MikeHolman

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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Maybe, but we've seen some plant diseases pretty much eradicate the original species without them developing resistance. For example, the Panama disease (despite the massive resources of the banana industry) devastated the Gros Michel,
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Chemistry.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
That is the ideal world. But a lot of web developers don't do this. And who is going to get blamed when websites that used to work (and work in other browsers!) suddenly stop working after a browser update?
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
They can't kill him now. Assassination would risk public backlash way beyond anything he could say.
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, but Microsoft has done a pretty good job diversifying. Office, Windows, Azure, SQL, Surface, Xbox, even Bing contribute significantly to the bottom line.
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
This multitiered approach does not necessarily make the end result faster. It is in vogue to do this, and for startup performance having a baseline JIT can be beneficial, but for workload throughput adding another tier isn't going to d
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
>And what would you expect the outer universe to be like? A structureless random mess without rules that could be described by mathematics? How would you make a simulation in such an environment? This actually brings up an interesting qu
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
Amazing. I can't help but wonder though why the FBI is telling us this at all. Are there disclosure laws prompting them?
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
Isn't DDC a sound countermeasure? And hasn't it been shown that up to this point that has not happened? IMO that attack is as grandiose as it is unlikely.
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
I live in Seattle, and what you're saying doesn't really ring true to me. First, many employers pay for a card that you can use for public transit. So it will be free for a large percentage of people during the all important rush
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
Your fight against ads is a pretty selfish endeavor. Sure, there are some sites which abuse ads, but by visiting a website, you are getting a free service. And for YouTube, the cost is that you sometimes have to wait 3-15 seconds for an ad
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by MikeHolman 11y ago
I use git on Windows every day and don't have any problem. I mostly use command line (the vim shell works just fine for entering commit messages), and TortoiseGit for when I want to look at history. For a difftool, I use BeyondCompare