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by adwf 4y ago
I think part of the problem is that they've wrapped all the responses in a positive language framing to make it feel more human. It's always "Sure thing!" or "Yeah I can do that!", and it responds so quickly th
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by adwf 4y ago
Would've been worth comparing to Vermeer for some examples of excellent shadows.
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by adwf 4y ago
This almost feels like some sort of anti-linux trolling. Suspicious number of pro-Windows comments in the first couple of hours, all focused on the sub-par website, not the OS.
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by adwf 4y ago
I was going to say much the same. Vertical mount is a game changer. Whilst this example is a bit on the extreme side: https://uk.thermaltake.com/the-tower-900.html It does have some nice properties, no GFX card sag, any wa
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by adwf 4y ago
Problem is that Valve have yet to ever go to V2 for their hardware unfortunately.
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by adwf 4y ago
Except then you need to be paying someone to monitor your queries and develop your views rather than just dropping a container in the middle with this app.
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by adwf 4y ago
Latest Motorola Razr foldable scratches that itch for me. I know it doesn't fit into the mid-price category, but I finally have my pocket space back again!
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by adwf 5y ago
Yes it could unfortunately. The solution repeated a number, making it almost impossible to guarantee a correct answer even if you had the majority down fairly early.
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by adwf 5y ago
Vortex Tab90M with silent reds. Best keyboard I've ever owned. Compact, quiet, mechanical, just fits all my needs for both work and gaming.
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by adwf 5y ago
As a number of people above mentioned, Cookie AutoDelete extension for FF does exactly this. Sites start out default clearing all cookies the moment you clear the tab. Greylisting clears them when you close the browser. Whitelist retains al
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by adwf 5y ago
Slightly more complicated than that. The National Opt-out [2] does not prevent NHS digital from accumulating your records in a central database (in pseudonymous form - not anonymous). It only prevents them from sharing your record with oth
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by adwf 5y ago
You are aware this is his website, right? A large proportion of people are here specifically because of PG and his endeavours, of course he's going to get lots of upvotes. Even if you don't agree with him, he's worth listeni
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by adwf 5y ago
There's also the fact that they've only argued from the point of economic productivity. As if that's all there is to life...
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by adwf 6y ago
There's a big difference between promising tech in the future and saying that something is true now. This kind of marketing is a standard release of information in the form of opinion of the future, which shareholders can decide for th
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by adwf 6y ago
That logic only works because we have no issue with slaughtering horses en masse. It'll take 100+ years of economic deprivation for the human population to balance out.
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by adwf 6y ago
It does happen to other products. Notably 3D printing was held up by a 1989 patent for 20 years - when it expired in 2009 it resulted in a massive boom leading to lots of new innovations in the space.
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by adwf 6y ago
Strongly disagree on the SSH example. Security warnings should be a little more alarming than just "Continue yes/no". Asking whether they are sure they want to continue has added context to make someone think twice about whe
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by adwf 6y ago
I think the technical quality does matter though. Everyday people may not care about how "cool" the Netflix engineering is, but they certainly care about the end product. For example, over the holidays I watched 3 different strea
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by adwf 6y ago
Seems to be either standard property taxes listed (with a bit of variation) or minor deployments as experiments? That's the gist of why I was comparing it to communist economics - it works great in small communities, but when either th
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by adwf 6y ago
Indeed, the biggest problem with LVT is who exactly gets to value the land and how. It's an extraordinarily difficult issue which would require a very precise implementation. Once you start assessing peoples property in such a wholesa
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by adwf 6y ago
I've always referred to it as a Development DBA. But the gist of separating DBA's into two camps, I've definitely used and seen used in many places. I sometimes attribute the modern rise of NoSQL and other databases on the s
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by adwf 6y ago
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Worked for a fintech company a few years back that used Wirecard as the processor for one of their products. Somehow they managed to lose the PK/FK relationship between accounts and transacti
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by adwf 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the lack of quality FOSS IDEs for Postgres is well known. I do feel that Postgres administration mostly caters to command line fans (like myself); the people more used to visual tools like SQL Serve
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by adwf 7y ago
I admit to not having done more than skim the abstract, but couldn't it be just as likely that authoritarian governments cause the spread of disease (and famine, etc.) through ineptitude?
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by adwf 7y ago
Hubris is half of software development ;)
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by adwf 7y ago
I wouldn't say that postgres is hard to tune. Yes it has ~300 parameters in a config file, but a lot of those are to do with logging/admin etc. There are about 6 parameters that I might touch on every deployment: Listen address,
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by adwf 7y ago
I was taught that the only "strong" rule about cocktails was that it had 3+ ingredients. Every other rule (like sweet + bitter) has notable exceptions, ie. drinks like the cosmo substitute a citrus for the bitters. Plus, the whol
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by adwf 7y ago
A potentially more interesting solution is liquid metal mirrors, either mercury-based or some sort of ferro-silver suspension managed electromagnetically. A hollow toroid could be spun to provide force and the liquid would naturally form a
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by adwf 7y ago
This is really great! Two things that could do with improvement: - The backspace key quits the program. I've accidentally quit so many times after deleting my filter by holding the key down. - The filter seems quite quick at first,
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by adwf 7y ago
Yep, it's surprising how much performance you can get when you're not paying Oracle millions for licensing. A lot of people who think Oracle is amazingly fast, think so because who puts a million dollar DB on thousand dollar hardw

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