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by amaranth 7y ago
I think Ars Technica's take on this makes the most sense. Basically the new architecture might make violating privacy easier but they could do that with the old one too and there are legitimate improvements from the new architecture th
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by amaranth 7y ago
With a short TTL being standard to allow quick changes and such a wide range of domains you're going to get a lot of cache misses and have to go to the TLD to get the answer.
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by amaranth 7y ago
OpenGL deprecated the cruft in 3.0, removed it in 3.1, then added a way to get it back with the compatibility profile in 3.2. Turns out a lot of people still wanted that cruft and they were a big enough market that people listened to them.
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by amaranth 7y ago
NTFS has always been case sensitive, Windows API just lets you treat it as case insensitive. If you pass `FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS` to `CreateFile` you can make files that differ only in case.
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by amaranth 7y ago
On some songs with some setups I do believe you can still hear a difference but it's unlikely you'll have those songs and/or those setups. The vast majority of the time, unless the encoder for the MP3 is garbage, you won&#x27
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by amaranth 7y ago
There was an interesting write up done recently about Swift ABI features that enable this and why Rust doesn't/can't do similar things due to different design goals. https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-ab
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by amaranth 7y ago
Have you audited the source code of everything running on your computer? If not then you've had to trust that people aren't being evil or that someone is doing that checking for you. Why is this any different?
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by amaranth 7y ago
So far the goal is faster debug builds, both in compile times and performance of the generated code.
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by amaranth 7y ago
What does Chrome have to do with a plugin for my image editor or a command line tool on my server?
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by amaranth 7y ago
I thought the Vitamin E was only being added to the illegal marijuana vapes though. I believe someone else on a previous story on here pointed out that Vitamin E makes the THC more potent so they can lower the dosage they actually give you
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by amaranth 7y ago
Having it be a tuple would require variadic generics, wouldn't it?
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by amaranth 7y ago
Not just Angular, TypeORM and NestJS and a bunch of other server frameworks written in TypeScript make heavy use of decorators. The JavaScript spec for them has been rewritten twice since what TypeScript has so there is going to be a lot of
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by amaranth 7y ago
That makes the experience worse for the moderator though, especially on mobile networks. Caching isn't just about server resources.
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by amaranth 7y ago
It's a nice looking place and it'll be okay for the rest of his life (and probably his kids if they keep it). After that things get more worrying.
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by amaranth 7y ago
The thing about cycles is, well, they're cyclical. That means on a long enough time scale they factor out. That's why it's easier to predict the long-term climate than it is to predict what the weather will be tomorrow, next
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by amaranth 7y ago
Sounds like Eagle Eye, movie didn't do well but I thought it was a fun watch at least.
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by amaranth 7y ago
The vinyl almost always has better mastering. CDs and digital audio in general still get mastered for the loudness war while vinyls are often mastered to have higher dynamic range. That'll make the CD sound better for radio or club pla
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by amaranth 7y ago
Sometimes it's the professor writing the book so a new edition means more royalties for them. Other times it's like was mentioned in a neighboring comment, the publisher offers some perk like an online tool to let students submit
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by amaranth 7y ago
I think they meant $60m is "nothing" for that crowd due to the insane expenses involved in living like that.
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by amaranth 7y ago
Typefaces are not covered by copyright in the US. Bitmapped fonts aren't either as that's just a computerized version of a typeface. Other types of fonts are covered by copyright as they're computer programs that tell the com
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by amaranth 7y ago
Top-level await is still a problem but a Promise version of the `fs` API has been available since Node v10. https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fspromises_readfile_path_o...
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by amaranth 7y ago
Haswell was a pretty major change though, even if it wasn't from scratch. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Although with Meltdown and L1TF and ZombieLoad clearly, it is kind of broken...
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by amaranth 7y ago
You already need .NET Framework 1.1, 3.5, and 4.8 to ensure you can run anything ".NET" due to past compatibility breaks. This is just another one in the chain and why major version numbers exist. You'll be able to install al
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by amaranth 8y ago
The woman with a masters in computer science is a fake computer scientist?
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by amaranth 8y ago
I'd hope so, considering they were a part of the group standardizing it. Opus, in broad strokes, is Skype's SILK codec for low bitrates, Xiph's CELT for high bitrates, and a mode that is a blend of both codecs for the middle.
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by amaranth 8y ago
The Next Generation also had its visual effects shot on video, this was a major hurdle for their remastering efforts. They had to recreate all of the effects so it was a slow an expensive process. On the positive side, the effects end up lo
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by amaranth 8y ago
According to another comment in this thread [1] the interpreter is actually generated by the JIT at compile time so no, this wouldn't let you run V8 on a CPU that isn't currently supported. [1] https://news.ycombinator.
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by amaranth 8y ago
A reentrant mutex will allow you to unlock it multiple times so long as you're on the same thread. That means if Thread A takes the lock then later some code on Thread A tries to take the lock again to get a connection to pass to Threa
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by amaranth 8y ago
> Constantly establishing new connections saves power vs. maintaining one estalished connection? Could you explain how that works? If you maintain a connection you have a leave the modem powered. If you connect every so often (1 minute,
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by amaranth 8y ago
Slack works because of push notifications. A random IRC app can't handle push notifications for you because they aren't the IRC server and aren't running a bouncer for you. On the other hand, the IRC server can't handle

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