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Out of 193 countries in the United Nations, only a small handful do not have a national paid parental leave law: New Guinea, Suriname, a few South Pacific island nations and the United States [1]. [1] https://www.npr.org/201
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Royal Marines tests out ship boarding exercises with jet-suits(youtube.com)
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Yes, just add 'primitive' before record in the declaration.
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> Is there a line of succession? His oldest child (the crown penguiness), Patricia, is next in line. It is expected that as part of the succession Linux will be renamed to Patricux.
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In-process sandboxing is falling out of favour. Code Access Security has been removed from the .NET framework [1]. And Java's SecurityManager is deprecated for removal in future versions of Java [2]. [1] https://docs.microso
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Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever(bbc.co.uk)
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I don't know about Apple. But I believe Samsung is basing their version on some of the tech from this article: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaay5206
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According to the numbers that made Denmark stop the AstraZeneca rollout. They saw about one in 40,000 people was effected by clots in some way [1]. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56744474
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I think he meant 16GB.
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Background: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-v...
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It will be interesting to see how this ends in the UK. The Culture Secretary of UK (Oliver Dowden) posted this on twitter a while ago "The whole ESL move shows how out-of-touch these owners are. They have completely misjudged the stren
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More info here [1], and a background discussion paper her [2]. [1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies [2] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/p
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> Why politicians still think that if they ban something then it will magically go away? But it probably would. Not completely, but few people would risk putting their life savings or any significant amount of money into something that w
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The website is a leftover from when you had to download Java to run programs. Microsoft Silverlight homepage have a similar simplistic feel[1]. I expect it to be updated at some point once there is no need for people to download a JRE. [1]
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Here is an official statement from the Danish Health Authorities about why AstraZeneca has been removed from the rollout: https://www.sst.dk/en/English/news/2021/Denmark-continues-it... The main takeaway
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A medical description of one of the danish cases is currently in preprint https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-408726/v1
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M is for Mac/Macintosh. So it is only used in their laptops and desktops.
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Not only do I think they do, I know they do [1]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/global-disruption-three-terro...
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With all of the effort spend worldwide on money laundering, terrorist financing, and transfer of funds regulations. I find it very hard to believe that someone won't come after cryptocurrencies at some point. None of these regulations
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David Nutt (the author of the book that was reviwed) is a professor at Imperial College London. He was famously fired as the UK government's chief drug adviser for saying that alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many recreational
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Yes, the linux kernel is a big codebase but so are a lot of others [1]. And you will find lots of private companies not mentioned that have long-standing projects with >10 mil LOC. If you took the 100 biggest code bases in the world. I w
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> the only scalable software development methodology is open source Some companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon would disagree.
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TLDR: Complex systems are complicated to build
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Here is a better link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56669397 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has backed the Czech Republic in its requirement for mandatory pre-school vaccinations. The case was bro
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Sun drove themself into the ground. And at least in the Java world they have been excellent stewards. The platform is moving forward again.
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A Parametric VM [1] is part of Java's project Valhalla. However, it is currently some releases away. [1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/parametric-vm.pdf
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Background: how we got the generics we have (2020)(cr.openjdk.java.net)
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> Microservices led to the growth of devstacks that has replaced frameworks a lot. You are just replacing one framework with another (Kubernetes).
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Run your own infrastructure. It will be fun, they said.
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I didn't say it started Project Loom I'm saying this article is one of the main reasons structured concurrency is being made part of project Loom. A link to this particular article have literally been on every project Loom slide c

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