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by abcd_f 4y ago
The length can be packed, e.g. like utf-8 does it or something similar. The caveat is the cost of unpacking on access, but the memory overhead will be minimal.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
By people who like browser's native context menus.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Does it matter? If I were to make rational decisions when buying a car I would've been a proud owner of previously owned Toyota Corolla in a stylish beige color. In this particular case I feel like being manipulated into paying more an
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by abcd_f 4y ago
I am in right smack in the middle of their target audience and they will never see me pay a f#cking cent this way. It's a matter of principle. This bullshit must be nipped in the bud. Greedy morons. That's exactly how you drive pe
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by abcd_f 4y ago
> Lucas's script ideas for Ep VII (which they dropped once the deal was done) Oooh, you wouldn't have some sort of a link that elaborates on this?
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Watcom compiler shipped with DOS/4GW extender and the audacious simplicity of being able to malloc one whole megabyte in one go felt like a real magic. Good times. * Not 100% if it was 1 meg, but 4gw ultimately removed the run-time all
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Disagreements between rational people stem from the differences in assumptions. Try and look at things from other person's perspective to understand their motivation.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
And the proportions of Vasa were wrong only because the king got to participate in and drive the design process.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
It goes both ways. Compensation must be earned. Doubly so for an extraordinary compensation such as an ownership in a company.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
You are stating the obvious.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Switzerland. The birthplace of BitThief. https://github.com/pmoor/bitthief
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Die-hard SE fan, moved to iPhone 12 mini. Really happy. It's a bit larger, but it's a good change as it's actually more comfortable. Ymmv, of course.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Yep. Ran a service with a hundred thousand active dailies - it was fun, but never again. Running a popular service solo is strictly for masochists :)
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by abcd_f 4y ago
That's because there is no "independent russian media" anymore. The fact that flights were sold out are all over the news, including CNN, BBC and APNews, e.g. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-fle
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Show VHN: Light bulb re-implemented using Wolfram (by Sir Stephen Wolfram)
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Well, it is almost universal, because wages have always been based on the cost of living as it helps increasing profit, which is the raison d’être of for-profit businesses. This “behavior” however is more of a natural phenomenon rather th
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by abcd_f 4y ago
It's in part the cost of living (which is a very valid argument) and in part basic supply/demand. If there is an oversupply of qualified people in your country willing to work for lower wages, that is what you are competing wi
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by abcd_f 4y ago
TPM is still clearly optional on Win 11. Microsoft is just pulling the same trick they did with normalizing the telemetry. First it was opt-in, then it became opt-out and then, when the complacency settled in and everyone got used to their
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Anything Facebook-made and “privacy” doesn’t belong in the same sentence. And yet it’s top comment at the moment in the HN of all places. Talk about irony.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Tangentially related, but we stepped on a rake by forwarding spam and malware emails to abuse@outlook.com. These morons got our poor mail server blacklisted in some super-exotic way that required several days of escalations to sort out. Mor
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Kinda ironic to see Roquefort cheese in an example of natural cooling and preservation system :)
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Don’t mix up the core of Windows kernel with what rides on top of it.
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Earlier Windows versions shipped with the same wonderful developer experience. My favourite was a bool API function returning 2 under certain circumstances that you’d better be aware of. And by “earlier” I mean from Win 3.1 and up to W8 era
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by abcd_f 4y ago
Inheritance through table extensions is truly an elegance in the eye of beholder :-)
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by abcd_f 5y ago
Damn right. Every time there’s a video of one of these things being put to use, it’s invariably followed by “fuck, yeah!”, high fives or other form of celebration. But they didn’t just destroy a tank, they also killed the crew, burning it
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by abcd_f 5y ago
Eizo makes fantastic high-end monitors.
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Russia Blocks Facebook(engadget.com)
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There was also ICE.
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by abcd_f 5y ago
Hijacking top comment with a shallow compliment and a self-promo is not nice.
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by abcd_f 5y ago
Sure, but that’s not what he is known for. The fact that Guardian’s person referred to him as one just shows that they lifted the whole thing off Ars, including the most irrelevant bit of Eric’s bio.

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