mr_toad

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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> for most everyday tasks That’s true, if you’re in Paris you can get by with very little French. But don’t be too surprised if Gendarmerie aren’t particularly lenient just because tu ne comprends pas le français.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Step 6 is entirely missing in the EU. The parliament doesn’t form a committee to debate and perhaps refine the law, it just votes on what is put before it.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
To start your car please look into camera and repeat: "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> The userspace libs don't have a stable ABI at all, and this is a widely discussed problem. And DLL hell isn’t? Or the shambolic mix of 32 and 64 bit libraries on Windows? Anyway, desktop binaries are increasingly rare for busines
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> 3rd Reich was effectively becoming a big European nation Even then the US might not have done much if the Nazis hadn’t kept attacking US shipping.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
The Council might be involved, but it’s the commission that drafts legislation, and they’re unelected. Either way, drafting legislation should be the responsibility of the legislature (i.e the parliament), not the commission or the council.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
The power of the European Commission to propose legislation needs to be curbed or removed entirely. Executive agencies shouldn’t be writing legislation. It’s far to easy for them to propose laws that benefit the the European Commission, r
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
(c) avoid being hounded to death by a zealous district attorney.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Railways were both a bubble and, eventually, one of the most significant technological innovations in history.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Well, you needed the means to get an education, since most of the poor in those days were illiterate, which is something of an impediment to becoming a successful writer. I can only think of one writer off hand who wasn’t a wealthy landowne
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Pretty sure that phone companies have been anti-customer ever since the invention of the telephone.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> spatial distortions Acoustic distortions. The universe was small and dense enough for sound to travel through ‘space’, which was filled with plasma. The theory is that inflation blew up these tiny distortions to the scale of the stru
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
If only it took as long to close a ticket as to open one.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
1080p or higher is pretty common on the high seas, even for titles like cartoons, which in my opinion is overkill.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
What part of war is ever moral?
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Difficult to tax something you don’t have jurisdiction over.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> only because they had such an engine that the 747 became possible. Many engine manufacturers were experimenting with high-bypass ratios; Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce. GE was just first to production. If they hadn’t don
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
> Slaves in the later Roman Empire also had certain rights Cattle in the USA probably have more legal protections than slaves in the Roman Empire.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
If you’re not conscripted to fight the invaders, there’s always the risk that you’ll be conscripted by the invaders.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Chickens love them.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Not to mention Malaria, which kills over half a million people a year.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
I’ve often wondered about the thermal performance or running a MacBook with the lid closed. One argument is that the reduced surface area from a closed lid increases temperature. Others argue that not running & rendering the display (
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Nevertheless it was quite common for the Romans to pay off Germanic tribes. Equally it was common for them to demand tribute from weaker neighbours.
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by mr_toad 3mo ago
Blu ray discs can only (legally) be played in licensed devices, and some of the decryption keys can and have been revoked.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Going to Mars is absolutely insane value proposition for public company. So, you don’t invest in it. And then you don’t need to bother discussing the financial viability of Starlink or anything else. It’s like there’s a planet sized e
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> What is their fix for too small a market? Make Spaceship, an even bigger rocket ... for a market that sees no use for the existing Falcon 9 launch capacity ... It’s designed to go to Mars. It boggles the mind that anyone would invest
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> People I've worked with that used R and manged data / did analysis didn't really seem too concerned with long term maintenance. Unless you’re the poor schmuck who is given the task of running the code written by the prev
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Nevertheless cookies being sent with HTTP requests was how it worked before Javascript was invented, and at the time Netscape had to work with that for compatibility reasons. If we’d known then how the web is used now then a few things migh
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
It’s mostly for backwards compatibility. Sites don’t always check the request origin, the browser SOP mitigates that problem on behalf of the user.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Isn't that what CSRF protections are for, not CORS? Without the same origin policy CSRF protections would be trivial to circumvent, since you’d be able to read the CSRF token from any page.

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