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Interesting, I hadn't heard of anyone using 1080i displays recently. Do you use one, and if so why?
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> Paying a subscription for using our own computer's resources and network I agree with the rest of your comment, but not sure this part is accurate. People pay for Microsoft Word or Photoshop etc., and then run them entirely on the
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So yeah, will "last", in the sense of getting security updates, for one more year probably, which is indeed "lasting longer" as the salesperson said. Of course Apple don't make any guarantees about how long they sup
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> Unaware that they were being recorded, the rep let some things slip How is it OK to record a private phone conversation and publish it publicly without consent?
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Yes, Google either don't care about scams, or they actively encourage them because they get a cut. Google are not the good guys here. I regularly see scams on YouTube, e.g. an advert showing a video of Elon Musk explaining how he'
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> Now I can comfortably say I'm keeping my M1 Max for a decade. That's a nice thought but the computer will probably lose security updates in the next 10 years. And that really annoys me. The press release says that the new com
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> Technologists thought, how easy it is. A year has only a few hundred days, and there are only a few dozen possible rules for buses. Brute force is enough. > Nobody got the problem right. It gave me a great appreciation for how compl
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by adrianmsmith 3y ago
What would you use instead of Javadoc if you didn't use Javadoc?
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This is not news, it's documented in the official description of the virtual threads: https://openjdk.org/jeps/444
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It's really a bitter pill to swallow that there exist people who would do this to their friends.
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Why were the surveys bogus?
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BigQuery is an amazing product and there are good reasons to use it. One place I worked at had a table with 100 billion rows. And some other tables as well. If a manager asked for an ad-hoc query, it was 5 minutes of writing a SQL query inc
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Or you literally aren't allowed to fix it, while it also being your responsibility to fix it. For example you see are responsible for fixing problem X, so you go to do it, and are told that X isn't on the planning board this month
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> Quite frequently though its outsourced development agencies that refuse to write it It's also completely against their interest to write docs as it makes their replacement easier. That's why you need someone competent on the
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I think the disadvantage with this style of documentation is you can't really alter the commit message after it's written. (I mean you could obviously with "rebase" but are you really going to alter something written one
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Yeah that's great advice, I used to use Excel before I moved to Google Sheets and I think for my purposes it would do fine. I don't really use the sharing features of Google Sheets myself to be honest. I appreciate this wasn'
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Ask HN: De-Googling my life: Alternatives to Google Sheets?
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Definitely noticed that people from some countries (Eastern Europe?) write "ahahah" instead of "hahaha" when expressing amusement when writing English.
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It's interesting to speculate on why, if Scrum is so bad, everyone uses it? Is it because everyone is an idiot (e.g. management)? Or for some nefarious reason? Or maybe it isn't actually that bad? On one project I was on, there wa
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> Over $2M in revenue last year. Plausible also has a co-founder who does marketing, and is evidently very good at it. That's perhaps a more important factor in success than simply offering a paid plan. It looks like success was far
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Notably US is missing though.
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That makes sense, but they could instead have put an equal gap on the left and right side, as opposed to having all the gap on the right side, making the item look like it's not centered within the box?
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I have a question about the design. On the screenshot on the homepage https://schedule-x.dev/ the events are touching the left border of the box for the day, but there's a gap between the event and the right border of
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I used a Windows editor called TextPad for about 20 years. Maybe there are better editors out there, but it's what my boss used at one job, and I got used to it, and it worked fine for my needs. 20 years in, I thought, come on, I mean
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The computers my mother worked with (1960s?) only had 6 bits per character. So with 2^6 = 64 different characters, there weren't enough characters to have both upper case (26 chars) and lower case (26 chars) plus all the numbers (10 ch
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Due to tax payments being weird and uneven where I live (Austria) and having a number of other upcoming expenses, and considering moving flats, I wanted to understand what I'd be able to afford (in terms of cashflow) so I created http
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I can only speculate. But I think that beyond a certain level management probably doesn't have a clear idea of how long things should take. If they've worked in a company for 20 years, and have always been told that creating a cor
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> One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you. Yeah this is definitely one of those things that sounds good on paper but has unintended "consequences" shall we say. I worked
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The BBC micro and Archimedes used -1 as true in BASIC. It meant that you didn't need the distinction of "logical operators" (like && in C) and "bitwise operators" (like & in C). You could just use bitwis
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And with it the touchbar I guess?

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