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by pasc1878 8mo ago
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1mzlryxeo Note that IWF is not a random charity it works with the Police on these matters. I found this as the first item in Kagi search - perhaps you should try non AI s
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by pasc1878 8mo ago
And when the magazines get sold who is breaking the law and gets convicted it is not the children but the shop supplying the children. So when Grok provides the illegal pictures then by the same logic it is Grok that is breaking the law.
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by pasc1878 8mo ago
Xcode is really only usable for Objective-C, C and Swift its support for C++ e.g. simple things like formatting and definitions and debugging for C++ are as you note are just poor Visual Studio does treat C++ as a first class language (I s
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
Experiments on how to make tea (well does milk go in before or after) is the original exposition of statistical testing of the null hypothesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
You do have to catch checked exceptions and that is the issue under debate.
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
I usually see articles saying that Java checked exceptions are bad. e.g. https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2026/01/javas-checked-exceptio...
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
Although having lost their cheif desihner recently there is a chnace thet they might improve and go back to the standards of 10 years ago.
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
Also see weathergraph that does similar graph and shows the temps etc in a downwards colum,n as well
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
Good so the car won't be killing people due to high noxious emissions.
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
Yes Dark Sky had the best UI of any weather app I have used. I now use Weathergraph which does it differently but I would go back to Dark Sky (and pay for it) in a flash. It shows the correct things and on a phone understands that showing t
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
The answerers are just as much users as the questioners - possibly in fact more as they are the ones spending time whilst the askers often (especially the poor ones) just ask a question and then go away. Unfortunately the SO management want
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
The point here is you worked tech support so you were paid to answer user questions. However the answerers on So are not paid. Why should tyhy waste their time on a user who has not shown they have put any effort in and asks a question that
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by pasc1878 9mo ago
And the bank where I worked in mid 1990s had the same each program in its own versioned directory.
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by pasc1878 10mo ago
You encrpyt your hard drive - so that needs a password. So you need more than a simple script. But someone else having your hardware has always bveen a risk.
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by pasc1878 10mo ago
tau might make things easier and be a better basis for everything but it is not good for Euler's as you then miss out -
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by pasc1878 10mo ago
This is it. I wrote largish systems in perl using its OO things and that was good. The one thing I could never ever get was using a regex - not the regex itself but the line to actually use it. Python was so much easier as it was simple def
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by pasc1878 10mo ago
How does a parent check what the child does on the way to school or meeting friends in a shopping mall. Public wifi and smart phones chngaes what can be done and what needs to be done.
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
Or purchase third party libraries. This does two things - limits what you drag in and also if you drag it in you can sue someone for errors.
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
They are not that opaque
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
Isn't that bad lawyers rather than bad rules?
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
Sort of. For things that run on Linux and other Unices yes. For macOS UI programs and those that need specific permissions and for commercial programs stick with Homebrew but you can define what you want in homebrew in nix.
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
No it represents the editor's (John W. Campbell) passions - he would suggest using those ideas to authours and was more likely to accept stories with those ideas. He had an overwhelming presence in SF until the New Wave of the 1960s
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
I just had to get a new phone old was a 2020 SE (Previous was a 6S plus) so 5 years. The new phone is FaceId ioty is much less reliable than touch id. With touch it just fails if I have wet hands or in cold weather with gloves, faceId fails
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
UK buses and trains do this. I think the reason is for Day return tickets ie those where you can go out and come back on the same day. It allows the return to be after midnight which makes sense for example going to a theatre show or pub th
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
In London trains came in 30-40 years before electric trams. So trains were the driving force. See the Underground for an example. Might even be 70 years see the London-Greenwich railway for the first instance.
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by pasc1878 11mo ago
Look at South London - train to suburbs is normal
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by pasc1878 1y ago
Same here for netatmo - ironically I replied to an incident report with netatmo saying all was OK when the whole system was falling over. However netatmo does need to have a server to store data as you need to consolidate acreoss devices p
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by pasc1878 1y ago
Read the comment I replied to? It says that each country can only request ONE language. And Ireland requested Irish.
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by pasc1878 1y ago
Which country nominates English? The obvious suspects are Ireland and Malta which have nominated non English languages so it is not them.
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by pasc1878 1y ago
Well then the tracker is breading the GDPR keeping personal identifiable information https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... Yes US sites will be doing that

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