khushia

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by khushia 6y ago
Though the rhetorical questions appear to be making some rather outlandish claims (e.g. that in Slide #2 there are a reducing number of acute respiratory admissions while COVID attributed deaths are increasing), these stats and claims appea
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Ask HN: Strategies for porting native code to another OS?
2 points by khushia 10y ago|1 comments
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Diving into the Fleet – A Look at London's Lost Tube(londonreconnections.com)
1 points by khushia 10y ago|0 comments
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by khushia 10y ago
What does "you can make unprotected left turns" mean? I'm from the UK so I guess this is the US equivalent of turning right at a set of traffic lights... but what significance does "unprotected" have?
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by khushia 11y ago
Most people I've introduced to Maven have asked "OMG, why do you have a file called 'porn.xml'?!"
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by khushia 11y ago
A lot of those tweets could get you sent to prison in the UK. I wonder what the British Police would do with complaints about a bot like this based in the UK - would the engineers be held responsible?
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SortPom – a Maven plugin to keep your pom.xml tidy(github.com)
2 points by khushia 11y ago|2 comments
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by khushia 11y ago
I've been using FitNesse heavily at work for the past few years, and I've been surprised by how buggy we've found it. We have over 30,000 tests and we've had to rewrite part of it because it memory-leaked so badly. Unfor
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UK Government wins vote on Snooper's Charter bill(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by khushia 11y ago|0 comments
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Lexis – a programming exam invigilation system for Linux (2001) [pdf](pubs.doc.ic.ac.uk)
1 points by khushia 11y ago|1 comments
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by khushia 11y ago
That's really interesting. I did a CS degree in the UK and all exams were strictly supervised and we were never allowed computers. The exception to this was programming exams for which the department would boot all the lab workstations
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by khushia 11y ago
Out of curiosity - the Mid-term exam paper says: This midterm exam is open-book, open-note, open-computer, but closed-network. This means that if you want to have your laptop with you when you take the exam, that's perfectly fine, but
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by khushia 11y ago
What if the "state remote computer hacking" target isn't running Windows?
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Symphony – secure messaging for teams and enterprises(symphony.com)
1 points by khushia 11y ago|0 comments