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by scott_w 11mo ago
>> Do you understand what economies of scale are? > Do you understand what results are? So I take it, no, you don't understand. You're comparing costs and processes that exist outside of wartime to costs and processes tha
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> Everyone keeps saying this yet it seems to be the opposite, results for dollars tradeoffs are better in wartime. Do you understand what economies of scale are? Of course some production costs go down because you're producing far m
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by scott_w 11mo ago
War and peacetime are two different things. During wartime you need lots of materiel quickly, so value for money estimates, anti corruption practices all get reduced in the name of production numbers at all costs. Verification is easier bec
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I’m not talking about TPS reports, overheads, etc. I’m talking, quite literally, about the actual line item costs that appear on the ledger of the Exchequer. I don’t see why this is hard for you to understand without and why you’re waffling
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I’ve been looking and you are correct, though I do recall seeing something different, so perhaps what I read was misinterpreting the Seven Days to the Rhine plan.
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> You can't go an hour without some HN comment just hand waving away the costs of some regulation I don't see what regulation has to do with (effectively) nationalising the entire shipbuilding industry. When I say "cost&qu
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> 'allows' being the operative term here which means that the statement you attempt to contradict has not been contradicted. That's a totally absurd statement in response to "the current government put a new law on
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The previous Secretary for DEFRA (Steve Reed) saw passage of the Water (Special Measures) Act which allows the government to bring criminal charges against water company executives for persistent lawbreaking. So to say, "uk gov does no
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> Certainly, if one takes the view that all large organisations are mediocre, the British Empire is unambiguously an example of "large organisation". Absolutely! I think all governments can safely fall under "large organis
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Um... Russia's doctrine during the Cold War was to turn Poland into a nuclear wasteland to stop Nato advancing through it. At the time, Poland was a part of the USSR. What Russia considers "a buffer zone" is really "infe
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> Either you feel this kind of construction process is national-strategic and you ignore the cost over imports, or not. So the simple truth is you can almost never "ignore the cost" because that cost must be borne somewhere.
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If you think the British Empire was ever competent then I strongly recommend you listen to the episodes of the Empire podcast that cover the British Empire (there’s a lot of different episodes across the series). With the exception of the R
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> If you're doing things blindly in Linux, there's no point. The value is in understanding and leveraging that understanding to achieve your goals. I don’t know about that. Just to be upfront: I’m not advocating putting your ki
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I’m a bit confused by your edit and I’m glad I ignored it to read the comment you initially highlighted because it does offer a strong counter to the Project Zero article.
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You can’t infer that from the statement posted. In fact, all Ofcom have done is say they’re investigating. Do you expect a regulatory body to not investigate a report from a serious suicide prevention charity? In addition, such an inferen
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by scott_w 11mo ago
This post is really mixed up which, for a lawyer, is really disappointing to read. He can’t seem to decide if Ofcom’s position is that the geo blocking was disabled or that it’s not sufficient. He seems to flip flop between the two position
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> Meta desperately wants to avoid being regulated. One way they can avoid it is to help make the out-of-band justice system (much) more efficient such that they avoid messy moderation policies and don't need to be regulated anymore.
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> The answer isn't ad blocking, the answer is paying directly and in full Netflix started showing ads on their lower tiers: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126831 If you pay for Sky/Virgin/inser
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> "Scam" is fundamentally subjective, just as "harm" is. From the article: > Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods , Reuters reports I think we can agree that there's no "su
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by scott_w 1y ago
I can totally believe that. I mean, look at the shock that Democrats have had to Trump doing all the authoritarian things he said he'd do! I saw a similar thing in the UK where the newly-minted Labour government thought they could co
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by scott_w 1y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. I recall Obama later saying he wished he was more radical because he only realised too late that the holdouts to ACA were never going to vote for it. Essentially, they negotiated in bad faith but Obama only realised
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by scott_w 1y ago
You're always going to be up against "good enough" and inertia. For plenty of applications, a bloated Electron app really is good enough! The library you built looks fucking awesome, by the way. However, I think even you ackn
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Copy and paste is your friend here. If there's 20+ huge PRs, just paste "This PR is far too large to review, please break it down and submit smaller PRs and engage with us ahead of time to understand how to solve this problem.&quo
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> That's it: about 4 hours of work and produced something this person had asked for a year prior, and that people were already spending hours each day doing! This leads to the exact problem OP brings up: who fixes it if it breaks? I
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All those things didn’t stop Heartbleed or numerous other CVEs from happening, though, did it?
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How has a language specification and multiple viable compilers helped C developers write security-critical code?
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> However, don't you still need to understand the entire program as ultimately that's what you are trying to build. Depends on what I'm trying to do. If what I'm trying to handle is local to the code, then possibly no
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In plenty of languages, there's not really a difference. In Rust, there is a difference between a `let var_name = 10;` and `const var_name: u64 = 10;` in that the latter must have its value known at compile-time (it's a true const
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> In most organizations the problem is lack of urgency rather than lack of developer hours. I disagree: it's a business prioritisation issue (not necessarily a problem). Ultimately, a lot of the processes are there because the wider
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Absolutely the right choice. I do triathlons and your comment makes me think of all the people who turn up, do an Ironman and leave the sport after. Or people who sign up for a marathon, do it, then never run again. Meanwhile there are shor

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