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by foldr 2mo ago
I don't know where people get the idea that JSTOR is one of the bad guys. It's a non-profit that scans old journal articles that would otherwise be a huge pain to access. It costs money to do that. What specifically have they done
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by foldr 2mo ago
I mean, they don’t, exclusively, or no-one would be giving money to JSTOR. And certainly, no-one would be scanning millions of old journal articles for free.
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by foldr 2mo ago
> the touchbar software also had to run on the same CPU It actually ran on the separate T1 CPU.
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by foldr 2mo ago
No, but it's also not professional misconduct. I don't think Arday's work merited the position he held, but at the same time, you can't really fire a professor of sociology because you find out that they've run fewe
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by foldr 2mo ago
Yes, the First Amendment is unusually permissive. But the sentence "the UK has no legal freedom of speech protection" isn't sensible way to make that point. We're commenting on events which have received extensive (and p
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by foldr 2mo ago
I don’t particularly mind algorithmic interview questions (they’re at least self-contained, somewhat objective, and something you can prepare for), but most software engineering has always been done by people with no knowledge of algorithms
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by foldr 2mo ago
> The UK has no legal freedom of speech protection. This is completely untrue, as you can confirm by googling. The UK has historically had a problem with overly restrictive libel laws and libel tourism, but that point can be made witho
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by foldr 2mo ago
There's not a lot of equality of outcome at Cambridge when it comes to black academics. The percentage is lower compared to that of the general population and to that of British academia in general. Appointing Arday to the position was
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by foldr 2mo ago
You can avoid a lot of the smudgy processing on an iPhone by shooting ProRAW with the default camera app, or using something like Halide to take a single shot RAW.
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by foldr 2mo ago
In principle, yes, but the lock in is real. Most non-technical people who have decades' worth of important data and credentials linked to their Google Accounts can't easily move away from them. Depending on personal circumstances,
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by foldr 2mo ago
I think there's a naming confusion here. You said "M:N threads, aka green threads". However, your linked document clarifies that "green threads" are the M:1 threads that "[do] not exploit multiprocessors"
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by foldr 2mo ago
Because (depending on the exact poll) either a majority of plurality of the people of Northern Ireland favor remaining in the UK, so it’s not that simple politically. The Good Friday Agreement has provisions for a change in the future statu
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by foldr 2mo ago
And they have been out for about 100 years. The problematic issue is the status of Northern Ireland, where a slim majority, or clear plurality, still favor remaining in the UK. The idea that everyone would be happy if “the Brits” just “left
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by foldr 2mo ago
Google can block access to your Google account, which is enormously disruptive for many people whose online lives are built around it. In some ways it could be more disruptive in the long term than an arrest.
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by foldr 2mo ago
Where are you getting that figure from?
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by foldr 2mo ago
We’re talking about the practicalities of arresting protestors and whether or not face recognition on the tube would be a practical aid to police officers for this sort of purpose. Who should or shouldn’t be arrested is a separate question
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by foldr 2mo ago
I don’t have a problem with protests, but clearly there’s no one set of laws or policies that will be agreeable to everyone. Think fox hunting, abortion, trans rights, etc. etc. There will always be protests in a representative democracy.
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by foldr 2mo ago
Why wait till they’re on public transport if you’re going to arrest them before they even arrive at the protest?
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by foldr 2mo ago
Then it’s most likely going to be a very small protest.
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by foldr 2mo ago
Most of the online outrage has been about arrests for social media posts, and it’s arrests that you refer to in your comment. When it comes to prosecutions for hate speech, it would be difficult to make the case that the UK is an outlier.
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by foldr 2mo ago
Yes, the same can happen in the US. In general, no country has successfully constructed a magical force field that prevents its police officers from ever arresting people for stupid reasons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-ne
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by foldr 2mo ago
Same grounds as for arresting them anywhere else, more or less. I am not saying that the police should ban protests (and they generally don’t). I’m just talking about the practicalities of how they could go about doing it.
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by foldr 2mo ago
No, not really. This is a narrative that is pushed by certain segments of the American right (and some of their UK allies). It easily dominates online discussion in an environment where the majority of people posting have no direct experien
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by foldr 2mo ago
As with your sibling comment, what you’re describing is theoretically possible, but it’s also more difficult and resource intensive than the simple dumb alternative of blocking off the area of the planned protest and putting some police off
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by foldr 2mo ago
How would that work? Easiest way to stop protests is to block off the area of the planned protest and arrest people who try to enter it. It’s not clear to me how facial recognition on the tube would help from a practical point or view. Also
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by foldr 2mo ago
Phoenix is a big part of the appeal of Elixir, independently of the differences between Elixir and Erlang.
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by foldr 2mo ago
> Clause change doesn't rescue the logic I don’t understand what you mean here. > Fixed Your edit is the same in terms of the negatives (though refusing to do something isn’t really the same as just not doing it). But you’ve chan
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by foldr 2mo ago
It's not really a double negative as the negations are in different clauses. If you remove both negations, you get a completely different statement: > Hiring junior engineers will solve the problem you think you have.
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by foldr 2mo ago
>You have conservative parties who pay lip service but don't really make any effective change on the migration front Net migration to Germany has fallen sharply since 2022: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/S
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by foldr 2mo ago
I'm not sure you can really argue that Rust's traits are innovative . Haskell typeclasses, OO-style abstract interfaces, and C++-style associated types were already well-known and well-established features. The particular mix of

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