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by Delk 6y ago
AFAIK the small improvements to asymptotic complexity achieved in the last decade or so don't really mean better practical performance due to higher constant factors. That probably isn't directly the point either. Perhaps new meth
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by Delk 6y ago
This might be just a matter of what I've gotten used to, but I have the "Activities" view (which shows previews of open windows, as well as the dock-like thing for launching applications) bound to the super/windows key w
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by Delk 6y ago
You can't prove it, but apparently you can try to find evidence to see if it seems likely: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.h...
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by Delk 6y ago
Not being from SV (or from the U.S.), I initially read the SF as "science fiction". I don't know if their (possible) problem is just in money handling or the service, but it would have been kind of funny if the potential frau
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by Delk 6y ago
Again going into non-expert territory, but AFAIK TMS is supposed to be slightly more effective than placebo. It doesn't work that much more often than placebo, but more often anyway, and even in some cases that haven't been help
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not going to advocate, even in the most general sense possible, for a practice that I'm not particularly knowledgeable of. However, you literally said "and physical anguish". Patients being sedated (and given muscle
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm definitely not an expert, but my impression has been that ECT has been considered more likely to be effective at the severe or psychotic end of the spectrum (so not really something to be considered in milder or even moderately sev
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by Delk 6y ago
I hadn't thought of the state of standards, but that's also true. However, mid-90's games that did do 640x480 generally did that in 256 colours, so they already had to deal with going above standard VGA one way or another. Ve
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by Delk 6y ago
I guess in an ideal world, the default might be something simple enough (akin to Gemini), and using a more flexible and complex technology that comes with all the security and privacy implications would be distinguishable from the simpler s
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by Delk 6y ago
I think 800x600 only started to become common around the time 3D accelerators became a thing. Some 2D games may have had 800x600 or 1024x768 a bit earlier but doing higher than 640x480 in a detailed 3D game would really have pushed it witho
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by Delk 6y ago
If you're feeling that much better overall, it's probably much healthier for you regardless of why that happens to be. Sounds like a good deal. :)
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by Delk 6y ago
I'd guess the average English proficiency also varies a lot by the country. I've had lots of elderly relatives who were born before WWII (so in their 80's or 90's) who have or had, to my knowledge, almost absolutely zero
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by Delk 6y ago
How did you figure out the change decreased chronic inflammation? Was there a change in inflammatory markers or something? Or more of a hunch?
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by Delk 6y ago
> Aside from their limited space, I much preferred the floppy to the CD. The use cases where each of those would be more convenient than the other are largely different. The CD had a capacity that you couldn't even begin to approach
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by Delk 6y ago
Wouldn't exploits from JavaScript specifically mean that single-user desktops aren't necessarily safe?
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by Delk 6y ago
I was about to comment on that, too, but I then came to think GP might have meant game misconducts (in case of getting actually physically violent) which would usually be a greater loss in case of a primary goalie than in the case of a rand
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by Delk 6y ago
I haven't been following hockey in a couple of decades but fighting used to be much less common in European leagues AFAIK than it is (or was) in the NHL. Goalies getting involved would have been even rarer. But if fights do occur, th
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by Delk 6y ago
Apparently there are lots of these kinds of things around the world. I never knew that. There's one in the Helsinki area in Finland as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajam%C3%A4ki_Solar_System_Sca... The funn
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by Delk 6y ago
To be honest, it doesn't even sound like a privacy threat as much as it as a potential security (and respect of user choice) question to me. If software that's already running on the system wants to e.g. exfiltrate something fro
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not qualified to judge the paper or its contributions, but this particular paragraph in the press release quoting the author smells of way, way too much faith on part of the author himself: > “This work has moved the problem of
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by Delk 6y ago
Something makes me want to continue that xkcd strip with a CS approximation with something about all of those being just constant factors.
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by Delk 6y ago
Okay, I guess I've got it wrong then. Thanks for the clarification.
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by Delk 6y ago
In the early 00's (before PulseAudio), my desktop had an old SoundBlaster Live PCI card that was pretty common around the turn of the millennium. ALSA dmix Just Worked with that one. Any other hardware I encountered required some kind
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by Delk 6y ago
The previous code that used those functions probably did prevent a SQL injection as a side effect, as using them avoided making a direct SQL query at all. But you're of course correct that it's not the replacement of an ORM call w
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by Delk 6y ago
In many contexts that doesn't really matter. Sure, from a programmer point of view that's a problem because there are potential cases with incorrect or ambiguous behaviour, but being able to sort files by date could be useful in c
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by Delk 6y ago
Thanks. That would seem to be the same case as in my third link.
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by Delk 6y ago
There have also been plans to do this in Finland, but most of what I can find is either marketing material or news articles discussing plans [1, 2] rather than actual achievements, so I'm not sure what actually became of it. There&#x27
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by Delk 6y ago
In case someone goes looking for the source for that citation, it's on slide/page 37. It further cites another web page which no longer exists but is available at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web&#
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by Delk 6y ago
Some people just have great interest in a narrow area. I agree that most of those types of applications have a very low interest-to-drudgery ratio just in general, and I personally don't find them interesting at all. But let's not
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by Delk 6y ago
> It's the technology and the employers and the culture of development that's the problem. What is it about those things that you find to be the problem? Genuinely asking.

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