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by ajnin 8y ago
The current economic model is by no means a rule of nature that humans need to follow unless they disappear. That model gives power into the hands of the minority that possesses the most capital (as machines or money to buy machines), up un
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by ajnin 8y ago
Cool, I was just looking for something like this. A useful feature would be the possibility to screenshot a specific element only instead of the whole page (using something like https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
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by ajnin 8y ago
Is there a compiler flag that can be set to print a warning about all undefined behaviour? I'm no a C dev but this UB business seems like a little cat and mouse game between the developer and the compiler which tries to find "tric
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by ajnin 8y ago
You can just create a PCB with one additional layer and use that layer (top one for example if you make single-sided pcbs at home) for jumpers, then to add a jumper while routing a trace, switch layers, which will add a through-hole via, tr
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by ajnin 8y ago
I don't agree with this assessment, the UEFI spec also states that : > If the primary GPT is corrupt, software must check the last LBA of the device to see if it has a valid GPT Header and point to a valid GPT Partition Entry Array
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AMD’s Rome is indeed a monster(semiaccurate.com)
163 points by ajnin 8y ago|101 comments
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by ajnin 8y ago
> how come all those companies HQ in europe are in ireland Ireland has been busted (among others) for secretly passing sweet taxation deals with Google, Facebook, Amazon & co. According to you, that's the way to do it, right ? T
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by ajnin 8y ago
Even if this technology can spot fakes, humans can't, that the whole point and danger of such lifelike fakes. People are used to react to images in a certain way, I'm sure a large part of which is hardwired in our brains, we aren&
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by ajnin 8y ago
Well, the rate of some cancers have increased steadily in the last 50 years, same with Alzheimer's, with no clear cause. Part might be due to the global aging of the population, it's also theorized increasing pollution or use of p
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by ajnin 8y ago
The role of science in society is to increase the sum of knowledge on which progress can be made. If a scientist knowingly lets false information be published he is causing a disservice to society, harming progress. Scientific papers are ma
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by ajnin 8y ago
The point is that they don't want to go to court, they send demand letters and ask for a license fee under explicit or implicit threat of litigation, hoping that in a majority of cases their targets would pay because even if they have
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by ajnin 8y ago
I keep wondering how some Chinese businesses can be profitable selling stuff at what seems to be impossibly low prices (example : https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00YMIKRTA/ 0.97EUR, postage included). If cost of labour
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by ajnin 8y ago
> Completely socialized No, unless words lost all meaning the US health system is far from socialized, it would be if the cost structure was under government control, it's quite the opposite, for-profit insurers and healthcare provi
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by ajnin 8y ago
It's probably my favorite as well, I remember learning it in school, the way it brings together e, i and pi, which seemed to live in separate worlds until then, amazed me, it was like discovering the keystone of math.
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by ajnin 8y ago
The example is incorrect, it should be e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0
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by ajnin 8y ago
Patents are already supposed to do that. They are required to describe embodiments of the claims, which can be used by anyone to implement the invention. However they are always redacted in the vaguest, most obscure way possible as to provi
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by ajnin 8y ago
That's not quite true, the 3 major monotheist religions of the world insist that they are the only true one, and if you don't believe that very bad things will happen to you.
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by ajnin 8y ago
Why would the CaCO3 return to carbonate after death ? In the past skeletons of diatoms dropped down to the ocean floors in huge layers which are now limestone rock.
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by ajnin 8y ago
I bought a mini PC with 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and Wifi, i5, 4G RAM, 32G SSD (probably way overkill for a router but I can do other stuff on it) on Aliexpress for about 250 USD and put Debian on it. I heard it works well with pfsense too.
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by ajnin 8y ago
The update in question here is #1809; so it's possible your brother encountered another data loss bug, which, considering their current state of QA, doesn't seem that unlikely. By default the recycle bin has a limit of how much fi
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by ajnin 8y ago
They use the "trick" that all game platforms use, that they only sell you a license that is attached to your account, and if you check the TOS you will find that it is stipulated that you will lose access to the games if you lose
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by ajnin 8y ago
How can you call that justice when innocents are imprisoned for crimes that did not commit while the criminals go free ? That concept comes from the belief that it is worse to punish an innocent than to let a culpable go free. Call that uti
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by ajnin 8y ago
Not true, at least not everywhere, for instance in France, there is a right to make a copy of a copyrighted work for one's own private use. Or rather, this is not a right but an exception to the right of the copyright holder who cannot
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by ajnin 8y ago
For those wondering, it's a picture of this thing : http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Snark
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by ajnin 8y ago
Not that trivial if your deployment involved data migration steps like DB schema changes.
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by ajnin 8y ago
Follow-up on the recent Windows 10 (non-server version) vs. Linux Performance benchmarks ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756266 )
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Windows Server vs. Linux Performance on the Threadripper 2990WX(phoronix.com)
2 points by ajnin 8y ago|1 comments
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by ajnin 8y ago
I'm getting a different installer file from this website with not as many ad bundles detected : https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/23c3a4564265bc996ab61c1227... Anyway, this wouldn't be the first time an
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by ajnin 8y ago
Who said laptop ? You can have a DNS resolver on a server somewhere you own, that way it can remain encrypted on your ISP's network.
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by ajnin 8y ago
I don't really get it. If all they had to show were 15 year old documents, so dating before the Iranian nuclear accord, wouldn't this indicate that Iran did in fact fulfill its side of the agreement ? The main argument seems to be

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