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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Without further information there are really no useful security conclusions to be drawn. The technical experts in question may have an advanced lock screen bypass, or they may have tried entering his birthday as the passcode.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
You can often get pretty far with `perf top`, also. Maybe not so much in this case, where it sounds like the overall CPU used was low compared to the amount available from the system, but for hot-spots it can be handy.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
There's a very long technical expert report describing Horizon on the Inquiry website: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/expg000... I have to confess to not having read it, but it's the clo
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
https://archive.is/Wa8Rx
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
London is equivalent to SF in terms of homelessness? Pull the other one.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I'm not sure it's apples to apples on property; the average US house might be slightly more expensive, but it's also three times the size!
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
New Labour more than doubled the NHS budget in real terms, and maintained that level over time [1]. Having worked in both environments, it's not particularly important to me whether work gets done by a private or a public entity, the m
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Off the top of my head: saving the NHS from decades of under-investment; introducing the National Minimum Wage; putting in place a huge school repair programme; ending the Troubles in NI; writing off the debts of poorer countries; Scottish
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I think you're looking for RFC 9221, "An Unreliable Datagram Extension to QUIC."
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
IP addresses vary in scale in terms of the number of devices behind them. There are many, many reasons for this including corporate gateways, mobile networks, CGNAT, VPNs, public wifi and yes, even home NATs. There's no "normal&qu
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> An executive from Clarin, an Argentine media group, told a Huawei event in May that his firm was replacing expensive Oracle database software with Gauss, Huawei’s offering. This seems like an odd development. I can well understand wh
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
He does address that point with a quote: > I remember the spring of 1941 to this day. I realized then that a nuclear bomb was not only possible — it was inevitable. Sooner or later these ideas could not be peculiar to us. Everybody woul
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
A very late response, but just to say thanks for this. The full dataset you found is actually available at https://www.nationwidehousepriceindex.co.uk/download/ftb-mtg... . It is worth looking at the mid-2000s numbers (
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I agree, but in fairness, engineering mistakes do happen all the time, in every organisation. A good engineering culture enables mistakes to be acknowledged and reviewed in an emotionally neutral manner, ideally leaning to a learning experi
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I didn't believe your statement, so I looked up some numbers. 1989: - Interest rate: 14.5%. - Average house price: £58k. - Monthly repayment: £650 (90% LTV, 25 year term). - Average pre-tax income: £10k. 2024: - Interest rate: 5.25%. -
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I think the younger generations (me and you both included) have failed to effectively direct British political discourse towards the issues that actually matter to us. Instead, we allow lazy cliches ("blame boomers", "blame E
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
OK, but you've missed the point about relative interest rates on those mortgages. You can't reasonably comment on affordability without taking that into account. As a child in the 1980s with two working "boomer" parents
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
IANA manage TLDs. Country-code TLDs are defined as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 [1] (with the grandfathered exceptions .ac and .uk). Generic TLDs are subjected to a DNS stability check before approval [2] which, amongst other things, requires that th
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I have the same car as you. Mine does 220 miles full-empty when driven 70mph on the UK motorway. To get 280 mikes from a 59kW battery you would need to be achieving 210Wh/mi average. I can't get that, at any speed.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I don't think you've missed anything. The news here appears to be that a unsecured public proxy is willing to proxy things and make them available to the public in an unsecured fashion. The article does make the point that some mo
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
A fantastic read, but slightly different from the OpenAI debacle? It sounds like Frito-Lay got to air their commercial for the usual period. Yes, there was a small downside in that it cost them $2.5M (plus their own lawyer's fees), w
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I understand why this got flagged, but I'm sad that it did. There are a million places to discuss politics on the internet, but none of them quite have the perspective that HN does. As a relatively long-term reader (I don't think
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
This is the answer which resonates most with me. The current government has long since run out of steam, and it must now be clear to them that they are going to lose the election. If they bow out in July, then they're pretty much guara
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
It's been a while since I used this in anger, but my recollection is that it maintains a fixed-size set of items. The same algorithm is in section 3.2 of https://erikdemaine.org/papers/NetworkStats_TR2002/pape
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
On the topic of counting things, I would like to mention this efficient and easily-implemented algorithm for finding the top- k items in a stream, which I think is perhaps not as well known as it should be: A Simple Algorithm for Finding
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Exactly, so this is a 2% conversion rate for an unsolicited trial of a product that costs $8k . Seems really pretty decent to me.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> ...don't complain when the draft officer knocks on your door. As long as my country has an independent nuclear deterrent and a functionally democratic government then I feel that my son is safe from the draft officer. The places
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I checked and I think you're correct. Temu's T&Cs for the UK specifically say that > You agree that, where applicable, you will act as the importer of the products purchased -- https://www.temu.com/uk&#x2
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> Most smart devices are manufactured outside the UK, but the PSTI act also applies to all organisations importing or retailing products for the UK market. Failure to comply with the act is a criminal offence, with fines up to £10 milli
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> The rules are really quite pissweak. Ah, but you need to look at how the UK government has implemented this [1]. The law itself is the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022. That law makes reference to &quot

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