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by 0xTJ 1y ago
The average grandparent isn't installing an OS, they're using whatever comes on the device. If you had Ubuntu pre-installed and automatically updating, there isn't going to be that much of a difference for how many less-tech-
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
It'll be interesting to see if they can turn around their reputation. For my own travel decisions, a flight scheduled on a Boeing plane has a genuine impact on considering other options, especially if I have flexibility. Not because I&
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
This HN title absolutely needs to be fixed; removing the "in" between "found" and "Walmart" makes it nonsensical.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I'd be very interested in a version of this for Canadian postal code, which have the form K1A 0B1, alternating letters and digits. The first letter is either a province or 1/2 territories, or for Ontario and Quebec is a portion of
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
Stating compute scale in terms of power consumption is such a backwards metric to me, assuming that you're trying to portray is as something positive. It's like selling steel by the average fractional number of mining deaths that
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I agree strongly with almost everything presented in Notes on Programming Practices. The only thing I would consider to be bad advice is how booleans are handled, and that's just because this is from before C99 and stdbool. I've s
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
That's great to hear! Here where I am, Ontario, Canada, I just barely missed out on getting the HPV vaccine for free in high school. At the time, they were only vaccinating girls, but added boys a year or two after me.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
> For my part of the conversation, I think what I'm implying is we might get better outcomes if we paid teachers more. That is not at all the impression that I got reading your original comment. It seemed (and continues to seem, on
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
Sometimes, you see a take that's so far-removed from any take you've ever heard someone speak that you're not even sure how to interact with the one stating it. This is one of those cases; it sounds like an argument made by a
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
It's not necessarily just about remembering every rule and trick you can use to simplify and solve integrals. Calculus is fundamental to understanding problems, from basic exercises in a first-year undergraduate physics course to entir
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
It is shocking to me that people would seriously discuss not teaching calculus just because LLM tools exist. Computational math engines didn't make understanding how you solve an integral obsolete, but they can make certain tasks faste
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
This is why executives need to be held personally responsible when they direct a company to wilfully, blatantly, and repeatedly disregard laws to the detriment of society. These are people who should be in prison for a time, and barred from
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
What are you recommending? That's a list of other open PDF readers, which mostly serve purposes very different from what the author here has done.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
As an interesting example of the opposite UI experience, this video goes into why the McMaster-Carr website is so incredibly snappy to use: https://youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ . It's different from GitHub in many ways (no us
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I'm confused about the iPhone 18 part; I assume that it would just be one of their usual processes, possibly with a few tweaks.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
It doesn't work in all cases, but I can often replace the .com with .ca. It doesn't guarantee availability, but can at least check if the same listing is available on the Canadian store.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I have Chrome disabled, and every link that I open comes up in the standalone non-full-browser version of Firefox. I don't know if it would behave differently is Chrome was available, but I don't give it the chance.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
No they don't. I'm not sure where they got that number from, but it's either wrong or being misrepresented (costs of entire infrastructure project confused with cost of lights). $10M is off by 1-3 orders of magnitude, dependi
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I wish that Microchip would officially publish the programming algorithms and EE bit maps for the Atmel ATF16V8, ATF22V10 SPLDs and ATF15xx CPLDs. They programming algos have been mostly reverse-engineered (or otherwise figured out), but it
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
Your original comment did not specify gaming, but rather "everyone". Regardless, over 1/3 Windows users of Steam still being on Windows 10 is not "3" (even figuratively). Even that 60%, while a majority, isn't
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
They very explicitly disproved your point.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
That is factually wrong. According to [1], Windows 11 has only just about caught up to Windows 10 in marketshare. [1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2834970/windows-11-has-nearl...
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I phrased that as "never buying another game on Steam" because of the existing library aspect. Sure it's nice to just have one launcher, but you can absolutely move to another marketplace while using Steam for the games that
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
People can always buy on another platform if a publisher chooses to make it available. This isn't the iPhone app store, where you're mostly stuck with whatever Apple demands from you. You are also absolutely wrong about indie ti
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
Not only is what you're saying about being past peak PC gaming factually wrong, but I can't imagine agreeing with your opinion. How is the real money in social media? Those platforms that make money almost exclusively by making th
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
I do have some concerns that other companies will manage to take legal actions that harm Valve's user experience without actually helping consumers. They have a near-monopoly on PC gaming, which sounds bad at face value. But the only r
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
What are you talking about, what is being "optimized"? People can do stuff for fun, because it feels good, or for whatever reason. Not everything in someone's life has to be done for a direct survival goal. People go for runs
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
Videos and virtual interactions are not sex.
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
That is a wild false dichotomy, to assume that the alternative to buying custom adult content would be to have a baby. Plenty of people don't want babies, don't feel like they're in a financial situation to support kids, don&
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by 0xTJ 1y ago
The radiators are significantly smaller than the PV arrays, but not by a massive ratio; looks like about 1:3.6 based on the published area numbers that I could find. It looks like the ISS active cooling system has a maximum cooling capacity

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