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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
OP is being bit dismissive, but IMHO the key feature of a metasearch engine is the processing of results, not the interface. Filtering Google’s results is technically a metasearch engine... but it’s a fairly trivial example.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
Only during daylight savings time, otherwise it’s AEST or less commonly AEDT. Or even EST.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
It just reads as though the author conflated every sense of the word ‘face’ in order to make a thinly veiled jab at liberals.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
If you search for ‘CDT’ in Australia it will give you results for Australian Central Daylight Time, for example.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
What I’ve quoted is just the definition of a ‘month’ in legislation in the ACT. Time zones are dealt with in other parts of the Act and other legislation. But yes, time is complicated, especially when multiple jurisdictions are involved.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
IANAL, but given this case is in an ACT court the ACT’s Legislation Act 2001 [0] (perhaps better named than ‘Acts Interpretation Act 1901’) is probably the more relevant piece of legislation in this case, and defines a ‘month’ like this:
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
The comparison of JavaScript cold start times by the number/size of dependencies is a little confusing. I’m not too familiar with how all the various serverless platforms work, but a decent bundler would surely improve the cold start t
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
That’s what I meant, it’s (a type of) censorship, not surveillance.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
Correct me if I’m misreading, but the link is to a blog post entitled “...an Opportunity ... to End Censorship”. ISPs and governments snooping on your browsing is surveillance, not censorship. Taking down sites and removing them from search
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Renaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer(bmj.com)
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Like Uber, but for politics: The false promise of digital democracy(insidestory.org.au)
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
I think the parent comment was comparing Express to Sinatra and Sails.js to Rails respectively, not altogether.
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Accept my accept-language (2014)(blog.choibean.com)
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Google Translate turns te reo Māori into apocalyptic warning(newshub.co.nz)
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
Exactly - but self hosting OpenStreetMap is quite a radical step up from embedding Google Maps, hence why you’d get MapBox to do it for you.
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
What makes this a better approach than having something like React run in a ServiceWorker? www.sparational.com seems to have gone down since I started writing this comment, but when I clicked on the link, it seemed to have quite a considera
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Punctuation and Human Freedom [pdf](lel.ed.ac.uk)
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics Tracked People by Their Mobile Device Data(medium.com)
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Revolutionary system one step closer to saving children’s lives(mojonews.com.au)
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Learning how to Bitcoin: Australia’s first blockchain uni course launched(mojonews.com.au)
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Tales from the family vaults: A cult classic(mojonews.com.au)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Come on - Panera Bread just isn’t some auto shop in your city. Panera Bread is a company with over 2000 locations, almost 50,000 employees and more than $2 billion in revenue. They let highly sensitive information about millions of customer
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Fetch is a Web API, not an ECMAScript language feature, so TC39 doesn’t have much to do with it. They do do Promises though and Cancellation is a Stage 1 proposal [0], so it’s more than a year away from standardization at best. WHATWG handl
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Isn’t the bigger point that the modern world is in a situation to mitigate climate change, but isn’t really trying enough, thus risking the same fate as the Roman Empire?
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
If you’re going bush walking, you’d usually take a snake bite bandage. If you’re otherwise healthy and have other people with you, you’ve got a few hours to get yourself to a hospital or ambulance.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
That’s probably because it’s fairly widely known (in Australia) that if you’re bitten by a red-back or funnel-web spider that you seek medical attention, as you would for a venomous snake. A quickly treated bite is almost never fatal. The a
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Well, you can already commit an AST if you really want to: just serialise the ESTree[0] to JSON and commit that. But committing unreadable JSON files to version control rather defeats most of the features of version control. [0] https:&#x2
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
I agree with that assessment. Xi is certainly accelerating the process.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> it's not a dictatorship. The explanation given in first year political science was that China is a very rare example of a successful party-based dictatorship, as opposed to a dictatorship based on an individual or family.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
I don’t drive so I can’t say I’ve ever used Waze, but I did recently switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. I’d say that the author’s findings about both apps largely mirrors my own experience using them for public transport and walking dir

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