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I learnt the word beeves while reading the Doctrine (the PHP ORM) codebase. I assume it was in case someone had an entity called beef... So the collection would be beeves :) I wond…

The first contact from aliens will surely be them exploiting this with an XSS attack to set window.location to a Rick Roll video.

No need for hope. At this point surely it is a given?

Pretty sure that is still not the meaning of refactoring. As I understand it refactoring should mean no changes to the external interface but changes to how it is implemented inter…

I believe it is because the will get delisted if they are not trading for 18 months and they have not been trading for 17 months at this point.

An electric heater runs current through a wire .. the waste product of doing so is heat. The more you 'waste' the more heat produced. I guess the more efficient version of the same…

If I were them I would be more concerned by Revolut, Monzo, Starling and Atom than Apple.

Looks like the cost of nuclear in Australia is not comparable. https://reneweconomy.com.au/too-slow-too-expensive-why-nucle... .

I see a benchmark for the data size... But as other comments have suggested gzip should remove the majority of that difference. I'd be more interested to know about serialisation a…

Not that I don't agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I think despite being digital crypto is a lot more like cash than card payments. But cash also has 'no rollback, no fr…

I worked on a project a while back called Freeview play in the UK which I think works in a similar way to how you described. You can watch live TV over the air or scroll backwards …

Massive failure to not have "What is Eproctoring" as the first section of the page.

And add on the emissions for the flight to get there

if ($title === 'miss') {$weight += 35;} else if ($title === 'ms') {$weight += 69;} Who needs dates of birth?

As an adult I find the gifts that I appreciate most are the luxury versions of simple useful things. If I wanted aftershave, chocolate, socks, a phone, a laptop (insert any other t…

You can leave China. There are millions of Chinese nationals living overseas.

Surely the problem is the lack of a dislike button? I wonder if Reddit has as much fake news as Facebook?

Yeah. I don't quite understand how that relates to the environment. Seems more like 'Make France great again' under the guise of 'Make our planet great again'

I once owned Xiaomi mi2 (their second phone) and the usb socket melted when charging. After I posted it on Chinese twitter they were quick to offer a refund. I hope their quality h…

I used to live in China and met some students with very unusual English names. My favourite of which was 'Finger'. When I asked him why he chose the name he answered 'I like Kurt C…

Boris was only in it to become PM. In the metro yesterday Boris was quoted as to saying "the 'only change' the public would see post-brexit was greater control of uk laws". Even fa…