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by acid__ 10y ago
> A story of quite significance to our daily lives is not off topic here. Well, the site guidelines[1] would disagree with you: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some intere
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by acid__ 10y ago
Okay, sure. I can give you a serious answer if you'd like. First of all, you're attempting to take down some strawman. _Who_ is applauding this discovery, and simultaneously calling NASA's climate change research "all a
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by acid__ 10y ago
This strikes me as a rather disingenuous question.
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by acid__ 10y ago
I've been using and loving Zappa[1] lately. Basically it lets you seamlessly deploy a flask app to AWS Lambda -- that solves your deployment, scaling, upgrading, staging, backups, etc. And local dev is just running the flask app locall
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by acid__ 10y ago
Now I'm curious, what are the most impressive things modern compilers do?
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by acid__ 10y ago
Heads up -- Chrome is blocking is blocking a lot of your site's requests to lambda endpoints (net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE) :)
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by acid__ 10y ago
So, IMO (as a security researcher familiar with DNS) this article was pretty terrible. Here's a mirror of the actual source site, with links to the "data". http://gdd.i2p.xyz/ "Data" in quotes becau
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by acid__ 10y ago
But unlike Google Glass, you can only record for 10 seconds at a time, and you'll watch people make a motion to start recording before it happens.
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by acid__ 10y ago
Your second point seems pretty valid, and to address your first point: "There are multiple cues to the same information. Everything has both a symbol and spatial element, for all kinds of thinkers." Indeed, in addition to the spat
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by acid__ 10y ago
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Hypernova has the javascript rendering siloed as a separate service. Which can be really useful in some cases (especially if you want to render React components from a Rails app). But if you want it all
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by acid__ 10y ago
1. The article clearly states that when calculating GDP, the yearly average exchange rates are used, not the spot rate, as was used for that sensationalist headline. 2. The pound is recovering, and has already climbed back up beyond the poi
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by acid__ 10y ago
$434 million / $18.5 trillion = 0.000027 0.0027% of the GDP :)
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Airbnb expanding to compete with services like Tripadvisor and Yelp(techcrunch.com)
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by acid__ 11y ago
Is this video laggy and constantly showing "The match will start in -0- seconds" for anyone else?
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by acid__ 11y ago
The problem I see most often with non-technical users attempting to search for non-trivial queries is not that they don't know those words, but they don't know which words are most important. e.g. One might formulate searches like
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by acid__ 11y ago
It's been a few months since I've been to the SF one, but if I remember correctly, it was about 30-40% above the price on the Japanese label.
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by acid__ 11y ago
I don't know about the X200 specifically but older ThinkPads tend to be really good with that. I have an X220 and it is easily the most serviceable laptop I have ever owned. It was super easy to upgrade the memory and add an extra disk