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by asjw 6y ago
Genuine question: unless you run a datacenter with thousands of CPUs, does it really matter? Apple has zero presence in data centers. I read people here writing "double the battery life" without any source, but even if that was th
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by asjw 6y ago
> : define a set of properties health insurance cost is allowed to depend on, and then have health insurance providers publish their formula for the premium (that can only depend on that set of properties). That's exactly how it wor
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by asjw 6y ago
I am pro legal abortion I am also pro euthanasia Being in favour of something it doesn't mean you hope things will go south You support their existence exactly because if things go south it's better to have them I am not pro choic
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by asjw 6y ago
If you just wanna disassemble the laptop, any screwdriver that fits is good Once you unscrewed it you can replace the screws People don't do it because are afraid of voiding the warranty or because just don't care
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by asjw 6y ago
> The benefit is purely readability. This year mark my 30th year as a professional developer, but my first "program" was copied fro a magazine 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 It generated random maze like structu
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by asjw 6y ago
Yes, the 10th generation of the Facebook/email CPU Nobody would use that for real work, Apple won the laptop market when developers started using it, now they are killing them for tablets, which are gadgets, not work machines.
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by asjw 6y ago
Apple laptops have become a joke if you have serious needs and want to maximize your ROI on hardware If you are not dying of thirst in middle of the desert, you wouldn't buy a 60 dollar water bottle Unless you'd buy it anyway to s
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by asjw 6y ago
It's not impossible it's Apple's fault too
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by asjw 6y ago
It could well be that MacOS is a slower OS It's been the case for years in comparison to every other competitor Let's put Linux on both those chips and see what happens
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by asjw 6y ago
Not my problem though I never asked them to produce the content in the first place I don't want to give my money or my attention to YouTube and Google ads, simple as that
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by asjw 6y ago
How can you trust someone's spoken words if they can't write? And what's the problem in your opinion with written iterations? I usually attend meetings, hours a day, when I have to repeat the same concepts over and over, mult
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by asjw 6y ago
Is It too soon to talk about the C implementation?
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by asjw 6y ago
That's a lot of effort for little benefits I can already see a lot of edge cases Most notably font support I like ligatures and ide/editor support for them, but I'm not sure I like this
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by asjw 6y ago
First of all, I meant black people in USA Secondly, we must set some basic rules when discussing about complex topics such is this one. The first rule is that if you are not a descendant of African slaves, you can't speak in their name
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by asjw 6y ago
I think the word you're looking for is marketing
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by asjw 6y ago
I'm sorry it came out this way, it means we have no shared history and values that we can rely on in a discussion I was replying to > So structural racism has ended? The obvious answer would have been "does it end if we remove
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by asjw 6y ago
It appeared in religious literature many centuries ago, probably in Mesopotamia (we don't have written testimonies before them) to express god-man relation. Many religions nowadays are still based on the concept of a master God and a s
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by asjw 6y ago
There were slaves before the black people My grandmother from my father's side was enslaved by Nazis not long ago Master/slave has nothing to do with black people, it was picked up because it was the right terminology for the job.
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by asjw 6y ago
Thinking about it, brains/muscle doesn't sound so bad Or master/blaster as in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
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by asjw 6y ago
As Italian, I'm sorry for what we did And I add to what you said: don't make me remember what other Italians did to my Italian family, no more than 75 years ago.
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by asjw 6y ago
> and you aren't a member of a demographic that doesn't have recent, painful memories But who does? Where I come from (Rome) in 1515 the ruler of the times, the Pope, condemned slavery even if it was legal. US abolished it 360
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by asjw 6y ago
It's kinda depressing to see the downvote, again, because people don't know history Slavery does not imply racism, it hasn't been the case for a very long time throughout history, slaves were a social class, a synonym for wha
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by asjw 6y ago
Well, masters and slaves have existed longer before than structural racism They were already there in Babylon over 4 thousands years ago.
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by asjw 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not and English native speaker and there's no equivalent in my language, in fact they usually are not translated and used in English. (I mean, there is an equivalent, but it's never used in this context) My po
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by asjw 6y ago
An anonymous user is precisely the one who hasn't provided authentication credentials > Anonymous User is any user who accesses network resources without providing a username or password. Se anonymous is correct in this context
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by asjw 6y ago
> one of the worst crimes committed by humanity in the last 100 years? As much as I oppose to US military politics, I think that in the past 100 years there have been much worse crimes than US wars in the middle east. If I think of the w
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by asjw 6y ago
> flight to asylum in Russia. Ironically Snowden tweets about freedom of information from Russia, where Putin literally kills journalists
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by asjw 6y ago
If I put someone's life in danger and then that person doesn't die it's still a crime. We are in an historical moment when transmitting the COVID-19 to someone else could cost you lifetime jail, I don't think they will g
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by asjw 6y ago
Firefox JS engine is in C++ even though rust has been available for years now, they've said more than once that they have no plans on porting Spidermonkey to Rust. The most recent information I've found is from a Spidermonkey Dev
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by asjw 6y ago
I work with autistic people. Not as a doctor, but as software engineer, I teach programming to autistic people that work in the field and are hired because they are autistic, not despite it. This particular company looks for them, trains th

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