Sean1708

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by Sean1708 9y ago
According to this[0] it comes from the Latin for Herbal Tea ( herba thea ). [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herbata
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Tea is the evening meal in most places outside of London, isn't it? It certainly was to me and my friends who grew up in Wiltshire, and going by my (admittedly poor) memory the only people I can think of who don't call it tea grew
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Reading your comment I'm a bit confused about what your point is. Even in English tea doesn't necessarily mean a drink brewed in tea leaves, which you presumably know since you yourself say: > e.g. barley tea (大麥茶), ginger tea
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Specifically in the second case: How do you get the timestamp on these stamp files to update, or do you just do it manually? And if you are doing it manually, why not just run a shell script instead?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Arguably the simplest Makefile is not having any Makefile and just doing make <executable name> The next step up would be a Makefile that is essentially just a set of sh scripts, like your example. But I think it's suppose
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by Sean1708 9y ago
To be fair that happens in Britain too, or at least it did at both my primary and secondary school.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
But (unless it changed since I tried it) WhatsApp Web requires you to have WhatsApp running on a phone already, so as far as I can tell these people must be running WhatsApp on a phone that can run WhatsApp so that they can run WhatsApp in
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Yeah the author said something along the lines of > beyond only the packs of pills we have been offered as often the sole item on the menu for the depressed and anxious several times in that article, and it just doesn't ring true fo
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying.
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Just FYI you copy-pasted your HN comment straight into your readme and it broke the link in your readme (because of the way HN formats links).
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> For variant 1, a kernel JIT is definitely helpful, which is why the Project Zero PoC used it, but it's not required. If I'm understanding the post correctly it says that JIT's not required for Intel CPUs, but is required
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> Well, if I rent a VPS with x performance, I still expect x performance after this flaw is patched. Are there any providers that state you will get x performance? Most that I've seen say you will m processors, n memory, and p stora
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by Sean1708 9y ago
>> login names > This makes user names static. Does it? I can understand why making it a foreign key would make it static, but why would making it a normal key make it static? It seems to me that making login names unique would b
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> collecting your parcel from a delivery office That's not necessarily as easy as you seem to be making out, a lot of people don't have cars which rules out large or heavy packages and some delivery offices have inconvenient
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I thought it was burning that was associated with an increased cancer risk, not just tanning in general?
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by Sean1708 9y ago
I think clang-tidy can also do some UB checks without having to run the program.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
Are you talking about the abstract or is there something in the actual paper you're talking about? Because I can't personally see anything in the abstract to suggest that the values quoted to 4 s.f. only have 1 s.f. of precision.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> The tan is caused by an increase in the activity and number of melanocytes, the cells that make the pigment melanin. Melanin helps block out damaging UV rays up to a point, It's not particularly clearly worded but to me that see
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by Sean1708 9y ago
More generally it's just an optimisation (the mathematical kind) where your parameters are essentially a function body. In that article the function body is a neural network, but there's no reason it has to be.
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I suppose it's better than feeling unhappy if they do succeed and unhappy if they don't.
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> more of a short-term happiness boost than a tool for feeling satisfied with my life The former can have quite an effect on the latter though. To take it to one extreme, if you're never happy you're not going to be satisfied
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by Sean1708 9y ago
100 hours a week is an insane amount to work. Depending on how much you sleep each day (and working this much is going to mean you'll end up sleeping longer) that's probably going to leave you less than than 3 hours each day to
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by Sean1708 9y ago
That's not the issue at all. The issue is that these systems invariably have no review process, no testing, and no versioning (at best they'll have each spreadsheet versioned with no real way to know what each version contains). A
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by Sean1708 9y ago
> the business people can at least modify the Excel I'm not convinced that's a good thing. If they can change the Excel then they can also fuck up the system, and if you fuck up a system like this then it's horrendously
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by Sean1708 9y ago
It can be fixed without getting rid of the easter egg (which is exactly what was done: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd... ).
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> only available on the most modern hardware? Obviously there's something slowing down your Firefox, but it's definitely not to do with how modern your hardware is because 57 is noticeably faster than the previous version on
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by Sean1708 9y ago
A better place to start might be: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/TabHiding
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Doesn't look any more complex than most man pages: https://linux.die.net/man/1/tar
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> The third one is about tar. Why do people have such a difficult time with tar? The only tar commands I've ever needed (or seen other people need) are `tar cf ...` or `tar xf ...` (occasionally I'll need to chuck a z in ther
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As a possibly more surprising example, readittwice posted this above: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/...

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