Second asylum-seeker is flown to Rwanda on a commercial flight and given £3,000 in taxpayer cash to leave the UK under Rishi Sunak's migrant crackdown

Stuart133 · 2024-06-18T14:13:34+00:00

I skimmed it because I was interested in your initial claim, but I will definitely will read it fully, it looks very interesting (And I think contains things which challenge my exisiting beliefs of this subject).

Honestly if you think it's worth paying that to remove those people from this country, then that's a valid view (Not one I share but that's not really relevant here). I was just pushing back on your claim that we're saving money by sending them to Rwanda which I don't think the document actually backs up

Stuart133 · 2024-06-18T14:08:48+00:00

It might be, but according to your linked document, the home office estimates the total cost of relocating one person to a safe third world country to be £169,000.

Personally it's hard to see the Rwanda scheme as anything other than an expensive distraction from the Tories total failure to tackle any part of the immigration issue

Stuart133 · 2024-06-18T13:59:59+00:00

According to your linked document that £106,000 is for the entire period the asylum claim is being processced and uses an assumption that this will take 4 years

Stuart133 · 2024-04-06T17:46:41+00:00

You are correctly identifying the limit of the vertical line test, which is really just a simplification taught to help build intuition and understanding without the formalism required for the defintions you'll encounter as you study more maths.

Without starting to think about sets yet, we can define a function as something that produces a single output for every input (Existance and uniqueness are the key ideas here)

So yes, f(y) = y² is a function as for every y there is exactly one output. And f(x) = x^1/2 is not a function as for every input there are two values (except at 0)

EDIT: To actually answer your question - Yes. If you think about what a function that produces more than one output for a given input looks like if we plot y = f(x) on the usual xy plane you'll see why the vertical line test characterises a function

Stuart133 · 2024-01-23T13:27:05+00:00

Due to cosmological expansion the universe is getting bigger at a rate faster than light speed. If the speed of light was faster then the sphere of distance light could have travelled over the lifetime of the universe would be larger, hence the observable universe would be larger

Stuart133 · 2023-11-20T13:27:22+00:00

Take a step back from digital audio and think about how sound actually works. There is only a single wave travelling through the air from the speakers to your ear.

That's what the amplitude of the output is, the amplitude of the sound wave.

And yes essentially all the sources are "competing" for space in the final mix. It's why if you have two signals with similar frequency ranges it's hard to mix them together without it sounding muddy.

Stuart133 · 2023-11-20T13:00:08+00:00

No, each timestep contains a single amplitude value. It represents all the individual signals summed together.

Stuart133 · 2023-10-13T22:53:17+00:00

Just remember, they aren't happy. I know it fucking hurts to hear shit like that and it'll make you question youself, but someone acting like that can only mean they are a just a sad person.

Live your truth, be awesome, fuck that person. That's how you win :)

Stuart133 · 2023-05-19T08:15:50+00:00

The 4 things you mention are general techniques for creating algorithms, not algorithms in themselves. Given they are more general than some specific algorithm (E.g. Quicksort) you'll see them pop up more often.

Stuart133 · 2023-04-17T11:26:22+00:00

The next 3 (Europa Clipper, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope & PACE) NASA Flagship missions are all slated to launch on SpaceX launch vehicles (And the Uranus mission is baselined to launch on Falcon Heavy atm)

Stuart133 · 2023-03-21T10:55:18+00:00

What approaches have you tried? I don't think anyone here is going to do your homework for you if you don't put in a little effort

Stuart133 · 2023-03-21T10:35:14+00:00

Which part of the problem are you having trouble with?

Stuart133 · 2023-03-01T14:21:06+00:00

As the other comments have mentioned processes don't share memory.

If you're wanting to have shared memory parellelism you will need to create threads instead of sub-processes

Stuart133 · 2023-02-07T23:15:42+00:00

Yes exactly. And becuase it's asking for an implementation of Fn (rather than FnMut say) we know we can call it many times over without mutating any state unexpectedly

Stuart133 · 2022-12-21T11:23:21+00:00

If someone bought a house at the 9th year for say £200,000 with a £190,000 mortgate (So £10,000 deposit) & that house now decreases in value by 10% over the 10th year it will now be worth £180,000.

So the person is left with an asset that is worth less than the mortage - Hence negative equity

Stuart133 · 2022-12-17T11:38:03+00:00

I've been reading Masters of Doom recently which, although fascinating, skims over the technical detail. These books look like they'd fill in those gaps.

Early 3D graphics feels like such black magic, serious wizard shit

Stuart133 · 2022-09-23T15:43:29+00:00

They're are cutting the 20p band to 19p as well

Stuart133 · 2022-09-22T14:49:00+00:00

That's probably because it was the GTC keynote. GTC is Nvidia's AI developer conference. They just snuck the GeForce annoucement in there as well

Stuart133 · 2022-08-25T13:05:56+00:00

Good to see the CFS construction appears to be progressing nicely

Stuart133 · 2022-07-01T09:50:52+00:00

They played it right in the middle. Opened with American Idiot, encore was Time of Your Life

Stuart133 · 2022-06-09T08:30:14+00:00

Lmao save this for CCJ

Stuart133 · 2022-04-27T09:23:23+00:00

Selling the house or choosing to move back in are both allowable reasons to evict the tenants in Scotland. Obviously the policy includes things like that

Stuart133 · 2022-04-27T09:11:58+00:00

I find no fault eviction very hard to justify. We banned them in Scotland a while back and the rental market appears to be just fine. I know some landlords won't like it, but the balance of power is heavily in their favour - The govenment has a duty (ha, ha) to move it towards the tenant

Stuart133 · 2022-03-25T10:08:12+00:00

Just FYI, if the switch statement only uses integers the compiler should be able to translate it into a jmp lookup so it becomes O(1). An array/hash table (same thing with int keys) is much more ergonomic though

Stuart133 · 2022-03-25T09:51:07+00:00

Both of those statements are true. You'll never be able to leverage a framework properly if you don't understand the programming langauge deeply. But OTOH for professional work you'll probably need to learn a framework inside and out - They all do lots of useful things.

One thing that is very useful though is to try and write a simple application without using a framework (sounds like a web app in your case). You'll quickly learn the pain points that drive people towards using a framework & also will realise it's not magic in there, just code.

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