Is there any mention of what kind of radioactive decay this is powered from? Based on the name, one might assume beta? This would also track with the "research done in the 20th Century" bit considering beta radiation is just electrons.
My point being - what impact does this have on the safety of the device? Any more than certain light sources containing mercury, for example.
My partner's uncle and aunt have a holiday home right on that beach, just down from these pictures. We have of course enjoyed the privilege of staying there. We arrived in the dead of night, and there are no lights on the beach, so finding the house and then the keyhole was difficult to the point the woman next door thought we were trying to break in.
It seems to be taking a while for the framework to propagate to more independent arms of the government; as well as your example, for the (e.g.) DVLA a lot of the top level information-only pages are in the new framework (and also reside on www.gov.uk), but if you click any link to a form you get taken to the DVLA subdomain (motoring.dvla.gov.uk) and the difference is stark.
For the DVLA the site isn't so bad, but I definitely get that slightly disconcerted feeling that something is going to go wrong while you're filling out this important, official form? Which I don't get at all in the new framework.
The specific case I know you're talking about is the woman who was in an exclusion zone that was in place to stop people harassing women entering an abortion clinic.
If she doesn't want "praying silently in her head" to be interpreted as harassment, maybe she should think about the behaviour she and her cohorts have engaged in that might have lead to this interpretation.
Sure, you can disagree with that as well, but she wasn't arrested for praying. She was arrested for intimidation and harassment. She doesn't get a special pass just because of the method.
>I don't understand the cult following around Svelte.
What I don't get is how I never (at least on HN) see any criticism of it. Like... never ever. And sure I've probably missed the odd negative post about it, but as someone who has never used it and whose entire knowledge of it is based on what I've read on here, I couldn't tell you a single supposed downside of using Svelte. And sure, it could just be That Good, but... I dunno? There's something off about that.
It depends what you mean by data. Metadata maybe, but I'd think they're meaning that once your passwords data is encrypted (on your device), it is no longer your data without the encryption key?
I'm not really well-versed in this kind of thing to make any particular comments, but this made me rage:
>Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes.
How effing arrogant do you have to be to say something like this? No "please respond and we can talk about it", it's "please confirm you know we're the big guys, and you're going to do what we say".
This wouldn't work in the same way in Japanese because characters can have different readings depending on the context. Could that be overcome with font ligatures? Still, even if we could overcome that massively complex task, some groups of characters (i.e. the aforementioned context) can still have multiple ways of reading them.
I don't know the contract law in the relevant (presumably US) jurisdiction, but surely an asterisk in the contract that's basically:
Lifetime perpetual licence!*
*but we can cancel any time without any penalty lol teehee
is not enforceable? I don't think it would fly in court where I live, it doesn't matter if it was in a signed contract if it's preposterously unfair.
edit: and I don't even necessarily think a lifetime licence is something a company should offer, they are quite unfair on the developer. It's a big commitment to say you'll support some software in perpetuity. But the solution to that is to not offer a lifetime licence. It's not to just outright lie and say you are when you aren't. And if you're one company looking to buy another, you buy those contracts along with it and should take that into account in your due diligence.
I mean, yes, it is a very impactful book; I enjoyed it very much.
What I'm meaning, though, is that if you were to go against your duty as the head of NASA, Carl Sagan isn't going to rise from the grave and smite you for your transgression. Whereas I believe that is exactly the point of swearing over a bible.
I'm not meaning to say it's meaningless to swear over an important book (or that it doesn't make some kind of point), rather that an important element of what it means to swear over a religious text is lost. The whole point of rationalism is that the universe isn't sentient and won't and cannot judge your actions.
An oath is a promise to someone that you will act for the greater good, and you do so with your hand over a representation of who will witness and judge you for that.
I don't really know if I'm trying to say anything in particular. It's just some thoughts I had when reading.
Is there any actual strict requirement that you have to swear over a document of some kind?
I'd have thought swearing over the bible is a stand-in for swearing "before God", and that God would ultimately be your reckoner should you break your oath.
If you don't have that meaning behind the oath, what is the point in using a book at all unless it's something meaningful like the constitution of your country, as another poster has used as an example, or some other relevant document that is there as physical representation of something abstract?
If I, not being religious, were being sworn in as the head of NASA, I'd find it much more poignant to swear over the US constitution, or on nothing at all.
I get exactly the same pang of sadness. I even distinctly remember learning perturbation theory. But I use so little of what I learnt, and it's so long ago, that at lunch table discussions I can't even be the "ex-physicist that'll know the answer to that" any more. It fills me with great sadness.
It's not even that I feel that time was wasted - I like my field and I don't think I was suited for the path I didn't take. But it's such a rich and interesting field (physics, maths, chemistry, the lot) it's so fun to talk about. And with that training at least I could engage meaningfully in those discussions when I was fresh out of uni.
Now, not so much. My amateur astronomer colleague knows more about cosmology than I do at this point.
>It's about time to effect change. It's about cross device and platform support. It's about it being easier to find developers familiar with the browser stack then native app developer.
One might consider these as cutting corners - hiring web developers to build an app that really should be native
My point being - what impact does this have on the safety of the device? Any more than certain light sources containing mercury, for example.