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Is this any different from detecting illegal instructions in general?

I would have thought any encoding in the unused part of the instruction space would generate a SIGILL, needing the "we don't do that here" logic.

Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?

I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.

If you install enough vim plugins you can get pretty close to VS Code in terms of both features and performance.

How reliable is that media bias chart?

Looking at the scatter plot of the Guardian they don't seem to have made any attempt at separating news reporting from opinion pieces. It would be strange for anyone to expect the latter to be unbiased.

Seems to me like greater damage was being done to the people getting stopped and searched on the pretext of jaywalking. From the article:

> The Legal Aid Society called the legislation long overdue. The non-profit organization, which provides free legal representation to New Yorkers who cannot afford a lawyer, said police for decades have used the violation as a pretext to stop, question and frisk residents – especially those of color.

On the other hand, not taxing unrealized capital gains on exit would effectively create a loophole by which it would be possible to avoid taxation simply by moving to a tax haven for a while and realize the gains there.

The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55848126

Buses can be very dependable and cheaper than rail if they run in dedicated bus lanes.

You’re right that they aren’t much use if they get stuck in the same traffic as everyone else.

That was a cultural ritual, not scientific research. What scientific basis is there for Christmas or Thanksgiving?

> If we bring competition between the hospitals with price transparency, the prices will fall dramatically.

How do you envision this working for say emergency care, where as a patient you may not be in a state to make an informed decision about which hospital to visit?

Prime Video has consistently had the worst quality subtitles of any streaming service I've tried. I'm surprised they haven't been subject to a ADA-type lawsuits over it.

Looking at the NoGovInternet site [1] mentioned in the article, their arguments against municipal broadband seem to mostly revolve around financial sustainability. They cite a paper that claims that 90% of such efforts fail to generate enough revenue to be self-sustaining.

To me that seems like a strange argument against a municipal service. Surely no one expects other things like road maintenance to be financially self-sustaining?

[1] https://www.nogovinternet.com/

I really hope the kind of conspiratorial thinking on display here isn't representative of HN readers in general.

If you live in Canada you can't really opt out of doing business with the CRA.

Representative of what? London is one of the most diverse cities in the world.

I've never driven an EV but I'm curious about this statement. When would continuing to accelerate ever be the desired behaviour when pressing both pedals at the same time?

I’ve noticed a fair few comments here and elsewhere starting with “In Europe…” and then extrapolating from the commenter’s experience living in a single EU country.

Maybe that’s a testament to how successful harmonisation of national rules has been across the EU. But it doesn’t seem to apply to ID checks.

Reading the description of the interchange fee cap, it sounds like the cap should apply also for US-issued cards used in the EU [0]:

> ... the capping of interchange fees should result in lower fees charged by banks to retailers for processing card payments.

If users of US cards still get 5% rewards when using their cards in the EU, I'm curious about who pays for the 4.7% shortfall.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...

I'm not saying this is the case for you, but often when companies have recurring problems with retention it's because of some underlying issue: culture, perceived lack of professional development opportunities, low pay, etc.

These issues might affect even new hires joining with the best of intentions.

Especially seeing as the steady state of DB operations these days seems to be utter chaos.

But it does seem like a good way to explore the country.

Someone had done this at a previous company I worked at. You’d subscribe to a mailing list and get a daily/weekly summary of joiners, leavers and title changes. Pretty useful.

When management eventually found out they were seemingly supportive, but in the next layoff they made sure to reach out to the owner to make him “pause” the tool just before the layoffs started.

When the mailing list was unpaused again the laid-off folks weren’t mentioned, as if they’d never existed in the first place. Felt very 1984-esque.

Food banks don’t help much if you can’t afford to cook the food you are given.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m...

Surely you know that the history of using "monkey" as an epithet is extremely charged? It is not a neutral term.

> Rhoticity was stronger in males, a pattern of results which suggests a female-led sound change, a widely documented phenomenon in the sociolinguistic literature. When language changes, women usually start it.

I found this bit particularly interesting. I wonder why that is.

Historically it wasn't uncommon to attempt to physically prevent strikebreakers from crossing the picket line.

Most if not all organisations have standards of conduct that they expect their members to follow, and its not surprising that unions view strikebreaking ("scabbing") as being contrary to those standards.

But seeing as the whole point of unions is organised action, why would you want to be a member if you weren't interested in participating in that action?

Unions can't force their members (or non-members) to strike, except for the fact that if as a member you refuse to join a strike organised by your union you might be expelled. Attempting an individual strike without the backing of a union would leave you no protection from retaliation and would likely get you fired. The unions themselves are relatively limited in how and when they can organise legal strikes.

Employers on their part have access to a similar tool in the form of lockout, where they bar employees from coming into work and stop paying their wages. An employer targeted by (legal) solidarity action can't fire their striking employees, but could respond with a lockout.

There's a provision that disallows strike action where it would harm public order, which would apply to the police union refusing to protect Tesla property.

> Few people working at Tesla Sweden have joined the strike

Tesla claims that 90% of their employees in Sweden have refused to strike, but that figure seemingly includes office workers and others who would never have been part of the metalworkers' strike to begin with. The union itself claims about 50%. [0]

[0] https://da.se/2023/11/sa-manga-strejkar-pa-tesla-if-metall-g...

I'm not familiar with Norwegian labour law, but if it's anything like the Swedish equivalent there are narrowly defined rules about when you can and can't engage in solidarity action.

It's only permissible in response to an active dispute and refusing to unload all shipments from Israel definitely wouldn't qualify.

I'm not so sure. There was a news article today about a leaky storage site for nuclear waste, coincidentally not too far from Manchester. [0] There are more ways than explosions to cause ecological devastation.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-...