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by jlokier 4y ago
There is literally a move to do that. They are openly campaigning to repeal the Human Right Act and replace it with something that strips away most protections that are currently available to people whose human rights are violated by govern
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by jlokier 4y ago
That may be true of certain political societies such as the local conservatives, I'm not sure. But Oxford is an anti-Brexit, pro-European place. The academics (there are a large number) and the locals both dislike Brexit and voted agai
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by jlokier 4y ago
People <5 years after graduation not buying houses are usually renting, and renting often requires a credit check, so bankruptcy would still adversely affect their housing.
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by jlokier 4y ago
I agree, and will add that with ordinary HTML+CSS (not a game), I've occasionally seen Chrome/WebKit rendering bugs which I didn't see when testing during development with Firefox. Testing in Firefox is a pretty good way to a
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by jlokier 4y ago
"about:performance" does not show any pages or add-ons being memory hogs. The memory use per page that it shows is surprisingly small, and the total comes to < 1GB. And I see the real memory usage grown, eventually to crashi
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by jlokier 4y ago
I'm with the GP on this: FF is unstable with lots of tabs. It's a big memory hog, and it's been like this for about 2 years in my experience so far. I'm using a Mac with 16GB RAM, and it's not enough for Firefox a
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by jlokier 4y ago
Aha, a name for it. I ran a meeting once where a significant consensus decision was made after lengthy discussion of several alternatives. The result surprised and disappointed me, so I checked with everyone individually later, away from th
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by jlokier 4y ago
I wish it was, reverse engineering is fun! But no, it's site reliability engineering.
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by jlokier 4y ago
ARMs are vulnerable to several spectre-style exploits, and have mitigations that can be turned on at some cost to performance just like x86. Links to ARM FAQs and other docs below. Note that ARM's list of vulnerable implementations doe
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by jlokier 4y ago
> that depends on severance package. Can't say for other industries, in tech we're exceptionally lucky - the packages are large, If only. What is this "package" you speak of?! :-) I've been laid off a number of t
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by jlokier 4y ago
Longer video, has more of the event. https://youtu.be/UdnNIQQOANk Link that doesn't require YouTube age assertion: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2022/jun/10/unseen..
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by jlokier 4y ago
> So monads are from functional programming, right? Monads are from category theory, a branch of math. Category theory is the study of generic, simple patterns that work in many different contexts. The insights from recognising those p
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by jlokier 4y ago
In blockchains, aside from the usual reasons you would store data with error-detection and correction (ordinary data resiliance in storage and transmission), Reed-Solomon is used for: - Data Availability Proofs, which allows a node to prove
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Thankfully, crates.io forces github SSO. Ouch. That must be difficult for any Rust package maintainers whose GitHub accounts were deleted a few months ago due to the Russian war sanctions.
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by jlokier 4y ago
> It solves what part of Sony saying they are aware that people have bought things, but that they will no longer distribute those things? Yes, in the model I and others have described. > There is no archive where you get to download t
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by jlokier 4y ago
Unlike a normal receipt, a well built NFT is virtually unforgeable and uncloneable, even by the receipt-issuing entity. This changes the trust model significantly, so that different legal principles can be applied. So the download access fr
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Simply only use the Apple app store and you will have the same phone you had before. That's not really true. Apps you need and currently use may well be moved from the Apple app store. For example WhatsApp. Some people have to use
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by jlokier 4y ago
No need for a bridge, I have signal processing products with my name on them, thanks. I'm familiar enough with the field to know how such things work. An active multi-peer beamformer uses a single transciever complex using mathematica
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by jlokier 4y ago
Beamforming phased array MIMO antennae certainly can transmit to and receive from multiple stations via spatially distinct beams in parallel at the same time. I don't know if Starlink satellites do so, but it is technically possible.
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by jlokier 4y ago
> the idea that renting out a property for a non infinite period of time should be impossible is ??? to me Nobody proposed that, especially for individual landlords with one property. However they do propose that a tenant can stay if th
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by jlokier 4y ago
You might find "Why America can't build" interesting, posted here a couple of days ago. There were a lot of comments discussing that question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31890048
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by jlokier 4y ago
For HN readers, section 21 eviction means a landlord can send a "no fault" eviction notice to their tenant at (almost) any time, and the tenant must leave fairly quickly (2 months), which is not long enough to plan around. As a re
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by jlokier 4y ago
How would abolishing section 21 evictions sort out issues related to being priced out of the area for private tenants? Tenants still have to leave when their 12 month fixed term tenancy ends (the most common type I've seen), if they re
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by jlokier 4y ago
Here's my understanding: The mortgage lenders have two kinds of check on your income/expenses situation: Affordability, and income. (In addition to credit history and things like that.) They are keeping the income limits: it'
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by jlokier 4y ago
Why was it so hard to fill? Was it lack of interested candidates, or were your requirements such that you rejected all the candidates until you found an excellent fit?
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by jlokier 4y ago
To be fair, there's "ops to support production" and "ops to support development". "Devops" means the latter at some companies, so it makes a kind of sense that those people don't do any dev work thems
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by jlokier 4y ago
The last seven job offers I got, "interviews" were friendly chat style with no coding test or assignment. Some of them asked a string of technical questions, some did not. Where there were technical questions I enjoyed answering
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by jlokier 4y ago
Heh. The most amusing referral I had, which I didn't ask for, caused me to get a surprise email from HR saying "we have received an internal recommendation from X about your interest in our position of mechanical engineer; to p
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by jlokier 4y ago
The Linux kernel uses chained hash tables in many places. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
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by jlokier 4y ago
> authenticate a vulnerability, without the hacker revealing the vulnerability itself In principle, with standalone software that can be run under emulation, including OSes and device software, it's possible to publish a verifiable,

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