rjmunro

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by rjmunro 7y ago
Are you supposed to keep going until you go back to the same pair? So you would go C, A, B, D, B?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
I wonder if UK citizens can frustrate this data collection by overwhelming it with junk requests. E.g. search for a random dictionary word, click on some of the results, clear cookies, repeat. We'd need some sort of browser plugin to a
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Watchdog questions collection of public's Gov.uk data(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rjmunro 7y ago|1 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
The main drawback of python for me, compared to NodeJS is the whole sharing projects onto different machines with virtualenv or whatever. package.json and node_modules just works by default in so much cleaner a way. You can use npm or yarn
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Almost all, except the old php mysql interface. Unfortunately, that happened to become one of the most popular and influential ones.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
You don't create statements by concatenating strings. Use prepared queries with placeholders and pass values. Databases will compile the query once, then can run it many times. Sometimes you have to concatenate, e.g. to specify order b
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by rjmunro 7y ago
They would go to places where people are. Particularly the sort of people who might be amenable to changing their mind. It's true that because more people are in populated states, they would go to populated states more, but that's
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Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data(bbc.co.uk)
36 points by rjmunro 7y ago|3 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
"Software patents" are not allowed in Europe, but in practise you just have to call them "computer implemented inventions", and write them in legalese nonsense that is even less readable than a pure software patent would
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by rjmunro 7y ago
The "City Of London" (a small part of central London) has something like this. They have a resident population of <10,000 people, but somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people commute there for work. Companies get to nomin
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2004: The year of desktop Linux? (2003)(zdnet.com)
1 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
> ... on practically every single context switch ... How frequently do context switches happen? Can this be reduced, so that there is less disk thrashing? I.e. whatever process needs lots of memory swapped in, just don't switch to i
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Sounds like a smaller version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(spacecraft) .
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Power outages are not rare everywhere. Where they are rare, a diesel generator that is hardly ever used is likely to not work the time you actually need it. When the grid is working, powering your A/C from solar is still a good idea, a
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Something that would help the risk of power outages killing air conditioning, would be to power air conditioning directly by solar panels installed alongside. There is a high correlation between solar generation and air-con demand, although
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by rjmunro 7y ago
I feel like this is only part of a wider attack - like by causing this not to download, it meant that users do some other action which opens them up to the real attack.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
That code doesn't match what actually happens. It will only trim a single character. Have asterisks been trimmed in your copy-paste or something?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
I don't think this is true. The output of a program is not considered as a derivative work of that program. E.g. Is a photo taken by a digital camera considered a derived work from the camera firmware?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
I was hoping this would be like in the film "The man with one red shoe" where the theory is that a violinist in an Orchestra is encoding secrets into his performance that normal people in the audience would not detect, but it coul
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Using a unit test generator to discover juggling patterns(diffblue.com)
1 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Here in the UK, we have building regulations and planning permission. Building regulations cover making sure the building won't fall down and hurt someone, including regulations about fire safety etc. Planning permission is where old p
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by rjmunro 7y ago
We use it as a front end to our Church's AV system. It runs a GUI written in Python with PySide that controls our cameras, hyperdeck recorder and vision mixer. It also controls the power switches for the system, and the blinds.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Reminds me of the Model S shooting brake (station wagon) https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-shooting-brake-featu... , which I saw on display recently.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
It's one of the best podcasts I have ever listened to. RSS feed: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/w13xttx2.rss Program page (with link to RSS etc.): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/
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by rjmunro 7y ago
I'm not convinced by offsetting. It's better to not cause the emissions in the first place, rather than pay someone else to reduce their emissions in exchange later. You can't know that they won't have reduced their emis
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by rjmunro 7y ago
How does it compare to Facebook Instant Articles?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
As a Brit, I find the title of this really hard to parse. I was trying to work out if "toxic school supplies" was some sort of brand of jewelry or something. Why don't American's use an "and" here: > Amazon
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by rjmunro 8y ago
Presumably this can talk to the Apple messages App if you enable the Bonjour options.
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by rjmunro 8y ago
When we did 5 whys at a company I used to work for, we built a tree of 'whys', 5 levels deep, many branches wide. Then picked several things that could be improved. Is 5 whys normally just 5 causes in a line?
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by rjmunro 8y ago
I use them for following YouTube channels that I like. I suspect many people would do this.

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