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philipwhiuk

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    Comment #49196402

    It's bizarre to me that this is all couched in "expect". This is a financial problem - they have the actual numbers to know whether the responses are rational.

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    Comment #49186046

    They still use the term in the “definitions” so they aren’t actually defining anything

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    Comment #49154193

    How intrusive are the checks if you're assessing email authentication?

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    Comment #49154140

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    Comment #49154094

    And all the rest.

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    Comment #49154089

    I find hard to agree they are worse than Fujitsu even with that 'deep pain'. The Post Office scandal is really really really bad.

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    Comment #49154060

    Similar attempts include Scalajs. The general challenge becomes integrating the fractional front-end code written in your backend-language that compiles to JS with the rest of the …

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    Comment #49143790

    Great you came up with a compiler and some syntax. What libraries exist. What's package management system. How does it interop with existing code? Is there a JSON parser, an XML pa…

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    Comment #49095102

    The GoldSrc engine is fairly open and people have LLMs which are almost designed for translation? Also I guess it's a bit more interesting the DOOM ports which have been done to de…

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    Comment #49083538

    The share price is based on them eliminating entire sectors yes.

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    Comment #49072231

    In no world does "New iOS released" mean "there's a developer preview" which is what you're proposing.

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    Comment #49070399

    Yeah the 'Requests' folder just becomes the new Inbox folder. Email clients already highlight/filter people in your contacts

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    Comment #49070364

    Old version: * DNS lookup for MX record New version * DNS lookup for A record * HTTP request for .wellknown/htmp/known_hosts Not sure why this is being considered as an improvement…

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    Comment #49040490

    > There are serious questions about copyright, labor, energy use, slop, and maintainers drowning in generated contributions. But these tools are also becoming part of how software …

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    Comment #49034525

    The assumption that Europeans can just absorb high energy prices is crazy. Ought to be a national imperative to invest in infrastructure to lower prices.

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    Comment #49024694

    It's a step on from the F-16 flight simulator AI competition in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_AlphaDogfight

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    Comment #49024688

    > I'm sure they will soon find that AI pilots defeat human ones in dogfights 100% of the time, Unfortunately you're wrong. It's not soon. It's 6 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org…

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    Comment #49021560

    Would it be any more applicable? We see the same problem in database benchmarking. The good thing about the deliberately-non-real world pelican case is that it gives a general impr…

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    Comment #48998741

    You start with this premise > It’s great and works really well for us, but it raises lots of questions. Does everyone get a bot? If people share one, whose credentials does it use?…

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    Comment #48998654

    > It excludes organisations and increases fees. So, if say Amnesty or Greenpeace (two NGOs opposing this act) want to FoI something, they have to get a German citizen to do it for …

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    Comment #48998615

    T&Cs aren't laws.

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    Comment #48996367

    I mean no, it's not. Castle Sween was built in the 11th century (and might still not be the oldest). Dalhousie Castle was built in 1247 and the oldest bit of the surviving castle i…