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by thombat 4y ago
That doesn't automatically mean that any inspection officer will have such power delegated to them, but it may enable it, and the dismal history of the UK govt with intrusive measures isn't reassuring (immediately after the passag
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by thombat 4y ago
Not the OP, but it's likely referring to the Investigatory Powers Act which has a table summarising what officers of which government agencies can authorise and delegate access to what data: https://www.legislation.gov.uk&#x
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by thombat 4y ago
Take it as a free win - and although I'm not dyslexic autocorrect works to portray me in a similar light, which of course I usually only notice after the edit window has closed.
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by thombat 4y ago
Pipeline physics astound me: the same single pipe can be used for a series of different products with only a small boundary volume between them needing to be diverted [0]. As a naive software guy I would have feared that across 170km and nu
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by thombat 4y ago
Absolutely! It's easy to find it wanting in comparison to middle-class Western living, but my East German relatives still wax lyrical about the day they got to move from the cramped, war-damaged room in an old townhouse to the apartmen
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by thombat 4y ago
That's a very apt typo: "razed" (burnt to the ground) for "raised" (collected funds)
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by thombat 4y ago
And if the person you're playing with isn't having a good time as a result? If you're the guy at the head of the queue dicking around, while behind you are the people waiting to get on with their lives?
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by thombat 4y ago
But when appearing in court you're in real-time: you can't take 5 minutes to validate the AI output before passing it on. You can do that for your opening statements but once faced with the judge's rulings or cross-examinatio
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by thombat 4y ago
When NZ adopted MMP (proportional system similar to Germany's) both the major parties (National & Labour) campaigned against it on the "better the devil you know" basis, which the electorate see through. The first MMP ele
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by thombat 4y ago
Fascinating! So the recipient of the apology is generally unaware that it has been outsourced? Or do they still find it soothing, as bereft family do with professional mourners?
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by thombat 4y ago
The old joke: in a presentation pitching some fine new practice the speaker tells the audience "Hands up if you'd be happy to be on a plane which is running your team's software". Only one hand is raised. "So tell u
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by thombat 4y ago
I contracted on a bespoke project that was in desperate straits, huge extension with no way of delivering anywhere near the sale price. We had some beers with the buyer's representative when he came to inspect progress, and asked him w
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by thombat 4y ago
My joke (?) proposal for a contracting business was "Scapegoat Solutions". You're a manager somewhere with a project which is of course late, over budget, crappy quality? Your bonus, or even ass, could be on the line? Never f
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by thombat 4y ago
Seeing that view, for the first time in twenty years I thought about the curious stickiness of a well-used mouse ball, and cleaning the gubbins off the counter wheels, prompted by the cursor starting to stall and jump on the screen.
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by thombat 4y ago
Is there some reason to suspect that a widely-used dating technique couldn't be applied to this case?
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by thombat 4y ago
An underground test will be the best source of data, so no fallout as such.
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by thombat 4y ago
Given how the passengers squeak with moderate turbulence, imagine how they'll take high-speed veering during takeoff? But of course a roundabout only works because all vehicles approaching are preparing to come to a complete stop if an
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by thombat 4y ago
It would certainly be rate-limiting if every landing plane had to roll to the very end of the runway before turning off on "the taxiway". In principle this could be reduced by having planes with shorter rollouts leave the glideslo
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by thombat 4y ago
Naturally the diagnostic bed is beamed in by the same transporter that lets the doctor flit around the city making home visits without losing half the day on the road. (Since the whole idea is premised in optimistic sci-fi rather than munda
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by thombat 4y ago
When this mail first came to light all I could think was "I wish my CEO was spending his Friday nights trying to use and understand our product, and providing critical feedback and ass-kickings as appropriate". Instead of driving
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by thombat 4y ago
My life just forked into "before I ever tried saying PNAS as a word" and "after I realized I could never think of it as an initialism again"
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by thombat 4y ago
No sarcasm needed for zeppelins: the idea of gliding over the landscape low enough to hear through the openable window what's happening below fast enough to be useful for a domestic voyage, and in reasonable comfort: What's not to
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by thombat 4y ago
Please share more widely, i.e. paste the link - something on topic and of general interest isn't spam.
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by thombat 4y ago
It's not the nine months of gestation that's the barrier, it's the subsequent 25 years of child rearing. And as a society we value individuals and not just quantities: if I'm accused of infanticide offering to have anoth
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by thombat 4y ago
And the streaming video will be of an empty chessboard in a room with unchanging lighting.
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by thombat 4y ago
Replace the first "them' with "plastics"
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by thombat 4y ago
He might just be Buster Scruggs' less melodious & more bookish brother.
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by thombat 4y ago
How does Boring's technique differ to conventional current approaches? (i.e. I'm too lazy to repeat your research..)
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by thombat 4y ago
Removes the cost of the frame, reduces efficiency. Presumably whether it's a net gain depends upon the site, eg terrain shape, latitude, need for passive cooling, wind-blown dirt, local fauna, etc.
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by thombat 4y ago
So a panel that looks like Vanta Black, but also at non-optical wavelengths? Better efficiency is being pursued but the engineering behind real products will always be the result of balancing design constraints: https://en.m.wiki

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