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New comment by olddustytrail in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

olddustytrail — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:52:04 +0000

> Why would you ever want to work somewhere that clearly employs such unqualified individuals

Because you're unemployed and need to work to get some money.

Do you think you're a super intelligent person when you couldn't even figure that out?

New comment by olddustytrail in "Grid-scale batteries in Scotland stabilize power with grid-forming inverters"

olddustytrail — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:39:38 +0000

A response in milliseconds is effectively instantaneous. Also there is no coal in Scotland since 2016.

And if you want physical spinning machines, there is hydro which is obviously big in Scotland because there's plenty rain.

New comment by olddustytrail in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

olddustytrail — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:05:24 +0000

Most first world countries don't have this. It's not a given.

New comment by olddustytrail in "NYT says US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission"

olddustytrail — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:38:34 +0000

The bit where killing people is just an oopsie.

New comment by olddustytrail in "ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner"

olddustytrail — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:44:01 +0000

Can they? How does that work?

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:13:41 +0000

I think you'll find the manager was also an employee.

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:32:30 +0000

> How dense do you think your C-level is

I guess density doesn't really change, whether you have one short plank or two.

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:33:51 +0000

Sarcasm? Or you don't know any black people?

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:41:52 +0000

She clearly disagreed with you since she pled guilty.

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:34:02 +0000

No, there are examples of people saying things that break a law getting arrested.

There seems to be this bizarre belief that it's fine to engage in incitement to violence, harassment or stalking, as long as it's done on social media.

It's not. They would be illegal via phone calls and they're still illegal on X or Facebook.

New comment by olddustytrail in "Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:01:56 +0000

You would think examples like this would demonstrate to you that your thinking was wrong, but instead you just double down on it.

New comment by olddustytrail in "William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)"

olddustytrail — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:13:04 +0000

I wonder if Wordsworth would have been quite as keen on his works being treated as property if he'd known they would be owned by an American corporation by now and his own descendants would have to licence them for any use?

New comment by olddustytrail in "Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)"

olddustytrail — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:25:44 +0000

Yup, I know how git keeps the whole thing but if the audio file is stored as chunk, with perhaps layers applied, that could be storing just the changes as say mblobs, rather than blobs.

The reason for asking about diffs is that it makes it easier to break it down to manageable chunks.

New comment by olddustytrail in "AI enters the grant game, picking winners"

olddustytrail — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:43:45 +0000

This becomes a bit of a horrible arms race as you now ask AI to edit your paper to make it sound better to the grant sieving AI...

New comment by olddustytrail in "Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)"

olddustytrail — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:36:52 +0000

Are there any music formats that allow, conceptually, for easy diffs?

If there are, it's not beyond reason to add something to git to make it work better.

If changing a single bit at the start of file changes the whole thing then it's really a failing of the file format. By which I probably mean the container format.

New comment by olddustytrail in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"

olddustytrail — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:29:23 +0000

Sudan is a terrible example for your argument as it's practically a textbook example of Western colonialism, maintained by divide and conquer, and leaving a horrific mess when they wash their hands of the place.

New comment by olddustytrail in "A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool"

olddustytrail — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:10:31 +0000

You can do that with sysdig.

New comment by olddustytrail in "University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test"

olddustytrail — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:40:20 +0000

That is discriminating by ability not height. It happens to be easier for taller people to have that ability but that's secondary.

New comment by olddustytrail in "Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia"

olddustytrail — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:26:09 +0000

Move there and see how it works out.

New comment by olddustytrail in "University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test"

olddustytrail — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:03:25 +0000

The NBA doesn't discriminate by height. They have chosen players that are 5'3" over players who are 6'6".

You're welcome for me educating you.