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by Strom 5y ago
If you want them to say United Kingdom, then say it. Obscure one word comments aren't useful or transparent.
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by Strom 5y ago
Not necessarily, because for that comparison to work you would need a proper NTFS driver. Does one such even exist for Linux? Looking at the Debian wiki [1] there's either a FUSE driver or a limited feature set kernel driver. Neither l
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by Strom 5y ago
Windows Defender has a massive impact on file transfers, especially small files. For example on my laptop with a NVMe SSD, unpacking the Golang zip file goes from seconds to minutes with Windows Defender enabled.
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by Strom 5y ago
Apparently the Home edition will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection. [1] Can't say I'm looking forward to this. All my Windows installations are with local accounts and I would like to keep it that way. Microso
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by Strom 5y ago
The primary slowdown factor on Windows is not the filesystem itself but Windows Defender doing its scans. Just disable it and file operations will be a lot faster.
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by Strom 5y ago
That 6% Flash statistic is for Adobe Flash, a now extinct software plugin.
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by Strom 5y ago
I had that weather widget show up a few days ago as well. Beyond being unwanted it is also incompetent at the basics. I have my Windows regional settings correctly configured and yet this weather widget still showed me temperature in Fahren
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by Strom 5y ago
This is how corporate taxes work in Estonia. There is no income tax, but dividends/distribution is taxed. I think it's great overall. However there are some loopholes that companies still figure out. In Estonia's case we have
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by Strom 5y ago
This is true. I've had Amazon send me clearly used and damaged items although I ordered new. They also always block my negative review pointing this out, claiming that reviews are about the product and not about my experience of orderi
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by Strom 5y ago
Even something as simple as grep is bottlenecked by disk speeds right now.
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by Strom 5y ago
> Why did Valve get out of the AAA game development business? Dota 2 and CS:GO are both AAA games that are still under development. Valve never stopped developing. The more accurate question would be why did Valve get out of the single
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by Strom 5y ago
You seem clearly passionate, but also confused. First off, I am not affiliated with freenode or libera. I am just an unrelated guy who happens to use IRC. I am not offering any money to anyone for any IRC related things. Secondly, you claim
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by Strom 5y ago
> YOU CANNOT BUY COMMUNITY. YOU CANNOT BUY GOODWILL. How much did they try paying people? I haven't received any offers, but I will happily idle in some freenode channels for a monthly fee.
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by Strom 5y ago
There are also blacklists for names you can use. My real e-mail is admin@myname.com but Facebook doesn't allow me to use that e-mail, warning me that only personal e-mails are allowed. Paradoxically I ended up using my work e-mail to
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by Strom 5y ago
> Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. Sounds like Munger doesn’t like that financial innovation is coming from out
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by Strom 5y ago
> You're making the assumption that "travel a lot" implies "ruling class". Not necessarily ruling but definitely highly privileged. You definitely could not just travel on a whim inside the USSR. You needed spe
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by Strom 5y ago
> Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life with widespread education The USSR also took a lot of educated modern lifestyle people and sent them to Siberian forced labor cam
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by Strom 5y ago
The official Windows media creation tool is a bit of an abomination. Primarily because it is slow and has very quirky requirements that it doesn't advertise and only checks for at the very last second. You download the tool and want to
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by Strom 5y ago
> Brave is Chrome repackaged. This a bit feels like "I avoid [brand] but I'll take this white-label product (produced by [brand]") > Avoid anything Chromium. Yes but this whole discussion is taking place because of
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by Strom 5y ago
The digital signature is not needed to run the software.
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by Strom 6y ago
It's definitely not an American thing. People idolize other people and groups of people all over the world. The "pedo guy" story is just noise. Elon's fans are much more interested in the positive things he has done and
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by Strom 6y ago
What are these aggressive tactics? Are you talking about spam-like contact attempts or some kind of gangster type activity?
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by Strom 6y ago
The leak contains 105 countries, so there's quite a bit more than 2 that are missing - more like a hundred.
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by Strom 6y ago
Most billionaires don't own their wealth in money. It's stock and real estate. Therefore are you advocating that no one person should be allowed to control a large company or own large houses?
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by Strom 6y ago
When comparing to the baseline, we need to divde the per year stats to some shorter time period, because these AstraZeneca related cases happen pretty quickly after the jab, which means that the observation period isn't a full year. It
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by Strom 6y ago
> Won't this lead to innovation grinding to a halt? No more than Taiwan getting blown up. It's going to be about balance. No good to have all the eggs in a single basket, whether that is TSMC or some subsidised national attem
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by Strom 6y ago
Google App Engine has a very generous free quota. The setup isn't as easy as good old FTP, because you need to define your static files in a configuration file. Once the config is written the deployment is a single command though. htt
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by Strom 6y ago
Well OpenAI holds the opinion that they could easily win. However I call bullshit. When a self-driving car company can have its AI drive around in an Arizona suburb, nobody sane believes that it means they can also drive around in Kolkata,
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by Strom 6y ago
> the Russian vaccine, but the EMA hasn’t approved it yet. Why not? Because nobody applied for approval for the longest time. It was just a few weeks ago that a German company decided to apply for this approval. Now the wheels of asses
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by Strom 6y ago
> The strength of computers has always been the ability to analyze literally incomprehensible (to humans) amounts of data and derive unique insights from them AI actually gets into trouble due to the amount of data before humans do. Hu

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