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by aarongolliver 7y ago
Hand sanitizers use alcohol, not the same thing as a "prescription" antibiotic. The same resistance arguments do not really apply the same way.
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
they don't have resistance
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
It has about the same meaning as the 5 or 3 in "core i5" or "core i3". It's all marketing.
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
I haven't seen any evidence that they've _continued_ to donate money, just that they said "OK, we might keep donating" as a way to calm down people who were angry by the announcement. This article (and all the others I&#
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
It did, and it is now. This is one of those things that's trivial to check before you tell someone they're wrong. Not everyone could watch it exactly live. Everyone who was was kicked out.
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
If you haven't, take a look at the crowd sourced real-time lightning maps. Loads if sensors are scattered world-wide triangulating lightning strikes - there are even websites that estimate the sound wave as it grows & you'll h
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
Basically that you can't return the chip to AMD if ecc doesn't work.
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
I think Firefox's Facebook container causes this
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
Spent the week trying to figure out how to reimplement __builtin_add_overflow (et al) on Windows and boy is it a chore. The previous implementer had literally just used operator+ in a function called "safe_add" and I was dumbstruc
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
It doesn't say it's a memory barrier, but it absolutely has to be for the code to work. I agree I should be careful with "first-order approximations", but honestly I was being gentle because I do love drdobbs. But all of
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
This article is nearly 2 decades old and gives very bad advice for multithreaded c++ programming. To a first approximation, volatile should never be used for multithreading safety.
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
On mobile I get the redirect, on my chrome desktop I don't
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
I set the random wiki URL to be my browser homepage years ago, so I get a random page each time I open up a new window. I suggest everyone do it!
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by aarongolliver 7y ago
Can you (or someone) explain _why_ the model translate to files on disk? Is it that there's a different set of operations that need to be supported? (you can't seek a socket I suppose)
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
Disabling animations in Android can have some surprising æffects. For me the little "car" in Lyft/Uber refuse to budge without closing & reopening the app. Some status indicators go haywire too (like loading bubbles in yo
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
Same happens in Seattle (and we have some nice services that show you the GPS locations of all the busses on the route, so you can be pretty sure an empty one is right on its way)
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
I have a friend who is one (I believe) and his job is to admin huge network drives that are used by R&D researchers.
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
They're using Debian on the laptop so there is no "second" operating system.
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
Processing is amazing (and what I switched to after I started hitting Flash performance limitations). They have great documentation and tutorials on their website too, and I felt it's little IDE made it really easy for beginners to get
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
I've been able to get gigabit everywhere I've lived so far in Seattle (through either Wave-G or CenturyLink), but I only have a sample size of '3 addresses in 2 neighborhoods'. Cost was around $80-100/month. Symmetr
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
from this [0] Performance results are based on testing or projections as of 6/2017 to 10/3/2018 (Stream Triad), 7/31/2018 to 10/3/2018 (LINPACK) and 7/11/2017 to 10/7/2018 (DL Inference
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
I just had the time to find the timestamp, it starts about 57-58 minutes into that second video (The Cantrill Strikes Back)
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
it's one of these two http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_08_19-ubuntu_slaughters_k... http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_11_23-the_cantrill_strike... (I think the second one)
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
2013 FAA allowed Bluetooth and wifi on flights[0]. Here's a recent article on the subject of what the major airlines will allow [1]. And a screenshot for doubters of me activating Bluetooth while in airplane-safe mode, which has been a
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
You used to be able to ctrl-alt-delete to skip it. They disabled that after a while though :(
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
an older discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813079
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
Any chance you got it off an online store / a brand with an online presence? My roommates and I have been looking for one we can trust.
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
If you have the time he has a great video here[0] that talks about redis+LUA [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIwBagADVM
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by aarongolliver 8y ago
The 40th anniversary of 8086 is just attention grabbing from Intel? Not every move from Intel has to be a reaction to competitors...

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