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by jpxw 6y ago
A South American country installing a socialist government. What could possibly go wrong?
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by jpxw 6y ago
Just to note, America has been doing this since Obama ( https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigran... )
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by jpxw 6y ago
It’s got to the point now where I find Windows unbearable to use. It feels like more mental energy to run Windows than it does to run Linux, and that’s saying a lot. I now recommend anybody who asks to just buy a Mac instead. Yeah, you’ll p
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by jpxw 6y ago
What symptoms, out of interest?
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by jpxw 6y ago
Hello from the UK, where we lock people up for jokes! Public authorities are just as corruptible.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Surely 5G can only make sense on an unlimited plan. Or the limits are going to have to become ridiculously big. You could burn a 30G/month limit in 10 seconds in “ideal conditions”.
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by jpxw 6y ago
I’ve had tinnitus since I was a child and can’t stand using noise-cancelling headphones due to this
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by jpxw 6y ago
> Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them. It seems to be taken as a given that arrest data is “biased”. I don’t think there’s solid evidence for
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by jpxw 6y ago
> According to US Department of Justice figures, you are more than twice as likely to be arrested if you are Black than if you are white. Why is black being capitalised and not white? Reads very strangely
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by jpxw 6y ago
Which part of the UK do you live in, I wonder. It it’s London (as I’d be willing to bet it is), I’m not sure you can generalise to the whole of the UK from that.
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by jpxw 6y ago
I’d be interested to know at what point the energy required for me to write in C (with a significantly longer development cycle, and thus more commutes, more time powering the office, more time running test harnesses, etc) would be outweigh
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by jpxw 6y ago
Looks like NodeLabel is a function which allows you to instantiate a NodeOptions with only the label attribute set in a shorthand way. So the functions taking the results of NodeLabel calls are able to accept more complicated options, the e
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by jpxw 6y ago
> LONDON – Twitter says it’s investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers White faces to Black ones. Why are colours being capitalised all of a sudden?
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by jpxw 6y ago
The search engine built to make people click on ads (/tongue-in-cheek)
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by jpxw 6y ago
Mildly related F1 fact: the green light at the start line comes on a random amount of time after the final red light comes on. This interval can be between 1 and 9 seconds.
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by jpxw 6y ago
An interesting thing to note about F1 pit crews is that they aren’t just F1 pit crews - each member of the crew has other roles in the team, mostly mechanics, but also engineers, technicians, and even lorry drivers.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Yet another Chesterton’s Fence torn down without regard
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by jpxw 6y ago
Saving the environment by making me pay for the accessory separately and have it shipped in a different truck with extra packaging
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by jpxw 6y ago
At least when you buy an Apple Watch you know your watch isn’t going to stop working because the company you bought it from let themselves get infected by ransomware
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by jpxw 6y ago
What about the code used in, for example, defence systems or intelligence agencies?
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f(), g() and h() are decent alternatives. Of course, the real solution is to come up with an reasonable example scenario with meaningful names.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Just watched the whole video, amazing, nostalgic but also subtly wrong in a number of annoying ways!
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This is like saying we should abolish under 15s sports leagues and just mix them in with the adults.
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Yeah it’s a ridiculous argument. The money being spent on those jobs is taken by force (which has an unmeasurable chilling effect on the economy), and then allocated according to central planning, inevitably in a way far less efficient than
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by jpxw 6y ago
The “language of the oppressor” is the language of protestors forcing people to not film.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Whether or not you think they’re “reporters” is irrelevant to whether they should be allowed to film.
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by jpxw 6y ago
How many people are not going to MIT because they are financially unable? I’m curious.
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No, in the same way that paediatrician isn’t pronounced paydiatrician
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by jpxw 6y ago
Yep, also should be “rationale” rather than “rational”.
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I remember watching a Top Gear special in India which showed the delivery system for hot food for workers from their wives - the food was placed in metal tins, loaded into pallets, driven to trains, offloaded from trains, and driven to the

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