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by II2II 1y ago
I don't know if it is still true, but I noticed a difference in the behaviour of Home and Professional editions a number of years back. Home was definitely more agressive. Then there was a recent reinstall of Windows. The One Drive bac
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Multiple impacts is the standard hypothesis for a source of Earth's water. If I recall correctly, outgassing from volcanos is another source. Keep in mind, the solar system formed from a relatively homogenous nebula. It was the formati
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> I discovered the pointer to the next line wasn't a good idea, because it needed to move every pointer after a line insertion. I get the impression that they were storing everything sequentially in memory, rather than having a link
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Companies require different attributes in various roles. Those attributes extend far beyond passion and talent. The trouble with hiring based on those two attributes alone is that you're setting up a culture where the people who do the
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by II2II 1y ago
Here's a different scenario: filenames with dates in them. Consider September Budget and October Budget . September is the equivalent of 9, October of 10. Which comes first for natural sorting? Remember, the file modify date may not
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It was a fun experiment done by a couple of people who acquired the equipment from a defunct ISP (and likely elsewhere) to see what could be done with period equipment. It's not a question of would you do it, but could you do it. Even
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by II2II 1y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't really buy into these arguments. If open source communities stuck to technical matters, there would be little to no need for moderators to pass judgment on political or social views. Their primary role would
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> Intel has a long history of sucking, and other people stepping in to force them to get better. Their success has been accident and intervention over and over. If one can take popular histories of Intel at face value, they have had enou
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Your data doesn't prove anything in this context. While traffic accidents involving pedestrians will involve two parties (the pedestrian and the motorist), a motor vehicle may involve just the motorist. It also fails to normalize the d
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> A pixel, back then, was a time interval. [...] the timings could be adjusted which produced logical pixels of different sizes. If only I understood that while configuring X in the mid-1990's. I managed to figure it out about a dec
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> It's your passengers and the people in the car you collide with that might die as well. The people within automobiles are the people who I am least concerned about since they are encased by a machine that is engineered to ensure t
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> All the text books I've ever seen had practical examples in them. Like determining the height of a tree or a house simply based on trigonometry. The trouble is a lot of those practical examples fall into the, "why would I car
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Everyone will have different opinions on the matter. My Lenovo has a touch screen, but I hardly ever use it because I forget that it is there. Likewise, it is Wacom compatible and I was as far as picking up the stylus for it. Hardly ever us
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> Blender did everything The GIMP should have done. Gimp is an amazing tool and its creators deserve our gratitude. Then there is Krita, which is another amazing tool and its creators deserve our gratitude. Then there is LibreOffice, dit
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Nope. I only sell services that people previously requested, though it is often months earlier. (As I suggested, it's a government job.) Sales is just one of the things tacked onto my job description over the years. And to further crus
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> Callers from legitimate businesses treat me like i’m questioning the moon landing when I tell them I’ll need to call them at an official number. Not to justify their behaviour, but: most businesses are not set up to allow for callbacks
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I have the fun of making outbound calls to offer people a public service and collect payment if people desire it. Most people gladly hand over their credit card details. A few years ago, someone wisely asked why they should trust me. (It on
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by II2II 1y ago
The way I look at it: social media makes you aware of their presence. Actually conducting business usually happens elsewhere. That elsewhere may be physical or virtual. Another way to look at it is that depending upon social media for anyth
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The over generalization of the term social media drives me bonkers. In the olden days we had things like message boards , forums , and chat rooms . Then came social networks . All of those terms reflect some sort of connection between
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I'm fairly certain such regulations don't exist anywhere. They would be far too easy to exploit, raising the cost of doing business and exposing them to outright fraud. Regulations meant to protect consumers usually protect them f
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This sounds more like and impoverished life than a wealthy one. (Clearly I am referring to the life experience, rather than how much money they have and how they spend it.)
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> All of your complaints about lack of pro social behavior applies to drivers too. I would argue that drivers are worse. I've had motorists stop me while crossing a multilane street asking for directions. I'm thinking, "WT
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You just reminded me that it is a thing, or at least was a thing. Around the time that I was leaving the university world publishers were were starting to introduce time limited ebooks. This not only affected the second hand book market, bu
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The thing is: you aren't distributing copies with generative AI, in any sensible meaning of the word. Don't get me wrong: I think this is in incredibly bad deal for authors. That said, I would be horrified if it wasn't treate
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Keep in mind that something you most days may seem conceptually simple to you, but may be overwhelming to others. That is true even if they work adjacent to you, such as creating the actual designs. Perhaps a better question is: how difficu
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> Literally, I could do this, and I suck at design. Are you sure about that? I've seen plenty of imitation XP interfaces in my day, and there are virtually always elements that are jarringly wrong. While I won't claim that Mitc
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I don't think those points have to be interpreted as promotion-seeking advice. Even once you have attained a position of where you are doing work with impact, that you find meaningful, work that you love, or whatever else it is that mo
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For some people, they have no need for bookmarks. For other people, bookmarks may be useful but the implementation is not. Reading the author's description made me realize how unbookmark-like bookmarks actually are. The current impleme
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I have noticed a huge uptick in agressive behaviour from motorists over the past couple of years. By huge uptick, I mean behaviour that I used to see once every couple of weeks I am new facing multiple times daily. Quite bluntly, the politi
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If you wait until it's so bad you have no choice, you usually lack the ability to enforce the rules. When I'm in the position that I have to enforce rules, I usually provide an alternative and explain to people that they're n

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