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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
No, it's "We value your privacy". That's different. That means they see your privacy as having value, and they want to extract as much of that value out of it as they possibly can.
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
Apparently neither does spelling. "anymore" -> "any more"
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
Agreed. There's an argument elsewhere about how a truth booth can possibly have an expected return of more than 1 bit of information, but in reality most of the time it's going to give you way less than that.
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
No, that doesn't make sense either. For a truth booth, you're taking all the possible pairing arrangements, and dividing them into two sets. After the answer, one of those two sets is false. There is no way that this can provide m
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
Is that each, or divided between 20 people?
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by mnw21cam 10mo ago
The idea of listening to hardware running a program to tell what it is doing is surprisingly old. On the EDSAC computer[0] a little speaker was connected across one of the serial data lines, which allowed the progress of a program to be lis
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
Pretty please with a cherry on top use standard SI multipliers for numbers like this. I can't be sure without reading the article whether you mean 3.7G cells or 3.7T cells. Billion is ambiguous having different meanings to different pe
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
No, this is a misunderstanding of how fission works. When a nuclear reactor is run with mildly-enriched Uranium, which is a mixture of Uranium 235 and Uranium 238, it forms a self-sustaining chain reaction with the Uranium 235 (which is fis
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
Well found, though I'll also point out that the highway code uses "MUST" and "should" in the same way as the RFCs do.
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
I can't see how it would be country-specific. How else would you have any control of the forward motion of the vehicle otherwise, especially when starting on an uphill slope? You're meant to raise the clutch to the biting point an
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
It used to be law that a bicycle had to have a solid on light front and back at night, and any extra flashing lights were optional extras that didn't count, but they scrapped that law several years ago.
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
I have never understood why everyone seems to immediately forget everything in their driving lessons as soon as they pass their test. When you're waiting at a red light, you're meant to have the hand brake on (which does not illum
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
Higher colour temperature LEDs are more efficient, so that's one reason why they get chosen. It's not a good reason, given they're still a massive efficiency improvement over old halogens.
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by mnw21cam 11mo ago
Given how many cars I see on the road with only one headlamp working, we have a long way to go before enforcing anything like this.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
You mean you don't eat all your food? Disgraceful! Children starving in Africa etc.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I have a fantastic Asus laptop that is 8 years old now and (after an easy battery replacement) easily does everything I want from it and feels nice and solid. I was so impressed that I recommended Asus to someone else, and what they got was
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I have a VPS. It costs me £1.34 per month. It's way over-powered for what I need it for. However, one situation where I think the cloud might be useful is for archive storage. I did a comparison between AWS Glacier Deep Storage and loc
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I personally am looking forward to BackBlaze inventing error bars and statistical tests.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Agh. No, I meant turbofan, but I misread your post and actually completely agree with you - turboprobs are not jet engines.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
You'll probably have to wait a while. Petter is pretty insistent on waiting for the full incident report so that he can be completely thorough and avoid speculating.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Turbofans are by your own definition jet engines. It's just that the bypass air is much larger.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
No, I don't get it. Firstly, the normal system command output is not hard to read, but secondly, this output doesn't list any of the capabilities of the cables, just the devices at the ends of them. Perhaps showing an example of t
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Linux is user-friendly. It is just very particular about who its friends are.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Pushing "up" on an orbiting body causes no change to the altitude at the other side of the orbit (that is, 180 degrees around the orbit). However, it does raise the orbital altitude 90 degrees ahead, and lowers it 270 degrees ahea
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
According to google, 87% of Americans go to a state-funded school, so yes judging an American based on the fact that they could afford to be in the top 13% and go to a public school instead is legitimate. This doesn't seem to match wha
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Please don't do that. I should be the one to decide whether I read in dark or light mode. If you want dark mode, change your browser defaults. Leave us normal people alone.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
If you visit the emergency department of a lot of British hospitals, there will be large posters reminding the doctors "Could it be sepsis?" because of similar instances that occurred over here.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I did some analysis on this recently with a load of simulations. If you ignore the sunlight bouncing back from the surface (and I suspect this might still be the case if you don't ignore it), then the best orientation that maximises wi
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Octal or binary numbers are going to be fine, but it'll totally and confusingly mess up hexadecimal numbers.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
> File/directory size limit up to 193TiB (212TB) This would be a significant problem with my use case in the very near future. I already have double-digit-TB files, and that doesn't look like much margin on top of that.

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