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by nbevans 4y ago
So what you're saying is... /it's aliens/ ... right? (:
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by nbevans 4y ago
The UK was trying to negotiate a special agreement/treaty regarding Galileo. But the EU did not want to even consider it. Indeed even today the UK has not really given up on trying to be friends with the EU and continues to remain open
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by nbevans 4y ago
Operational? Yes. Reliable? No. It has had numerous outages in the last 4 years. How do you explain several non-EU states being members of the Galileo programme - namely Switzerland and Norway? Hell, even China invested into it in 2003. And
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by nbevans 4y ago
They still haven't finished Galileo yet; with the project seemingly going backwards ever since the British were forced out. How will they deliver yet another moonshot project like this? They don't even possess reusable rocket tech
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by nbevans 4y ago
Quite a "u-turn" from the bloc which for two decades pushed (through regulation) dirty diesel engines as the solution.
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by nbevans 4y ago
They can put it in the T&Cs saying you can't do that though. Like what most geocoding APIs do - e.g. Google says you cannot cache/store the geocoding results.
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by nbevans 4y ago
CTEs are great for breaking down a large query into discrete steps. They're basically SQL's equivalent of a pipe function.
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by nbevans 4y ago
The mayor described it as step towards "Singapore-style" road pricing and went further in setting a target goal to copy the whole Singapore set-up for road pricing. Which is an interesting U-turn from the cacophony of outrage betw
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by nbevans 4y ago
That isn't necessarily "how SQL works". Sure, you might design your schema like that. But many accounting systems don't necessarily store a "balance" except perhaps as a performance optimisation. They derive th
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by nbevans 4y ago
That isn't how CRDT's work though. In the example of mutating a bank balance, there would be addition operations and subtraction operations. So /eventually/ all nodes would arrive at the same balance. It's a bit lik
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by nbevans 4y ago
SQLite isn't compressed. There is a commercial offering from the creators of SQLite that adds compression but its rarely seen in the wild to be honest.
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by nbevans 4y ago
Correct but this wasn't the arms. It was the subframe that they connect to. And the rust was coming from the inside out - a so-called "perforation rust" - which isn't detectable on MOT and is usually mistaken as surface
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by nbevans 4y ago
Tesla is the only car brand where such a minor recall (that can be fixed via an OTA update) results in a news article by a major news distributor. Meanwhile my 2007 Mercedes C-class literally rusted through its rear subframe and suspension
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by nbevans 4y ago
.NET
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by nbevans 4y ago
Mainstream ecosystem and language.
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by nbevans 4y ago
It's more comparable to Flutter than MAUI. Since all the controls are custom rendered to be "look-a-likes" rather than genuinely native. Naturally, the look-a-like approach to cross-platform apps does have some drawbacks - na
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by nbevans 4y ago
A major improvement would be LED headlights which have a MTBF that is so high that they can essentially last for the lifetime of the vehicle. Zero "bulb" replacements. (LED headlights exist BTW, and I'm sure there are VW Golf
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by nbevans 4y ago
Using RLS to implement multi-tenancy is a terrible idea. Just deploy a database per tenant. It's not hard. Why overcomplicate it?
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by nbevans 4y ago
Doesn't matter if they ignore the laws as then they have to pay fines which bolsters the Treasury anyway. It's win-win. That's why the EU itself loves to regulate in this way because dishing out tickets to American big-tech i
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by nbevans 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by nbevans 4y ago
Thank you!
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by nbevans 4y ago
Indeed this is overly editorialised and the author very much assumes the reader is of the same opinion of them from the outset. The author seems to believe that web browsers will just ignore UK legislation and not bother to implement the ne
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by nbevans 4y ago
It was a highly complex integration of 3 different railway signalling protocols. These are safety critical systems that need to be "proven" to be safe through extensive simulation tests and real-world testing. The Crossrail/S
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by nbevans 4y ago
Indeed - the expectations were very high for Crossrail before and during development. All that has happened is they have delivered the product exactly as described, albeit 4 years later and over budget. It should be noted that 4 years ago t
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by nbevans 4y ago
Recruitment agents are always pumping failed interviewees for the questions they were asked. They then make sure their next candidates are better prepared with this knowledge. This guy really shouldn't feel so bad. It's Microsoft&
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by nbevans 4y ago
These are nothing like the same. These are private equity funds. Cathie Wood is just a publicly traded ETF. It only trades public stocks.
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by nbevans 4y ago
I think people are very harsh on Cathie Wood. At the end of the day it is an ETF fund. She sets the % holdings and that's it. It trades by itself every millisecond of every day to maintain those allocated %s. Of course it will rise and
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by nbevans 4y ago
Pensions have not been going up. The triple lock was suspended. Inflation is wrecking the pensions of millions. The UK pension system is one of the worst in Europe. If it was ever to be substantially improved you will definitely hear about
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by nbevans 4y ago
+1 for lenses. A FP concept.
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by nbevans 4y ago
Indeed and in my experience this has been more reliable/predictable than the official backup API. The official backup API can get "stuck" on a very large and hot database because it, essentially, has to start from scratch if

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