I have to point out here, I think the word you're looking for is "graft".
No, it’s “grift”: https://www.wordnik.com/words/grift
Readit NewsNLips commented on Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers reuters.com/business/aero... · Posted by u/lr0
NLips commented on Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals cnbc.com/2024/06/11/norwa... · Posted by u/belter
It's actually surprising how north the famous EU countries are. Already south France and Italy are about the same latitude as New England; Norway must be like Alaska as far as daylight goes. If it weren't for the warm Atlantic current the place would be a glacier.
The entirety of Great Britain is farther north than the entirety of the contiguous 48 USA states.
NLips commented on What's missing with American CEOs? albertcory50.substack.com... · Posted by u/AlbertCory
How can you outlaw paying more than 50x to a CEO? Aside from the blatant government overreach, how would you even make it work? What if the equity ends up being worth more than that? If you solve that by not paying in equity, but only cash, now you have an even bigger incentive alignment problem.
The lowest paid employees get no less than 1/50th of the CEO’s allocation.
Has anyone found a static analysis tool which understands C11 annex K (aka “safe C”) functions? I’ve found some tools like CLANG static analysis will raise errors for potentially incorrect calls to stdlib C functions, but doesn’t understand the replacements, which means some errors previously caught by analysis can only be caught at runtime.
NLips commented on Why every microwave sucks these days moth.monster/blog/microwa... · Posted by u/bearbin
I got a CR subscription to look at air filters. For good air filtering you really only need a hepa filter ($20) in front of a fan ($20), but CR only analyses the performance of brand name products ($200).
For best filtering, place the filter so air is “sucked” through by the fan, rather than “pushed”.
(Quite possibly what you meant; I just found “in front of” easy to interpret in either way)
I agree, but I think one key distinction here is that I for my part tend to avoid classification. It's a spectrum of refinement, not two distinct classes IMHO.
The concept I use is that the next stage is all about how you implement the previous one: the spec is how you implement the requirements, the design is how you implement the spec, the code is how you implement the design.
As okl said, it’s arguably terminology, and maybe high and low level requirements would work for you? I prefer to separate out the terms though, so that “requirements” are the thing that the engineering team can’t unilaterally change without upsetting the stakeholders. If I can change a spec item mid-delivery and it doesn’t matter to the customer, then it wasn’t a requirement. If I can’t change it, then it’s a requirement.
I disagree with the author.
Requirements are a precursor to the spec, and are a list of MUSTS, SHOULDS, and WBNIS which need to go into the feature/product.
The Spec is a description of how these requirements are/will be met.
An example for the ‘ls’ command:
Requirement: “the user MUST be able to include or exclude hidden files”
Spec: “by default hidden files are not shown. Including the optional argument ‘-a’ will cause hidden files to be listed alongside non-hidden files”
NLips commented on Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shilling? (2020) iheartbritain.com/underst... · Posted by u/lisper
There are also coins called the Sovereign and Britannia, which are both legal tender, although not in general circulation. Both are minted from 24 carat gold. The Sovereign has a face value of 1 pound and I think the Britannia has a face value of 5. There actual value, on gold markets, is hundreds of pounds, and for a Britannia is over a thousand. Because they are legal tender, and could theoretically be used to buy a bottle of milk, they are exempt from VAT and capital gains tax, when buying or selling.
There's also enduring slang for some some values of cash, that doesn't necessarily have an accompanying bank note. A Pony for 25 pounds and a Ton for 100 is still fairly widely understood, but mostly heard these days in Guy Ritchie movies,.
Note that legal tender != can buy milk with. Legal tender is only about payment of debt. A shop selling you something doesn’t have to accept any specific form of payment, as they don’t let you build up a tab which needs repaying.
NLips commented on Password Requirements: Myths and Madness franzoni.eu/password-requ... · Posted by u/alanfranz
I know passphrases are better. But, the problem is there's much more to type every time you want to unlock your computer. And thus also many more chances to make a typo.
Of course there's TouchID and Windows hello but they don't work if your laptop is closed in a dock. Or in my case a Mac mini at home.
This is why I still stick to the truly random sorry password, I have no issues remembering arbitrary strings for some reason :)
Windows allows you to use a PIN for regular device logon - so you have a longer, more secure password for general use of the account, but an eg 8 digit numeric PIN _only_ for that device.