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The 3A fuse is due to the way the UK wiring system works rather than what is optimal for this device.

All appliances in the UK have a fuse where they connect to the building wiring, normally in the plug, but can be in a fixed fuse-holder like this device. Somewhere in the process it was recognized that having lots of different fuse values would be confusing and awkward for users, so these fuses are the same size and always one of three standard values: 13A, 5A, and 3A. As noted elsewhere, you can buy these particular fuses in UK supermarkets and convenience stores.

If 3A is too high for the appliance then what the designer has to do is to fit it with a flex rated at 3A so that is protected by the fuse at the plug-end and then add additional, lower current, protection at the device end.

The UK system is clever and has subtle details like the standard fuse values which were good at the time it was introduced. But, it is also rather over-engineered, and not optimized for modern homes that have a lot of low-current appliances.
> so indeed I don't get why the author considers that doing the connection over WiFi is somehow wasteful.

Power consumption.

Up front vs ongoing cost; the creators chose to minimise the up-front cost in favour of a marginally higher ongoing cost.
I recently replaced the old fusewire plugs with MCB modules. Really didn't fancy trying to wind a bit of wire around the terminals in the cellar in the dark :)
tl;dr:

1. It doesn't save data, it loses data.

2. If you drop the uppercase, you can compress the remaining text farther.
It took me a while to realize that "Van Morrison" wasn't the musician's surname.
You right click and hold, context menu opens, you navigate to the option you want, and release your click to select that option.

It's definitely configurable, I don't know what the default is, but I had it on accidentally once and it took me a while even to figure out what was happening (I kept accidentally opening new tabs, or whatever the top item is).
Loved that episode of Black Mirror
100%

The author themself appears to be unclear about the specific stance they are opposing. While it doesn't seem like they are strawmaning intentionally, they are arguing against positions that no reasonable person actually holds.
There are two problems with that: 1) Mobile users don’t know how to use files 2) Where do you export it? If you put it in one of the shared folders now the unencrypted archive of all user’s data is just sitting in a folder that many unrelated apps can access.
Yes, instead copying from memory to memory using registers it was something like memory-registers-stack-registers-memory. Is not some ancient GCC from early 1990s, it was around 2010 or so.
But probably there can be a middle grounds.

1 bit for each square represent there is a piece on that pos so 64 bits

then for each side, 4 bits to represent number of pieces and 3 bits for each piece to represent their type

At max 64 + 2x(4 + 3 x 16)=168 bits for 16 pieces each side.

edit: nvm this wouldn't work since you wouldn't know the colors of the pieces on board. You need to store 4 bits for each piece, 1 color + 3 type so it is 64 + 2 * 4 * 16 = 196. I am not sure if this is better anymore
Securzd actions have a known id but actions defined in the insecure environment have a randomly attributed id no?

Anyway, that doesn't matter too much. :o)
My understanding is still a bit fuzzy.
Your 6-way extension strip cable has still caught on fire thiugh
In the European Union, you can cancel any subscription by email. There is no need to make a phone call or visit a scummy website.
> Once the government has that info, it will be able to come up with bespoke taxes for you according to what it ordains as fair use. 'Your showers are too long', 'your toolshed is too big a draw on the electric' therefore 'you need to buy carbon credits to offset the environmental damage you are causing'.

This is likely to happen and is economically awful (far better to have constant carbon taxes), but it will be done because the majority supports it, not due to some government plot against the people.
Clearly only a nation-state threat actor could have pulled off this highly sophisticated cyber attack of ... Spraying passwords
One of the main reasons to use async in the first place is to distribute the work to all the cpu cores that you have. So you will still have all the concurrency issues with async in that case.

Only if you limited async to only one thread on one core (why would you do that?) you could avoid that.
In my part of the world, christianity has dominated for 1000+ years. There are no influences from eastern religion or Plato or whatever. I suspect the same is true in your part of the world.
Maybe my history is rusty. Some of the weird bold (and even font like Gothic) came from mathematics because mathematicians use them in a semantically significant way (like Gothic G is a different signifier than just G; you can’t “plaintext” the former to G and still have it mean the same thing).[1] The general preference of Unicode is to relegate style-looking things to markup. That’s certainly their stance on superscript digits (the ones in Unicode are just for compatibility). But for some reason (again rusty history) these format-looking characters had to be included as separate code points.

The point is that Unicode has to deal with how text has been used by various communities in order to be the text encoding standard to rule them all.

[1] Unlike in prose where bold and such is just for emphasis. And at worst you can use informal markup (similar to MarkDown) and convey the same thing.
Since this is using youtube to play the music, other than being open source, what advantage does this have over just using youtube music revanced?
TL;DR: dropping non relevant information from a message saves data. Slightly misleading title and article.

