Lev1a

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by Lev1a 7y ago
> With FF, even using ublock and even a pihole, the fan was constantly at full throttle. Is that still the case even with FFs recent update to version 70[1]? [1]: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22&#x2F
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by Lev1a 7y ago
> This is flat out wrong. many communities already exist exclusively on renewables. "Communities" maybe but what about (heavy) industry like the the one required to e.g. manufacture more wind/water turbines and parts, (con
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Problem is that population growth in developing nations is continuing to be explosive which isn't helped by developed nations "providing aid" which interferes with the natural limitations on population growth (i.e. food resso
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by Lev1a 7y ago
> nobody knows x about fusion That's why research is needed otherwise researching will take the research duration plus the delay imposed by people saying it won't be here anytime soon anyway. > perfectly viable power sourc
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Example of one nuclear power plant being decommissioned (German TV documentary, Spring 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUjNayFJvM
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Yes, making Windows into a walled garden similar to Apple so they can exert more influence on their users than ever before.
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by Lev1a 7y ago
At my university the sysadmins have done something fucky with the W10 image, that makes it so Firefox crashes 30s-5mins after launching it. Chrome and Edge are somehow completely fine and I've never encountered this crashing issue on a
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Personally I use the "Feedbro Reader" addon for Firefox. Works perfectly fine.
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Seriously, what is this fascination with linked lists? In comparison to array-based lists they're: - less memory-efficient, - do not allow random-access, - worse for cache locality (so can be up to orders of magnitude slower) and - mor
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by Lev1a 7y ago
No, in that scenario he "died in the line of duty" or something similar to that.
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by Lev1a 7y ago
The last time (~6 months ago) I was on one of their article pages (via direct link in a new tab, not via their homepage), the uBO icon immediately showed something like 50 or 60 elements blocked. That value rose every other second as I scro
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Did they ever truly stop?
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by Lev1a 7y ago
> In a great-power conflict [...] the U.S. military is fucked anyway, but then, so is the opposing power. Perhaps that's the best we can hope for, because it's a pretty strong incentive not to start great-power conflicts in the
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by Lev1a 7y ago
Let's suppose the threat to such a laser weapons platform in orbit during conflict which you touch on in your last paragraph consists of 1+ missiles. Could the targeting system of the platform not consist of some kind of movable/a
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by Lev1a 8y ago
> or to perform a test flight with him and two pilots attempting a deliberate reverse thrust deployment mid-flight Reminds me of the scene in "Battleship" when Liam Neesons character tells the gov big-wig he will fly into the b
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Bought a Moto G4 in 2016, cracked the screen that early 2017, use it despite worsening screen burn-in. Finally decided to get a new phone (Motorola One), which is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Will probably use that at least three years a
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Since 5G reportedly has a rather small range, the cities/countryside probably would have to be littered with "hotspots"/"towers".
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Fusion (once realized): steady energy regardless of weather conditions, from maybe a few installations per country Renewables (solar, wind): dependent on weather conditions, would thus require battery farms for backup during wind-still nigh
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Also as a German, I think not having hemp used in the industry is not understandable. At home we've got a bundle of hemp fiber for plumbing (water, heating pipes etc.).
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by Lev1a 8y ago
But a non-zero amount will completely break or not show anything at all (even though the actual content to be displayed is just static text and doesn't need any JS)
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by Lev1a 8y ago
I assume from your comment you only use a script blocker (like uMatrix, Noscript, ...?) but not an actual ad blocker (I'd recommend uBlock Origin). That would make your grammarly problem go away pretty fast.
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Let me introduce you to the concept of ErrorKind in Rust (i.e. in the IO module of the std): https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/enum.ErrorKind.html There is also the "failure" crate which has patterns for
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by Lev1a 8y ago
I even read somewhere a while ago that the US claims jurisdiction on any financial transaction in the world as long as it's done using USD... Talk about overreach.
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by Lev1a 8y ago
No, I subscribe to the concept of "basic decency", I would not even say that phrase to a dying beggar lying in the streets. But still fuck you for comparing an instance of senseless mass-murder/genocide with a religious war s
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by Lev1a 8y ago
It's like going to the US and saying to the first black customs officer you see something along the lines of "So how's slavery treating ya?"/"Boy, get my luggage and find me a car!". This is universally kn
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by Lev1a 8y ago
In the hospital I work at old CDs/DVDs/HDDs (readable or not) go through the slit at the top of a locked metal bin that gets taken away by some company at some point in time.
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by Lev1a 8y ago
Because the pattern in the filter closure would have to be generic over the length or am I mistaken?
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by Lev1a 8y ago
There's no reference to them intending to ban phones in the article, at least not that I could find. The "portable devices" in the actual body of the article is phrased differently from the title, like so: portable stor
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by Lev1a 8y ago
And hospitals (not the glueing part, but the blocking of anything that's recognized as a USB storage medium).
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by Lev1a 8y ago
I was mostly excited about slice patterns because of a pattern I wanted to be able to write: some_collection.windows(2).filter(|[a,b]|a==b).map(|[a, _] |a).collect(); Turns out the compiler rejects that with a "refutable patt

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