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arlort
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Yeah, I think I added a comma while reading by mistake so I thought the "that" was preceding the explanation of why you singled out embedded, my bad The point about a runtime optimized to run bare metal on a single core probably b
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The other comment implied it but I think it's worth pointing out that: > embedded applications that can't have asynchronous execution Is most definitely not the case. They can't have the same type of async runtime that wou
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Esa has social media accounts, pretty sure some intern will see if you ping them, I don't imagine they get much traffic
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The weight is set by law at least to the 10th of a gram. Couldn't find an explicitly set margin of error though
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> practical social and economic benefits to humanity as a whole? Why does it have to be practical? Scientific discovery is a perfectly valid end in its own even if it only ever means that we understand the universe better The fact that a
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Because the criticism of the "I don't have anything to hide" mentality is meant to support requiring warrants, due process and all that It's not an argument the abolition of all criminal investigations in which a police
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2y ago
Your comment above was about: > The day they actually support native Linux games Not "the day a majority of their library is linux native" As others mentioned valve has been developing their games as linux native already, what
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arlort
2y ago
I'm not sure what the connection to my statement above is, wrong comment your replied to?
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No, this is just about how much apple has been taxed under Irish law so all the back taxes would go to the Irish government The source of the money originally being taxed doesn't matter
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then you should not ask "what is a possible misuse of this [facial recognition to catch criminals] technology?" but some more nuanced question As for the rest of your argument, even if we take as a given that there is cases where
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> What's a potential misuse of that technology ? Off the top of my head it telling that someone is a criminal when they aren't and ruining their lives
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3 actually, (the second body you described can be categorised as bicameral) Which would be pedantry if it weren't that one of the two chambers is much more in line with the former
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Why is that surprising?
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> had to fake my SIM to be in US just to unlock thermometer IIRC that's also available in some EU countries, the issue in this specific case isn't google but the fact that devices which could be construed to offer medical info
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2y ago
All choices for a given question (we have bicameral elections and usually when we have referenda we have multiple at the same time) are on the same piece of paper. Also they always give you all ballots, I don't recall ever being asked
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2y ago
I think they might be referring to ble advertisement packets
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> and the need to split something into 10 even pieces Why would you need to do that though?
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> if you were to do the math with decimal measurements You'd end up building the same intuitions and speed that you have with fractions. It's all just a matter of familiarity
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And for people to start growing 6 fingers per hand instead of 5
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As far as I'm aware national parks in the US were created on land that didn't really have anyone living in it (maybe Indians in some of them), you'd have to go back to the early middle ages to find similar areas in Europe (I&
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The green movement has two roots, one is the worry about global warming the other (and much older) is about pollution/ecology and in some circles new age/hippy pseudo religion The latter has always been opposed to nuclear and the
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> multiple orders of magnitude higher than it shipping with iwd though Even if that were true (and ignoring the fact that they aren't alternatives to each other, like other comments point out) If you're on a distro with iwd you
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2y ago
Only if your distro uses network manager This wraps iwd tools I think. Even though, to be fair to the spirit of your comment, I don't see anything in the readme offering significant more functionality than iwctl
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> they don’t want any company to do anything to have an advantage compared to their competitors? You could just have a better product It's quite the simple thought experiment, if teams is a better product than the alternatives no ha
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So your idea is that the ICC should not waste its time issuing arrest warrants in cases which have been extensively documented over the course of years because yesterday a beach was bombed? That seems a bit backwards, but in any case I'
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> don't icc-cpi.int has anything better to do? As a matter of fact no, it really does not. This is quite exactly the reason it was set up in the first place If your court system set up exclusively to investigate egregious cases of w
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39 feels too high, but yeah, it's one of the worst, and depending on the statistic the worst outright, in Europe. In 2022 the average was 30 years https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/
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> dumb regulations will they now release with yet another costly initiative that European taxpayers don't even want or know exist Since this is a private organization the best guess is none
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There's more important things in the universe than those which have economic relevance. In fact studying things which have no apparent economic relevance is one of the best uses of government dime and has been so, to the great benefit
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> new-country formation in the last 100 years Yes, but they didn't really introduce new ideas and philosophies of government, at most slightly different ways of implement old ideas
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