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by DrJokepu 5y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm fairly certain that this was one of those so-called "jokes" you may have heard of.
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by DrJokepu 5y ago
Depends on the type of defect. Dislocations can move around quite a bit and they do affect the structural integrity of the material. This is why if you bend a fork, you will never be able to fully unbend it (without heat treatment), there w
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by DrJokepu 5y ago
Also, you know, accessibility. This could be a real serious problem for people with disabilities.
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by DrJokepu 5y ago
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
In fact, I learned about it from Hacker News! Someone posted it here as a “self” post a good 20 minutes before news outlets or even Apple reported it.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I remember the day I joined HN in March 2009. The entire front page was full of Erlang articles. Like, almost every single one. I didn’t know it at the time, but apparently that was part of an intentional effort to scare away newcomers who
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
It’s actually Goldman Sachs. Apple does not retain transaction history, per their privacy policy.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
There are also sovereign immunity issues, see Allen v. Cooper.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
And the original MacPaint also had two full off-screen buffers, for things like undo/redo! That left 64kb for the application and the system.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Just curious, as a native Italian speaker, how hard did you find learning Latin and what was the hardest part for you? My native language isn't a Romance language, but I have also spent five years learning Latin in grammar school and f
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
That’s not really how it is though, these are very different companies with very different products. For example, Ford makes its money on trucks. An F-150 has very healthy profit margins. It’s believed that Ford’s truck business is in fact
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
That's not the point. I have no doubt that the people at Apple are able to solve these issues. I think a lot of people on HN are able to propose solutions to many of these issues. The point OP was making is that they have probably did
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Also, duplicate filenames due to two files in two different locations both getting picked up by the smart folder.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I had extremely good experiences with opening a subsidiary office in Sofia, Bulgaria (not outsourcing, but legit part of the company.) Code quality went way up compared to what was developed in the US/UK, somewhat less expensive (but n
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I’m no lawyer, but the article implies that the purpose of the lawsuit is not to seek compensation but to stop the Federal Government from continuing these operations.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I will miss the BA Club World business class on the upper deck. It was one of the more pleasant and relaxing ways of transatlantic travel.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Also Graham scan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_scan
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Professional users of Logic (but also Pro Tools) tend to be very conservative with their upgrades. People who use Logic for a living won’t be using this for years to come.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I live in rural Northeast so I’m fairly familiar with the weather. We had snow two weeks ago, which is just disrespectful. But I guess it’s all a matter of taste.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
This was actually a Google feature maybe about a decade ago. It was removed at some point.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
New Paltz is a very cool little town.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
I wonder if you’ll feel the same way after your first winter though
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Unless you live in a state like Nebraska that spans across multiple time zones…
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
> Why on earth Just use your imagination a bit. Maybe I live in state X at location Y while my parents live at location Z in the same state, about 250 miles away from me, maybe there’s a serious storm where I live and I wonder if I need
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Had very good experiences with FastMail.
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by DrJokepu 6y ago
Nobody is entitled to my labor either.
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by DrJokepu 7y ago
Maybe it’s a subjective thing, for me at least I think breaking up a larger problem into a series of smaller problems tends to make it easier to understand what’s going on.
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by DrJokepu 7y ago
A series of smaller queries moving data through temporary tables is what I do when the query is too complicated for the query planner. It’s also easier to maintain than a giant query, with or without CTEs or hints.
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by DrJokepu 7y ago
If you don’t separate the access key from the secret you can’t change the secret if and when it gets compromised.

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