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by acqq 4y ago
Eric, my best wishes to you, I've also enjoyed reading your texts, at these older times when you were allowed to write about your work. Having had some similar experiences to yours now, I don't believe there has to be strict logic
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by acqq 5y ago
Yes, that's really all to it. Compute the delta from the current revision to the base and keep that delta on the user's computer. It seems that because they haven't done that until now (keeping the delta to the base locally)
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Consistency, convergence, and confluence are not the same(queue.acm.org)
51 points by acqq 5y ago|2 comments
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by acqq 5y ago
It's not. It shows that, at best, the author has a huge bias. It also shows that he was previously actively malicious, doing something that is considered disgraceful among scientist (misinterpreting the facts to "support" his
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by acqq 5y ago
WSJ seems to hide what the background of the text author is. (looking up in Wikipedia): "Lomborg's views and work have attracted scrutiny in the scientific community;[6][7][8] he was formally accused of scientific misconduct over
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Why has Android 2.3 been removed? Millions locked out of Google Accounts(walesonline.co.uk)
6 points by acqq 5y ago|1 comments
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by acqq 5y ago
Also, on one 32-bit computer (there are still such) under W10 I observe much less issues in Egde than in Firefox when watching videos. Also, I also have the problems with the Proton, like here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by acqq 5y ago
Of course, "billionaires won’t "escape" to space while the world burns" -- "when you understand the science, it becomes clear that the "billionaire space race" is just that—nothing more than a pissing cont
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by acqq 5y ago
The most money are paid to the same managers in both cases. The total company expenses in the same period mostly aren't dependent on the nature of the changes implemented. The managers just make their managerial decisions what to set a
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by acqq 5y ago
It's not an integer overflow that would be needed but an unsigned overflow. The way I see it, on 32-bits, that means that the size HTTP request would have to be bigger than what's available to both user application and the OS to
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by acqq 5y ago
When it was reasonable for Apple to do so, Apple distributed Safari for Windows. I don't remember now anymore exactly, it could have been even before Chrome on Windows existed? "Apple's Steve Jobs first announced Windows PC s
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by acqq 5y ago
The state of it in Firefox: "Opened Apr 2020" https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/330 Then in October added "Insertable streams is worth prototyping " Also: "I will
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by acqq 5y ago
Exactly. In a single file C nobody can expect to get universal library functions that work in any possible imaginable context. The only relevant context is the code the function is in. And in that context, the function is doing enough.
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by acqq 5y ago
That was a long text claiming the opposite of what is clearly visible and repeatable: https://postimg.cc/ThCLM7mK The button area is visible as soon as one hovers with the mouse over the button. Above: when the new code is
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by acqq 5y ago
It doesn't seem to be too relevant: it's the year of acquisition and the loss is due to the "share based compensation". Remembering what I've read, before they were really small company with small number of servers
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by acqq 5y ago
After I move the mouse over the back "button" at first nothing happens, it's surely nothing happening "as soon as the pointer" enters the area. Then after some delay, the "area" of the button is shown, but
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by acqq 5y ago
Even the back button is wrong in the new version. Previously it spanned up to the left edge of the window. Now it's moved to the right, lacks immediate feedback and then it is drawn to the right with some new empty space for no reason
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by acqq 5y ago
Is this irony? A lot of the fired developers worked on the engine and all the surrounding levels below the UI, there are bugs lasting years in the current engine, but this is the UI lipstick change nobody needed anyway but its convenient fo
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by acqq 5y ago
Only four? i5-11400H is a real name too: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/213805/...
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by acqq 5y ago
If you were a bank or a set of banks and just "don't want anybody to be able to modify the ledger's history" and you know what you are doing, you actually don't want to use blockchain. Because blockchain doesn'
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by acqq 5y ago
They also didn't actually produce anything that can't be implemented better without "the blockchain". Even with the news like these: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/24/andrew-cuomo-covid-
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by acqq 5y ago
The Bitcoin is the scam. Its "price" grows only due to Ponzi con men involved. By design it is not suited to be used for anything on scale but the Ponzi schemes. It can't be a substitution for money even if it claims to be.
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by acqq 5y ago
The youtube link is to Roy Spencer, the same one who claims "I came to the realization that intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism." Really? In the video, speaki
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by acqq 5y ago
Many thanks!
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by acqq 5y ago
I'm old enough to find that it must be noted: "HDD" was never used for diskettes, even the "high density" ones. HDD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive Diskettes: https:/&#x2
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by acqq 5y ago
Yes, and it's also because a 2 KB text today comes inside of megabytes of code that has to be executed, and some code is additionally very expensive to execute, as it's doing shady stuff in trying to fulfill all the promises of al
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by acqq 5y ago
Can you publish them please?
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by acqq 5y ago
No, in the context in which Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld wrote her statement the "experiment" you mention was totally not scientifically "legitimate" and only for one not knowing the context can the impression remain that &
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by acqq 5y ago
I believe that's an Anglocentric story: as far as I know, German scholars were very much aware of the same properties of orally composed South Slavic epic poems for more than a century longer.
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by acqq 5y ago
> Pimp has multiple usages ...checking the American dictionary (descriptive, not prescriptive): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pimp noun: "a criminal who is associated with, usually exerts control

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