hjb

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by hjb 5y ago
If you go to the 12 of June 2012 you can see a ship making its way across the Sahara. I assume this is a data funny.
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by hjb 6y ago
I believe that catching that at compile-time in Rust would have to wait for RFC 2000 to be implemented: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2000-const-generics.html This would allow generics that depend on const values (i
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by hjb 6y ago
That is a very retro raspberry pi :-D
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by hjb 6y ago
The space tug is there to change the trajectory of the other thing: 1. Tug gets in same position and velocity as its target, and docks. 2. Tug performs some kinda of burn to put both it and its target on the new trajectory. 3. Tug undocks a
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by hjb 6y ago
This page seems to suggest that's mostly because the solicitor will have barristers they prefer to work with: https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/for-the-public/finding-...
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by hjb 6y ago
Yup, to the extent that the US decided that it needed to ensure that UK libel law could not be enforced against US writers: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10940211
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by hjb 6y ago
There's a line in there that really stands out to me: >McDonald's spent several million pounds, while Steel and Morris spent £30,000; this disparity in funds meant Steel and Morris were not able to call all the witnesses they w
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by hjb 6y ago
If you dig into their website, they appear to be based in Singapore and Japan. I've no idea if those countries have similar laws.
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by hjb 6y ago
> One of those weird copyright decisions, like the one where Owens-Corning trademarked PINK Trademarks and copyright are NOT the same thing. That trademark would only give them rights to the branding PINK in the context of insulation. Co
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by hjb 6y ago
Right now I suspect that I'm living in an epidemiological model with entirely unreasonable parameters.
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by hjb 10y ago
This is very cool. I've actually been trying to do something similar is rust, but I'm nowhere near as far along (I basically just have load instructions working at this stage): https://github.com/harrybraviner&#x2F