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by asksomeoneelse 8d ago
Great article ! This is the kind of content I always hope to find on HN's front page. I really wonder how things are organized at Apple to allow for vertical integration to work so well. That feature alone must have involved so many pe
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by asksomeoneelse 11d ago
Same thing for me. I suspect their algorithm is basically "Linux+Firefox user agent using the web client ? That's gotta be a bot". From what I see on reddit, it seems that they have been massive ban waves lately. I am given t
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by asksomeoneelse 23d ago
Only for the work of the plebeian. They are still very much in effect when it benefits our overlords.
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by asksomeoneelse 4mo ago
Are we really a minority ? Feels like a lot of people just suffer in silence. Even though I dislike SQL on many levels, I would be hard pressed to find a better, widely supported alternative. I gave up writing portable SQL and just target P
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by asksomeoneelse 4mo ago
Just spitballing; I have seen prefixing integers of arbitrary length with a bit 1 as the most significant bit as a way to avoid loosing the leading 0s when serializing the integers if the size is important. Also, IIRC, it's possible to
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by asksomeoneelse 5mo ago
I hate that my first move when I see an em dash has become to check the old posts of the author to check whether it's a new "habit" of them. sigh skip
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by asksomeoneelse 5mo ago
> what privileges do you feel you've had to give up on the path to a slightly more equitable society? None. The privileges that I was supposed to enjoy thanks to my gender were either vastly exaggerated or already revoked. But I sti
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by asksomeoneelse 5mo ago
If you are okay with men being forced to go to war by laws, are you also okay with women being forced to "make more people" by laws ?
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by asksomeoneelse 5mo ago
We already disgrace ourselves by having some of the core ideologies of our society being blatant lies. We have been repeatedly told that "equality" is primordial to our values. That men had to forego their privileges in the name o
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by asksomeoneelse 6mo ago
If society enforces men's roles using the law and you're fine with it, don't come complaining when it does the same for women.
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by asksomeoneelse 6mo ago
I don't know. A lot of countries in East Asia seem to struggle demographically just as much as Western countries do, if not more. But at least it seems they didn't go for the easy solutions that is mass immigration, so hopefully t
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by asksomeoneelse 6mo ago
This is an overly charitable take on the role of AI companies. A more realistic view would be that they shamelessly plundered the work of millions of people, used it to destroy the livelihood of the original creators, while making a profit
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by asksomeoneelse 7mo ago
> it's delivered for free (as in beer) to the government Not everywhere though; it's up to the canton or municipality to implement this. It's literally the only reason I still buy stamps. Should be made a thing at the fed
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by asksomeoneelse 7mo ago
There is a significant difference between jury duty and military service when it comes to risks and bodily harm. Equating the two as both being "reductions" is absurdly missing the point.
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
Sorry, I meant the spec and code of the toy project described in the post. I don't necessarily expect their secret sauce to be openly available. But given the grandiose claims made there, I do expect something to back it up other than
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
Is there a link to the specification and the resulting generated code ? I skimmed through the article and the author's github profile, but couldn't find anything related. Seems like a serious oversight if this is your selling poin
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
Because Iraq or Afghanistan weren't threatening the man in power. Just take a look at what is currently happening in Iran if you wonder what happens when the local authority fears the crowd.
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
It's not just the ads though. Am I to think that Youtube helpfully replacing a video title (whose original text I understand) by a half-assed translation into a language that I don't speak is actually Alphabet playing 5D chess ? I
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
Color me unconvinced. Google can't even figure what language I speak even though I voluntarily provide them the information in several different ways. I can't understand half the ads they serve me.
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by asksomeoneelse 8mo ago
Unless the goal is to distract from some unfavorable, heavily redacted files. In which case, this seems to be a resounding success. Using war to divert unwanted attention away from domestic issues is a proven approach.
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by asksomeoneelse 1y ago
Yeah, I would have been interested in the diff too. That said, the article does mention replacing basically all the hardware and still encountering the issue. FWIW, my personal experience with Apple software so far is that the usage expecte
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by asksomeoneelse 1y ago
It doesn't seem to be just Steam. From what I see (from Switzerland), other online stores relying on PayPal seem to be impacted too. Though if the store let me try to use PayPal anyway, I can just switch the currency of the purchase to
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by asksomeoneelse 1y ago
Indeed. As far as I'm concerned, the touchpads have been the killer feature of the Steam Deck. Emulating a mouse using a stick or the gyros doesn't click for me. The touchpads are just so much better when you need both speed and p
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by asksomeoneelse 1y ago
I suspect you have an issue in the way you select the top 2 when they are several elements with the same value. I tried an implementation with the values being integers between 1 and 100, and I found stats close enough to yours (~51% for 10
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by asksomeoneelse 1y ago
It will never cease to shock me how enslaving men for military purpose is still considered an acceptable thing to do in developed countries. Always with the same excuse "It's necessary for the common good". More like "I
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by asksomeoneelse 2y ago
Having an alter-ego is one thing, but I strongly suspect that he had at least one sock puppet here during the drama with HN [0] * a brand new account suddenly appears, defending Marcan's behavior (the only comment/post ever of thi
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by asksomeoneelse 2y ago
I feel that a lot of men voted for Trump, not because they liked him, but because they felt rejected by the Left as a whole. If you go on left-leaning media, you can find comments that would be considered gross hate speech if it targeted an
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by asksomeoneelse 2y ago
I would guess Intel is counting on the fact that most people are not knowledgeable enough to pinpoint a defective CPU being the issue when the computer starts crashing. Heck, even as a SWE building my own computers for almost 20 years, I st
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by asksomeoneelse 2y ago
In my experience, AMD still has some massive stability issues with the VBIOS of their GPUs. But it's not a component that the users can officially update on their own (whichever version the graphic card comes with when you receive it
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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
I don't expect it to be the cause, but who knows: does your GPU happen to be sitted in the bottom-most PCIe slot of the motherboard ? I encountered weird stuff with the PCIe lines connected to the motherboard chipset (instead of those

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