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> Downloading 3GB of dependencies is not a thing that happens in the Rust ecosystem. Reality is orders of magnitude smaller than that. Assuming they're talking about the built size of dependencies that are left lying around after ca
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> If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues. What's an example of this for, say, libcurl? On my system it has a tiny
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> It is fair to ask why the likelihoods are useful if they are so small The way the question demonstrates "smallness" is wrong, however. They quote the product of the likelihoods of 50 randomly sampled values - 9.183016e-65 - a
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Yep, I remember following these articles when they came out. I bought their DAC design and it's been in continuous use for close to a decade now. I've actually got this entire blogspot site mirrored just so I can make absolute cer
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Not that this isn't a leaps and bounds improvement over the state of the art, but it's interesting to look at the mistakes it makes - where do we still need improvements? This video is pretty instructive: https://cdn.op
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People working on open source "hackery" stuff are probably much more likely to be familiar with Github / Gitlab issues, or Bugzilla. I can only think of one open source project that uses Jira; it's my only encounter with
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Sorry, it's 6c12t.
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People who have $1500+ to spend on laptops forget that the vast majority of people don't spend (and can't spend) that much on a laptop. So much of the market is in that $500-$600 price range. You wouldn't be wrong to point ou
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> In the days of fast networks, embedded OSs, emphemeral containers, and big hard drives, a portable static binary is way less complex and only somewhat less secure If what you're trying to do is run a single program on a server som
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> I'll buck the trend and say that I love QR code menus. It lets us order at our own pace, even after our initial order, without waiting on the waiter. Why not a paper menu plus order online? You could even have the order QR code an
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> It was wild to go to a marriage prep event and see couples right next to us start yelling at each other "what do you mean you want kids?" or "why would I quit my job?" I don't know how you get engaged without k
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Kinda like how HP will make your printer work again if you simply buy and install approved ink?
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This site rightly has a different attitude when, say, HP remotely bricks working printers because someone used unauthorized ink. We don't sit back and say "you broke the rules and that's what happens."
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> I wish more consumer devices supported multiple PSKs on the same SSID Could you name any enterprise APs that do this, short of running your own custom AP software? As far as I know (would love to be corrected on this), Unifi APs can&#x
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by bscphil 3y ago
Well done OP! This is the kind of analysis I love to encounter on HN, as this is a question I've definitely thought about before. > Each player has a different random set of preferences for those gifts, ranging from 0 to 100 (inclus
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by bscphil 3y ago
> Bing, and thus DDG, has switched to prioritizing local results From what I can tell this is an issue with the Bing API that DDG uses that the DDG folks have been unable to resolve. I've tried many identical queries between DDG and
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A large percentage of the homeless population is just living on the margins, waiting and hoping for their prospects to improve. They may be living in a car, on half on the street and half on someone's couch, waiting for job application
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> Now all prices are rounded to AR$10 ... Soon we will round all prices to AR$50 A 5x change in what constitutes a negligible amount of money on a human-noticeable timeframe seems like a shocking rate of inflation. For reference, $3 here
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You can run that argument the other way. It's desirable for there to be only one system of phone lines installed everywhere, where anyone with a telephone number can call anyone else. It would be desirable for there to be only one e2
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Your point is why I've always said that the "you can't relicense" people are playing a smoke and mirrors sideshow, and trying to skate by on technicalities. No you can't literally make it the case that the code th
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Not a telescope, but this is the best video I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dePmzxejd8
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I think you misunderstood, I by no means think that all iPhone owners are psychopaths. I'm not even opposed to owning an iPhone. I'm just making the case that if there are a significant number of people who will cut you out of t
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Someone in a recent thread said that they performed an informal survey of their friends and family, and there was unanimous agreement that each person would be much less interested in dating someone with green bubble text messages, because
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I don't think this is a smoking gun at all, because we don't know the story of why the difference in behavior was implemented. What not-infrequently happens is that Firefox is late to add support for some new web standard, so site
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> It irritates me when people press the crosswalk button on quiet roads (where most of the time there is nothing coming, so you can just cross) before they have even looked to see if anything is coming. Since you're comfortable aski
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> Except for the elite who of course get to keep their private jets and superyachts... Judging by your comments, you seem to be of the opinion that environmentalists mostly love rich people and want to exempt them from climate taxes whil
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I agreed with this so I made the levels equal (as measured objectively with EBU R 128): https://0x0.st/HvXA.wav The first (DSP processed) clip still sounds much better to me. The first time the unprocessed clip is played it
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> I don't understand why so many people find this simple, well established explanation unsatisfying and hard to accept. Because when people try to put it into practice in a form that's not dangerous they struggle, and when huma
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> I can easily eat a pound of potatoes mashed with a fork with olive oil and salt for example 1 pound of white potatoes + 2 Tbsp olive oil is only about 550 calories, and about half that is the olive oil. You've got a long way to go
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He also had congestive heart failure and his arteries were 30-40% blocked a year before his death. After he fell, he died during surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. It's hard to say conclusively what caused his fall and ultima

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