tobylane

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tobylane··on New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)

It doesn’t need to be addressed in this specific change because you could have already signed up to be a donor. They test when it’s used, not when (primary) permission is given.

tobylane··on U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

Is there a relevant law or court case that takes sectors of consumers into account? That one could be more relevant because they are vulnerable, or less relevant because the devices are bought in their parents name.

tobylane··on Why 11 days disappeared in 1752

But the tax year stayed 365 days and so it now starts on April 6th, the 11 days comes from correcting the drift between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Russia switched later and had to add more days.

tobylane··on English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)

Informal British English does break a few of those rules, especially comedy.

tobylane··on U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit

The UK only requires notification from the company in a commercial call. The recipient can do so without permission.

tobylane··on Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

> Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution addresses the question of what is required to expel a person from Congress. It states: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.”

If it’s in the constitution, especially if the founding fathers put it in, it can become popular with Americans.

tobylane··on Docker for Mac M1 RC

And many others, transcribed list here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23643425

tobylane··on Docker for Mac M1 RC

On Apple Silicon it now installs to /opt/homebrew, a change they’ve been wanting to do for a while.

tobylane··on Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API

Google is entitled to scrape it, but are they entitled to display the content on their site, the results pages? Everything in the instant answers is content that deserves to be displayed on its creators page, along with whatever monetisation the creator chooses.

tobylane··on X0.at: upload files from cURL

Agreed. I was using it* for TravisCI, and having moved to Github Actions I'm glad they have uploads stored per run.

*this one and another few before it.

tobylane··on ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available

Think of it as a 24 hour day that starts at (to use UK public transport's setup) 4:30. You want the timetable and the users to agree on what 8am means, and that 8am and the following 2am are the same work day of 24 hours.

tobylane··on Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets

Iter and other big or old projects are going the safe route with magnets that need to be at 4 or so Kelvin. All these ‘hotter’ superconductors are relatively unproven (it’s a oversimplification for a broad category), especially their strength when made into the shapes that make the magnetic field and form part of the load bearing structure of the container. The winners would enter that tipping point.

tobylane··on The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

It sounds like it could be they have the original blueprints of the first ordered plane but by the time you received the 100th they were different and then it’s had overhauls and other modifications since. About as useful as a ten year old X-ray for a 25 year old.

tobylane··on US central bank payment system down for 'hours'

The mempool queue would increase, iiuc. https://bitcoinqueue.com/#1,24h

tobylane··on Mold: A Modern Linker

Not my area. Does compiling happen on mainframes these days?

tobylane··on Is soy a key driver of deforestation?

The animal was fed something we could have eaten. It doesn’t do us much good to shun soy fed beef for corn fed beef. Agree with you on local and chicken.

tobylane··on OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction

It’s also in response to the urban planning difficulty of knowing who owns what or what’s under this spot.

tobylane··on YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]

It's more along the lines - the US military only helped films if the story was good to the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_complex

I'm not aware of exactly what you ask for, probably because the military is that good at ensuring nothing bad would be filmed.

tobylane··on Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies

How closely related are SARS 1/2 and Mers to the four coronaviruses that cause (a small minority of) the common cold, could we be gaining partial protection from them too?

tobylane··on Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated

I agree with you on skepticism. But there’s a lot more than just a pot behind theories. The pot is just something they can hold in front of the camera. It’s also the ashy layers in the fireplace, the bone pile outside the building, the greater findings at other digs of the same age and culture.

tobylane··on Why LuaJIT's interpreter is written in assembly

https://github.com/openresty/luajit2

It has a few extras but they agree with the original luajit authors opinion that not every 5.2 feature can be made in jit.

tobylane··on Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

I heard recently that that Apple factory’s output was limited by the number of screws their local supplier could make per week. Can this be called a solved problem? They just stopped depending on the US supplier. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...

tobylane··on Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study

What do you think should be the weighting factor? Something like revenue or employee count?

Maybe someone with access (OpenAthena, Shibboleth) could post the stats and methodology.

tobylane··on We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood

I believe so, and someone says that’s what happened. https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315

tobylane··on Plex Arcade

I use it without an account. There's occasional nag screens that are quickly exited.

tobylane··on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

I’m guessing people who flew into DC on a weekday are more likely than average to own a decent smartphone. QAnon folk don’t seem to avoid mainstream technology in the quantity HN users do.

tobylane··on Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts

The UK has a reasonably good and independent process for redrawing constituency borders. One extra goal it was given was to reduce the number of MPs, because 650 is considered too much. This is partly because of the small size of the Commons (ask your MP for a free tour). I don’t think increasing the number will fix ftfp problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_commissions_(United_K...

tobylane··on New six-film series from Adam Curtis

BBC’s Horizon, especially before roughly 2012, was great for going to an hours worth of depth into a subject. Since then they’ve gone too emotional and narrative for me, no longer requiring gsce science.

tobylane··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models

VW has (properly) announced that their end date is 2026. I feel like this is an accurate reading between the lines and it will be announced.

tobylane··on Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

Do you have a source for it reaching that rank?

Iirc it was dropped from the two app stores about 12h apart.

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