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by maffydub 5y ago
> For UK citizens wanting to bring a family member from Ukraine, I hope it's not like the regular, draconian family scheme where approximately 50% of UK citizens with a foreign spouse cannot meet the eligibility criteria to bring in
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by maffydub 5y ago
I think the question is what does "security assurances" mean. The term doesn't appear in the actual text of the memorandum ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...
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by maffydub 5y ago
I'm only going by the Content section of the Wikipedia article you reference (which may be wrong), but to me it doesn't say that the UK "assures the integrity of Ukraine's border", just that UK respects its independ
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by maffydub 5y ago
> The rules for pedestrians haven't changed https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/updates suggests they have - specifically... > Updated rule 8 to clarify other traffic should give way when pedes
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by maffydub 5y ago
Thanks for the correction! I think I meant priority then - previously when turning into a side street, motor vehicles had priority over pedestrians waiting to cross, but now pedestrians waiting to cross have priority over motor vehicles tur
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by maffydub 5y ago
> This must be a cultural thing. I have seen two cyclists run red lights where I live in the past decade. I see motorists do the same thing every day. Fair enough. I only have my own experience to go on. Since writing my original comment
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by maffydub 5y ago
I'd be happy with the Highway Code being updated, or with other provision being made for cyclists, but it sounds like you're suggesting cyclists should just ignore the rules? The trouble with that is that by not following the rule
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by maffydub 5y ago
> If you notice cyclists doing it, but not drivers, that's because you've dehumanised cyclists. Whoa! That's a pretty big accusation! I think you might want to rethink. I do see drivers running red lights, but it's al
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by maffydub 5y ago
I'm not really watching for them inconveniencing vehicles, but I have (as a pedestrian) had to stop or move out if the way to avoid being hit (despite having right of way). (As I say, I don't drive or cycle, so it's not a cas
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by maffydub 5y ago
I don't drive or cycle (just a pedestrian) and definitely don't want to "dehumanize" cyclists, but I do find it scary (at least here in London) how rarely cyclists follow the Highway Code. In particular, it is very commo
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by maffydub 5y ago
I understood the changes to the Highway Code differently (although could be wrong). My understanding was that previously there were various situations where pedestrians did not have right of way and so, if there were cars coming, should not
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by maffydub 5y ago
At least where I work, it's company policy that, if you have your camera on (this is optional), you either blur the background or replace it with a virtual background. Doesn't that address this concern?
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by maffydub 5y ago
The `Result` type has a `map_err` method to which you can pass a function (or closure) to modify the error, so you can write something like... ``` let (val1, val2) = baz() .map_err(|err| add_my_context(err, "some context"))?;
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by maffydub 5y ago
Yes, 5G can operate on lots of different frequencies depending on whether you want high bandwidth or high coverage (or, through careful combinations) both! Since 50GHz is basically line-of-sight, if you want to jam it, just build a wall!
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by maffydub 5y ago
> ...now I have to prostrate myself before some review committee to use a staple of TCP/IP? Does anyone have any examples of using TCP with multicast? I'm not personally aware on any, and I wouldn't describe multicast as
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by maffydub 5y ago
I'm not sure why this is specific to malware. Isn't this just steganography? You could equally hide malware in a compressed image. Maybe the amount of data you can hide is higher, but that's primarily because they're s
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by maffydub 5y ago
Do you have any data on that? Currently living in zone 2 north-east London and house prices have seemed pretty flat for the last couple of years. Flats have had a surge due to current stamp duty holiday... and prices outside London seem
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by maffydub 6y ago
Going into low-power mode and then being woken up by the tower is standard function (even of 4G) - it's called paging, and pretty much all devices support it. Unfortunately, although listening for these paging messages requires less po
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by maffydub 6y ago
What's in it for the smaller software companies in "refusing" to get bought up? Obviously, they have the opportunity to get even bigger and either IPO or get purchased for a higher price... but they also have a risk of losing
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by maffydub 6y ago
This is for security, though - you can't just assume it's good enough because it will work for most benign applications - you need to be sure it will work for all applications - benign or malicious! There are other solutions such
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by maffydub 6y ago
Can it? If my application invokes syscalls directly, that wouldn't hit anything interposed using LD_PRELOAD.
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by maffydub 6y ago
Yes, I think it's https://patents.google.com/patent/US4719585A/en . It appears to be specifically the marching cubes (i.e. 3D) algorithm - this article just describes the marching squares (i.e. 2D) algorithm.
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by maffydub 6y ago
On "Black Holes have a strong gravitational pull.”... > For a black hole you keep falling towards the center, cross the horizon, and the gravitational pull continues to increase. I've always struggled with "crossing the ho
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by maffydub 6y ago
Not sure about the original Robocop, but Robocop 2 definitely had comic moments - the bit I particularly remember was the Sunblock 5000 advert ( https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Sunblock_5000 ).
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by maffydub 6y ago
From the BBC coverage ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54996601 ): > The tech titan also agreed for the next three years to provide "truthful information" about iPhone power management across its webs
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by maffydub 6y ago
I believe there's very little agriculture in Singapore - almost all food is imported.
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by maffydub 6y ago
As covered elsewhere, they're not the sole copyright holder.
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by maffydub 6y ago
I wouldn't... but I would expect the company trying to "buy" the employees to act at least partly in their interests - otherwise the new employees will soon become ex-employees!
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by maffydub 6y ago
I'm neither a driver nor a cyclist - just a pedestrian - but my impression is that, at least in my part of London, cyclists carry on through red lights much more frequently than cars. Obviously, purely anecdotal.
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by maffydub 6y ago
"insurmountable problems at the company that make you consider leaving" Is the problem with the company or that the company is no longer a good fit for the interviewer? Personally, I've been interviewing people to join the co

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