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Secret Life of Circuits – Illustrated Guide to Electronic Circuit Design(nostarch.com)
2 points by alibarber 15h ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 6d ago
Note that these are interchange fees charged by the networks. Unless you're operating at massive scale, merchant account suppliers still charge the shop whatever they want. The shop is paying far more than 0.2 / 0.3%. 2.5% for cre
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by alibarber 12d ago
The assets are still there and frozen for the most part (in Euroclear). Some people would like to see them put to use in guaranteeing reconstruction and defence for Ukraine.
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by alibarber 23d ago
But a public restroom that has effectively been destroyed isn't really any better than no public restroom.
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by alibarber 24d ago
In this case I think the validation is the next step when they ask you to set up a DNS record on the domain you typed in, and have their system match it. Obviously if you typed Outlook.com this would be a challenge for you. Unfortunately th
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by alibarber 25d ago
Bur the implication here in the parent comment is that for ‘real dev work’ to be done you must be running an LLM, and therefore you can’t do it on a MacBook anymore. Turns out you can still accomplish stuff with a text editor and compiler.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
You might have amazing operational security but lots of other people don't, and they make noise, which means governments write laws meaning that banks have to refund them for fraud. So as much as a bank might agree with your stance on
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The teenagers who wired Romania [audio](bbc.com)
4 points by alibarber 1mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 1mo ago
I don't understand. It's an article about England. They only have information to hand about England, from the authority tasked with dealing with health in England. If I read an article from them about crime in London, quoting the
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by alibarber 1mo ago
Given that Great Britain is an island, it is still much easier to drive down the M6/A74(M) or take a hike around the Welsh borders than say, take a flight or swim.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
Indeed but there are still different decision makers and sets of voters electing them.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
In this case it's health related and each of the countries in the UK have their own National Health Services (or Health and Social Care in NI). It's not a lapse here.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
I wouldn't have assumed this really because really the whole point of devolution is that they get to choose what to prioritise, so perhaps the other nations choose to do something they consider to be more pressing for their populations
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by alibarber 1mo ago
In places where we have that the scam is just money for transport, utilities, or whatever. Something has happened which means they cannot access their money and make the usual payment. We actually had an experience with a bank fraud team re
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I know this sounds awful - but perhaps hiring people that would turn their workplace into what you just described was exactly what they (as an organisation, not necessarily individually) wanted to avoid, just, perhaps not by overtly saying
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Same - in Soho on a nice (or even not that nice) Friday (or Monday, or Thursday) the whole place would just be one big open air pub. You'd meet so many great people - the atmosphere was just wonderful. Then COVID came around and I also
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Being from the UK I’m pretty sure they mean more unhinged. To be fair I did enjoy the ‘unhingedness’ but I’m also appreciating that being at least a decade younger was also great.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Apparently, and I quote from the article (definitely not an LLM): "Decathlon didn’t just add a new payment button to its German checkout page. It handed European banks their first big-box sporting goods test case at a moment when compe
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by alibarber 2mo ago
* "This proposal for privacy signals is part of an EU law reform called the Digital Omnibus. Most other parts of this reform are problematic and would weaken people’s rights. We want to make clear that we do not support these other asp
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I’ll need a moment to let this sink in. It’s not just technology, it’s a movement.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
There's another quite good blog from Cloudflare about this here too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/enforce-first-as-bgp/
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by alibarber 3mo ago
I was recently looking at a Python project to learn a bit about RTC and just generally hack around and try something out. https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc It was fun and I found the code nice and helpful. I clicked on
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by alibarber 3mo ago
I remember vaguely from interning at a bank that there you were actually obliged to be totally isolated from the company for a continuous period of time by policy. The thinking was that if you were cooking the books of doing some dodgy deal
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by alibarber 3mo ago
Yes - and realistically, if you're $BIGCO who's shipped a billion devices with some obscure curl vulnerability you just discovered, then the hard part is going to be rolling out a patch to all of them anyway, which is still a &#x2
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by alibarber 3mo ago
Such a shame - in America they give you $95 for not getting Siri apparently https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-siri-artificial-inte...
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by alibarber 3mo ago
I'm afraid that it looks as if there are plenty of other contenders for those who might wish to undermine the EU, now and in the future.
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by alibarber 3mo ago
Yes I have also received payments for refunds of PAYE automatically within a month or two of no action on my part.
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by alibarber 3mo ago
Some banks in some parts of the EU have - SEPA instant was only mandated in January 2025, only for Euro payments.
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Selling a car usually does require a report to the government. Why would the seller care what happens down the line to the buyer?
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative it seems.

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