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£15.50, an absolutely insane price.

Student visas are essentially free money for the countries that provide them: unversities charge them more; the students tend to be rich and spend a lot; a lot of students immediately return home and don't actually take any local jobs. There's no downsides.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, JavaScript (React)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-alexander-williams

Résumé/CV: http://www.swilliams.io/resources/ScottWilliamsCV.pdf

Email: woohoowilliams@gmail.com

> Everything that goes on within it is designed and controlled and can be explained by _a_ human.

Emphasis on _a_ human.

I've heard that there's so many layers of abstraction and obfuscation, that there is no one person who can explain thoroughly every layer of a modern computer, from the volts in the bits, to the web front end, through the cloud.

Yea. A better analogy is asking for receipts, payment card history, search history, etc. All things that tech giants know about you that isn't publically available for anyone to see.

Western as in democratic, high income, economically prosperous, broadly supportive of human rights, etc.

"What about Chernobyl" is usually outright dismissed as being an edge case owing its disaster to the Soviet regime, more concerned over image than safety.

The real important question, as you aluded to, is "What about Fukushima" - a disaster occuring in a rich, western nation, Japan; Japan is a nation generally seen as being on the leading edge of technology. If a disaster can occur in Japan, it can feasibly happen anywhere in the west.

Why is this blog called JFDI? What does it stand for?

$121 million as of few weeks ago [0] - a fair bit off the ~$250 million Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Grand Theft Auto 5 cost.

[0] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/74946/cdpr-has-spent-over-121...

>But then realized that the coastline paradox must also exist for 3D surfaces (TINs or DEMs or whatnot) so asking “what is the area of a surface on earth” can be a very complex question if dealing with elevation.

StandUpMaths did a great video on this recently, asking whether national land area includes elevation and which nations would gain/lose the most land area if it were/weren't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtKhbbcc1Rc

In a lot of TikTok songs, the 15-30 seconds of the song that you've heard dozens of times is the best part of the song, with the rest of the piece being rather dry and bland. "Hit or miss, I guess you never miss huh" and "I'm already Tracer" are my quintessential examples of this.

If 2 isn't possible, a fast forward button would be a decent alternative.

> it doesn’t understand anything outside of the context of the game it’s playing.

Yea, and the game is life and death. A military minded AI won't distinguish between surrendering and fighting enemies, won't distinguish between enemies and non-combatents, might confuse a shutdown order with an electronic attack. Just cause AI isn't by definition "smart" doesn't mean its harmless.

Other people in this thread have mentioned the pandemic, but I'd argue the highly publicised Black Lives Matter protests are having a big effect in pushing away foreigners as well.

Location: Melbourne, Australia (British Citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, React, JavaScript, Python, Unity

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-alexander-williams

Résumé/CV: http://www.swilliams.io/resources/ScottWilliamsCV.pdf

Email: woohoowilliams@gmail.com

Interesting. Where are you from? I've never seen that syntax for centuries before.

University rankings are next to useless for determining whether a student would be a good developer. Look at the metrics US News uses to rank universities:

* Research reputation

* # of publications, conferences, books

* # of citations

* # of highly cited papers

Where's quality of teaching? Where's student employability after graduation? Where's numbers of student internships? Where's teacher to student ratio? None of these matter to most university ranking lists.

A real life easter egg!

>s = d/t

Slightly worse than that. That equation is always written as v = s/t. v represents velocity and s represents distance, for some reason.

Also https://www.messenger.com/ for Facebook Messenger without the app or the Facebook.

Hey, are you Svip from Paradox forums, of Ulm fame?

> repelled a malevolent empire again

That's just straight up wrong. The US started the war when they invaded Canada. The British Empire did not want to fight the war. To them, the United States was just a sideshow of the much larger and much more important Napoleonic Wars.

If anything, it was the British and Canada that repelled a malevolent United States, who had had eyes on annexing Canada since independence.

> In the following decades the US became an economic juggernaut, while the British Empire began to fade into the history books.

Uh, what. The 19th century was the golden age of the British Empire, whilst the US remained a small player on the world stage. You must be confusing the War of 1812 to the first or second world wars.

I know its the Fourth of July for you yanks, but this comment is just straight up propaganda.

And quoting Wikipedia to prove that it was a victory for the US is ironic given that Wikipedia states that the war resulted in stalemate and status quo ante bellum. The only real losers were the Native Americans.

I think you just answered your own question. Emulators work fine for most use cases. In the other cases, a physical phone is best.

I completely agree with you that the stats and language bar were iconic and quintessential of GitHub. It is a massive shame that it's effectively been removed.

But designers and developed don't support one UI, or even two. They support anywhere between three (desktop, mobile, tablet) and effectively infinite (all resolutions between and around those + dark modes + apps which use the same data + all different browsers). UIs can't be very good one on platform without either making each platform's UI separate or sacrificing functionality on other platforms.

New GitHub looks alright on low resolutions, but looks kinda awful on big screens. This is the opposite problem old GitHub had.

Chess has been played by mail for centuries. It wouldn't be surprising to me at all if it was also the first ever online game.

Make it so only one entry per IP address? The script would very quickly run out, assuming they couldn't spoof (not sure how easy it is to spoof IP addresses).

> Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, nearly double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019.

No doubt the quarantine was a solid motivator to sign up.

> The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was that many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language.

Sounds like a potential workaround is to set your language to another flavour of English like "en-CA" or "en-GB".