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by logifail 3y ago
> Should it be fixed? Obviously. The system, administered by C[r]apita, does not log a disproved link... so we get: DfE: "Hello, are you dead or is our wrong data match from last time still wrong?" The repeated asking of the sa
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by logifail 3y ago
> Is it the best solution? Likely not. But the problem is real and does demand a solution of some form. From the original article: "According to the Department for Education (DfE), which oversees Teachers’ Pensions, death register e
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by logifail 3y ago
> Obviously this sounds like such a US problem. Self checkout in the UK and Europe (Estonia and Barcelona) IME works perfectly: > - No thefts Source? "Shop thefts have more than doubled in the past three years, and the boss of M&
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by logifail 3y ago
Mostly OT, but related to emergency staircases. We visited Glasgow (Scotland) last summer and the hotel fire alarm went off the middle of the night (for whatever reason we seem to attract fire alarms while on family holidays) After getting
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by logifail 3y ago
> We also have to remember that a lot of the historical figures we glorify through their great achievements were terrible people in many respects. And that often goes undiscussed. ...or we focus on how terrible a person was, and insist o
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by logifail 3y ago
> Amongst the numerous reasons why (B) may not be preferred is governments in looking at macroeconomics will generally want to disincentivise buying services overseas, something which would reduce domestic GDP and strengthen the economie
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by logifail 3y ago
> We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it. In theory: sure In practice: not really, especially when you're small and the other side is big and has lots of law
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by logifail 3y ago
The gummy bear method needed actual fingerprints from the victim (for instance lifted from a glass the victim had touched). The CCC improvement worked merely from photos of the victim's thumb...
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by logifail 3y ago
> They do add value, they make clicks more likely "Making clicks more likely" is a terrible measure of genuine value. There are lots of images which will make people click, even if once they see your page they click 'Back&
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by logifail 3y ago
> Biometrics are a terrible choice for sensitive information [..] It is easier to push your thumb on a screen than to pry a password out of your head It's way worse than that, you may only need photographs of someone's thumb
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by logifail 3y ago
> War happens when one party thinks that the other party is weak enough to be attacked [..] "in war, truth is the first casualty. It is typically accompanied by a fog of official lies. And no such fog has ever been as thick as in th
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by logifail 3y ago
Read an MSDS for unleaded petrol and it's clear one should not mess about with it. https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/austra... Since we're talking about EVs, note that
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by logifail 3y ago
> I don't know the design Doesn't that feel just a little awkward, to first claim "every critical thing in an airplane is redundant", yet when asked for specifics to have to resort to saying you "don't know
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by logifail 3y ago
> They have four bolts. Two at the top and two at the bottom. reply So how many have to fail for the door to open? In other words, if three fail, can one still keep the door shut?
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by logifail 3y ago
> how much you are shortening your life by standing at a gas pump inhaling carcinogens [Full disclosure: worked for years in a chemistry lab where we had "proper" risks, including but not limited to real carcinogens] CDC: &quot
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by logifail 3y ago
> I park on the street and can charge overnight easily and cheaply [..] Q: How much do you pay to charge on-street?
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by logifail 3y ago
> Not sure about the maintenance cost being higher Sixt and Hertz seem fairly sure, and they are the ones with statistically-significant data on this: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/08/sixt-dumping-tesla
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by logifail 3y ago
> when using a gasoline car you still have to stop every two hours to pee, stretch your legs, and swap drivers Source? My longest ICE-powered trip recently was a ~500 mile trip across Europe with precisely one 15 minute break to pee an
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by logifail 3y ago
> I blame about half of the anti science backlash on breathless journalism [..] This isn't a science-specific problem. Journalism has serious issues with incentives.
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by logifail 3y ago
> That's why every critical thing in an airplane is redundant I'm not sure how to understand that claim. Do the emergency doors/door plugs have two bolts? Three bolts? Ten bolts? If the manufacturer and/or the
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by logifail 3y ago
> If something is killing birds, even a lot of birds [..] then there generally isn't a lot of concern over it. ...from cat owners. There's plenty of concern from wildlife-lovers: https://www.theguardian.com/envi
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by logifail 3y ago
> The people who run the SRO have an interest in perpetuating their organization, so they if anything have an incentive to be stricter than the government would Except if the "people who run the SRO" are in fact employees of t
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by logifail 3y ago
> the web site [..] is routinely offered as a fun toy for a new executive to make their mark on to show how they've got exciting new visions for the company To be fair to Microsoft, this issue affects a great many other companies, e
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by logifail 3y ago
> The industry standard Pfft... > for peering is paying the 95th percentile of egress or ingress depending on whichever is greater. Ingress is free for these clouds because egress > ingress overall How about customers pay for actu
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by logifail 3y ago
> Gaining root to any network you don't own or have authorization to operate is clearly crossing the line Q: As an attacker - whatever colour your hat - how are you supposed to know if any particular action may gain you root unless&
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by logifail 3y ago
> They would know someone was landing [...] A good friend of mine worked for decades in ATC, I asked him earlier today what he'd have said, he thought "Taxi to C5 and hold" would have avoided confusion. In his view &quot
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by logifail 3y ago
> They thought they were cleared [..] I don't know how they could think that, they read back the ATC message and it seems unambiguous: Tokyo TOWER: "JA722A Tokyo TOWER good evening. Number 1, taxi to holding point C5." JA7
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by logifail 3y ago
> This random egg boil time calculator ... Good grief. Three PhD authors <sigh> ... when did we all forget the scientific method? "Our" eggs, starting at room temperature, boiled for exactly 3 minutes 30 seconds, gives
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by logifail 3y ago
> There is usually a pretty clear and obvious point where you can stop [..] sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze to keep going as you often have proven the thing you needed to or found the critical defect Those who are tasked
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by logifail 3y ago
> given the risk, it's safer to take the VC money That's quite the claim. Can you explain why you think this is the case?

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