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by pja 5y ago
Photons do have mass, because energy has mass & photons carry energy. They have no rest mass, which is why they are usually described as massless, but this isn't the whole story!
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by pja 5y ago
Dev work stalled for quite some time as (I believe) a lot of work needed to be done to update the App for newer versions of Android.
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by pja 5y ago
If we’re talking about a medium density mixed residential / commercial suburbs with walkable streets & a varied housing mix, including local schools and shops then those are usually pretty popular places to live. The YT channel Not
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by pja 5y ago
Many publishers do exactly this, although usually the timescales are a bit longer & it’s not announced as any kind of formal promise.
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by pja 5y ago
Most of the money made by an AAA game is made in the first week or two of sales; DRM that takes a week or two to crack is “good enough” from the POV of the publisher.
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by pja 5y ago
Yup, because for those, the cable between the lights can’t take the current that the cable from the wall can deliver, so you ought to have a fuse for safety reasons - a short could cause a fire. (Whether this is legally required in the US p
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by pja 5y ago
Why would people not accept fuses in plugs? (Apart from the size issue & in reality you could probably fit a fuse into a modern US plug without making it much bigger than it is now.)
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by pja 5y ago
UK plugs are the best plugs. Apart from when you tread on one... (The requirement to have a fuse in every plug is a necessity for UK ring mains, but makes the things even bigger than they otherwise would be.)
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by pja 5y ago
How did it compare with more “traditional” code analysis linters like Coverity or Semmle?
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by pja 5y ago
I think it was significantly more than just a single Tweet. You’d have to go back to the original judgement (some of which is quoted in the judement I linked to) to see.
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by pja 5y ago
> Is being philosophically critical of something automatically hostile? Not in terms of the Equality Act. You can be as critical as you like in private, or outside the workplace as I understand things. But if you voice those criticisms d
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by pja 5y ago
Note that the court held two things: 1) Strongly held philosphical beliefs have much the same protection as religious beliefs in law and 2) That doesn’t mean you get to express those beliefs to other people in workplace. In other words, ant
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by pja 5y ago
Plenty of people run Emacs purely in order to use Magit & don’t use it for anything else. That’s how good Magit is.
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by pja 5y ago
The Play Store fees are effectively voluntary donations to the devs & the OpenStreetMap project. If you really want to pay nothing, they’re not going to stop you - F-Droid is right there.
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by pja 5y ago
OSMAnd+ plus does exactly that. OrganicMaps looks like it might have a better UI though.
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by pja 5y ago
It’s not that long ago that Tether was claiming that all reserves were cash deposits. Now something like 75% of the reserves are loans to ... well, who knows? My guess is other crypto-companies, but it’s impossible to tell. (It’s also very
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by pja 5y ago
I guess I’d like to see either a) a genuine engagement with the actual arguments made or b) alternative proposals that make his proposed solution moot. It seems to me that a strong dislike of the cryptocurrency space is an entirely reasonab
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by pja 5y ago
This is just an ad hominem response to Stephen's argument.
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by pja 5y ago
It’s not the accuracy (although that’s obviously table stakes). It’s the quality & reliability. There are a ton of cooking thermometers on Amazon. A majority of them are awful. Either they’re woefully inaccurate, or they fail after only
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by pja 5y ago
I agree: it won’t have been Google (and the email came to a non-Google email address), but some data aggregator somewhere who is cross referencing login emails with stored cookies.
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by pja 5y ago
I bought a perfectly ordinary second hand vehicle for £3k in 2003 (it had been built in 1999) which had ABS, air bags everywhere, direct fuel injection, turbo-charged engine & traction control. Modern cars are pretty amazing things: a l
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by pja 5y ago
Recently, a website I had only visited once somehow cross-referenced the cookies available through my browser to work out my email address & directly emailed me to invite me to sign up for their services. This has to be a GDPR violation
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by pja 5y ago
Even programming related topics are flooded with SEO nonsense these days ime.
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by pja 5y ago
Hah. Literally an hour ago I fat-fingered the “Sign up to Amazon Music!” button in the Amazon Music App on my phone whilst putting the phone in my pocket. To be fair to Amazon though, they do let you cancel the subscription online with no b
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by pja 5y ago
Except that the WideVine DRM library under Linux only does software decoding, so HD video tends to stutter according to the issue logs on said extensions on GitHub. Assuming you get it to work at all of course.
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by pja 5y ago
WideVine is level3 for browsers on the Desktop: https://go.buydrm.com/thedrmblog/why-google-widevines-drm-is... I guess Windows streaming is going via PlayReady then.
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by pja 5y ago
The real Roku profits lie in charging streaming channels for access to Roku customers I believe; is the viewing data (which you can turn off at the per-device level) worth that much?
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by pja 5y ago
You won’t be able to watch HD content on Netflix or Amazon Prime (at the very least) that way though. You can only get HD streaming via a browser on Windows, which appears to have an exception to the usual DRM rules. edit: As pointed out be
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by pja 5y ago
Roku is not just a pipe. They charge 20% of your income to have your streaming channel on Roku devices. Big hitters like Netflix presumably negotiate custom contracts, but 20% is the standard rate.
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by pja 5y ago
I believe Google deletes your data fairly quickly after they decide to ban you, so best get that GDPR request in fast.

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