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by nicktelford 8y ago
We've been using OpenJDK in production since Java 7 without issue. Since Java 8, Oracle JDK has been built from OpenJDK with a couple of proprietary editions (Java Flight Recorder, SNMP support, different font rendering etc.). In pract
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by nicktelford 8y ago
It's an evolutionary thing. Having children, adolescents, adults and the elderly on different sleep schedules affords a family unit with nearly round the clock protection (as there's nearly always someone awake).
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Not sure if it's EU-wide, but it's certainly the case in the UK too. Here, we predominantly see adverts for: basic over-the-counter painkillers, cold/flu "remedies" (winter) and hayfever/allergy remedies (summe
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by nicktelford 8y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, so I'll just point out that the kind of userland reification described in this article is also possible in Scala using implicits: class List[T](implicit tag: ClassTag[T]) { def ele
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Everyone questioning the wisdom of eliminating "all mosquitos": only a very small number of mosquito sub-species are capable of transmitting malaria to humans. The plan is to target those sub-species only. Other forms of mosquitos
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by nicktelford 8y ago
ECHR is not a part of the European Union, so Brexit won't take us out of it. However, I believe that the EU requires members be signatories of the ECHR, so Brexit would make leaving it much easier. It's well documented that Theres
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Gambling is tightly controlled and age-restricted in most countries, usually only available to those aged 18+. Publishers have been using the argument that loot boxes aren't gambling in order to justify making them available to minors.
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Here's a piece on the wider subject: https://fpif.org/the_economics_of_the_arab_spring/ It doesn't directly make the connection, but it does allude to it: > The recent global financial, food, and energy cr
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by nicktelford 8y ago
While a generally fascinating piece that connects together the events in the American and European financial and political systems, it shouldn't be understated how much of an effect the refugee crisis is having on European politics, wh
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by nicktelford 8y ago
In addition to this, it's important to note a class of scientific experiments that cannot be done by satellites that the ISS has been at the forefront of: researching the prolonged effects of micro-gravity and space-flight on the human
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by nicktelford 8y ago
> To say that this is truly an economic process is cheating slightly, since the ledger fails to account for the trivial matter of the $100bn or so spent to build the space station in the first place. The ISS is a laboratory, I don't
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by nicktelford 8y ago
An unintended consequence of this will be that streaming services will need to ring-fence European produced content from other European countries, as it would count towards the non-native quota. This has the potential to significantly reduc
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by nicktelford 8y ago
I think a lack of value types also hurts Java significantly here. Though I believe they're also on the roadmap.
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> GC’s SPECjbb 2015 throughput numbers are roughly comparable with the Parallel GC (which optimises for throughput) but with an average pause time of 1ms and a max of 4ms. This is in contrast to G1 and Parallel who had average pause time
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Why We Built a Dull Stream Processor(underthehood.meltwater.com)
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Until I saw the link you posted, I thought you were talking about Hammersmith Flyover, which had to be closed for several weeks to strengthen it after they found an alarming number of cracks. They still don't have a long-term plan to r
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Does anyone know what the potential as a utility-scale energy storage medium is? I have this inkling that developing this for cars isn't the best use, as battery EV looks set to best Hydrogen fuel-cells in that market. Instead, I think
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by nicktelford 8y ago
I stand corrected! Not sure why you're being down-voted for it. Another point is that the organisation would need some kind of legal presence in the EU, otherwise it would be impossible to prosecute them even if they did violate EU law
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by nicktelford 8y ago
They'd be subject to the GDPR if someone visited from within the EU and they stored data about that visitor as far as I'm aware. Edit: this is incorrect, see comment by guitarbill below.
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by nicktelford 8y ago
I haven't combed the entire thread, so I can't speak for everyone, but I'd like to address some of your points more generally. Before I begin: thanks for the calm and reasoned discourse - I've found it difficult to have
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by nicktelford 8y ago
The chief problem with Brexit is the ambiguity of the referendum question. "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" The problem with this is that if you interpret it literally,
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by nicktelford 8y ago
I know probably as little about tariffs and international trade as you, but my guess is that it might , but only if there's no viable customers left to export their steel to. My guess is that Canada's action here, along with the
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by nicktelford 8y ago
> SpaceX president Glynne Shotwell As much as I like to think this is a typo, the W and L keys are on opposite sides of the keyboard... ️
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by nicktelford 8y ago
An independent judiciary is a foundation of all true democracies. The government may make the laws, but the judiciary are fully independent when making judgements about a case. IANAL but I believe in this case, the point of law it came down
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by nicktelford 8y ago
This isn't at all accurate. There was no treatment for his condition beyond palliative care. He was on life support for the rest of his life, no matter what anyone did. His doctors, whose duty is to the patient, determined that it was
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Google aren't building a service. The "Google Chat" app is just an RCS client.
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I've heard that RCS technically supports end-to-end encryption, but it won't be enabled by carriers due to their legal obligation to provide legal intercepts. Though it will feature client-server encryption, so at least in this re
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by nicktelford 8y ago
You should be using scala.collection.JavaConverters instead, as it makes the conversion explicit (by adding a ".asScala"/".asJava" method to collections). Implicit conversions (i.e. where a type is silently converte
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by nicktelford 9y ago
It's also worth noting that while wild, New Forest animals are very comfortable around people and cars, to the degree that they're often wandering around in village centres, standing in the middle of the road etc. If you go camp
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by nicktelford 9y ago
There's only two reasons I can think of why they'd patch the binary directly: either they've lost the source-code, or they no longer have an environment they can build it in.

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