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by sambe 7y ago
The article seems to confirm that the issue is not, in fact, an inability to produce a ballpoint pen (tip). Rather, they could not produce a competitive high-end one: "A year ago Premier Li Keqiang went on national television and bemoa
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by sambe 7y ago
Wouldn't the small sharing libraries also be at risk under a system with more power held by copyright owners?
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by sambe 7y ago
Biomass is actually listed as a separate category (at least on the BBC report I linked). Coal progress looks great but feels contradictory with the New Scientist link. Not a lot of people talking about the large gas dependency...
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by sambe 7y ago
These seem like excellent resources! It's still odd that the UK has been criticised for coal subsidies and the transparency around this if coal has shrunk so dramatically and even imports are relatively small.
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by sambe 7y ago
I don't know what is going on in the UK: * On the one hand, supposedly one of the best users of clean energy ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48711649 ). Side question: where does it all come from? T
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by sambe 7y ago
There are IDEs on iOS.
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by sambe 7y ago
Yeah, this is pretty weird and a little scary. I wonder if they are using it as a negotiating tactic - get offered a super low price and then give that price to Airbus to match? Airbus have already enthusiastically said they will bid on thi
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by sambe 7y ago
Google isn’t really an authority. The Google rate could be bad and MasterCard 0.1% worse. They could be from different times. Also, the MasterCard site says indicative only - if I convert the amount back again, MasterCard claims they are gi
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by sambe 7y ago
It seems likely that the side switch is anyway connected to software - on iPad its purpose is configurable and I think it was for a short period on iPhone. I always assumed the point of the switch was for quick and convenient access, not fo
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by sambe 7y ago
I don't know what the MasterCard exchange rate is. However, someone recently told me regarding their credit card: "they give me the wholesale exchange rate, which is great". It turned out not to be so great (~1% wide market).
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by sambe 7y ago
Neither do any of the other Scotsmen I know.
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by sambe 7y ago
You say “caught red handed” and other accusatory statements. The article says they had announced how (encrypted, anonymised) and why (to provide more accurate location information to users) before it was “discovered”. It doesn’t really appe
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by sambe 7y ago
A sibling comment suggests that the insulation-on-the-inside approach (for cellars, at least) has been found to be wrong anyway for moisture-on-the-inside.
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by sambe 7y ago
This would probably be good feedback to leave as a GitHub issue (or PR!).
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by sambe 7y ago
Some people switch programming languages often. Exponentiation operators are common, both caret and double star are used. It does not seem amusing (surprising?) to me. On the other hand, piping and redirection are relatively uncommon outsid
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by sambe 7y ago
I always want the ability to skip the entire thread I'm currently viewing (as opposed to collapse the sub-thread I'm currently viewing). The official Reddit iOS app does this with a floating button, for example.
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by sambe 7y ago
Unlimited version history is still listed on my account. I recall this was grandfathered indefinitely for all existing users. Does anyone know how this fits with the new announcement? I have only ever used it outside of 30 days, and the &qu
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by sambe 7y ago
Wasn’t DFU reflash always available? Was there any example of Apple blocking a device from receiving updates or reinstalls? As far as I recall updates were not even authorised until a few years ago.
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by sambe 7y ago
Yes; that is what I'm saying: power is the real issue, not lack of legal framework/remedy (and in most cases, private contracts are specifically the purpose contract law; "I intended it to be privately handled" would not
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by sambe 7y ago
The International Court of Arbitration already existed, and there were other such courts even earlier. It may well be the case that this was never intended as a formal contract, but I am responding to the assertion that there was no way for
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by sambe 7y ago
Contract law and international arbitration do exist though. The ultimate inability to enforce seems like it is a separate issue and not limited to bilateral contracts - nation states are more powerful than international courts in many cases
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by sambe 7y ago
I think they usually _don’t_ use twin studies because they are harder/more expensive. In this case they used the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort: https://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/philadelphianeurodevelopmental.
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by sambe 7y ago
The case is not being made particularly well, I feel, from the perspective of decision makers who incentivise quick-and-dirty tactics. The cost/benefit of adding internal quality is only apparent over the entire lifetime of the product
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by sambe 7y ago
12.2 is the release that mitigated this attack. So 12.2 also contains random noise in the sensor data - releases before this did not disable it by default (according to the article).
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by sambe 7y ago
" The headline PPA values that Samsung is announcing are also impressive: compared to 7nm, 3GAE will offer 1.35x performance, 0.5x power, with a 0.65x die area." ... Samsung states that these performance numbers are based on using
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by sambe 7y ago
It's right there in the article: 1.35x. That sounds like raw speed though, with actual changes probably depending more on what people do with the new technology.
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by sambe 7y ago
You are right. I mis-read the latter part due to the former implying total energy.
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by sambe 7y ago
It's being rolled out: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Form_Autofill#Chil...
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by sambe 7y ago
Shipping for Linux is waaay down the list: https://github.com/orgs/FirefoxGraphics/projects/1 I assume due to driver issues?
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by sambe 7y ago
Immediately followed by: "Boiling a kettle, for example, takes around two kilowatts." I guess that was a very small amount of water or it was already pretty hot.

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