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by mrec 8y ago
> the only options remaining are delaying brexit again (wouldn't surprise me if they keep delaying it until 2025+) or a hard brexit The other option is revoking Article 50, either openly or disguised as a second referendum with no
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by mrec 8y ago
> demonized as evil self interest I'm not sure who you're arguing with here, but I don't think it's me. The word "evil" only appears once in my comment, immediately preceded by the word "isn't&qu
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by mrec 8y ago
> it's just plain obvious how it's not in the EU's interest to keep the UK in an arrangement that it's uncomfortable with It's very much in the EU's economic interest to keep the UK as a captive market for
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by mrec 8y ago
And if you leave your shiny new car in the wrong part of town with the door open and the keys in the ignition, you're not calling for it to be stolen, but you know damn well it's going to be. May doesn't want to call it a c
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by mrec 8y ago
Yes, but the EU has both the ability and every economic incentive to refuse any permanent agreement that doesn't give them at least the same level of UK lock-in. The "temporary" is a figleaf to try to sell the WA to domestic
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by mrec 8y ago
> and is currently run by people who don’t really know what they want but are fairly sure that whatever it is involves getting on well with the USA Bit offtopic for this thread, but I'd call that a very peculiar read of the situat
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by mrec 8y ago
He's good in Logan Lucky too. Fun film, including the best prison riot ever .
608.
by mrec 8y ago
Even the arts aren't necessarily safe. A story told by the composer Philip Glass in 2011: > While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘
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by mrec 8y ago
"Aerospace is plumbing with the volume turned up" -- John Carmack
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by mrec 8y ago
And this one is from five years before that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI&list=FLdOcSmTlAk...
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by mrec 8y ago
It's slightly unfortunate that after reading this I went to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notificatio... to read up about them, and immediately got an unsolicited "allow noti
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by mrec 8y ago
Why did that aggravate you? It's Glorfindel's only appearance in the book, so we're not really losing anything. There were a lot of irritations, but the only really unforgiveable fuckup for me was the complete dog's brea
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by mrec 8y ago
Not sure I follow. If (big if) there were really a measureable advantage to having us "pick the direct word quickly, instead of the slower way of deriving it from a rule" , it doesn't follow that irregularity makes that easi
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by mrec 8y ago
"Compression" applies very much to grammatical variants of words. It's why the only bizarre irregular verbs in a language tend to be the ones that get used all the time - be, do, go etc - because for anything more obscure t
615.
by mrec 8y ago
That can happen, but doesn't necessarily have to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
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by mrec 8y ago
Huh. When this was initially posted it had a weird and commercially restrictive license, but it looks like that's been reverted, possibly after (polite) discussion on /r/rust. It's MPL 2 now. https://github.co
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by mrec 8y ago
I suppose parts of TfL might be an example - you can't pay cash on a bus. Other than than, I haven't encountered one either, though I'm worried that they're getting closer. Probably past time to be thinking about an esca
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by mrec 8y ago
And for some bizarre reason Firefox doesn't offer reader view.
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by mrec 8y ago
I think a recent poll showed only 12% thought the WA respected the referendum result. Another showed 44% - not a majority but a significant (and rapidly rising) plurality - supporting no-deal. Both were polling the general population, not j
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by mrec 8y ago
> I mean, why would Theresa May not try and get a good deal May has two contradictory goals. She doesn't want to really leave the EU - I think absolutely everything about her staff picks, negotiating non-strategy and Cabinet man
621.
by mrec 8y ago
> The vote is likely to be close again That depends very much what the question is. The vast majority of those pushing for a 2nd ref want it to be a choice between May's WA and Remain. In which case the majority of Leave voters bo
622.
by mrec 8y ago
"people just need to pick the right tool for the job" is utterly useless advice, just as "you should do the right thing" is an utterly useless answer to an ethics question, because it doesn't help you decide what th
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by mrec 8y ago
Not necessarily a full top-level page reload. You can POST to an iframe.
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by mrec 8y ago
http://vanilla-js.com/ It's got a badge and everything.
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by mrec 8y ago
That was back in the fixed-function pipeline day. So I'd imagine it's just that a) very few people care any more and b) if you do care, it's trivial to do it yourself with a dependent read in your fragment shader. https:&#
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by mrec 8y ago
On the Amiga it was definitely hardware, the Denise chip, which could do all sorts of weird and (debateably) wonderful things in addition to the straightforward use case you describe. Hardware sprites being at the useful end of the scale, H
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by mrec 8y ago
Interesting! Sounds a bit like ClearType in reverse - there, the color determines the (perceived) position on the screen.
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by mrec 8y ago
Even without overlays, being able to reuse the same bitmap with multiple stretches of the palette (by combining it with a solid colour as palette offset) was nice. It got you a bit more variety in the scene when memory was tight, and memory
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by mrec 8y ago
Then you've got people like Joshua Norton who fall somewhere in between: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
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by mrec 8y ago
Is it really a plug if you don't say what you're plugging?

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