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811.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Assuming you ever find out. I don't doubt Western governments have the ability to spy on their citizens as needed, and it's likely at some point most of us have been spied on in some minor way, but unless we happened to be doing
812.
by wizofaus 4y ago
If that were a volume conversion, bananas must've grown a whole lot bigger in the US since I was last there.
813.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Hawaii was still an "incorporated territory" of the US though, surely it would have qualified as "US soil"? I gather at least some deaths did occur in Honolulu itself too.
814.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Isn't that more or less what ASP tries/tried to do? What format are the updates in?
815.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Just don't try to use ChatGPT to help! (To be fair, it can be useful at general knowledge based clues, but certainly not ones relying on word play/anagrams etc.)
816.
by wizofaus 4y ago
The Guardian would surely qualify as somewhat respectable and still paywall free...(I pay for it anyway, given I read it pretty regularly. It's only publications I read articles from maybe 3 or 4 times a year I have an issue with signi
817.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Or if it was accompanied by human-written annotations about the quality of it, which could be used to improve its weightings. Of course it might even be that the only instance of text describing some novel phenomenon available was itself an
818.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Can it also generate unit tests for you to prove the functions work as expected? Obviously those unit tests need to be something a quick glance at will confirm are actually usefully verifying expected behaviour (of course, there are circum
819.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Because the basic principle of C/C++ is to not force the coder to have to pay for checks it mightn't need. Which in some contexts makes sense - for application development, probably not.
820.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Vs Code has docking and floating windows, so presumably there are html/js-based libraries out there that provide support for them?
821.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Even QT has that problem, particularly if using QtQuick/QML.
822.
by wizofaus 4y ago
But there are still no truly widely used standards to ensure emails are actually from the claimed sender. Many of the most popular phone-based email apps (including Google's) don't even show the from/reply-to addresses by def
823.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I don't think I'd claim anything about what computers are "obviously" going to be in 50 years' time. AI, quantum computing, more advanced BMIs (thought-controlled computers etc.) and who-knows-what could disrupt eve
824.
by wizofaus 4y ago
If you're looking at large countries (>5M) with genetically diverse populations, it's #1. That the top 10 are all smaller countries primarily populated with those with pacific islander/Polynesian backgrounds is remarkable
825.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm struggling to believe any single server could usefully service 2100k (well over 2 million!) requests per second. Even Google, with their vast farm of servers, reportedly only process less than 100k requests per second globally. I&#
826.
by wizofaus 4y ago
No idea where I'd even find an installer for Windows 7! It does make me wonder whether upgrading it would actually help. But for now it works well enough I'd rather not risk it (the other thing I use it for is some old software
827.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I don't know if knowledge of big O notation is that big a deal - many of the issues I've seen at least in recent years have come about in O(n) code where the value of n in production use cases was several orders of magnitude highe
828.
by wizofaus 4y ago
While I do agree with this, it seems worse than that - I've observed with a number of systems that used to run well 5 or so years ago that they simply don't any more, even with exactly the same OS and essentially the same software
829.
by wizofaus 4y ago
And I've worked on systems where months were essentially squandered on performance improvements that never paid off because we never grew the customer base sufficiently for them to be worth while... I'm all for dedicating time and
830.
by wizofaus 4y ago
"The large majority of accessibility problems a site can have cannot be identified by software" Bold statement. I used to work in exactly that area and the reality is humans often simply don't bother finding many of the acc
831.
by wizofaus 4y ago
https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd
832.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Surely most of the compute cycles for turning a web page into pixels happen on the client anyway? I'm not convinced the server necessarily has to do massively more work to return HTML over JSON (though it would obviously depend on how
833.
by wizofaus 4y ago
TV/DVDs/VHS tapes? And, well, prior to that women were largely expected to dedicate most of their time to looking after kids. I was a single Dad of a 3yo (long before YouTube) and I can't imagine having done it without having
834.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Recently I've tried using it for things I thought it might be OK at but turns out not to be, e.g. I just tried to get it to generate PNG data (e.g. base64-encoded, suitable for an <img> data: url), even for ridiculously simple th
835.
by wizofaus 4y ago
And of course a title is always an accurate summary of what the article is about, "clickbait" is just a made up word anyway...
836.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I would say that change happened much earlier, and was almost complete by 1911 in many US cities. OTOH I had a hard time telling apart cars from 1910s vs 1930s. Around the early/mid 30s a much more modern style of car came on the scen
837.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that
838.
by wizofaus 4y ago
First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly
839.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I get the impression there's a fair chunk of America that feels that way about any sort of government-provided assistance (though more accurately I guess it's "assistance is fine as long as it's to people I approve of).
840.
by wizofaus 4y ago
How much does MS or Amazon make from online ad sales? Not sure you could claim either runs a social network either.

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