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by acqq 6y ago
And we know that the animals behave "sad" when somebody close to them dies or just goes away. Emotions aren't anything special to humans. Other behaviors too. The "being special" is what humans just want to believe.
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by acqq 6y ago
The Visual Studio 6 on Pentium 4 demonstration starts around 36th minute. I used Visual Studio 6 for years, and yes, I can confirm, it was really that fast. It's also not true that there were problems with more applications running etc
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by acqq 6y ago
> Electronic signatures should have a lower level of trust than those performed in front of notaries and other officials. Exactly. The level of trust of the electronic signatures should be as low as it can be, as computer security is rea
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by acqq 6y ago
I know bookmarklets basics. What I wanted to know is which API calls you used inside of the < 2000 character bookmarklet to achieve the functionality you described. I also believed that the bookmarklets are limited to the security contex
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by acqq 6y ago
And if one wants to list the content of the archives, zip is better and orders of magnitude faster, as it also has a "central directory" so one doesn't have to read the whole archive to get the list. I've used that &quot
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by acqq 6y ago
The real summary of it is just: "Is low testosterone a promoter of COVID-19 infection? Is high testosterone a promoter of COVID-19 infection? The elucidation of the role of testosterone in the battle towards COVID-19 infection turn
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by acqq 6y ago
For all who would like to know before trying to read: The 14MB pdf linked is actually titled: "Tech in 2020: Standing on the shoulders of giants" Benedict Evans, February 2020 In his words: "Every year, I produce a big presen
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by acqq 6y ago
Here's the review of the book from 1985: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-20-850311...
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by acqq 6y ago
Thanks. This explains a lot: "The city became his on-and-off home throughout much of the 1960s." "Life was safer and easier: unlike in the US, he didn’t have to worry about being harassed by the police or being refused servic
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by acqq 6y ago
> Maybe it's all right when comes to compiling I would not expect problems, once there are no bugs in the code. As far as I understand, a build tool doesn't need file sizes, only the timestamps. The code appears to do sensible
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by acqq 6y ago
> there is literally _nothing_ in this article Nothing? On the very page are the following quotes attributed to the letter which seems to be signed by Musk: "“If you do not feel comfortable coming into work, you can stay home and wi
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by acqq 6y ago
> I mean, how do you expect not to generate a bunch of weird cognitive dissonance in people when you snap their focus back and forth Note that it's the media who amplify the real "signal" to the dumbed-down messages. The m
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by acqq 6y ago
> FindFirstFile (not that, but directly reading the directory as a file) I always believed FindFirstFile actually does read the directory as a file once (or in some convenient chunks), keeps the handle to that and returns an element of
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by acqq 6y ago
Have you checked how long it took for Germany to actually recover, and what was involved in the recovery (e.g. direct foreign help)?
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by acqq 6y ago
I never questioned that, I of course use the abstractions myself, when convenient. Where have you received an impression that I promote "actual Thread instance" or the use of any specific language construct explicitly? I haven&#x2
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by acqq 6y ago
Have you measured the speed of FindFirstFile, if the goal is only to have many file times, maybe that could be faster for a hot cache, compared to GetFileAttributesEx? (For cold cache, everything is slow anyway.) In specific case of ninja b
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by acqq 6y ago
It's as useful advice as: "Should one use arms when swimming? NO! Because that can make you swim faster, and that's dangerous because you'll get to swim where you wouldn't with the arms bound on your back." Exp
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by acqq 6y ago
Documentation on the Apple site: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/exposurenotificati... https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing/ Exposure Notification - Cryptography Specificati
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by acqq 6y ago
I remember looking/using at the different non-PC terminals decades ago, produced by different companies, which had significantly nicer fonts than any PC fonts I watched later. Of course, it's not only the font, but the whole techn
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by acqq 6y ago
The principle would be just nice if it were true, but it has different assumptions that don't hold in quite many situations. To me, it appears it presumes almost something like Santa Claus existing world, where "everybody gets wha
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by acqq 6y ago
Just note: written by "Nicholas Lewis, an independent Climate Science Researcher, based in the UK." That is, this Lewis is Lewis from all "Lewis and Curry" papers, which are known to be among the favorites of various cli
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by acqq 6y ago
> hardware keyboard with full keyboard macros Do you use one? Which? I used one, very convenient, in eighties(!) and haven't seen something comparable since. The functionality I had then that I liked was: any key could be programmed
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by acqq 6y ago
Even some code writing practices exist with the goal of "making the mistake impossible to be made". E.g. in C or C++ introducing the practice of writing the constant first in the conditionals: if ( 0 == x ) makes the mist
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Needs year in the title: (2009)
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Intro != background
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> It’s not that I don’t like background music in explanatory videos And I'm totally against it. It is always distracting to me. If I'd want to have background music I could play it myself, and it would match my choice. The only
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by acqq 6y ago
There's also this: http://www.iad.gov/iad/library/ "The IAD.gov library is no longer being updated as of October 1, 2018. NSA Cybersecurity (formerly "information assurance") information from O
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by acqq 6y ago
Just looking from afar, I don't have time to analyze every other claim, but this one: > Both C++ and Rust have generated identical assembly listings; both have added push rbx for the sake of stack alignment. Q.E.D. seems to be compl
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by acqq 6y ago
> we know that somewhere between 25-50% of COVID-19 cases appear to be entirely asymptomatic (as opposed to pre-symptomatic). Which is not a big number at all, at least, not big enough to suggest that infecting more people is a solution.
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by acqq 6y ago
> so far no one has proven precisely what factors make the biggest differences. The problem is in the question itself. Behind it is an expectation that there is just a tiny number of "magic spells" or "a trick" that w

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