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by rjmunro 2y ago
This law was rushed through before the election, but is actually large and wide ranging. There's certainly some good stuff in there, like banning "Drip pricing" (where fees get added to the price after you have already put ef
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Because it makes the title stand out unfairly on the home page of HN.
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UK's Landmark Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill Becomes Law(pinsentmasons.com)
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The maximum the business can charge is not just constrained by what the customer can afford, but also by the costs of alternatives that the customer could use (including the option of not doing it at all). It's often the case that over
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For Ransomware, Backups need to be offline, not necessarily offsite. I.e. there needs to be no possibility of the hackers corrupting or deleting the backups too. If your data is in the cloud, it's probably good to have an offline backu
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by rjmunro 2y ago
What is the "default background quality setting"? (I'm not a windows user)
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> Git was nothing like Subversion. It had a steep learning curve and confused everyone to no end I've actually found git much easier to teach to people who don't know subversion than to people who do. It's still a confusin
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by rjmunro 2y ago
It it's not per capita that counts, but per country, then each American should be allowed to pollute 4 times as much as each Chinese person because there are less of them? I guess as a Brit, I should be allowed to pollute 5 times more
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by rjmunro 2y ago
There is a continuous range of people in between. Where do you draw the line?
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So anywhere that isn't on the US sanctions list?
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I can't see anything on jam.dev/careers about where in the world you are located, or if you are open to remote applicants.
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Every mile means more people can decide to live further away from their workplace, or that they can physically attend meetings further away more easily rather than do a video call. It means more people go by car rather than by train or bus.
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by rjmunro 2y ago
I think the LLVM level doesn't work as it throws away too much semantic information, but much of the CLANG front end can be used via it's API. There is a fork of CBMC called ESBMC that does this and many other changes: https:&#x2
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Europe != Germany. Plenty of parts of Europe have drought issues and water saving laws. I expect plenty of parts of the US have loads of water and no droughts as well.
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I wonder if you could specialise a model by training it on a whole movie or TV series, so that instead of hallucinating from generic images, the model generates things it has seen closer-up in other parts of the movie. You'd have to tr
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by rjmunro 2y ago
After 10 levels, it could be the same levels again, but with a time limit that gets shorter for each cycle, or something else to make it harder, like wind that blows the ball off course and changes direction all the time.
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by rjmunro 2y ago
Could it be just a correlation? Maybe something like people with lower IQ are less likely to do a job where they can work from home so they are more likely to have been exposed to the virus?
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True, but in this case we are converting to strings that are longer because they require quoting and escaping etc. Transit time will be longer.
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I think it's going to be very rare that a database changes enough for a plan to be significantly worse than the optimal plan during the life of a prepared query. A database engine could easily mitigate against it by re-planning queries
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This annoys me: > You can use parameterized queries to protect against SQL injection, No, that't not what parameterized queries are for. That's just a side benefit. Parameterized queries are so that the database doesn't ha
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Lots of people are installing solar panels with batteries.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> watching BBC and not something else You're not allowed to watch "something else" either - it's a national tax on televisions, not a BBC subscription charge. Historically the detector vans tuned in to the local oscil
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by rjmunro 3y ago
It's in the public interest because it saves money which can be used on other things.
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TV presenters often use them; presumably the clear plastic tube are supposed to be harder to see.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> Cost: one speaker and tubes was probably cheaper than 200. I'm pretty sure there were 2 speakers in each arm rest. I think it's more about them being harder to break and cheaper to replace. When I flew on an airline that used
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> Just don't get HP. The CEO of HP said there is a risk of viruses being transmitted in the ink cartridges: https://www.wired.com/story/hp-ceo-ink-cartridge-hackers-dyn... He says you should always buy their sp
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Didn't they already, in effect, DDOS the congress telephone system?
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2^1024 ≈ 10^300. There's only ≈10^80 atoms in the whole known universe. And we haven't even done the factorial.
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I always worry about the interaction of sounding the horn and the airbag firing, sending your arm into your face.
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You have to be careful with error messages. It's possible to give too much away and enable security vulnerabilities.

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