ectopod

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by ectopod 5y ago
There would be far more experienced software engineers than brand new ones if the field was stable, but it has been growing exponentially for years. The answer to the original question depends on the rate of growth, how you define more expe
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by ectopod 5y ago
You don't need an entire IDE to show examples of content styled with CSS.
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by ectopod 5y ago
> It seems like the theme of the post is "you don't need JavaScript to do this." Yet you can't see the examples without JavaScript.
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by ectopod 5y ago
How does the energy use compare of stamping out a DVD and of streaming a movie to your TV? Especially if it's a film you (or your children) watch repeatedly. The answer is not obvious. According to [1], mailing a DVD and streaming a
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by ectopod 5y ago
If they've got his passport and he can't leave the only option is Egypt. I expect he thought of that and they refused. ETA: I've read a few of these articles over the last year. There have been many similar cases because of
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by ectopod 5y ago
Why? If he (or she) believes or can be convinced that the death penalty should be abolished, why do you care if they also believe that some of the executions that already happened were just?
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by ectopod 5y ago
This is reminiscent of the lethal injection protocol. It consists of: * A fast- and short-acting barbiturate to knock you out. * A muscle relaxant to stop you breathing. * Potassium chloride to induce a heart attack. It incidentally cause
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by ectopod 5y ago
The Mozilla manifesto [1] principle 8: > Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust. Ha ha ha ha ha. Every change is decided in private. By the time anyone outside Mozilla becomes aware of t
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by ectopod 5y ago
It's horrible but effective. It doesn't really work as a normal size letter though. Perhaps someone could add a note to font designers in the Unicode spec: "This glyph is intended to be three times larger than a regular O.&
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by ectopod 5y ago
> However, the older employees warned me that the criteria for such bonuses were often ill-defined. I therefore pushed for clear achievable objectives. These pre-agreed objectives were promised, but never provided. He asked for clear con
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by ectopod 5y ago
In my head CRTC will always mean Cathode Ray Tube Controller.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It doesn't matter how good your technical solution is if the law says that the scrambling doesn't matter. The threat being considered in this thread is a future crackdown on bitcoin and how the blockchain may be used against bitco
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by ectopod 5y ago
Are they effective against this technique? https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-blockchain-fifo-dirty-co... You might find that the mixer, rather than washing your bitcoin, unexpectedly taints them.
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by ectopod 6y ago
You don't need to use international law to create an international crime. For example, many countries have laws against the sexual exploitation of children that apply internationally. If the French government, say, wants to punish Fre
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by ectopod 6y ago
Sometimes. Sometimes it's the 22nd. Neither of which are a long way from January 1st. Hence "roughly".
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by ectopod 6y ago
March 25th is roughly the spring equinox. January 1st is roughly the shortest day of the year. Both seem like reasonable choices.
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by ectopod 6y ago
If someone has transitioned they are transsexual. Transsexuals have had legal rights for decades. The recent transgender rights movement is specifically about people who have not transitioned.
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by ectopod 6y ago
> And so there will be quite a few samples of a thousand that are higher than 66% 1-4. Yes, roughly half of them. But that's not the point. The point is that the vast majority of those will be only slightly more than 66%. You won
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by ectopod 6y ago
If you rolled a dice a few thousand times and found a very unlikely subsequence of length one thousand then the dice almost certainly would be unfair. You need to spend lifetimes rolling dice to find sequences of a thousand rolls where the
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by ectopod 6y ago
A sample of thousands is huge. Imagine rolling a dice a few thousand times and getting no or very few sixes. You would be certain that the dice wasn't fair.
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by ectopod 6y ago
Cheers. I thought NI was capped at a fairly low level so I ignored it, but it turns out that employer's NI is not.
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by ectopod 6y ago
Why not take your compensation as salary rather than dividends? You'll be paying the top rate of 45%. Am I missing something?
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by ectopod 6y ago
Every newspaper that I've ever read does this. There will be a blurb on the letters page saying something like "We reserve the right to edit letters". It's clear to both readers and correspondents. If you don't li
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by ectopod 6y ago
Requiring javascript to read a simple article doesn't seem very pragmatic.
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by ectopod 6y ago
Being pedantic, CreateProcess is more fundamental but ShellExecute, dating back to 16-bit Windows, is older.
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by ectopod 6y ago
I take your point, but I think you're unreasonably optimistic. It's worth a try, but $22 billion? On the other hand, maybe you're right. We're both British. What do we care if the US government spunks all this money u
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by ectopod 6y ago
God forbid anyone would imagine how this would this work. I wonder which scenario is more plausible, the one you responded to, or the one linked below? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652386
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by ectopod 6y ago
Not to defend the system, but I don't think they were trying to fraudulently get her 48 hour payment. Rather, if they accepted advance bookings (which was, after all, the old system) then almost nobody would be seen in 48 hours. They
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by ectopod 6y ago
People have been worrying about such things for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata
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by ectopod 6y ago
> The elderly in particular. Over time all your teeth go. This was the view of dentists before WWII. Both of my grandmothers had all their teeth pulled before they were thirty when there was very little wrong with them. "You'

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