ATsch

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by ATsch 11y ago
some more things to note (granted, I don't know how things work in the rest of the world): the sorting after the age of 10 is simply a recommendation . It is simply an estimation of the Teacher if the Student will get accepted by a sc
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by ATsch 11y ago
"since the last update, we have increased our pothole detection by at least 200%"
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by ATsch 11y ago
I think that might just be selection bias. For example, you rarely hear anything positive about the middle east. This is not because nothing positive happens there, but because news space/time is limited and conflicts are intrinsically
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by ATsch 11y ago
Probably because of lack of demand. Most people use the RPi in a scenario where they either have internet, or don't care about time.
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by ATsch 11y ago
I feel like I have some kind of obligation to correct you on the common error of "should of" instead of "should have" or "should've" http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-m
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by ATsch 11y ago
Regarding your last point about many people not knowing what XCode is: I assume GP was theorizing that Apple's declining software quality is related or even in part caused by their bad development environment and tools, compared to com
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by ATsch 11y ago
Also reminds me of the less map-related targeting deceptions of WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#Deception
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by ATsch 11y ago
is being able to trust the network even with malicious actors not the whole purpose of the blockchain?
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by ATsch 11y ago
alternatively, let them fork it and put a link to their repo in the README
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by ATsch 11y ago
I asume because "Explicit is better than implicit". Adding a new vowel would mean less ambiguity as to how a word is pronounced
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by ATsch 11y ago
If you don't pay you country club membership, your membership will be terminated. If you then decide to stay on their property you will be almost certainly arrested for trespassing. Alternative example: if you would barricade yourself
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by ATsch 11y ago
It also goes towards the roads and infrastructure the company and its employees use daily. I don't understand why people refuse to pay their countries membership fees. They have no problem paying the fees for their gym, their sports cl
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by ATsch 11y ago
I've never heard shrill used to describe a voice, I for one mostly associate it with mechanical noise ("The machine errupted to life with a shrill screch"). In any case, in the above comment it is used to refer to the way the
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by ATsch 11y ago
For HTTP requests, yes. Using sockets requires the "Full network permissions" permission.
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by ATsch 11y ago
Could someone who downvoted this elaborate? I'd love to hear why you don't consider Pan-americanism and capitalism(!) to be utopian
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by ATsch 11y ago
The only professionaly used plastic instruments I have seen are recorders and flutes. Although no serious recorder/flute player would prefer their sound they can be quite good, especially because they are tuned higher than normal recor
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by ATsch 11y ago
Computerphile interviewed one of the writers of this paper in a series of videos, who explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters. 1. https://youtu.be&#
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by ATsch 11y ago
I think an official app, while nice would be a lot of work and would use a lot of manpower HN does not seem to have much of. there are currently many third party apps.
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by ATsch 11y ago
I love the new main page. However thr comments are still to small to comfortably read without zooming.
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by ATsch 11y ago
CCCdeVideos is a) the German Channel. b) not an official Channel. The CCC recommends using their official Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde
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by ATsch 11y ago
It seems you are correct. However I remember having removed Ghostery from all of my Computers after reading their privacy policy. The current version looks to be fine.
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by ATsch 11y ago
I have bad news for you, Ghosterys privacy policy and T&C allows them to sell data about your browsing activity to third parties. I'll link them here once I get home and off my throttled connection.
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by ATsch 11y ago
I think this can be blamed on the strict European copyright laws more than a lack of net neutrality, also considering that Netflix became what it is today even without net neutrality
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by ATsch 11y ago
Absolutely. I could imagine a system where the job goes to the lowest price * reputation, with lower (which in this case means better) reputation causing you to win the bid even if other companies bid lower. Assigning reputation in a system
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by ATsch 11y ago
I would disagree about the UNIX standard being a) comunity developed, as the UNIX the specification describes was mostly developed by AT&T/Bell Labs and b) being an open specification, as it is owned by Novell, who only allows usag
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by ATsch 11y ago
Also relevant and often related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping
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by ATsch 11y ago
…as oposed to the women who, if there were more of them in significant political positions, would not be predominantly straight and have kids and therefore would not be so defensive of children?
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by ATsch 11y ago
However unrealistic it is, I still wish that open source Projects would agree on what to call things. The /etc/sudoers NOPASSWD and sshd without-password sound like the same thing, but are far from that. I feel like they could hav
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by ATsch 11y ago
interesting! I have no Idea about cars. How do they tell the difference between going fast and slipping then?
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by ATsch 11y ago
yes, afaik modern ABS uses accelerometers to detect if the car is skidding

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