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by Robin_Message 3y ago
ULID seems like a better solution to me: still 128 bits but with a more compact canonical format and sensible timestamp and increment semantics. I guess it's not far off a v7 UUID though. https://github.com/ulid/sp
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
I thought about this, and came to the conclusion that the coastguard and especially military see it as a good opportunity to test their equipment and procedures for real. And seafarers have a strong code of ethics about helping other seafar
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
Medical professionals ability to ignore, belittle, and misdiagnose women is unfortunately legendary. Also, labour can occur surprisingly quickly, as happened to a friend of ours who gave birth on our driveway whilst dropping off their first
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK/Global – Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with coming up for two decades of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK/Global – Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with coming up for two decades of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised
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by Robin_Message 3y ago
https://gdpr.eu/fines/ - 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher . It's not capped; it's designed to be more harmful to smaller businesses†, but it does scale with business size. † I m
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I wonder if the unusual is what is interesting, hence air crashes and startup successes
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Bluetooth keyboard and leave your laptop on your desk.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK - Cambridge/London / Remote I'm a software engineer with coming up for two decades of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Quoting the FTC https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui... : "[...] antitrust laws have had the same basic objective: to protect the process of competition for the benefit of consumers, m
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Absolutely insane that they would do this. It's like they thought "what's the most obvious anti-trust violation we could implement in a day using existing code?" and then did.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
The insight is that the only way to get W bits set is for the last W letters to all have been unique. Duplicate letters toggle bits on and off, but never get you any extra 1 bits set. If you wanted to detect V unique characters from a windo
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I read a blog post by Scott Aaronson saying they can watermark by using a cryptographically biased random number generator when selecting which token to output from the stream. I didn't entirely follow how that helps but a little bias
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
On a phone, I didn't like having to change rotation direction separately from rotating. And I don't always find rotation directions intuitive. So maybe a direct manipulation would be better? Other than that, I enjoyed it.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I'm not a crypto user, but charging 10% to swap one set of bits for another doesn't seem like a viable business model.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with coming up for two decades of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of job
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
React Native
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with coming up for two decades of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of job
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
My rough and ready sums put 30,000 pounds of petrol through the lifetime of an average ICE car. Meanwhile, I see numbers like this a lot and they always seem to trend high. You're talking 250 tons of ores to make perhaps 250-1000kg of
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
You're both right: for >=20 redundancies, it is merely something the employee can take up at tribunal. For >=100 redundancies, notice to the Secretary of State is required and not giving notice is a criminal offence, by both the
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
The UK requires consultation, regardless of industry or union status, for all layoffs (redundancies) of 20 staff or over: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I started remembering the order for ln when I think of it as a copy which just happens to be special. cp SRC DEST is intuitive to me so I just hang ln off that.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
You ever pick up someone else's litter in the park?
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SIGSALY – secure speech system used in World War II(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Interesting that a language that targets embedded (amongst other things) has a default vector allocator for space for 4 entries of objects between 2 and 1024 bytes. I can imagine that being wasteful for code that has a lot of very short lis
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
They sound a bit like Iain M. Banks' "slap drones", flying robots tasked with following around known criminals and preventing them from reoffending. This proposal seems awfully dystopian, but US schools apparently conduct sur
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I don't have time to read extensively, but an Earth-Sun binary with all the other planets orbiting the sun doesn't make sense given our understanding of gravity. Also, NASA has flown shit to pretty much every planet. You think the
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I'm sorry, there are fake gun shots in active shooter drills? What the fucking fuck? That is insane. What possible benefit could there be to that bit of simulation that would outweigh the additional trauma that would cause? Not to ment
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Since the OP is here, I am confused. In the first section, are you saying that: a) tags can and should be named to include the sha at the end; and b) git commands silently discard everything before "-g" if what follows is a sha? I
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
My wife runs a community choir with some friends in a notional elected committee. Is buying the committee a token yearly thank you like buying gifts for a boss too? It seems to me, at best, the HOA is a committee of volunteers from the comm

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