NLips

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by NLips 10mo ago
What do you think shareholder meetings are for?
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by NLips 11mo ago
How do you know? Your “UK” set is liable to have some Irish accents in it. You need to break down regions more
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by NLips 2y ago
No, it’s “grift”: https://www.wordnik.com/words/grift
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by NLips 2y ago
The entirety of Great Britain is farther north than the entirety of the contiguous 48 USA states.
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by NLips 3y ago
The lowest paid employees get no less than 1/50th of the CEO’s allocation.
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by NLips 3y ago
Has anyone found a static analysis tool which understands C11 annex K (aka “safe C”) functions? I’ve found some tools like CLANG static analysis will raise errors for potentially incorrect calls to stdlib C functions, but doesn’t understand
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by NLips 3y ago
For best filtering, place the filter so air is “sucked” through by the fan, rather than “pushed”. (Quite possibly what you meant; I just found “in front of” easy to interpret in either way)
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by NLips 3y ago
The concept I use is that the next stage is all about how you implement the previous one: the spec is how you implement the requirements, the design is how you implement the spec, the code is how you implement the design. As okl said, it’s
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by NLips 3y ago
“Would Be Nice If”. Often used even when the “if” expansion doesn’t really make sense.
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by NLips 3y ago
I disagree with the author. Requirements are a precursor to the spec, and are a list of MUSTS, SHOULDS, and WBNIS which need to go into the feature/product. The Spec is a description of how these requirements are/will be met. An e
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by NLips 4y ago
Note that legal tender != can buy milk with. Legal tender is only about payment of debt. A shop selling you something doesn’t have to accept any specific form of payment, as they don’t let you build up a tab which needs repaying.
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by NLips 4y ago
Windows allows you to use a PIN for regular device logon - so you have a longer, more secure password for general use of the account, but an eg 8 digit numeric PIN _only_ for that device.
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by NLips 4y ago
How did you find/calculate the floor area from Rightmove? In my experience listings _might_ have the area in the floor plan image, so you’d be hoping for floor plans then running OCR to find the area? But I’d expect that to often go wr
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by NLips 4y ago
I think the speed _for all passengers_ was increased, because of the reduction in queueing.
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by NLips 4y ago
On the underground you’re meant to stand on the right of escalators to leave room for those walking up on the left. However, TFL ran a trial a few years ago instructing people to stand on both sides during peak times. This actually increase
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by NLips 4y ago
This seems a poor article for not mentioning the St Patrick’s Cross - one of the flags “making up” the Union Flag / Union Jack, representing Ireland. It’s contentious, but arguably significantly less so than the Ulster Banner.
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by NLips 5y ago
So am I right in understanding you aren’t saying photography isn’t “an art”; just that it isn’t “fine art”? In which case I think you’d see much less disagreement here.
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by NLips 5y ago
Does your art class perhaps only cover “fine art”? Or does it also include the performing arts like music, theatre, even cinema? In my experience in the UK, “art” in school commonly only means fine art, and other forms of art are different
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by NLips 5y ago
I agree? In the above I'm assuming equal likelihood between each lab and each city, rather than equally likely to have come from any lab vs any city. The second is a poor starting point as it suggests having two, 100, or 1M labs woul
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by NLips 5y ago
To get the 1% figure you have to include an unstated assumption, which is that a novel virus is just as likely to emerge from this lab as from all top 100 cities put together. If we try to make a rough calculation from an unknowledgeable st
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by NLips 5y ago
My guess is “red and at” -> “redundant”
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by NLips 5y ago
Tim Hartford addresses this: “ the Landsburg rule can only be imposed in controlled environments such as a theme park, perhaps” He’s using it to explain reverse logic, and then moves onto the more practical application in a todo list (discu
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by NLips 5y ago
Ditto. I always edit themes to make comments brighter than code. Fairly easy in sublime text, more-so now there’s a built-in “edit theme” function.
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by NLips 5y ago
Hah - I’ve assumed for years that days weren’t accessible because the section of ASCII art for them is greyed out!
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by NLips 5y ago
You can see any year by changing the url: https://adventofcode.com/2021 I think it started in 2015. On the AoC website you need to provide solutions for each day in a given year to see the next day’s problem, so you can’t i
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by NLips 5y ago
An engineer with their name on the documents on incorporation.
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by NLips 5y ago
I don't think the parent is saying the whole E-road network is the equivalent; just that it provides examples of moving country to country without leaving motorways.
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by NLips 5y ago
The statement isn’t that countries will go by 2000; it’s that we have until 2000 to do something about temperature rises which will eventually lead to countries going.
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by NLips 5y ago
If you are driven into a panic by being near a service dog, you are not fit to be a taxi driver. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
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by NLips 6y ago
From the study: “ Although 90% of women report acute breast and nipple pain during the first week of breastfeeding initiation” “ 30% of women who continue to breastfeed at 2 weeks after birth report persistent breast and nipple pain” That’s

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