btym

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by btym 9y ago
>EVERY OTHER CONNECTOR has gone through improvements. new USB standards. new video. everything. why is this any different? Physical improvements have been necessary for USB to increase bandwidth. 3.5mm is a connector for carrying two (
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by btym 9y ago
No, overall, you'll be using more power (DAC vs encoding + decoding + DAC). It's just split across two devices you have to charge independently.
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by btym 9y ago
Hi, member of the vast majority of people here. I don't want to have to carry a dongle.
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by btym 9y ago
>Assuming this is how much time it takes to initialize the VM Why would you assume that?
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by btym 9y ago
"How Python does Unicode: Poorly."
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by btym 9y ago
WE'RE LOVELY PEOPLE, HONEST.
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by btym 9y ago
>it still doesn't let me write those things in clojure/scala If you're writing Scala, you have the option of compiling with scala-native, which targets LLVM. http://www.scala-native.org/en/latest/
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by btym 9y ago
I wonder if the author requested permission from the artist to use that image in his article. I certainly wouldn't want my (SFW|harmless|tasteful) art used in such a context.
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by btym 9y ago
I found that line beyond pretentious. You don't need to "struggle with syntax" to find highlighting useful.
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by btym 9y ago
DVD, MPEG-2, Flash, MP3 (at least, until all of its patents expire by the end of the year).
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by btym 9y ago
Same, with Colemak. I actually type a little faster now, but the major benefit is how comfortable it is. Hardly have to leave the home row.
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by btym 9y ago
Think carefully about what you just posted. Java has to load the JVM. Atom and VS Code have to load Chromium .
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by btym 9y ago
There is no single definition of free speech. Even the relatively permissive American definition of free speech has exceptions for hate and violence.
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by btym 9y ago
>It's akin to my grocery deciding to not sell me an apple because I'm a suspected murderer. In this analogy, you're probably suspected of fruit-related crimes. Patreon isn't obligated to enable criminal behavior.
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by btym 9y ago
YouTube seems successful because Google is paying for it. It's never made a profit.
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by btym 9y ago
Bug in their Ethereum-backed MongoDB instance.
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by btym 9y ago
Snapchat does the same. If you point its camera at someone's profile icon, it will pop up on your phone so you can add them.
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by btym 9y ago
Hello, this is sales, ready to receive your payment.
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by btym 9y ago
Yeah, what exactly are developers supposed to do if not this? Seattle is not built in the best place for growth, we're surrounded by water. It's either denser housing or hour-plus commutes.
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by btym 9y ago
Weekly [Team You've Never Heard Of] Office Hours (sent to everyone in the company)
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by btym 9y ago
Good question. It's called "internalized sexism". Not too uncommon in male-dominated workplaces.
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by btym 9y ago
Agreed. That was an entirely reasonable and professional comment. It briefly states the problem, demonstrates it, and offers a solution.
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by btym 9y ago
The same thing happens to every subreddit. It's good, people like it, it grows very large, the quality of submissions goes down (or the same content gets reposted constantly). People are incentivized by their visible "karma"
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by btym 9y ago
Could I get a source on this one?
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by btym 9y ago
>Of course the tradeoff is loss of scrollback. That could always be buffered on the server side.
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by btym 9y ago
>All Tumblr blogs, including NSFW blogs, have always been viewable and indexable by external search engines through their public URL (blogname.tumblr.com) unless flagged as private/hidden (a choice of the blog owner). There is def
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by btym 9y ago
This is a direction they headed in shortly after Yahoo acquired them, it's not a new thing with the Verizon acquisition. Blogs marked "adult" and NSFW posts already won't show up in search engines[edit: I stand corrected
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by btym 9y ago
I have used and like Zoom, but it's not free.
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by btym 9y ago
>If you need all the stuff skype supported originally - chat, voice, video, screen sharing etc. then I don't have a solution I'm afraid, particularly if you need support for various operating systems. Google Hangouts.
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by btym 9y ago
With that level of traffic, they could run their entire frontend from a smartphone...

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