stevetrewick

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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I'm deeply unconvinced by TFA (and the rest of the series). There are insufficient technical details (and those that are there are taken way out of context) to judge whether a) the author's conjecture is reasonable, and b) the aut
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Parsing is often deeply recursive and in some languages, throwing an exception will automatically unwind the stack until it finds a handler. As well as explicitly giving you a good path and a bad path (as someone pointed out upthread) this
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Weird article. Author seems less concerned that academics and journalists may have an agenda and more that it's the wrong agenda.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Video from Otto's YouTube chan : http://youtu.be/Qb0Kzb3haK8
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
If that were universally so, there would be no trucks.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
That doesn't much sound like the UK I live in. Would you mind expanding on that a bit?
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
92 out of 813 seats are hereditary peers, the remainder are life peers [Edit: forgot the Bishops] appointed (technically) by the monarch on the advice of the government. There's really no such thing as a class 'system', let a
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
It's UPnP [0]. It was always going to be UPnP. UPnP is the wrong set of trade offs and always was. And even making it 'off by default' won't solve the problem because the standard instructions for getting any multiplay
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes Goodhart's Law : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I agree. I also believe there are other good reasons for this rule. Imagine : 15 minute whiteboard workshop - "capturing value from meetings". We draw a horizontal line on the board, a relative value scale, lower to the left, high
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
No, I'm really not. There is a difference between explaining how something works and advocating for it. It's a category error to conflate positive statements with normative statements. I'd be interested know which part of wha
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
And who has sadly misunderstood and subsequently misrepresented the issue. Despite the click bait headlines, this case has very little to do with encryption per se .
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12676758 Here's a sample charge from the police press release [0] Preparation for terrorism. Between 31 December 2015 and 22 September 2016 Samata Ullah, with the
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Indeed. The Terrorism Act 2006 [0] defines the offence given in count 3 (just to pick one) thusly ... > A person commits an offence if, with the intention of— (a)committing acts of terrorism, or (b)assisting another to commit such acts,
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Common use is literally the only thing which defines correctness.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> smaller decentralized crews that would be much less violent Maybe, maybe not. The problem is that those businesses are still illegal and so have no recourse to the law for dispute settlement. When fraud, theft, delinquent payments, et
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Something not entirely quite unlike this http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
The actual economy doesn't give a fig for the appetites of 'the current elites' - whatever that means, but that's not the point, the point is that it is bad to move to an energy supply model that creates a large number o
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
How refreshing to come across someone who understands the economics and doesn't just blame Thatcher.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> If harnessed properly, a mass-switch to renewables could generate millions of jobs There are excellent reasons why it shouldn't. Jobs are a cost of doing something, not a benefit.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
If by 'before' you mean in 1920, when mining employment peaked at around 1.2 million. In 1970, 5 years before Thatcher was elected there were around 300,000. [0] To your second point, I come from a mining background, you can find
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Sigh. > Annual mean precipitation over England and Wales has not changed significantly since records began in 1766. Seasonal rainfall is highly variable, but appears to have decreased in summer and increased in winter, although with litt
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Not very AFAICT, partly because audio out was relatively uncommon, never knew anyone who got it to load and they stopped doing it after the first series IIRC. Great bit of nostalgia.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Ugh, manual switches! Should have sprung the extra for a Hayes Smartmodem 1200. Bet he just liked it because he got to twiddle the knobs. I never managed to load the software (because our TV didn't have an audio jack and I just stuck a
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> At first I tried to load these files into BeebEm. The trouble is that BeebEm doesn't take .wav files directly-- you have to convert them to a format called .uef-- and the conversion programs were reallyt finicky with noisy signals
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
ULONGLONG is in fact a Windows Drivers Kit specific type. WDK has its own specialised set of weird and uncomfortable type conventions in the MS style [0] and although the author's point about C arithmetic type promotion is generic, his
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> OKOK, so you write drivers but don't know about C types, standard types, fixed-length types That was my thought as well. I've occasionally been hired to write windows kernel drivers and I'd say that if you don't ha
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Pirate Treasure Crowdfunding Update: The Press Release(ciphermysteries.com)
1 points by stevetrewick 10y ago|0 comments
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Pixels and voxels, the long answer(medium.com)
435 points by stevetrewick 10y ago|104 comments
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Correct. The UK legislation which defines what kind of infringement (or enablement thereof) constitutes a criminal offence [0] uses the language "In the course of a business ... otherwise than in the course of a business to such an ext

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