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by pja 9y ago
I see the Rust Evangelism Strike Force are out in action again. Guys, it may surprise you, but some of this kit predates Rust :)
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by pja 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s not particularly incredible that a new CPU that implements the ridiculously complex (for good reasons, but still) x86 instruction set with all its historical baggage has bugs? Every x86 has had errat
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by pja 9y ago
Probably. They could use RSA to encrypt the entire file, but that would be much slower.
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by pja 9y ago
! Chrome OS devices run Google’s Chrome browser & nothing else by design. OK, some of them now run Android apps, so I guess you can install the Android version of Firefox on one or two Chromebooks at the current time, but the rest are d
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by pja 9y ago
It’s a transaction ID rather than a link to the actual seller’s page.
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by pja 9y ago
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{layout} \begin{document} \layout{} \end{document} Ought to sort you out. There’s also the showframe package.
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by pja 9y ago
I think anything with an i5 or i7 in the name has the ME onchip. My spare Thinkpad certainly does & it’s four or five years old at this point in time. I turned the ME off in the bios the moment I acquired it, but I doubt Lenovo will b
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by pja 10y ago
\setlength{\footskip}{ length } should do the job. You might have to reduce the \textheight to make room. What are you trying to achieve?
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by pja 10y ago
There is no valid excuse for that. There was when TeX was originally written to run on memory constrained mini computers. I agree that there isn’t an excuse today.
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by pja 10y ago
If the talent demands all related transactions be disclosed through such a platform, then it might have some effect? The studios are going to resist it tooth & nail though.
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by pja 10y ago
Seems to be an ipv6 connection problem; if you add gutenberg.org to network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains in firefox it works fine. Weirdly, I can telnet to port 80 & GET / on the ipv6 address just fine.
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by pja 10y ago
That would make sense. Water tanks would be breeding grounds for the amoeba. (The UK housing stock is slowly converting over to plumbing that eliminates the water tanks, but lots of older housing will still have a water tank in the loft som
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by pja 10y ago
Using other information they have acquired they would phone the bank’s customer service line, convince them that they were you & gain control of the account. How hard this is depends on the bank. The fact that you have a strong password
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by pja 10y ago
Nah, the fakes are fairly obvious once you know what to look for. It doesn’t really matter so long as they circulate like other currency though. Money is weird.
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Meet the UK Barrister Suing Uber to Make It Pay VAT(gizmodo.co.uk)
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by pja 10y ago
Same thing is also going on in the UK: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/meet-the-uk-barrister-suing...
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by pja 10y ago
Unfortunately companies do this all the time: I have personally seen clauses in contracts put forward by employers whose exact wording had been rendered completely ineffective and unenforceable by UK employment case law. If it’s bad faith
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by pja 10y ago
According to Dominic Cummings (who ran Vote Leave) it was absolutely the case that immigration was the No 1 driver for the vote to leave the EU. So much so that they had to explicitly set aside 15 minutes at the beginning of every focus gro
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by pja 10y ago
No, just inflation taking the rest of the universe over the horizon - I believe it’s the dynamic effects of being in an inflationary universe that mean that the standard GR results for black holes don’t apply, at least according to the refe
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by pja 10y ago
Or Swift - Swift sneaks in sum and product types via a c-structy syntax. Once you see the type system underneath the syntax (which was devised not to scare the Objective-C horses IIRC) it’s quite pleasant.
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by pja 10y ago
True! Hmm. I retract my statement: Penrose/Hawking predict that all GR black holes contain singularities. In our universe, it looks like inflation is the fly in that particular prediction: The universe is going to tear itself apart ins
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by pja 10y ago
Yes, absolutely - black holes don’t need singularities inside them in order to be black holes. Just enough mass in a small enough volume. (Of course, we don’t actually know whether stellar or galactic centre black holes have singularities i
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Pi and the Mandelbrot Set(youtube.com)
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by pja 10y ago
At a guess: cross country sales travel. You could easily rack up 2 or 3 fairly long distance Uber trips / day doing that (Airport -> Hotel -> Client -> Airport to travel to the next client)
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by pja 10y ago
> If one can extract practical comparisons between a pair of mathematical formalisms, and map those to differences in observables, I think that qualifies both as physical theories. That’s fair. I wasn’t aware that anyone had managed to m
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by pja 10y ago
I think we’re disagreeing over terminology rather than the actual physics? But I’ll chase up some of the ASG references. Thanks for those. (yoctoNewtons! We live in amazing times...)
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by pja 10y ago
I’m not sure I believe that a mathematical formalism that is unable to make useful real world predictions deserves the “theory” moniker. Hence your list of quantum theories of gravity aren’t. But perhaps that’s me being picky :) > I thin
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by pja 10y ago
No, there is no quantum theory of gravity & QFT doesn’t include gravity at all. The best you can do is add gravitational effects as an after-thought, but the things you might analyse with the full QFT are generally far too small & s
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by pja 10y ago
(I have a physics degree, but it’s very rusty at this point) Particle physics has a long history of noticing gaps in the experimental data that don’t match up with current theories and positing that maybe a new particle would solve the pr
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by pja 10y ago
What people usually want is all the bells and whistles of TCP without the occasional huge latency spike introduced by the guaranteed ordered packet delivery to the application layer. Unfortunately, all the alternatives (SCTP etc etc) seem t

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