Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 8y ago
I can have a conversation with someone while driving a car. Is that not multitasking? To anticipate an objection, I would agree that the competence of both tasks diminishes somewhat. However the overall competence of both is sufficient. My
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I believe you're mistaken. The article is saying that there are two versions of Java, and one has the license that you mentioned while the other is free and open source. From that article: https://blog.joda.org/2018&#x2
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
The latest versions of Java will continue to be free. All you need to do to "pay" for that is remain up to date. Only maintenance on older versions of Java will be subscription based. Why is Oracle obliged to provide long-term bin
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
How difficult is it to see what's happening on the ground at night from a plane? I've never been in a cockpit at night. I'd have to hope that taxiways are marked in some explicit way to make it clear that they're not run
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They did not break the taxi laws of every city they operated in. The taxi laws of many cities only required a "medallion" for taxi-style car services that allowed passengers to "hail" the car on the street. So-called &qu
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
How about: it’s the responsibility of people posting ads on Facebook to follow the laws that apply to them. I don’t see why it’s Facebook’s responsibility to police advertising for housing and control how it’s targeted. If advertisers use i
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
This is the first article in which I’ve heard the sonic attacks described as the buffering of an open car window. In one car that I owned, if I opened one of the rear windows while driving on the freeway, the buffeting was so “loud” as to b
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
> The Domain Name System (DNS) is a service used in converting a computer’s host name or a Top-Level Domain (TLD) into an IP address Hostnames and TLDs are different concepts in DNS. It is a mistake to conflate them. TLDs are the top lev
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
Even if you don't have a common root password, you can still have groups of people who are sudoers for different systems.
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
The maker of the game flat-out lied about what was in the game dozens of times. This isn't on consumers. It's one thing to say "my pizza is the best in the world", and another to make tons of specific, concrete claims th
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
Detailed BBC article about that accident and recovery, the same accident on which "Diving into the Unknown" is based: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300 Also recently on HN, "British divers at he
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
The style of writing in this letter (1) does not seem like Satoshi's writing to me. You can find collected examples of Satoshi's writings here (2). Browse a few examples, such as the original Bitcoin announcement (3), and then com
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> That is an incredibly valuable service, and one that adds a lot of consumer protection to services that are able to leverage it well. From my perspective, the blockchain significantly reduces consumer protection. If I buy a product onl
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At least in the United States, as far as I'm aware, you can use any currency that you want. However, the government and IRS only accept tax payments in US dollars. Under these laws, you could transact in cryptocurrency all you want, bu
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
> If Uber had to shell out to fix the streets that they use, I bet it wouldn't be so cheap. Streets are public infrastructure and are paid for by taxes, which Uber and all other companies that do business using roads presumably pay,
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
> I guess one can say that generalizing something so dire about an entire population would also, perhaps unwittingly, be racist. Would it be racist to say that slavery in the pre-Civil War United States south was a societal issue? Or to
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
I suspect that it's too difficult for the systems to accurately determine whether an upcoming object is actually in the lane. It's not uncommon to pass stationary vehicles parked on the side of the road. If you're approaching
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Furthermore, it is not well-defined which speech is "political" speech, and which is not. What cause is it possible to advocate for that is not political in some way? If the business of politics and government is passing and imple
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> Half of being a manager is managing other's behaviors to produce a great product This part has not been left out. All of the content about establishing culture, vision, expectations, responsibilities, and so on, is a direct part o
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This is not an accurate way to view the situation. Here's the situation. The user has purchased a device (such as a smart phone) from a device manufacturer (such as Apple). The device runs an operating system (iOS) and a whole boatload
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> Egypt was the first ones to really start doing this: they had a duodecimal system already, so that's why it was split as base twelve, or our two parts of twelve hours in a day. If you're like me and immediately said ohhhhhhhh
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
Is Kubernetes really scalable to a meaningful extent? I feel like if I was going to set up a Kubernetes system, I'd need to plan from the beginning to have multiple clusters anyway, and then the utility of all the scheduling features w
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Why is it impossible? Is it the amount of thrust that's generated that's impossible, or the mere concept of generating thrust from electromagnetic waves? The reason that I'm asking is because light has momentum. If I shine
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> Expanding their offices puts costs on existing city residents. It's all well and good that tens of thousands of new units to house these workers are being built, but those units also require extra infrastructure funding. Property
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How is sharing a hyperlink more friction than copying and forwarding around an actual document? Personally, I'd always want to share and send a link rather than the document itself. When my employer set up an online document sharing&#x
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> And yet, YouTube recommendations are terrible lowest common denominator nonsense. You might be assuming that YouTube recommendations are optimized for your enjoyment. In fact, they might be optimized to maximize advertising revenue. It
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> The gay couple's cake is a category of _people_ being refused service. The gun assembly video is a category of _topic_ being censored. So should it be OK for a bakery to refuse to bake wedding cakes for gay couples, as long as it&
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> However, if those maintainers find that their faithfulness is rewarded by being told that they don't actually maintain the project, they're just tending it while RMS is busy Someone or some group/process has to be in cha
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I don't understand why allowing businesses to use WhatsApp would require weakening its encryption. Can anyone parse the meaning of this, or speculate about why that would be necessary? It makes no sense to me. Are they perhaps implying
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by Pyxl101 8y ago
It sounds like you missed an opportunity there. Just because someone has XX years of work experience doesn't mean that they know a particular technology stack. Perhaps this could have been a great opportunity for you to teach that pers

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