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by jlokier 5y ago
It's actually the opposite in the UK. Banks are required to deny bank accounts to people who are disqualified from banking, and also deny them from being added as signatories on shared accounts. This is why cashless in the UK would b
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by jlokier 5y ago
> There's nothing very mysterious about it, it's a modeling trick. I wouldn't say it's just a trick. They have remarkable properties. Quasiparticles (such as holes) have simple, relatively long-lived, non-dissipative
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by jlokier 5y ago
> you to retain dignity, self-sacrifice, and thinking about _them_ more than ever > That's precisely the time when you need to dig deep and let _reason_ take the lead I would say when self-sacrifice, thinking of others first is w
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by jlokier 5y ago
That's due to a trade-off of requirements, to maximise free and fair representation. Lack of postal votes makes the ballot less fair and representative, because it affects people with systematic bias in relevant sub-populations (wealth
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by jlokier 5y ago
If you're using a language that doesn't depend on indentation (C, Java, Go, Rust etc), try "diff -b" or "git diff -b". The indented basic block won't show as a difference, only the start and end of the blo
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by jlokier 5y ago
In the UK it is to the landlord and their agent's benefit to repeatedly terminate your 12 months (minus 1 day) home lease, and have you sign a new one, with arrangement fees of course. That's to make sure it is classed as a short
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by jlokier 5y ago
> Also I doubt this type of buying votes with verification is that big of an actual thing. You can trivially do it with paper voting to by just asking them to stream themself voting or by taking a picture of their ballot. It's not s
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by jlokier 5y ago
That's exactly right, although if you take the Fourier transform of that modulated signal you'll see that it uses infinite bandwidth due to the square-wave modulation steps at each half second. That can be sent through a narrow ba
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by jlokier 5y ago
Ignoring quantum effects, there's no upper limit in theoretically perfect radio conditions, even for a single radio channel, where there is absolutely no background noise or interference, and the antennae and electronics are literally
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by jlokier 5y ago
> there's only 1Mbit/sec for every 1Mhz of radio bandwidth > this is shared between all users in a given cell Both statements are untrue. For example, "Wifi 7" 802.11be reaches up to 125 Mbit/s for each 1 MHz
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by jlokier 5y ago
> If it becomes 'easier' to compress as you squash it, I assume there is some level of resistance before they attempt to squash it, right? Something measurable right? Yes, there is a measurable force resisting compression, call
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by jlokier 5y ago
On the first claim, looks like you're right and I learned something. It is interesting to see the Canada Supreme Court were split 5-4 on the Schmeiser decision and did not award any damages to Monsanto, (but that doesn't mean the
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by jlokier 5y ago
The company is free to treat contractors as well as an employee in many respects, if it chooses, even if pays them as a contractor internationally and has the legal constraints associated with that. Things like: Putting them on the same mai
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by jlokier 5y ago
Acute suffering and fear tends to last longer, subjectively, for humans. Psychological time stretches. Perhaps slowing it down is a more accurate portrayal of the animal's experience than not doing so.
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by jlokier 5y ago
That might not apply to Monsanto. Monsanto is infamous for contaminating non-GMO crops on neighbour farms then suing the neighbour for growing the GMO variety, and for "drift" of their special herbicide which happens to destroy ne
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by jlokier 5y ago
You might be thinking of Unison. https://www.unison-lang.org/
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by jlokier 5y ago
When you read a regular file from disk, and it's not in cache... the thread (or process) calling read() blocks , waiting for the data. Or perhaps you're using NodeJS-style async callbacks. Guess what happens... Your async read l
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by jlokier 5y ago
I had a laptop with NVIDIA GPU that crashed Xorg and had to be rebooted whenever Firefox opened WebGL. Just to complement the positive sibling comments :-)
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by jlokier 5y ago
You may find running the compilation workload in Linux in a VM on MacOS runs faster than on MacOS directly, while benefitting from the MacOS battery management.
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by jlokier 5y ago
Because you only intend to run it once, on one input, and ad-hoc interpreters are usually simpler to write than compilers.
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by jlokier 5y ago
As user 4ad explains, one of the reasons is that phase information isn't collected by the sensors, and is needed to reconstruct all the image detail. In radio astronomy the phase information is actually collected and sometimes recorded
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by jlokier 5y ago
Different light sources emit with different "Coherence length". A continuous-wave laser has high coherence length, and a light source that isn't a laser at all has low coherence length even if it's monochromatic, for ex
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by jlokier 5y ago
I think your experience may be different from the psychology-of-obligation issue that the GP describes. For someone in a stable, salaried job that pays reasonably well (assuming USA level or the better paid parts of Europe), it rarely makes
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by jlokier 5y ago
The most recent medium-size tech company I worked at is very security aware in a modern way, and uses Google IdP for employee access. But they don't trust Google, and have been looking for a way to migrate everything away (IdP, docs an
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by jlokier 5y ago
I found working in the Linux space did have that problem in pre-COVID times. Especially the lack of solid relationships, due to never meeting people and getting to know anyone personally. I spent too much time working on things for free (n
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by jlokier 5y ago
> I fail to see why it matters that your PR isn't accepted. Making their code useful to other people is a strong motivator for many altruistic open source developers. The purpose of getting PRs accepted upstream is so that your chan
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by jlokier 5y ago
I already know how NAT traversal works, and I've read a lot about it before. But credit to David Anderson at Tailscale. Their NAT traversal article is excellent, the best I've seen on the topic: https://tailscale.com&#
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by jlokier 5y ago
I wouldn't trust an IdP-based SSO login for any critical service that I need continuous access to, unless I control the IdP. All those stories like "Google blocked my account without recourse and don't answer tickets anyway&q
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by jlokier 5y ago
There are no queues in CSP, although you can make one by making a queue process. In CSP, the sending side of a message is always logically simultaneous with the receiving side. So it's like Go's default channels where the sender
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by jlokier 5y ago
I didn't argue for any particular movement or direction, and I agree that any change favours some and is worse for others. I argued that commenters who say permanent DST specifically favours night owls are incorrect about who it favour

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