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by jlokier 5y ago
Yes, it was very much the UK government's decision, due to reciprocity. There is no question that Germany would have reduced visa requirements for UK citizens, if the UK reduced visa requirements for EU citizens. During Brexit negotiat
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by jlokier 5y ago
> staff shortages would not either That's just hilarious. There are so many reasons for staff shortages in the UK right now. Covid isn't even the main one.
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by jlokier 5y ago
> socialise because you've self excluded from it. How on earth did you get from "does not preclude pubs, socialising, or hanging out with people" to "you've self excluded"? Bizarre.
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by jlokier 5y ago
> We set the "default" price (the one in the price box, that can be edited) based on your IP address and OECD data about the cost of a mid-priced meal for 2 without alcohol in (roughly) your (apparent) location. Nice idea. Whi
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by jlokier 5y ago
Where I live all the pubs have outdoor areas and table service, and frankly that's a nicer experience for hanging out with mates than being cramped in line at the bar anyway. Not mingling indoors does not preclude pubs, socialising or
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Long Covid: 'I have to choose between walking and talking'(bbc.co.uk)
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by jlokier 5y ago
> What??? It makes sense if you see it as a hierarchy of priorities: First priority: Believe in making open source / free software where other people can exercise the associated freedoms. Second priority: Want to make income, it&#x2
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by jlokier 5y ago
Yes. Not much, but more than I got - nobody invited me to anything when I was going to about 1 meetup a week for a couple of years, except for suggesting other related meetups. Turns out people at meetups often have very full lives already
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by jlokier 5y ago
I didn't say I haven't socialized. I said I haven't mingled indoors. It takes a narrow viewpoint to think those are the same.
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by jlokier 5y ago
I've been to many meetups (pre 2020), had a great time, got to know many people. Nice pub chats afterwards, usually longer than the meetups themselves. Overall I really enjoyed them. I did these in Oxford and London. But I noticed,
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by jlokier 5y ago
I've sat in numerous pubs, coffee shops, restaurants and other social places by myself for many years, and in my experience people just let you be by yourself, doing your own thing. (Just for clarity, I do have friends. I'm the s
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by jlokier 5y ago
> I don't think you're weird btw, just less social I guess? It's not the GP being less social - it's their neighbours as well. They said other people don't knock, which is what make it seem like it would come o
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by jlokier 5y ago
A travel/flight ban changes the exponent, which changes the shape and peak of the healthcare curve, buys time for gathering data, and in Omicron's case, more time to roll out an mRNA booster dose which significantly improves prote
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by jlokier 5y ago
Reported death rate is currently increasing in the UK, and so are hospitalisations. The reported ratio of detected cases to deaths is reducing, but this what you would expect during the rapid spreading phase, because of the long time lag be
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by jlokier 5y ago
The doses do not all set your immune system to the same state, despite being the same substance. The subsequent doses cause further evolution within the body to broaden the spectrum of its response. This is why there were two doses in the f
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by jlokier 5y ago
A significant problem with 2FA codes on a phone (if not backed up) is when the phone breaks or is lost or stolen. Seems to me a Yubikey can also break or be lost or stolen. That's why I rejected a Yubikey option and use Aegis instead.
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by jlokier 5y ago
No scientific data unfortunately, but this BBC article explains that even though it's the same substance each time, the effect develops further over multiple doses, and goes on to describe what that means using metaphors. BBC News - Om
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by jlokier 5y ago
Caller-saved registers (aka. "volatile registers") are only saved when they are live in the caller at the point of a function call, and they are not always live. Code generation tends to prefer callee -saved registers instead at
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by jlokier 5y ago
There are two articles about Afghanistan on the BBC front page right now, and more can be found by following links into categories Afghanistan or Taliban; I found 20 articles in the last 5 days. So I wouldn't say they're exactly i
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by jlokier 5y ago
I get "Please find the app on the iOS app store" and "Download the Scale of the Universe iOS app!" on my Android Samsung Galaxy S8+. I assume there is no app that will run on my phone, and that the web version might wo
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by jlokier 5y ago
I'm testing io_uring for file I/O for a database engine, which is a very different code path than networking with epoll, and so far I've been disappointed to find it roughly 20% slower than my userspace thread pool doing the
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by jlokier 5y ago
Ironically, it is not true that "async" (stackless) event loop systems don't store unnecessary processor state to memory. Those systems store the entire processing state in future object memory. It is the same state that thre
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by jlokier 5y ago
The original question was whether a small company can make a better device than a very large company. Here you've defined "better" to include "can ship very large quantities", which is almost a circular way of defi
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by jlokier 5y ago
I agree with you. But it is dismissive to those people with nobody at all in their lives, to equate "got calls instead of in-person visits" with "nobody knows or cares about you and you will never receive a call from anyone f
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by jlokier 5y ago
Video calls weren't banned, so it wasn't as bad as for people that nobody calls at all.
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by jlokier 5y ago
I'm fairly sure most Mac users are running non-M1 hardware, and that will continue for a few more years. Even the earliest M1 Air has been out for less time than most people's laptop replacement time, and MBP users are very unlike
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by jlokier 5y ago
Bcachefs appends log entries into large leaf blocks instead of updating the sorted block data for insert the way a standard B+tree would do it.
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by jlokier 5y ago
It works on my Galaxy S8 when I view the page from HN reader Materialistic :) That's because it runs fine in Firefox Focus. The error message shows up in Samsumg Internet Browser and Chrome though. (S8 is a great device. I don't w
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by jlokier 5y ago
Perhaps a coincidence, but Telegram in a Firefox tab also uses a phenomenal amount of ever increasing swapspace. I've seen Firefox reach 67GB with a Telegram tab open, it is distinctly noticable compared to just about everything else I
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by jlokier 5y ago
Your idea works well for other kinds of more abstract critical sections too, such as code regions where a garbage collection should be temporarily deferred. Or in embedded systems where code is running at supervisor level, regions where an

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