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by swish_bob 7y ago
Personally, if I was an architect, I'd have bought into this stuff heavily. The ability to let people walk around the house I've just designed and request tweaks before the foundations are poured would be _immense_.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Yes and no. The Extradition Act explicitly prevents extradition of individuals who might face the death penalty. The ECHR _also_ protects people facing the death penalty.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
This persuaded me to look her up. Wow ... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/05/anti-n...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Of course, while it's neither easy, nor cheap, that train does not need to have any batteries in order to run on electricity. Much of the UK's rail network is either electrified or in the process of being electrified. The side eff
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by swish_bob 7y ago
That's clearly untrue, since it's entirely possible to consider having perfectly sealed borders while not deporting undocumented immigrants. There is no way such a situation could be described as "open borders".
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Nearly. The reason you can eat them raw is that the vaccinate them. This is orthogonal to whether you battery farm them.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
>> But cutting emissions in the United States and Europe isn't going to do anything. You're right, we shouldn't bother doing anything, we should just tell them to clean up their act.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
And to Ireland, as well. I once flew to Dublin and only realised on the plane I'd forgotten my passport. Got through with my paper driving license, but I don't think I even needed that, strictly, although currently you need _some_
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by swish_bob 8y ago
And when the manufacturer says "nuh uh" like they did in this case?
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by swish_bob 8y ago
In the days of colour film photography, one of the stages applied was skin tone matching. When trying to set your printer up you printed a fairly standard picture, and checked the skin tone looked right. For a long time nobody thought to do
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Maybe, and certainly if we'd seen an unmanned booster land on after completing a successful launch in the early 80's we'd have been very excited, but the shuttle just caught the imagination that bit more. Justifiably or not.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Not to denigrate what's going on now, arguably it's far more important technically and possibly a bigger achievement, but it doesn't _feel_ anything like as exciting as the first shuttle launch. And to be clear, I was pretty
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by swish_bob 8y ago
He is not being extradited under charges that could lead to the death penalty. If he were, British law is very clear that he could not be extradited.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I've worked at a startup that mandated no developers worked outside core hours (unless responding to an on-call issue, we all took turns on call). It worked fine. The founders were fairly enlightened people, and well aware that we were
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by swish_bob 8y ago
And provide us with a dedicated phone number staffed by people trained to identify whether it is, in fact, an emergency, who will tell you to call an ambulance if necessary.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Had to install FTDI drivers on (an admittedly old) Windows laptop 3 weeks ago before I could use it to talk to the Cisco gear I was reconfiguring ...
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Are you cool with it happening now? Then maybe it's not right, and maybe it wasn't right before.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Folk is fine in the UK and works well, as does "everybody".
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I don't know about you, but my driving instructor talked to me about when not to perform emergency braking/evasion manoeuvres when I was learning. And about how to choose between emergency responses.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Motorail? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorail )
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Building houses is an excellent example. When a large corporation is building an estate, the time and cost taken to build the houses is fairly well known, and consistently accurate (to a degree). Custom/self builds are famously hard to
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by swish_bob 8y ago
You could (relatively) easily, implement Pagerank but use votes instead of links. This would make people who have lots of (quality) upvotes have more weight. Whether it would improve the quality of the comment sections is an interesting que
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by swish_bob 8y ago
People aren't talking about force pushing to master, they're talking about force pushing to another branch, but with master unprotected, and therefore, by accident, force pushing to master as well.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
People who aren't in Seinfeld.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Ooh, thanks. Been using mintty on Cygwin for ages, this might be what I need to stop looking at WSL and start using it as my default ...
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I was about to suggest it really needs to at least be tried on people with darker skin tones.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Graphene is a better heat conductor as well, so heat ought not to be as big a concern.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Does the nature article that futurism piece was talking about make it clearer? https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15635
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by swish_bob 8y ago
During early tasting panels when they were adding real vanilla to some UK ice cream products there was confusion among the people running them, because nobody was mentioning the black flecks. Eventually they asked people if they'd noti
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by swish_bob 8y ago
The performance benefit is huge . I understand not wanting to learn another build tool, but I have no regrets where I've moved to gradle. It's so much faster on a project of any size it's stunning. 90% of maven projects don&

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