Nothing about lowercase saves data. Not having two (or more) different letter cases saves data; if you had ALL UPPERCASE DATA the effect would be the same. And, the fewer other chars you use, the best - stay on lowercase or uppercase ascii only, and your compression will be better.

Having "A" versus "a" conveys information; if you drop that information, your message can be naturally smaller. What if you actually needed to differentiate jack from Jack? Only using lowercase letter you may be forced to do something like _j_ack, which would probably take _more space_.

(information theory discusses those topics, especially the information enthropy concept).
you're making a logical error. The CO2 is cumulative.

So in case of replacing an inefficient laptop with a more efficient one:
manufacturing: 300kg
use 4 years: 400kg
manufacturing new laptop: 300kg
new laptop 4 years: 300kg
That's 2 laptops, 8 years of use: 1300kg

only using the inefficient laptop:
manufacturing: 300kg
4 years of use: 400kg
4 years of use: 400kg
one inefficient laptop after 8 years: 1100kg.

Even if both examples would have the same co2 output, it would still be more environmental to keep using the inefficient laptop, because the act of buying stuff and throwing away old stuff carries costs too. An obvious example is that if people would replace their laptops twice as often, then the world would need twice the amount of laptop factories, twice the amount of resources, twice the amount of laptop recycling stations, twice the amount of space in landfills for laptops, etc.

Maintaining and reusing old hardware is good for the environment
Probably not. But precision is expensive. A 3A +- 0.1A fuse will be more expensive to make them a 3A +- 6A fuse. And of course a customer will be upset with a 3A - 2A = 1A fuse so they really make a 9A +- 6A fuse and sell it as 3A.

So if you are "lucky" you can pass 12A though it no problem.

(Numbers make up for illustration.)
So it shows the ads from YouTube?
> So you either support surveilling staff after-hours, or you think the policy merits existing but doesn't merit follow-through and enforcement?

Or, I believe, pragmatically that it is seldom enforced and is seldom a problem, but is a useful clause for the company when a employee really is taking the piss.
I don't think this is fair to him. He's not alleging carbon stuff is a conspiracy to control shower length, merely that moralizers will want to control everything they see as "waste".
oh ok...

I'd have tried it, but I pay for good audio quality so I won't :)
> If the food that is grown and is currently thrown away wasn't thrown away, then it would be effectively be available for a lower price than mainstream food.

Putting entire political-social-economic discussions aside, this argument relies on "Wonky Veg" being cheap from farm to market, which isn't always the case, and therefore do not work at scale in real world.

Put simply, perfectly equal-sized and spherical tomatoes roll easier on conveyor belts, fit nicer and denser in cardboard boxes, slices evenly with machines, and therefore often cheaper to your table than odd shaped ones, at the same time being more lucrative to trade.

Of course it feels wrong to grow crops only to crush some, I wholeheartedly agree, but this needs a bit more thoughts than trying to "just" save them.
Dissecting the Nvidia Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking (2018)
I don’t know where you get your info but Spotify just effectively demonetized the majority of music on their platform. They’ve decided they have the right to just stop paying small time artists so they can funnel more money upwards to the record labels.
Claiming that the same people who complain about ads are also those who won't pay for services is just wrong.
I remembered current turn later but I could not think of your 2nd and 3rd point, you are right

I guess you can't just take a look at board to see current game state, I was too focused on what game looks like while there are additional off the board info
Technology doesn't use us, we use technology. Then we make some other we do stupid things.

Too many times someone introduces technology to dilute responsibility for me to believe that such outcomes are typically unintentional. Technology totally does what people intend it to do, except the average person is on the receiving side of the whip.
These seem so epic; here they are only for children and childlike adults.
As a landlord this is quite common. You buy through an estate, let through a letting agent and have very little idea what gizmos are installed. Until maybe something packs up and you have to pay for a new one.
> PS: not that many musicians are able to pay bills with their spotify checks, but that's not the point.

What IS the point, though? You seem to be criticising people who don't purchase a Spotify Premium while also admitting Spotify barely pays them anything. Yes, this client gives nothing to the artist, Spotify gives next to nothing, both are bad in different ways.

If anyone genuinely wants to support musicians - buy their merch, go to their concerts, buy their albums on Bandcamp or physical media. No streaming platform pays them their dues.
In the context of an outage at a service provider this slightly sloppy language is sufficient to convey all relevant meaning.

In the current context, this language is part of a pattern to carefully choose words in such a way as to downplay what has happened.

As I said, the work of the CEO, the cybersecurity team and the legal team is part of the overall production process at a software company.
It's starting to look like Factorio will need a completely overhauled tutorial/onboarding process to teach players about these features. I hope that the new features will also be staggered appropriately throughout the tech tree so new players don't have to worry about all these new factory circuit settings and signals in the early game. "This is so complicated! I'm overwhelmed! This game is too much for me!". The game as it is keeps it simple- I hope it will still seem as simple with the DLC.

