Posts by Spazturtle 481 posts • joined 26 Jul 2012
Yeah they have to be paid extra for night work (although they only work a 6 hour day), but the advantage for the company is that they can have have a day team and a night team working on different jobs and sharing the same expensive heavy machinery.
Where I am they have managed to get the company doing the resurfacing to do it all at night, they close the road at 23:00 and reopen it at 05:00. Obviously they need to do it in stages over multiple nights but the road is usable (even without the top surface) for all the days in between.
"That I wouldn’t have thought about going looking for."
I think there is a distinction between advertising some niche product and advertising a Big Mac.
"But in neither case should the advert flash, make noise, jump about, overlay itself in any actual content..."
An advert should only be text and/or an image loaded from the website itself, not though a 3rd party.
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Yeah I first learnt about Meltdown in December 2017 when somebody made a post on reddit saying that there were some strange patches being made to the Linux Kernel, making changes to core parts of the kernel that appear to only reduce performance for no apparent reason is a key sign that there is a major security issue before new year people had figured it out.
In fact the first details started coming out in November 2017: https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/
"So if you allow the EU the special access across the Northern Irish border without a deal in place with the EU then everyone else is entitled to the same thing. I've lost track of how many times I and others have written this and still the message doesn't sink in."
We don't have to give the EU special access across the northern Irish border. We can say that they are required to pay customs and then just not put any customs posts there, that way we are compliant with WTO rules and there is no hard border.
WTO rules don't require you to enforce your borders, many countries can't afford to lock down their entire border, even the US doesn't secure the entirety of it's borders. Do you really think that countries like Brazil have their entire border secured and that nobody can get goods into the country without paying customs?
Even in a no deal scenario the UK won't put up a hard boarder, there is no requirement to enforce your boarders. If anyone puts up a hard boarder then it will be Ireland after being forced to do so by the EU, and in that case Ireland would be the one is violation of the Good Friday agreement.
"Am I really "far out" in thinking that you are innocent until proven guilty"
You clearly haven't been reading the news for the past 5 years.
The police can put people under Sexual Risk Order without any evidence and without a conviction. A SRO can require you to give the police 24 hours notice before you can have sex and to inform the police of any new partners so that the police can talk to the person and explain to them the concerns the police have about you. SROs also ban you from using any internet enabled device that cannot be later checked by the police.
"Sver heard of trumps immigration camps"
You mean the ones that Obama setup?
"for-profits locking up disproportionate number of blacks?"
When you inject a large number of immigrants into a society they are injected into the bottom, the poor at the bottom of society commit more crime.
"But (1) why, on physically identical connectors, did someone decide to make it active high?"
Because Google, Amazon, ect had been cheaping out with their custom back planes for years, because the 3.3v pin wasn't used by HDDs they decided to not bother including it on their backplanes. So when they decided to use that pin for remote shutdown they were faced with the option of either making the drivers not work in their old servers or in consumers old computers (which did supply the 3.3v), so they chose to make it the consumers issue.
Imagine applying this ridiculous 'logic' to other violations of people's rights. What if rape victims had to demonstrate what 'actual harm' they had suffered as a consequence of being raped in order for the rapist to be prosecuted.
Having your rights violated is harm in itself.
"I think the single FPU unit might pose a problem. "
Modules only shared a FPU in 258bit workloads, each module had 2 cores, each core contained 2 ALUs and an 128bit FPU, so during 128bit workloads they operated as normal cores with ALUs and FPUs of their own.
During 256bit workloads the 2 128bit FPUs in a module would combine into a single 256bit FPU, so you would have 2 cores with 2 ALUs each and a single 256bit FPU shared between them.
"Pilot error (40%) and equipment failure (23%) comprised the bulk of the fatal accidents covered in the paper."
And many of those 'pilot errors' were "Well I know all 4 engines exploded but he should have known how to recover from that so we are going to say the cause of the crash was pilot error".
You can't take the DNA of native americans and build a profile in the US due to the tribes lobbying the government. So when you see 'native american' on these DNA sites they have actually used the DNA of south americans for comparison, south americans usually have some european DNA, which causes people with some European genes to be falsely reported as being part native american.
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