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by phaemon 10y ago
Yeah, it would be like, say, a python developer not knowing how interpreted languages worked. Or how a shebang worked. To the extent of thinking it was impossible to use an interpreted language for `init`. Something like that, right?
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by phaemon 10y ago
I last looked about 6 years ago, right enough, but then £120 a month was the maximum charge I could find, that was with zero excess and get paid money for any nights in an NHS hospital, etc etc. I'm not sure what I'd need to add o
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by phaemon 10y ago
Jails are a powerful tool, but they are not a security panacea. While it is not possible for a jailed process to break out on its own, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user outside the jail can cooperate with a privileged use
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by phaemon 10y ago
No it's not. Public healthcare spending in the US is higher, per capita, than spending on the NHS. And how the buggery are you managing to spend £2300 a year on health insurance in the UK? That's crazy expensive. Ok, it's les
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by phaemon 10y ago
Your comment is extremely misleading. Firstly, the "couple of seconds warning" does not seem accurate. The actual report states: "Our test drivers are trained and prepared for these events and the average driver response time
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by phaemon 11y ago
Oh, I meant common within the field of social geography. I noted that they'd talk about shibboleths of various sorts (language, accent, dress, manners). I wouldn't expect your average person to know about it but it's not obsc
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by phaemon 11y ago
If you're talking about inclusion and exclusion from any particular groups, you're going to talk about "shibboleths". It's quite a common term and no more flamboyant than talking about "MathML" or "hy
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by phaemon 11y ago
It's not a misuse. It's the correct usage. The notion that "begging the question" being used as a piece of debating jargon, is the only possible use or arrangement of those words, is frankly bizarre. I really wish this f
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by phaemon 11y ago
We're talking electricity here, not all energy, and 96% of electricity in Norway is from renewable (nearly all hydro).
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Now that you've said that, i'll never forget it again (although what the hell does -t stand for then?) The "type" of key. :D It would be nice to have a more fully featured auto-complete and it is feasible to do. I&#
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by phaemon 11y ago
Well, the Netherlands will have the same type of renewable energy targets as the rest of the EU so that should be reduced by 2025. I believe they already buy a fair chunk of their electricity from Norway, which is practically all renewable.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Of course it's possible that by 2025 (barring disaster) EVs will be so much better than fossil fuel powered cars that no-one would buy anything else as a new car. There will still be the second-hand market of course.
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by phaemon 11y ago
> why is -b the flag for key length in ssh-keygen? Because the length is given in "bits". I get your point, but that's a terrible example! :-)
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by phaemon 11y ago
...or until you realise that the personal preferences of Robert Baker do not constitute what is "proper". It was a daft preference when expressed and it's no less a daft "rule" now.
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by phaemon 11y ago
> We guarantee these O-Rings will not rupture. Ah, so you're thinking of a guarantee like a politician would use the word. "I personally guarantee that..." Every time I hear them say that on TV I'm thinking, "Rea
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by phaemon 11y ago
> For me the biggest question is why is that period of time considered the "baseline". For convenience. It allows you to compare the last two 30 year periods: 1951-1980 vs 1981-2010
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by phaemon 11y ago
30 years (not 29) is long enough to even out the short term cycles that will affect our temperature measurements (most notably, the ENSO cycle). The age of the Earth isn't relevant at all. Imagine tossing a coin to see if it's a f
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by phaemon 11y ago
A warranty is a guarantee. I used the word "guarantee" as well. It's the right word to use. Seriously, what do you think a guarantee is?
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by phaemon 11y ago
That is a guarantee. That's what "guarantee" means !
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by phaemon 11y ago
Which isn't linked from the blog. If you click on the main blog title, it takes you to the main blog page at kivy.org/planet. There is a link to the website in the actual post there but it links to the download page, which doesn&#
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by phaemon 11y ago
If people are starting to make nasty comments like this, perhaps HN should stop doing the black bar for anyone.
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by phaemon 11y ago
No, read the pdf I linked. Yours is the first misconception they address. In summary, though, if we imagine that the bank is required to hold 10% reserve: I go to the bank and get a loan for $900. This is credited to my account. There is n
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by phaemon 11y ago
It seems clear enough: " limit financial speculation by requiring private banks to hold 100pc reserves against their deposits. " Normally, banks aren't required to actually have the money they lend out, so when a loan is cred
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by phaemon 11y ago
Your numbers are only close to correct if the person is using the same amount of electricity as a person in the USA (which no-one does) and they used all that power during peak hours (which no-one does). Were that the case, then it's 2
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by phaemon 11y ago
Those figures for Costa Rica appear to be incorrect. From that same thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3xhedt/99_of_cos... Multiplying by 5 because incomes are 20% of US wages, doesn&#x2
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by phaemon 11y ago
Yes, Skeptical Science. See: https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
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by phaemon 11y ago
You can set exclusions for the OOM killer to prevent this. See: http://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions...
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by phaemon 11y ago
It appears Squid can do this. See: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/MimicSslServerCert
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by phaemon 11y ago
Another concern with CERN's activities: http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/04/q-will-cern-awaken-...
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