by ectopod 5y ago
> The infrastructure and processes that are taken for granted in developed countries are only really available to a minority in SA. A very small minority. The middle classes don't have access to reliable power, water, government bu
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by ectopod 5y ago
Without cookie warnings, etc. https://text.npr.org/1000954549
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by ectopod 5y ago
According to DNS expertsexchange.com was registered in 2005. However, it definitely existed earlier: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180417/http://www.expert... Edited to add: so the domain lapsed a
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by ectopod 5y ago
They changed it.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Are you sure? There are about 1100 unpaid administrators.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Back in the day (round these parts anyway) books were always full price [1]. Nowadays, I'm not going to pay full price to wait for a week either, but there are alternatives to Amazon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by ectopod 5y ago
> I can only imagine the discussions up the food chain that made this retail employee feel like this was alright. It doesn't work like that. The management give the workers mandatory sales targets, possibly with a bonus attached.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Kind of. To audit means to assess the quality of. This is true in British English, but hiding free access to a course behind the pretence that the student is auditing, not studying, is wholly American.
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> finding a book that wasn't in stock at your local store was a massive hassle and could take months. Or you could just ask your local store to order it for you and you would have it in a week. It's not like this was an unusua

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