Saying that, I've got 1000 hours in the game and I'll enjoy diving into the deep end with all this new stuff.
Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this. If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best. You're better off listening to music however you please and buying albums on Bandcamp to support the artists; a lifetime of spotify listening will make less money for an artist you like than buying a single album from them on Bandcamp.

Even if you only listen to one artist, 8 hours per day, 365 days a year, they will earn a whopping... 100 bucks from Spotify.
Compared to things like listeria or salmonella? Surely, you’re joking. E. coli is benign in most cases. For perspective, in France (since we’re talking about French cheese), the orders of magnitude are hundreds of deaths each year from salmonella, tens from listeria (with a death rate of ~20% for its invasive form), and even fewer from E. coli.

Except in a tiny number of cases it is unpleasant but short and not threatening (remember to drink a lot, though, the most dangerous effect is dehydration).
He puts himself in a negative light, he doesn’t need assistance.
The conservative party bears the mark of a party of the uneducated and unemployed.

As little as laywers bring to the table, its at least something.
Exactly. And to go back to Hungarians:[1] the alternative to having one large standard for all text is to have multiple encodings for different languages and peoples. And that’s what we did for decades before Unicode which was apparently a mess.

And of course there certainly are Hungarians that also write in Thai. So what about mixed Hungarian/Thai text? Should that be a multiple (interleaved) encoding text? I mean as an alternative to “149,813 ‘characters’” that “any one human is [not] likely to use [most of]”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066135
It’s potentially nice for the consumer. If I could get personalised audio and video content created on demand for me, that would be pretty amazing. But it does disincentivise people from creating content rather than just consuming it, and I think that could end up taking away a lot of the magic from life.
Sounded nice but again no option for trying without Google login, and is this a mere proxy to Stability AI?
If you're going to go down this route and aren't afraid of a little DIY, then I'd highly recommend something that doesn't depend on the cloud.

Either ESPhome- or Tasmota-based plugs are great if you want fully local control (e.g. Athom, LocalBytes), or Shelly for local-first control with an option of connecting to their cloud.

Mostly everything else will lock you into the manufacturer's app & cloud. Zigbee is fully local too, but it requires additional hardware.
Of course it's a bloody subscription.
If you want to see this taken to the max, then my library [1] has many monadic types (which is what LINQ is for) implemented. Including an implementation of Haskell Pipes [2], with some examples [3]

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

[2] https://louthy.github.io/language-ext/LanguageExt.Core/Effec...

[3] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/main/Samples/Eff...
Flutter is pretty native as far as resource usage goes. The language does use a VM and GC but it's performant enough. There isn't native look and feel though. (They can emulate it a bit, but it isn't perfect)
haha i forgot to link the list: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi?da...
Yes, he went to prison around the time when I started using Linux and when HDDs were very much still the default choice. SSDs often held 64 or 128 GB for a high cost and with questionable lifespans.
To be equally fair, "Crapita" (as private eye calls them) is an incompetent joke that scores government contracts through corruption and then pays the bare minimum (below minimum wage in one case) to the providers of its services. There are lots of examples like the one a above.
Don't forget to track if the rooks or kings have moved, for castling eligibility. And what the previous move was for en passant. And the full game history back to the most recent capture for draw by repetition.
That's a strawman. It is indeed hard for a magazine to know.

It's trivial for someone like Netflix to know, and they probably already track it.
Are your discerning charcuterie board lovers open to new flavors, or are they going to demand 1:1 indistinguishable replicas of specific dairy cheeses?

My favorite locally produced moldy nut cheese (Omage) does not have a flavor or texture like any dairy cheese I've tasted. IMO, dairy cheeses taste more different from each other than vegan versions taste from the dairy cheese they are mimicking (usually by using the exact same cultures).

With all the modern biotech we have, and the speed at which you can breed microorganisms, I don't think we should shrink from the challenge of domesticating new microbes from wild sources, and we should celebrate any new interesting flavors that come from it. Tradition (i.e. DO dairy cheese) is peer pressure from dead people.
Yeah, it's a problem. Leading environmental groups in Maine were against it, and another user here put up a helpful quote about forest fragmentation.
Gleam looks really nice but unfortunately the complete lack of metaprogramming of any kind makes it a non-starter for me personally. I still hope it succeeds though, the BEAM is a really nice platform and maybe having a statically typed language can help increase adoption.
That's a better reasoning in general (see my other comment for the GP's scheme), but you can do much better.

First, you should encode the number of total pieces (and their general compositions) in the beginning, which can greatly shrink all subsequent fields. For example you are using a repeating square index to denote the end of piece list, but you have at most 15 such pieces unless there is a chess variant where new piece is created out of nothing, so you can just encode that as 4 bits instead of a 6-bit separator.

