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by tolien 1y ago
Leith to London isn't that far away from 500 miles.
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by tolien 1y ago
> Ford was really big here at one point but it's a shadow of what it used to be. Speaking for the UK at least, it's not like we were really getting US-originated models from Ford: it used to be the Mondeo or Fiesta but now it
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by tolien 1y ago
Indeed, and I'm all in favour of the whimsy!
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by tolien 1y ago
> (This occasionally leads to fun disputes; for instance see the famous Jaffa Cake court case, or the more recent determination by the Irish Supreme Court that Subway's bread was not bread.) The FT's been having fun investigati
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by tolien 1y ago
https://archive.ph/OGK4d
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The curse of 'Disco Elysium', the greatest RPG ever made(ft.com)
4 points by tolien 1y ago|1 comments
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by tolien 1y ago
> When was the last time you saw an ad to buy a Bugatti Chiron? Ads don't just have to be a photo on a billboard, though, or the entire thing of influencers wouldn't exist. How many times has the Chiron been on Top Gear - I rec
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by tolien 1y ago
> There ARE thousands. And here you're getting in on the dishonesty. How many of those were examples of "hurt feelings" and not "put a whole lot of foreigners at risk of their lives" or any of the other classes o
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by tolien 1y ago
Do expand on that point then. Edit: If I remove the reference to Brandenburg, I'm not sure my point substantially changes: Incitement is an offence in the UK and also in other countries. You can argue whether that should be the case
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by tolien 1y ago
Point taken, but incitement is still an offence in other countries. That the US has specific, and particularly permissive, laws around what constitutes speech is neither here nor there. > You want thousands of examples? Of people people
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by tolien 1y ago
I wasn't saying the context I gave was an exhaustive list, I was suggesting that having Googled her name and maybe skimmed a couple of news articles, you might need to do some more reading before forming too much of an opinion. > Sh
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by tolien 1y ago
Indeed, I didn't mean to imply those three were the only categories of things within "online posts"! Rather, that it's disingenous to lump all of that under one umbrella and suggest great swathes of people are being arre
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by tolien 1y ago
Yet implying people are being arrested for the latter, while showing examples of the first two. Clear as mud.
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by tolien 1y ago
> You don't think this counts as "arrested for online posts"? You've definitely missed some context. For example, and fairly significantly: > Connolly previously admitted intending to stir up racial hatred. If you
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by tolien 1y ago
Muddying the "simple argument" would be lumping stalkers in with people inciting violence against foreigners and posting nasty comments about the Prime Minister, to make some kind of point about the police. That would be ridiculou
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by tolien 1y ago
[citation needed], your Economist article [0] quotes 30 a day (which would be <11k a year) but muddies the water pretty significantly: > Under these laws, British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts, double the ra
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by tolien 1y ago
If you use too much moist code, is there a risk of getting a soggy bottom? Considering how many names seem to be derived from memes these days (all the -strikes and so on), a language that guarantees " safety" as a metaphor for co
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by tolien 1y ago
> Like, for crime, the USA treats gun control as outside the Overton Window saying e.g. "we need guns for self defence" Without a hint of the self-awareness that the most likely person to be shot by your gun is yourself , eith
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by tolien 1y ago
> I remain a bit mystified about why it would be a hard maximum, though. Did such motherboards prevent the user from installing 4x256MiB for a cool 1GiB of DRAM? Probably not - it's not that rare to see the supported maximum memory
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by tolien 1y ago
Next step is to get Doom working on it :-)
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by tolien 1y ago
Seems to have worked well enough for Backblaze for years and years now. Another major vendor publicly announcing that make X model Y has shitty reliability is as much pressure on the storage duopoly as we're likely to get.
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by tolien 2y ago
I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.
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Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble(ft.com)
145 points by tolien 2y ago|121 comments
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by tolien 2y ago
> Planes that first flew over 30 years ago. The F-35 first flew eighteen years ago, so this isn't quite the dunk you think it is. Both the Rafale and Typhoon have continued to get upgrades in avionics and engines.
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by tolien 2y ago
Same, and now I'm still playing Elite but just with slightly better graphics :-D
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by tolien 2y ago
> Maybe the EU forced all cars to have the same charger CCS2/Type-2 were adopted as EU standards with enforcement to start this year, although it sounds like it's more of a "the charger must have this, but can have other
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by tolien 2y ago
BSE makes me think of Mad Cow Disease [1], quite the bull market. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
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by tolien 2y ago
As an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".
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by tolien 2y ago
A chunk of the federal employee base will have something like "LTC" or "Dr." in front of their name, which again confers no indication of gender or preferred pronoun.
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by tolien 2y ago
Having just updated a project to use a newer version of the OpenSAML libs, this x1000. How something so fundamental can be so badly implemented (and documented!) is just mind-blowing.

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