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by Delk 6y ago
If people could just remember that there are in fact several meanings for words, having to engage in that conversation down the road would not even happen. Or perhaps it would, but assuming reasonable people, it might amount to clarifying w
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by Delk 6y ago
I'd like you to point out where I denied the validity of "the" discussion, or any discussion. I disagreed with the idea that a single topic needs to be always at the top, or that it's somehow a bad thing if it isn't
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by Delk 6y ago
I was assuming you might have referred to the covid-19 epidemic. And if that were the case then yes, I definitely do think there should also be other topics at the top. It's not like we're starving for news, or like feeding oursel
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by Delk 6y ago
I didn't say I agree with preventing unauthorized repairs. I don't, and my comment wasn't meant as apologetics. I was merely speculating on why it might make sense for Apple to want that kind of control even if it isn't
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by Delk 6y ago
Do you mean that everything in the news should be dominated by a single topic? Not only is it somewhat nearsighted (if perhaps sometimes tempting) to suggest that everything and everyone should put their focus on a single matter and stop
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by Delk 6y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/index_en.h... I don't really know how EU policymaking works (although I guess I should, as I'm a EU citizen), but it seems to be more of a broad but appr
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not an Apple apologist by any measure, but I don't think that's really true. At least last time I looked into it, Apple supported their devices with software updates for longer than the majority of other vendors in the ma
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by Delk 6y ago
I might be a bit sceptical about the benefits of a hypnosis app, too, but you're being unnecessarily harsh. It's not like hypnosis itself as a phenomenon is automatically nonsense. It attracts people who are into woo, so there&#x2
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by Delk 6y ago
I'd be surprised if a significant number of antidepressants had those kinds of warnings, too. However, I guess some of them might. For example mirtazapine (Remeron) can apparently cause sleepiness in some cases, and in low doses it&#x2
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by Delk 6y ago
Things tend to work better with slightly older hardware. The compatibility issues have already surfaced and there's been time to fix them. There's been plenty of time to get things working since the T450s was released.
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by Delk 6y ago
I've also got the impression that even just slightly older hardware might be easier to get working than the very latest generation. This may be even more true for distros that don't ship new kernels in a rolling release style. (Fe
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by Delk 6y ago
To be fair, if hardware really only worked with a specific version of the Linux kernel, that wouldn't exactly scream quality either. You'd be stuck without being able to update for security or for any new hardware support. As a tr
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by Delk 6y ago
> So, although I agree that "the universe" in general is much more complex, I haven't found that to be true about the part individual developers are expected to understand. That's probably true. I think the person I w
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by Delk 6y ago
The "universe" is also, in some sense, much more complex than a couple of decades ago. In most cases we don't need to deal with as much low-level complexity or with cumbersome tooling, but "understanding the universe&quo
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by Delk 6y ago
I can kind of understand what he says about adjusting the time from the BIOS settings, but most people doing anything with BIOS/EFI settings nowadays are technically involved enough that understanding UTC shouldn't be a dealbrea
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by Delk 6y ago
In most scenarios involving databases you would probably be much more interested in run-time performance and scalability than in setup time. It's an interesting point of information, but a more relevant benchmark to support choice of t
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by Delk 6y ago
> Here is my point -- the potential losses are bounded. Are potential liabilities conjured up by corporate lawyers and awarded by courts limited by the amount of property or income you have right now, though? Because if they aren't,
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by Delk 6y ago
It has also become a loan word in English, so there's at least a de facto convention of how it is spelled with latin characters in English text. It's not written in kanji when used in English.
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by Delk 6y ago
It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (including people's names, of all things) using substring matching doesn't
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by Delk 6y ago
Any kind of major Java development can eat up gigabytes of RAM easily. You're right that editors and compilers don't necessarily require a lot of computational power, so programming doesn't necessarily require a computational
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by Delk 6y ago
Or, rather, "X laptop which is cheaper than premium laptop Y benches higher". Which also isn't news. It's trivial to find a laptop that outperforms a premium laptop at half the price. That's equally true of any non-
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by Delk 6y ago
I got: OpenJDK 8: ~80-90 ms OpenJDK 11: ~60 ms OpenJDK 14: ~50-55 ms The first runs were a bit slower, perhaps because the files needed by the JVM weren't in disk cache or something. Other languages/runtimes: Python 2.7: 20-25 ms
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by Delk 6y ago
I've been running Fedora for several years now, after more than ten years of Debian and Ubuntu before that. I don't know if it's my favourite but I have no serious complaints, except for the GUI software updater that's a
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by Delk 6y ago
I live in an area of "soft" water. I knew of the concept but I had no idea it affected the rinsing off of soap. I had also never noticed that soap might have rinsed off easier when traveling. (And even if I had, I'd probably
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by Delk 6y ago
I don't know Scheme, but the Scheme example doesn't seem to actually include the part where you need to check the files with the specific names exist. It's still concise, but many other languages also allow checking for a sin
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by Delk 7y ago
Okay. The GNU page says the quoting is only done when the output is a terminal, so it shouldn't generally affect scripts. Although considering that the world of unix shells is fairly complex, I wouldn't be surprised if there was s
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by Delk 7y ago
It would seem that calling ls with the -N switch would disable the quoting. Might be easier to just have ls aliased to "ls -N" rather than recompiling. Unless the -N switch also does something else you don't like.
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by Delk 7y ago
Where a person and their previous degree are from might provide a different background for needing/wanting a further degree, or for understanding what kind of existing education and credentials they have. There might e.g. be difference
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by Delk 7y ago
It's not necessarily an impossible idea to live okay with 80% of a salary, especially a tech one. (Unless you live someplace really expensive, perhaps, but Silicon Valley isn't the only place with tech jobs.) I don't really k
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by Delk 7y ago
I think that depends somewhat on what the rest of the time is spent on. When I worked about half-time and studied half-time, I found that it was difficult to get switched from one to the other after already having spent time and energy on e

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