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by rwmj 10mo ago
I wonder if Amazon did that deliberately. Back in the day (about 2002) I was working at an education software company which was trying to get itself acquired by Microsoft. MSFT came in and told us our software didn't conform to all th
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by rwmj 10mo ago
I highly doubt he really thinks that, but it pays to say so in public.
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While the "modern" (actually, 1970s, from ML) approach with option types is vastly superior, modern C compilers do let you declare that function parameters should not be NULL. In GCC or Clang, add __attribute__((nonnull)). There
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Some tech companies have been gaming this out. It's also an unspoken reason that hyperscalers are offering sovereign cloud initiatives.
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Important note that Greenland is not in the EU (although Denmark is), so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern. (I think this would be a wrong thing to think, but that's how it would be diffused at first.)
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by rwmj 10mo ago
You can do that in GCC now (-ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero). There are a few projects that decided to enable this by default.
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Oddly they didn't even reuse the annotation for this that GCC already has: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18485447/gcc-attribute-m...
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https://web.archive.org/web/20191016003108/https%3A//slate.c...
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The lines of code that changed everything (2019)(slate.com)
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For sure, but you don't need to file CVEs for every regular bug.
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Langton is obviously "long town", but Matravers is a very strange non-English sounding name, and indeed according to Wikipedia it's from French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton_Matravers#History
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Fraud is 41% of all crime in the UK, affecting 3.2 million people. Number of people using F-Droid + a banking app is approximately zero in comparison. There is not the slightest chance in hell that taking on the legal risk from F-Droid us
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by rwmj 10mo ago
In the UK, HSBC is definitely on the hook: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy94vz4zd7zo This is both good and bad. It's good because fraud is rife and the banks had little incentive to do anything about
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No idea, where will they go? Dismantling off-shore banking is generally a good thing since I'd like the ultra rich to pay tax as that funds services that I use.
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The problem (for the bank) is they are now liable in the UK[1] if you are defrauded because someone installs malware on the phone. There's basically zero upside for the bank to allow customers to use F-Droid, since probably 0.0001% of
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by rwmj 10mo ago
I wonder if it's not safety but money. In the UK, train operators pay station operators a fixed fee to stop. As a result trains can't just stop somewhere randomly (except I hope in an emergency) even if that would benefit many p
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by rwmj 10mo ago
I took French for 5 years and I don't think I learned enough to understand a tannoy announcement that the train was being split into two parts. Tannoy announcements aren't the easiest to understand even for native speakers.
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Oh I have we uncancelled the Euston connection now. Good news finally. Hopefully we'll build beyond Birmingham too, because otherwise passengers travelling north of Birmingham will add extra stress on the overloaded WCML.
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Because it's going to the airport and so might be full of travellers and tourists?
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UK trains are terrible. I don't have direct experience to know if they are worse than DB trains, except for DB's dire performance being a running joke amongst my German colleagues at work. I bet that UK trains "win" by
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octopodes
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by rwmj 10mo ago
As an interviewer I always leave plenty of time, usually 15-20 minutes, for the candidate to ask open questions about the company and culture. I emphasize that they will be asking an actual engineer (ie. me) rather than a manager / HR
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We use it as basically a customer-facing bug tracker, except it's absolute garbage even compared to stuff like Jira.
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The line scan photo of the Shinkansen train is amazing! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Line_scan_photo_of_S... (If you're confused by that page, then so was I. It contains the full photo but it's so
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Wait, hitchhiking is illegal (in the US presumably)? (Supplemental question: how do you make hitching illegal?) In the UK I've met many interesting people both while hitchhiking myself, and while picking up hitchers. It is a practi
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We don't give everyone guns, which helps a lot.
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It might depend on the ownership structure, for example if he had retained 51% or had shares with 10x voting power.
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Self-selecting survey with no other visible methodology, and anything interesting is behind a paywal.
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https://archive.ph/FFwfn
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https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/nodisc... .. in case anyone else was wondering. It seems to mean the compiler should warn if you ignore the result except by an explicit cast to voi

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