andylynch

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by andylynch 1y ago
Schedule can also mean an organised table or list, especially in a formal context. Legislation very often has a bunch of them at the back, referred to from the main text.
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by andylynch 1y ago
That doesn't help the people maintaining the tunnels and everything inside them.
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by andylynch 1y ago
The bulk of the QR code is about specifying, quite exhaustively, multiple means of error prevention, detection , and correction. I guess some applications don’t use these features effectively, but compliant QR codes are really quite hard
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by andylynch 1y ago
This isn’t unusual, the USA is a an exception; commonly the view is that electronically unlocking a phone or laptop is much like any other legal search, e.g. opening a garage or a locked room.
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by andylynch 1y ago
Yeah. We dealt with a case where a guy claimed to have forgotten his mobile phone pin. But we voted to convict after I pointed out it was the phone he’d been using every day, for years, and was quite implausible, and convenient, to forget
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by andylynch 1y ago
If you get changed with a RIPA password offence it’s almost certain going to Crown Court and an (expensive!) jury trial. CPS won’t (as a matter of policy, and also can’t afford to waste time and money) spend time trying to prosecute a forgo
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by andylynch 1y ago
Cameras often have zoom lenses for close ups. Fits great with the idea of bringing people together with video.
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by andylynch 1y ago
This reminds me that Fischer & washing machines have an Easter egg where they can use that beeper to play God Defend New Zealand.
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by andylynch 2y ago
My kid just brought this up today- it’s absolutely a concern for their age group.
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by andylynch 2y ago
I am really curious about the conversations that will be had if or when they seriously propose to any of their banking and finance customers that they Webify excel for windows. (Though, going on recollection from past Q&As the excel dev
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by andylynch 2y ago
It’s been awhile, but if you have a browser old enough, here the browser plug-in for TCL/TK: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/plugin/
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by andylynch 2y ago
As someone who has run similar platforms, I am joking but also not, when I say probably weaker listing rules and poorer liquidity.
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by andylynch 2y ago
I understand these still do incorporate celestial navigation. Since GPS is quite likely going to be unavailable at the time of use.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Specifically for Java (though earlier versions were LISP) - I had the pleasure or using SeeBeyond‘ eGate , which did almost exactly this. It was a horrible, slow ordeal. IntelliJ’s structural search / editing is very powerful, but also
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by andylynch 2y ago
You’re talking about blacklists. They are not a new idea, in fact they are well known, but also prohibited by law in many places because of their widespread abuse. There’s also a more general idea in competition law that companies shoul, we
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by andylynch 2y ago
Pretty much! (Securities like this are also something of a headache for compliance people since _technically_ they can be caught by current regulations not written with them in mind. Good luck getting an LEI for this bond’s issuer. (An ac
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by andylynch 2y ago
Pretty sure that’s a mistake, they do elsewhere ( https://transitapp.com/en/region/london/tfl ), and I’m using it ,right now. Not doing so would be astonishing given how many people use public transport here,
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by andylynch 2y ago
Dead on. Another good example is the London Stock Exchange; they have a really nice office downtown that is something of a magnet for protests, but I used to work around the corner from their data centre , and it was in a very scruffy , an
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by andylynch 2y ago
This is one of the prime threat models for things like encryption of data at rest on servers
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by andylynch 2y ago
Agencies like this /already/ have plenty of other restrictions on what names are permissible, this is just a new one. Most are to do with ones which could be misleading, eg you can’t have ‘bank’ in the name unless you are, well, a
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by andylynch 2y ago
Typical :). Our one collects mistletoe and hands it out after Christmas service to acknowledge the old ways, and says so with a smile while passing it out!
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by andylynch 2y ago
Not sure there’s a particular name beyond ‘working group’ or ‘technical committee’. CLDR a really interesting one though, their list of users is quite something too.
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by andylynch 2y ago
That’s exactly what they say. Though most kdb I’ve see in business looks more like Python.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Insurers may not be the best recipients given most of those things are criminal matters. In my country, most police forces accept dashcam evidence from other road users, and will prosecute on it. It’s seen be the police as a great road safe
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by andylynch 2y ago
Thinking about markers, the falconer at a railway station I frequent paints the pigeons he wants his bird to pursue with a green laser.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Those are for truck drivers and those carrying dangerous goods The Blackwall Tunnel in London has those signs starting something like ten miles south (ie on the edge of the city!), to try an ensure such vehicles don’t reach the tunnel unw
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by andylynch 2y ago
IntelliJ pretty much has this; your can put changes into different changers sets, even within the same files.
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by andylynch 2y ago
Amusingly, it’s also unsupported on Mobile Safari.
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by andylynch 2y ago
They are arguing that the companies concerned were not, but should be compelled to, price in at least some of the negative externalities of their product. Not doing so of course makes their product's price not reflect its true cost to
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by andylynch 2y ago
This is quite idiomatic for R; packages like ggplot do the same thing to, for instance, build up graphics- see https://r4ds.hadley.nz/data-visualize for some nice examples

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