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by willyt 6y ago
I love the idea of standard ports everywhere, I just wish it was apple or some other good multidisciplinary design team that had designed the standard. Lightning and MagSafe are the best out there. They feel satisfying to use; the lightning
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Also political scientists from eminent universities in the US and Britain were heavily involved in the renewal of democracy in Germany. With the Germans they designed a system that is more democratic than those that existed in their own co
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by willyt 6y ago
The problem is that you have a two party system, so all viewpoints have to fit into one of those parties. Democracy is a spectrum running from North Korea to Scandinavia. I.e from Dictatorship > One party > Two party > De-facto Two
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by willyt 6y ago
Lighthouses typically shine a beam up to 20-30 miles, depends on height obviously. I would imagine the loads would be at least 1kW especially with old fashioned incandescent bulbs?
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by willyt 6y ago
It’s probably a joke about a diesel fan heater, blows hot air and sounds a bit like a hair dryer. Common in yachts and bigger camper vans.
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by willyt 6y ago
I also agree that plastic is probably bad, but it's everywhere though and I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that it's become unavoidable. With respect to the article, it's an opinion piece and clearly marked as su
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by willyt 6y ago
Dagenham is quite a right-wing area? People with right-wing views seems to have been targeted with anti-mask and anti-lockdown misinformation on social media.
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by willyt 6y ago
Well I couldn’t wait, and the airline that cancelled my flight had to pay up to €400 costs anyway. The ticket to Paris was €60 for a 400 mile journey that takes 2hr15 pretty cheap. The cheapest option for that leg if we’d got up really earl
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by willyt 6y ago
I had the opposite experience, my flight from Bordeaux to London was cancelled. By the time we’d realised the next available flight was 2 days later and €500. The train next day was €300. It took 2hrs for Bordeaux-Paris we decided to hang o
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by willyt 6y ago
...Brexit...
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by willyt 6y ago
Yes. The worst civilian loss of life in Britain in WW2 was a crush that occurred at Bethnal Green station on a stairway down to an air raid shelter. A woman tripped and fell on the stair and people above carried on pushing to get down and t
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by willyt 6y ago
I’m not a legal expert but here’s my understanding of the process: If a person or group of people take civil action, liability will be determined in the specialist construction courts, typically in construction cases many entities are held
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by willyt 6y ago
This is the crux of it really, it wasn’t really government housing any more. It was owned and operated by a independent entity called a tenant management organisation, a nonprofit organisation constituted for the purpose of allowing the gov
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by willyt 6y ago
That’s not true on recent versions of macOS. Apps have to ask the first time and you can grant them access to specific folders / services only.
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by willyt 6y ago
Read the anandtech article again. 15-25w is the power consumption of the whole Mac mini measured at the wall plug. I.e it includes power supply, ssd, gpu comparable to RX560, external buses etc etc. If you want an x86 chip that beats its p
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by willyt 6y ago
When I did my A-levels, we were taught to give answers as surds the exams usually asked for this when we were doing trig and it was generally accepted to give answers as fractions so I think I ended up using my expensive graphic calculator
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by willyt 6y ago
Wasn’t 27W for the whole Mac Mini machine using a meter at the wall plug? So that includes losses in the power supply and ssd and everything else outside the chip that uses a bit of juice whereas the AMD tdp is just the chip. I thought Anan
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by willyt 6y ago
No it was an intel thing for secure booting windows in x86 PCs back in the days when Microsoft was top of the world and everyone thought Wintel were evil monopolists trying to lock Linux out of the PC ecosystem. I think there are still TPM
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by willyt 6y ago
I have volunteered for a marine SAR service in the U.K. and I’ve been on shouts looking for these things. We once looked for the old fashioned kind where you only get the location to within 50-100nm at first, with it getting a bit more accu
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by willyt 6y ago
If a nation state adversary has hacked the DKIM keys from your email server, they can send fake emails signed with this key. So it doesn't prove that a high value target like a presidential candidate has actually typed and pressed send
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by willyt 6y ago
Cod is pretty widespread, but salted cod is not common here in the UK or I think in Ireland and I had never come across that particular way of cooking it before. When we eat it, traditionally it is street food cooked from fresh, battered an
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by willyt 6y ago
Is the Icelandic connection somehow linked with the Basque national dish (and seeming national obsession) salted cod baked in olive oil? I went once and we were literally served it for every meal except breakfast. We visited a lot of differ
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by willyt 6y ago
I think the point is that if your country can’t make it work, perhaps you should look at how the French and the Japanese do it and copy them.
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by willyt 6y ago
Probably best to read this to understand better what happened. TLDR The problem was due to a hung network connection. So the notarisation check thought it could go because it had network but then it hung because the connection to oscp was g
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by willyt 6y ago
RISC v CISC https://arstechnica.com/features/1999/10/rvc/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/05/risc-vs-cisc-mobile-...
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by willyt 6y ago
Don't just downvote me, explain. I'm asking because I'm interested. Why is my hypothesis wrong?
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by willyt 6y ago
Isn’t this a RISC vs CISC thing though? AMD and Intel use a lot of complicated stuff to emulate the x86 instructions with a VM running on a RISC core. Apple controls hardware and software including LLVM so they compile efficient RISC code r
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by willyt 6y ago
If only there was a website where people who automate things congregate. They could automate creating this legal structure so we could all do it, then governments would be forced to do something about it.
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by willyt 6y ago
https://www.apple.com/uk/mac-pro/specs/ ‘Memory Configure up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory in 12 user-accessible DIMM slots’ And it can even cost over £10k just like the good old days.
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by willyt 6y ago
Leasehold?

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