NikkiA

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901.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The machines can force a loss, but they can't force a win. If you're unlucky you're unlucky and the machine will make it up by not forcing losses later with someone with more luck and skill. Statistics give enough opportunity
902.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I mean, you could argue that --covid 02 would represent SARS1 if we accept covid19 as SARS2
903.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Jeez, I paid 1/3 of that for my black pills, and they're objectively better in every metric.
904.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> Hmm that sounds appealing /s I mean, it's better than 'buy a mac and pay us $100/year'.
905.
by NikkiA 3y ago
'giant' is a bit of a stretch for 5 buildings and a small park.
906.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> "sudo -l" ITYM "sudo -i" -l lists the programs your user may run as root/the-specified-user
907.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The problem I see most often is that WSL causes processor stalls in my other VMs, I'm not sure if it's intentional to force you to use WSL or the Hyper-V VM subsystem exclusively, if it is I can't see how it's a wise mov
908.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Forcing them to maintain their own kernel fork will incur additional financial expenses - not least in the form of a developer's salary - so it is, in essence a fine. Will it be enough to force them to stop fucking around? Probably not
909.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Or just use OmniSSHAgent which works for pretty much everything
910.
by NikkiA 3y ago
And more importantly, you can specify fs locations, so `df / /home` for example
911.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Word 95 was utter bloatware compared to 2.0c though
912.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> but you could find Saxons that spoke a language that English is descended from. Not in britain you wouldn't, the saxons colonised britain in the 700-800AD range. Britons speaking Brythonic is what you'd find, probably not com
913.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I mean, I lack a government ID, and it'd be nearly impossible for me to get one, so yeah.
914.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They're still around, still trundling on selling watches, calculators and musical keyboards aimed mostly at learning.
915.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Keypirinha for me https://keypirinha.com It's been a while since it was updated last, but since it works, does that matter?
916.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm fairly sure ICQ had a handful of smileys in 1996
917.
by NikkiA 3y ago
private plane with 7 passengers? chances are they were all wagner + wagner crew
918.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Ever since the 'zoom to top of page' gesture got ditched in, uh? ios 6? 7? It rendered pull to refresh as somewhat pointless to me.
919.
by NikkiA 3y ago
to be fair, 'could' implies a lower chance than 'should' and 'would'
920.
by NikkiA 3y ago
If it allows you to prepare and get your affairs in order to better deal with it as it brings your life to a halt, then it's a great thing.
921.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They're not hobbyist friendly - 16x16 'tiny' BGA packages, so there's no real benefit over other ARM SBCs, they're massively slower than almost everything else atm. The advantage of STM32 was always that you could p
922.
by NikkiA 3y ago
You mean 19-20th centuries for 1.0, surely, there wasn't much industrial revolution in the 1700s.
923.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Turbo C was actually about the same price, I paid £32 I believe, and then paid £50 for the upgrade to Borland C++ 3.1 (all as a single purchase), vs paying the £200 or so for C++ on it's own. I remember it arriving the day after in a h
924.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Yes they do, they're called 'Nurse Practicioners' and have become the primary prescription interface for most group practices in the last few years. https://www.rcn.org.uk/about-us/our-influencing-work&#x
925.
by NikkiA 3y ago
There's a disturbing amount of conspiracy mindedness on HN, pretty much always has been.
926.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Constraint and/or Parametric based CAD is far closer to programming than it is to drawing, however. Constraint-based absolutely dominates the field these days, too.
927.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The (human) memory footprint of the more verbose program is much larger though, requiring it to be thought of in smaller chunks, and thus in a slower manner. You can't keep the mental model of a 1000 line program entirely in your memor
928.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Live near a 'late shop' where teens 'hang out', and most of the time the wankers revving their bikes here are doing it to impress teenage girls, sadly being able to overhear them occasionally, it seems to work. One parti
929.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Samples are taken from inside the cheek, maybe when head transplants are more common, but even then you'd need the donor to have committed the crime, left their DNA via saliva, eyelash or such, then died, you receive the head transplan
930.
by NikkiA 3y ago
My 'UK' bank recently dropped using the password completely, likely because someone pointed out to them that since you could simply reset the password via the SMS 2FA, it was essentially pointless. So now the SMS and a 5 digit PIN

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