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by foldr 1y ago
That isn’t inconsistent with what I said. The Post Office prosecuted under the general right for private individuals or companies to bring a prosecution.
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by foldr 1y ago
That’s true, but it’s unclear the extent to which any of that was a factor. For example, how was the Post Office’s access to the PNC relevant here? It may be that the CPS would have taken over these prosecutions and dropped them if the comp
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by foldr 1y ago
It loads for me, so I think the link will be useful for some people at least.
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by foldr 1y ago
Report PDF here: https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Repo...
725.
by foldr 1y ago
This is a myth as far as I’ve been able to determine. The prosecutions were ordinary private prosecutions. The Post Office didn’t need any kind of special legal status in order to prosecute.
726.
by foldr 1y ago
I’m not nitpicking the poster’s grammar, I’m nitpicking the claim about the grammatical structure of a particular sentence that’s the factual basis of their criticism of the article.
727.
by foldr 1y ago
No, the Post Office doesn't have its own "law enforcement" (if you mean something like a police force) or its own judges. Any company has the right to bring a private prosecution under UK law, and this was the basis for the p
728.
by foldr 1y ago
It’s only an inversion of the usual burden of proof if you assume that evidence from a computer can only ever be used to aid the prosecution. It can also be used to aid the defense, in which case this presumption makes it harder to convict
729.
by foldr 1y ago
In principle, yes. It may be that the bar was set too high and that there needs to be some clarification of exactly what the presumption means. I’d argue that some kind of weak presumption along these lines clearly makes sense and is probab
730.
by foldr 1y ago
UK law said that there was a presumption that computer systems were working correctly unless there was evidence to the contrary. That’s not inherently nuts. It makes roughly as much sense as assuming that, say, a dishwasher is in working or
731.
by foldr 1y ago
> Suicide is a verb No it isn’t. You can’t say “He suicided.”
732.
by foldr 1y ago
> To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice “X died by suicide” is a sentence in the active voice. “Die” is an intransitive verb and cannot be passivized in English.
733.
by foldr 1y ago
Read The Lion and the Unicorn if you want an overview of Orwell's political views: https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20180531/html.php He was was in favor of wealth redistribution and nationalisation of key i
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by foldr 1y ago
Even the literal literal Nazis didn’t campaign for minorities to be sent to gas chambers. If you’re going to do this silly pedantic act about how no-one in 2025 can literally be a Nazi, at least do it right.
735.
by foldr 1y ago
There are elements of truth to this, but it’s a wild exaggeration. It feeds into exactly the kind of political cynicism that stops people voting and makes the problem worse.
736.
by foldr 1y ago
That seems like a paraphrase of the same thing? He’s joking about prisoners trying to escape the camp and being eaten by alligators.
737.
by foldr 1y ago
You can find this by googling "trump allegator escape". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdxlld0dgxwo
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by foldr 1y ago
Yes, but they may ask for more USD than they would if the dollar were stronger against the Euro.
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by foldr 1y ago
It’s an important distinction because being fired suggests a fault on the part of the employee. Despite what you appear to suggest, there is no public information suggesting that this person was laid off for performance related reasons. Aga
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by foldr 1y ago
The 8051. I think C++ compilers technically exist for it, but for most hardware the only practical choice is the Keil C51 compiler, which is C89.
741.
by foldr 1y ago
Isn't general MSFT bashing a bit off topic in this thread? Also, it's discourteous to the individual in question to keep incorrectly stating that they were fired. The distinction between being fired and being laid off is an import
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by foldr 1y ago
I mean they are? It’s just that you might have to go and talk to one of the employees rather than waiting passively for them to come to you. I find it weird that people have an issue with that.
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by foldr 1y ago
Not at all. The only reason I ever go into an Apple Store is that I know I won’t get pressured to buy something. But I do replace my iPhone and my MacBook every few years, and on some level, the Apple Store being a relaxing environment to b
744.
by foldr 1y ago
You can do raw memory access via the ‘unsafe’ package, so I don’t think it would be impossible to do NaN boxing in Go. It would be somewhat less convenient than in C.
745.
by foldr 1y ago
Looks like he was laid off, not fired. But so what? Layoffs have their own weird logic. It doesn’t tell us anything about how the project is perceived internally to Microsoft.
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by foldr 1y ago
I use it just as a better asdf. I don’t quite see the point of the rest of its functionality, but “asdf without needing to install plugins” is a compelling enough proposition for me.
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by foldr 1y ago
It's his own online monicker.
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by foldr 1y ago
Stroustrup believes that signed should be preferred to unsigned even for values that can’t be less than zero: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p14...
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by foldr 1y ago
Obligatory In Praise of Idleness quote: > Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an
750.
by foldr 1y ago
Not sure why you are doubling down on this weird claim that Abby “seems trans”. Apart from that, you’re just making vague criticisms that characters “lack gravity”, etc. The only specific thing you don’t like about them is that they’re LGBT

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