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by DC-3 6y ago
I think the Pinebook is an awesome piece of kit and if I could justify doing so I would absolutely buy one but from everything I've read it's not really something you'd want to do serious work on unless you also have the luxu
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by DC-3 6y ago
The unseating of x86 as the de facto standard for laptops, workstations, and servers would be a net benefit for both performance and security. Unfortunately, though Apple will likely find very great success with their ARM Macs, it does not
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by DC-3 6y ago
Don't we have enough of these memetic titles? It's hard to go a day without 'X for fun and profit' or 'Y considered harmful'.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Something I always wondered is if we know of the existence of a proof that is both simple and also non-obviously flawed and as such could have been Fermat's solution?
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by DC-3 6y ago
I'm astonished anyone ever thought otherwise. Has anyone ever encountered a git branch called 'slave'?
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's not a dino-faced chicken. It's a deformed-chicken-face chicken. You're not going to get something cohesive by flipping a couple genes, you're going to get something malformed. Edit: a bit of googling suggests that,
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by DC-3 6y ago
I wonder if the author of this article was aware of the etymology or if it's a curious case of mutating references returning to the original?
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by DC-3 6y ago
I believe it was actually one of the more strongly limiting factors on the frequency with which space shuttle launches could be conducted because the factory producing them could not turn them out particularly quickly.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I know this will get accused of being whataboutism, but isn't it a bizarre sort of leftist chauvinism to make gestures like this about issues in ones own country in spite of similar things happening across the world on a weekly basis -
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by DC-3 6y ago
Also worth noting that accounts created after the start of the event were barred from participating.
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by DC-3 6y ago
AIDS killed healthy young men. The same is not true of COVID.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I'm slightly surprised to see that this definition is considered obscure. Perhaps I've been disproportionately exposed to it through my slight obsession with motor-racing :-) Having said that, Boeing's situation is closer to
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by DC-3 6y ago
Airbus has the A320 line, which is a quantum leap ahead of the 737, and the A220 line, which is another leap ahead of that. The latter, which for my money is the best commercial jet in the world right now, also benefits from not being subje
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by DC-3 6y ago
Yeah, the saving grace for them is definitely their incestuous relationship with the US Government. But while that can save them from total collapse, it can't prop up their civil aviation activities on its own.
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by DC-3 6y ago
There's no chance that they'd've been drinking Corona; if there's one thing that spies are known for it's a discerning taste in alcoholic beverages.
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by DC-3 6y ago
This is just the start of the trouble for Boeing. They are technologically quite substantially in arrears to Airbus, and with none of their products able to pull in particularly hefty profits anymore they don't have the funds to make t
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by DC-3 6y ago
Thanks for raising this. I couldn't imagine using anything like this without a serious guarantee that if development ever bogs down I'd still have some way to keep it working and up-to-date. Even if the founders honestly intend th
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by DC-3 6y ago
Sweden only messed up if you consider the variable to optimise to be the number of deaths. If you attempt to minimise sum decrease in quality of life as a consequence of the pandemic, then as callous as it may sound, the severe lockdown str
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by DC-3 6y ago
This is a fair point, although I tend to think (based on nothing other than intuition) that Sweden likely has reasonably similar metrics to its Nordic neighbours?
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by DC-3 6y ago
Well, that is referring to growth, just growth sampled in a discrete fashion.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Time to play hardball. From now on I'm referring to any two lines in a poem that rhyme as a 'couplet'. Let's see how they like that :p
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by DC-3 6y ago
I refer you to my previous reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311027
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by DC-3 6y ago
I don't think it's asking for an unreasonable amount of rigour to require that terms like 'exponentially' not be used to describe discrete differences in magnitude? I mean, you might as well say 'additively', s
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by DC-3 6y ago
I think it's worth trying to be prescriptivist here. Exponentiality is a specific, important phenomenon, and it frustrates me to see language diluted in this way. I wouldn't care in the context of a reddit post, but NPR should kno
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's quite a famous quote from some notable smart person who I don't remember. I think they were talking about population growth (perhaps ironically). My intention was not to make a sly point about reactions to coronavirus.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Well, that would make sense when describing the relationship between two functions, but not between two datapoints, right? Since exponentially pertains to growth, not magnitude.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Ironically, I don't know what you're saying here. > Perhaps your difficulties with comprehension regarding the comment are more orthogonal 'My difficulties with comprehension' constitute one metric. Orthogonality, in
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by DC-3 6y ago
> With 39.26 deaths per 100,000, Sweden's mortality rate is not only higher than that of the U.S. (29.87 deaths per 100,000) but also exponentially higher than those of its neighbors Norway (4.42 per 100,000) and Finland (5.56 per 1
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by DC-3 6y ago
The commenter above you believes that inclusivity standards will lead to a situation whereby one party could claim that certain genuinely controversial statements are actually beyond reasonable dispute, and that any such dispute could ther
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by DC-3 6y ago
My intuition for the verb 'reveal' is that the subject need be in some way active in the object being de-obscured. A server responding to pings reveals itself because handling incoming connections and sending packets in response i

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