Veratyr

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> So you;d rather have fewer useful GUI programs? Personally, I'd rather have fewer webapps (which is what these really are) bundled into bloated browsers and called "desktop" or "native". If you're going to
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I don't think I see what you see... "And they may not have gone to school. They certainly didn't go to Oxford, but the working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was sign
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Alameda County. As far as I know, my library doesn't have this, at least exposed in through the online catalogue.
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One thing I think libraries really need to get on is digital preservation. Look at what the Internet Archive has done and think about how important and how expensive it will be in the future. Public libraries collectively have the funding b
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I had this at home in Australia! I could order books from countless libraries. In the Bay Area, my own local library unfortunately doesn't have anything like this but the San Francisco library does. I recall having a book brought in fr
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The same reasoning can be applied to most of the things your taxes pay for though. How often do you need to call the police or the fire brigade? I haven't needed either in a decade either. There are likely other things your taxes pay f
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Looking at my own public library, the city spends $5.7m per year for libraries serving 90000 people ($63/pp). That's 2.85% of the city's total revenue, which comes from sales tax, property tax and business license tax. It&#x2
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Interesting. Watching it move, I wonder if copters like this would be better suited for things like navigating through trees and forests. Small quads can do it too but these should be able to do it while carrying larger payloads.
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Rsync.net has more features but it's also 10x the price, even with the Attic discount. Egress is free on rsync.net but of limited usefulness since the only supported protocol is SSH.
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They also care about battery life and system performance, they just don't know to blame Electron for any problems they have with those things.
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Weechat with Glowing Bear does too but it needs to be set up.
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Slack is chat, its messages are sent and read by humans. Ably is a developer API, its messages are sent and read by machines. Slack has a shiny user interface and a bunch of nice enterprise features. It's something you'd have ever
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C++, for a side project. I want to do tagging really fast and so far, out of PostgreSQL, every graph DB I could get my hands on and Redis, I haven't been able to find one that performs as well as I like. So far my experiments in C++ ha
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That's the implication but what exactly did he observe that led him to say that? It's an awfully big claim and very little is given to back it up. It may not be possible to show us all his tax returns or bank statements but there
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Full context: > That all changed in July 2003, when Putin arrested Russia’s biggest oligarch and richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Putin grabbed Khodorkovsky off his private jet, took him back to Moscow, put him on trial, and allowed te
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> This is not a rejection of the first sale doctrine. This is about Birkenstock being free to choose their distributors. Not so, the article says "He emphasized that the German shoemaker prohibits shop owners from selling, distribut
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The SEC has chosen not to regulate securities that meet the conditions in that document. If it wishes to, it can change its mind.
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And some businesses need people who've been through high school (and some don't). Why is college different?
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> Being that token sales are international, it would seem there is absolutely nothing illegal about opening a company in that country and offering securities. Even if the owners of the company are US citizens. Actually the US regulates c
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I don't think the burden should be on corporations. Nearly (all?) every other developed country on earth has government subsidised or provided education. Where do you think all the immigrants are getting their degrees? Americans can ev
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As someone working and doing code interviews for a large company that pays well (even by bay area standards), I think it's a lack of qualified US citizens. The number of graduates I've interviewed that can't figure out a basi
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> Who “absolutely can’t use” it, and for what purpose? Web browsers. H.264 was finalized in 2003 and while it was supported by Chrome at launch in 2010, it wasn't supported in Firefox until 2013, a full 10 years later, though admitt
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This doesn't change that Pik's patent status is currently uncertain while HEVC's is known. We can certainly discount Pik as soon as a patent that covers it is discovered, until then it's just a promising project to pay a
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And since I can't edit my other comment, I'll add that if you can find any payment processor that can do transfers for less than that, I'd like to see it. I don't work for Patreon but I am a Patron and I'm pretty ha
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> but there are authorised sellers I don't believe this is true. It used to be the case but Twitter went and put all API sales under Gnip.
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That doesn't go to Patreon, that goes to the payment processor and applies to the entire withdrawal, not individual patron contributions. If you have 1000 people contributing $1, you withdraw $1000 and pay $0.25 total to withdraw it.
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1. You have to subscribe but you can cancel after a single payment, some creators even recommend this for their higher tier "rewards". 2. Yep. 3. Nope, no idea where you got that number from. Between subscribers and creators, ther
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I'm aware and I did try out a C++ client but there was still a definite upper bound to its performance and latency was still ~2x Cap'n'Proto.
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You could but I doubt the general public and policy makers are going to see it this way. They're still looking for a backdoor that only the "good guys" can access.
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You don't even have to go that far, there's a contradiction on that very page: > Allegedly, I was “raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause loss of life.” Despite this being not even remotely t

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