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danielmg··on Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines
It's not just an 'old school' thing. FFS look at the state of the Javascript ecosystem.
danielmg··on Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
What's WASM but Java applets for Gen-Z?
danielmg··on A suicide crisis among veterinarians
I used to work with a guy who developed photos in a lab in the 90s. He saw far too much stuff along those lines.
danielmg··on Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
this is more important: https://termbrowser.nhs.uk/?perspective=full&conceptId1=2379...

SCTID 23791009

danielmg··on Study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with Covid-19
If it worked, they'd study it to find out what the interaction was or if it was a metabolite that carried the action. Then they'd develop a targetted version of that drug, patent it, and cash in.

It doesn't work. So they haven't.

A good example is major clinical depression and ketamine.

danielmg··on Firefox – Fix parsing of content-length http3 header
Reading the bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749957#c5 and then the code, isn't there still a problem if content-length is not set by the server? Not that it should ever not be set but...

  if (contentLengthStart == -1) {
    // There is no content-Length.
    return;
  }
That's the same flow it would have taken with the case sensitive code.
danielmg··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
BER is a process as part of the scheme rules. The banks have to at least attempt to recover the funds.

It's not a message but a file sent from sender to beneficiaries.

danielmg··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
FPS Bank Error Recovery is a part of the scheme rules. The money comes back.

https://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/sites/default/files/Pay.UK...

danielmg··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
Err no. The payments get settled at BoE at the end of the cycle. This would have caused double draw on their settling account. They would have had less money.
danielmg··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
I'm assuming this was FPS and the FPS scheme has a defined Bank Error Recovery process as part of the scheme rules.
danielmg··on Running BGP in large-scale data centers
It really depends. I've put someone through a disciplinary before for a really expensive failed change. Not because they made the mistake but because they failed to do any sanity checks before hand or post-imp checks - they just bashed it in and walked away.

I'd never go this route with a geniune mistake as they are life's best lessons. But there is a difference between an honest mistake and a mistake that could have been easily avoided had process been followed.

danielmg··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
That's the Vimes' boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
danielmg··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
fewer features
danielmg··on Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin
It will never be used as a general currency by the man on the street.

For example in the UK we have Direct Debits which are backed by the DD Guarantee. If a DD is wrong or fraudulent the bank must refund you without question and they initiate a DDIC (indemnity claim) against the creditor bank. This could not happen with Bitcoin.

Same for problems such as push-payment fraud - they are rolling out confirmation of payee to try to tackle this. How could Bitcoin be a viable payment method in it's current form when addresses are anonymous (in the context of PPF)?

danielmg··on Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again
Are you aware of the consequences of untreated syphilis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Tertiary

danielmg··on Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty
Blockchain where the proof-of-work is shanties.
danielmg··on Rust is a hard way to make a web API
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_MfJER8quGtCJd3MbZzCA
danielmg··on mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?
The advice is actually for "serious" allergic reactions. There's a world of difference between hayfever and something life-threatening like nut allergies.

I have hay-fever and Asthma and you won't be able to stop me getting the vaccine. I see far more risk from COVID than the vaccine.

I have to question your motivations here. Your post is disingenuous at best.

danielmg··on Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things
I read an article about a large firm of lawyers removing gendered language from their pro-forma documents. The article claimed they were going to use AI to achieve this. It's not even worth pointing out what is the obvious method for this task.
danielmg··on How Normal Am I?
It said I was 16 years younger than I am. Which is nice.
danielmg··on Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assange extradition hearing
No they haven't. They just won't make special provision for them.

Is there any recognition in UK law for this role?

Can they not watch the same feed as the media?

danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
I was wrong and I did say "from memory". I should have taken the 30 seconds to look.

My fault.

danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
a) I meant 2017 - the post referendum election as I wrote b) I said from memory - my memory was obviously wrong. Please forgive me oh great one.
danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
sorry 2017, a typo - I will chastise immediately

And it's by far and away the largest grouping in parliament. The UK's regional politics make it something that isn't going to be binary.

I'm not "trying" anything. I'm just sick of the bs around Ruskies telling people to Brexit.

I did say "from memory".

Anyway - I voted remain. I just can't stand the Ruskies thing and the constant revisiting of the referendum result with different angles of "but it's not valid" used each time.

danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
I was referring to the 2015 and 2016 elections - i.e the election to get the referendum and the election following the referendum.
danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
I was referring to the 2015 and 2016 elections - i.e the election to get the referendum and the election following the referendum.
danielmg··on Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
Hitler was a terrible author.

Are you seriously trying to compare the achievements of Hitler and Churchill in a morally neutral context?

danielmg··on Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
It's just tedious virtue signalling, rather than a contribution to the thread. We all know he did things that are considered abhorrent when viewed against the current, moral zeitgeist.
danielmg··on Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
Amazing alliterations always achieve admiration.
danielmg··on UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference
But UKIP split the vote. From memory, the combination of UKIP and Conservative total votes was > 50%.
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