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by beojan 6y ago
That's assuming latency is entirely due to propagation delay, in which case obviously a change in technology wouldn't help. Latency isn't entirely due to propagation delay though.
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by beojan 6y ago
Nativer than Qt? You could try WxWidgets, but really unless you use the native toolkits directly, Qt is as native as it gets.
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by beojan 6y ago
> For most publications that time past a long time ago. The exception would be Bloomberg, or the Financial Times. Publications read for information to make decisions on.
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by beojan 6y ago
Are you using Wayland? If so, try X11.
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by beojan 6y ago
Nor do I.
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by beojan 6y ago
I expect he may be averse to choosing a permissive license like the ones you mention, but perhaps AGPL?
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by beojan 6y ago
> US military date style That's basically the European format.
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by beojan 6y ago
You create a short position by selling borrowed shares.
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by beojan 6y ago
> This is especially apparent in countries where a form of proportional representation is used for elections. Proportional representation is almost a necessary condition for the parliamentary system to encourage consensus-building. More
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by beojan 6y ago
That interview sounds more like an argument not to register your non-profit in another country. The main argument given is "because LibreOffice is German, and many of the people who would be involved in setting it up are German"
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by beojan 6y ago
I'll just quote Wikipedia: "Curry is an anglicised form of the Tamil word kaṟi meaning 'sauce' or 'relish for rice' that uses the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii)."
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by beojan 6y ago
It could just be that doctors make a different tradeoff between false negatives and false positives.
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by beojan 6y ago
That's interesting. The GPL actually includes language specifically permitting aggregation like this: > A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the cover
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by beojan 6y ago
> What's 3/16" in 64ths, while under your car? 12. You just double it, twice. I'm British, and generally partial to metric units, but power-of-two fractions actually seem quite nice to me.
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by beojan 6y ago
Thous, and tenths even more so, are more akin to microns in metric.
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by beojan 6y ago
You become used to the first tool you pickup, its ways become "natural", and hence you become opinionated.
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by beojan 6y ago
There are a number of vim plugins (like YouCompleteMe [ https://ycm-core.github.io/YouCompleteMe/] ) that can turn Vim into an IDE. If that isn't enough, you could try Emacs (yes, I know) with an evil-mode based dis
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by beojan 6y ago
It needs a '/' following it (and should probably be a lowercase 'w'). 'w/' is quite a common abbreviation for 'with' though (with 'w/o' for 'without'). Presumably th
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by beojan 6y ago
> Funnily enough the official website for the Holy See is also not HTTPS encrypted. ( http://www.vatican.va ) So that turns out to be a funny misconfiguration. https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en
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by beojan 6y ago
The value of what they provide isn't necessarily it's cost. That's the whole reason we trade. The value of a good is different to different people. If a book is worth £5 to me, and £1 to you, then if I give you £2.50 for the
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by beojan 6y ago
> whether the typical CS curriculum helps a modern software engineer at all The purpose of a computer science curriculum isn't to train a software engineer, it's to train a computer scientist.
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by beojan 6y ago
> a herb I do, but that's because I pronounce the 'h' in 'herb'.
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by beojan 6y ago
> Failing that, he will probably have to bootstrap from Windows batch files and x86 machine code into a programming environment. I will ignore that possibility, since AFAIK nobody has tried to tutorialize such a task. Are VBScript and JS
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by beojan 6y ago
> Since the FBI's orders changes with the whims of the President, it is clear we need a long-lasting organization that provides oversight even when a Republican is in office. That would require a constitutional amendment, right?
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by beojan 6y ago
Or just use integrated graphics for the desktop, and reserve the GPU for GPGPU work.
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by beojan 6y ago
> Which speaks German to me. There is a switch for language there, but that only works for some parts of the interface, and not things like reviews, etc, which are all still in German. It's worse than that. The Amazon interface on a
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by beojan 6y ago
> My best practise is to only look at your region when your selected language has regional variations Or just pick one, and go with it? That way you only need one translation into each language.
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by beojan 6y ago
Why is VLC not a consumer level product? Even people who don't otherwise use OSS use VLC because it'll play virtually any format you throw at it.
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by beojan 6y ago
If you're talking about allocating existing scientists, it's a bit late for funding something at the point where someone is deciding what to do in grad school (or even undergrad, in the European system). kd5bjo seemed to be talkin
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by beojan 6y ago
At the level of picking a field, people absolutely work on what they are interested in (and have expertise in). You're not going to get particle physicists working on organic chemistry just because you've "allocated" the

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