Lots of politicians haven been pro-spying for quite a long time. Lots of people are quite indifferent about it.

The massive shift of communications to digital channels has put mountains of data right there for the grabs, which is extremely attractive for people who want access to all that data.

Let's Encrypt certificates last even only 90 days when unplugged.

Are company names even unique within the UK? Sure, there can be only one bank named Barclays because of trademark laws, but can't there be a company in a different sector with the same name? Like Apple the computer business vs Apple the record company?

Or don't you have small local businesses (restaurants, pubs, stores) with duplicate names as long as they're in different locations? I know here in Flanders we have, for example, tens if not more places called "Café Onder den toren" (roughly translated as "Pub beneath the tower"). Do all local businesses in the UK have different names?

Politicians like campaign on reducing immigration because it's an easy thing to campaign on. They don't like to actually do anything about it because (1) it's hard, especially when you want to comply with laws and treaties and (2) effectively reducing immigration could hamper the ability to campaign on reducing immigration.

Is it always true that a smaller motor with the same power has less heat dissipation? It doesn't seem all that obvious to me.

All else held equal, I think so, yeah. If you have the same temperature differential, the same manner of heat dissipation, and a smaller surface area then that should mean smaller heat dissipation, yeah?

Obviously if you go from eg. a large air-cooled motor to a smaller water-cooled motor, then the smaller motor could potentially dissipate more heat, but that's a different scenario.

We only know that the large and the small motor deliver the same power. I don't see how we can conclude from that the temperature differential is also equal. In fact I would expect a smaller motor to have a larger temperature differential, because the heat is produced concentrated in a smaller volume.

Yep, you're getting it. Same power, same efficiency, same power dissipation, smaller motor, smaller dissipative area, higher temperature.

The other assumption I probably should have stated is that the two motors are made of similar materials with similar temperature limits. We know the ambient temperature and we know the maximum temperature of the materials used. So for a component made of those materials, existing in that ambient temperature, with an additional heat load proportional to the waste heat in the motor...

The ability to shed heat (assuming similar forced fan cooling, as we were) determines the amount of power we can deliver to the device without increasing its temperature.

So, ok, under a whole bunch of stated and unstated unproven assumptions, a smaller motor of the same power delivery as a larger motor is more efficient. There's no relation to reality here. I don't even know why I thought the idea in your comment that started this thread was worth pursuing.

Probably combined with a bunch of unrelated laws, in an unrelated legislative committee, all to try to keep it out of public attention.

While I agree that dedicated devices can be more efficient than Windows-style user interfaces, and even more so than browser-based user interfaces, many people don't use those modern interfaces in efficient ways.

I have observed countless times how many people fill in a field, than move their hand to the mouse to move the focus to the next field or button, than move their hand back to the keyboard, instead of just pressing tab to move the focus. It's painful to watch. Knowing just a few keyboard shortcuts makes filling in forms so much faster.

Things are getting worse, unfortunately. Modern user interfaces, especially in web interfaces, are made by people who have no idea about those efficient ways of using them, and are starting to make it more and more difficult to use any other method than keyboard -> mouse -> keyboard -> mouse -> ... . Tab and shift-tab often don't work, or don't work right. You can't expand comboboxes with F4, only the mouse. You can't type dates, but have to painstakingly select all the parts in inefficient pickers. You can't toggle options with the spacebar. You can't commit with enter or cancel with esc.

It's for this reason that I dream of us going back to keyboard-first HCI. I wish the underlying BIOS could easily boot and run multiple operating systems simultaneously and there were keys that were hardwired to the BIOS to switch out of whatever GUI crap you were in to the underlying "master control mode".

I wish we'd made better correspondence between the GUI and the keys on the keyboard. For example, the ESC should always be top-left of the keyboard and every dialog box should have an escape that basically always does the same thing (go back/cancel) and is wired to the hardware key. Instead of drop-down menus at the top of the screen, we could have had pop up menus at the bottom of the screen that positionally correspond to the F1-F12 keys.

In that example str.split() has the same result as str.splitlines(), but it's not in general the same, even without custom delimiter.

str.split() splits on runs of consecutive whitespace, any type of whitespace, including tabs and spaces which splitlines() doesn't do.

    >>> 'one two'.split()
    ['one', 'two']
    >>> 'one two'.splitlines()
    ['one two']

split() without custom delimiter also splits on runs of whitespace, which splitline() also doesn't do (except for \r\n because that combination counts as one line ending):

    >>> 'one\n\ntwo'.split()
    ['one', 'two']
    >>> 'one\n\ntwo'.splitlines()
    ['one', '', 'two']

By changing "non-developer" to "developer" (moving "beginner" from the end to the beginning doesn't really change the length). That's quite an intrusive change, it seems to me.

This recently came up in a conversation with family, and my nephew of 17 years old knew about it, and said it still exists. Personally I haven't seen it in a long time.

I didn't have the guts to tell my family about goatse.

It wasn’t long ago that it was on network news

https://mammon.typepad.com/root_of_all_evil/2007/06/goatse_l...

Probably for the best - lets not burden future generations.

Who among us can compare with that colon?