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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 s…

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 clunki…

> 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…

It says "nhs.uk" is an invalid domain. Is it restricted to just certain TLDs?

No, you'll max pay the same. May pay less.

(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 countrie…

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!

The revolution WILL be televised, as it turns out.

I'd call it users_facts. But that's just me.

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 fo…

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). …

"Does the covid vaccine cause cancer?" The answer is apparently : "The Covid vaccine is linked to cancer." Hmmmm.

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 …

Will you (are you) contributing any of the rules back to TL? Or are they to specific to your org?

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)…

But everybody needs it, so who is left to deny it too?

Implementation takes time. Keep it simple and move on.

Be the change you want to see. Your personal website linked to from your HN profile consists solely of a Javascript game ... :)

> Why don’t we Because we don't need to and we have much more interesting problems to take up our time.

> "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 unnec…

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 par…

> There are attractive boxes for girls My three daughters love the normal lego, they must have not realised it wasn't for people without penises.