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If anyone wants to read dozens of PDFs, here are some of of Greenlink's planning applications for where the cable comes onshore at Freshwater West, including responses made to the …

What we can say for certain is that the sole source of this claim is the project director for Greenlink, Simon Ludlam, and he made the claim as an anecdote on a podcast this week. …

CGP Grey: The United Kingdom Explained (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

Each nation has different social and health issues, each nation makes its own plan. All four nations NHSes work with a single charity, the Hep C Trust. They're all following the WH…

> we really do need a technical solution, which is unforgeable and easily traceable access to the telephone network We have that, but it's insufficient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

> Wait, why would interned immutable strings require more instructions when doing regular string access? Java automatically interns static strings (e.g. from class files), but does…

That's not how copyright works. There is no "use it or lose it". You legally retain control of licensing for copying and distribution, including derivative works (samples) for the …

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What such a hat looks like: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_beaver_hat_-_D...

Tell that to entire towns and villages of unemployed weavers. Ultimately, the factory owners asked their rich and powerful friends in government to help them out, and they started …

Post WW2, the US set up some fantastic levers of power that let it establish and maintain its hegemony at arms length: the United Nations and the UNSC. NATO. The petrodollar. Pax A…

In case anyone wondering what the "famous" MOVEP instruction does, this: MOVE.L #$AABBCCDD,D0 MOVEP.L D0,(A0) Writes to the 8 bytes pointed at by A0 in this format: AA xx BB xx CC …

I'm sure the effort is good, but the article is not. It reads like breathless corporate crap. It also doesn't have any video of this FMV, though what I see in the HTML source is an…

Actually, it's an apt label because the machine looms were brought in by factory owners so they could employ less skilled operators who commanded a much lower wage, and the factory…

Feynman's quote is distinguishing knowledge of the thing itself (e.g. its behaviour, properties) which he thinks is useful, from ontological knowledge (naming and categorising) whi…

A much clearer article from yesterday on making casefolding 15x faster by removing an if: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/do... Discussion: https://news.y…

This is true, but the example given yesterday showed that even if branches can be very well predicted (e.g. processing UTF-8 text which is 99.9999% ASCII), branchless code can resu…

I don't think it's a real problem. It's a way that one group of humans agreed to label things, and that way is the currently dominant way. Even the agreed rules (whoever publishes …

There was also AMP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages ), where Google gave a huge reputation boost to your pages provided you served them under a different UR…

Nothing's out there! Well there must be something out there. There is nothing out there - all there is is sea and birds and fish. And? And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And what else? …

On the downside, millions wrongly killed, imprisoned, fined, families torn apart. On the upside, think how good that Falsehoods Programmers Believe About DNA article will be.

Don't forget the reverse. If your DNA's an insufficient match to your children, they take your kids away. https://womenherald.com/health/the-chimerism-case-how-lydia-...

If you want to know what it's like to program for RISC OS: https://www.riscos.com/support/developers/prm/