RobAley

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by RobAley 10mo ago
Their reasoning for not having 2 keyholder is that 2 people are more likley to colude to change the results (in this case announce false results) than 3. Of course 3 people could still colude to do so, so it's a matter of reducing not
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by RobAley 10mo ago
Parse_url isn't standards compliant, often fails with relative url's and most importantly only parses urls, not uris (with the exception of file://). I also find it's syntax clunkier than the new uri(), but that&#x2
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Patient's death linked to cyber attack on NHS, hospital trust says(news.sky.com)
2 points by RobAley 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 1y ago
> The hallucination issue can be worked around by providing that demonstrates the agent's working (i.e. what tools they called with what parameters). And this is (in my opinion) an intractable problem - You can get the AI to list th
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Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals(democracyforsale.substack.com)
9 points by RobAley 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 2y ago
It says "nhs.uk" is an invalid domain. Is it restricted to just certain TLDs?
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by RobAley 3y ago
No, you'll max pay the same. May pay less.
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by RobAley 3y ago
(Source : I work in vaccine research, including challenge studies, in the UK, but only in IT/Digital, I'm not clinical). In the UK at least (and as I understand it in most countries that subscribe to the principles of the Declarat
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by RobAley 3y ago
Technically, that's not true either! That's the current format, previous formats (still legal and transferable/usable) have included XN, XNNXXX, XXXNX, and others!
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by RobAley 3y ago
The revolution WILL be televised, as it turns out.
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by RobAley 3y ago
I'd call it users_facts. But that's just me.
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by RobAley 3y ago
Yes, but they're only allowed to use the data for the (legitimate) purpose it was retained. If you ask them not to retain/use it for marketing purposes, they can still retain it for statutory purposes but they can then only use it
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by RobAley 4y ago
Looks like I may be in the minority, but I've had nothing but good experience in the month or so I've had a 5G phone (Samsung S22, Three network, mostly in and around Oxford, UK). There is a 5G mast visible in the distance, and I
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by RobAley 4y ago
"Does the covid vaccine cause cancer?" The answer is apparently : "The Covid vaccine is linked to cancer." Hmmmm.
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by RobAley 5y ago
Indeed, but even centralised coal fired electric generation produces less carbon per mile travelled than petrol/diesel engines. We're not there yet, but proper grid management and diverse renewable sources mean that an increasing
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by RobAley 6y ago
Will you (are you) contributing any of the rules back to TL? Or are they to specific to your org?
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by RobAley 6y ago
I think you've proved your second point by getting your first wrong. The benchmarks posted are for a stack including PHP, not PHP itself (and not the fastest stack with e.g. pgsql). Also, I don't think thosd benchmarks use php 8
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by RobAley 6y ago
But everybody needs it, so who is left to deny it too?
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by RobAley 6y ago
Implementation takes time. Keep it simple and move on.
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by RobAley 6y ago
Be the change you want to see. Your personal website linked to from your HN profile consists solely of a Javascript game ... :)
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by RobAley 6y ago
> Why don’t we Because we don't need to and we have much more interesting problems to take up our time.
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by RobAley 7y ago
> "For whatever reason" For exactly this reason. "Girls - these are your toys, you play with them. Boys, you seem to prefer these, you will play with these". Continual use of unnecessarily gendered language is a major
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by RobAley 7y ago
The article you cite more or less backs my post : "But the decision matrix that ultimately influences widespread views on which toys are for which children includes inputs from parents, kids, and toy makers—adding up to a system that p
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by RobAley 7y ago
One small piece of feedback : My (UK) keyboard doesn't have accented characters on it, and I don't know how to type them (well, I do, but many/most users won't), so typing "leon" instead of "león" for
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by RobAley 7y ago
You keep it until x days/weeks after the servers are deactivated. Where the emails are going unnoticed, the servers getting cut off usually is noticed straight away. The story here appears to be that the backups were deleted at the sam
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by RobAley 7y ago
Like disabled users with screen-readers?
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by RobAley 7y ago
Not a direct answerto your question, but we can be sure that 100% of trees not planted won't be there in the future.
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by RobAley 7y ago
"aggressive approach" - their sales reps dressed as nurses and went into hospitals. It goes a bit beyond "aggressive". "probably directly harmed children" - report after report from (respected) NGOs and the WHO
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by RobAley 7y ago
They're baby killers. That's not hyperbolic language. See the Controversy section on their wikipedia, which touches on just a few of their issues (note that it's the largest section on the page, and is by no means exhaustive)
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by RobAley 7y ago
At 2.15pm today, the UK was importing ~11% via it's euro interconnects (biggest 3.8% from the Netherlands). It of course varies depending on demand and weather, and sometimes we export back to the continent. According to [1], the UK im

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