Second, use a fractional number of bits per each field. Each piece occupies one square and prohibits some more squares, and those squares should not be available for encoding. So you need an arithmetic or equivalent coding for the maximal efficiency. A careful ordering can then even eliminate much more squares from further encoding. I think you've essentially done this for pawns, but you can do much more in general.
Cue the Monty Python skit…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
I probably should've asked "What is 'release to select' in the context of Android?"
The choice of denominator letters are not irrelevant in Leibniz notation. They are chosen in conjunction with parameterization in order to suppress arguments to avoid being lengthy. Similar to how Einstein summation convention is used to suppress summation symbols. All notational conveniences lead to confusion in certain scenarios.

Given a field W, you will want to talk about various derivatives of the field. However, you might not be interested in the derivative of the fields with respect to coordinate fields like `\partial W / \partial x^i`, you might be interested in derivatives of that field with respect to some other field like `\partial W / \partial \lambda_i`. Then you end up introducing all kinds of auxiliary notation for the functional representations of the field. You end up with `\tilde{W}(\lambda_i)` and `\bar{W}(I_i)` next to `W(x_i)`.

Or just consider changes of variable, one generally doesn't distinguish the electric field `E` from cartesian, to axisymmetric, to spherical to whatever other coordinate system you dream up. Instead, the presence of the chosen coordinate symbols denotes the coordinate system in use and you don't need to distinguish the field from its functional representation. In order to understand `\partial_2 E` you would need to understand what coordinates I am working with while `\partial E / \partial y` is a bit more self explanatory in classical electrodynamics. Thermodynamics picks up confusion because of the constant changes in variable when the variables aren't coordinates.
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> It's as important as cross browser testing and easier to do.

Do people even do that nowadays?
"Waster" isn't really a coherent concept when taken outside of an individual's value system. What might be waste for one person might simply be a sensible use of resources for another.

Doing for a drive to the countryside for a walk? Having a long and relaxing bath? Go-karting? Using a heated pool? Keeping the heater on a single house-level timer so they don't have to think about it rather than planning ahead what rooms they will be in later?

Everyone will have a different place they draw the "waste" vs sensible expenditure line.

The correct economic solution to this is CO2-offsetting taxes and letting each individual decide how they want to spend their resources. Trying to centrally plan for a hundred million diverse people with different things they like and care about is a recipe for unneeded misery.
The political class and media STILL to actively ridicule China's Great Firewall while proposing the same thing while claiming that it is "completely different".

Wait till you hear their thoughts on the disgusting social credit system ...
I seem to remember the early days of twitter @username also didn't notify the user or even highlight, same as hashtags. Here is an example: https://twirpz.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/2008_07_26-twitte...

Same with Outlook, now when you @-someone it highlights them and even adds their address "To".

Just because HN doesn't currently support this syntax, doesn't mean we must not use it. As with the other examples, if enough people do it, I wouldn't be surprised if support is added later.

Thankfully, my username is pretty unique (like yours), and I can easily search for references to me, but if my name was a common word it would be really frustrating trying to weed out references to me, compared to where people are actually referencing me.
No, you weren't just pointing that out. You claimed that it is "arguably still providing income for the musicians". How is it arguably providing income for tyhe artists given the app is obviously not playing ads?
Is it true, though?

Look deep enough, and every modern digital circuit is emulated by an analog circuit, just because the components are analog in their nature, and the 0s and 1s are an interpretation of analog data. That includes digital computers.

Does this make digital computers inherently unstable? Clearly, simple enough computations both of digital and analog kind are good enough to be useful. So there must be a breaking point further away, but on what axis?
I think the "hacker" part of "hacker news" doesn't mean much anymore.
Tried it for a while but it just isn't working for me. Hangs a lot while using it in my car. Also can't use it with my Android Auto head unit.
> but if their statements were being modified by the post office, who's responsibility is it to review that?

From what I can tell from the inquiry testimony, the witness statements weren't exactly modified by the PO; they were effectively drafted by the PO's legal team. The lawyers produced pro-forma template statements, such that witnesses only had to fill in the blanks for names, dates and so on.

Some witnesses balked at some of the language used in the template, e.g. words to the effect of "I believe the Horizon system was working completely correctly". In response, the legal team amended the template.

The evidence produced to the inquiry can be viewed here:

https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/

The inquiry has a youtube channel, where videos of the public hearings can be found:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgijUpaux8X4Nvjx3TmrHhg

For what it's worth, I've never given a statement to police that was in my own words. In every case, the police interviewer led me through my testimony by asking a series of questions, and writing down my answer (in his own words).
The actual intended landing profile and the likely failure mode are both extremely Kerbal.