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by c-linkage 1y ago
Thank you for adding information in response to my comment. I've been to [Mer de Galce]( https://montenversmerdeglace.montblancnaturalresort.com/en ) and seen the effects of glacial melt, so no doubt it contributes to s
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by c-linkage 1y ago
The chart is good because it shows actual measurements, but I'm concerned about the baseline being 1970. It is possible that measurements prior to 1970 are higher and make the projected measurements look worse than they are, especiall
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by c-linkage 1y ago
> deploying native applications is simply too costly. I do not understand why people hold this impression, especially in corporate environments. Windows supports both system and per-user deployments; the latter so you don't even nee
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by c-linkage 1y ago
If someone had made that statement in a blog without referencing a research paper, the first comment on the post would have been "where's your research? I want to double blind study!"
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by c-linkage 1y ago
My suspicion is that Amazon -- in addition to having paid product placement -- probably has engagement metrics. If you have to dig into the details on every product in the search to find exactly what you're looking for, that increases
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by c-linkage 1y ago
Just as black people have claimed the "n" word, white racists have now claimed the "w" word. Still not sure it was a fair trade though.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
It's the same kind of people who would design a city with no toilets or waste water treatment. Everything is easy when you ignore half of the requirements.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
My suspicion is that Trump will declare a national emergency and suspend elections at the mid-term if it looks like the Republicans will lose seats in the House.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
OP never said that the web was terminal based. He said it was text-based. Text should render fine either in a terminal or on a graphical canvas.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The CTO asked the CEO what happens if we train these people and they decide to leave? The CEO asked in reply what happens if we don't train the people and they decide to stay? Any reasonably smart company will invest in its employees.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Interning strings saves a ton of space. I wish more programmers would use it. Back in the 32-bit days I was working on a large (multi GB) distributed Oracle database system but I couldn't use transaction log shipping (don't ask).
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by c-linkage 2y ago
"In my [Franklin D Roosevelt] Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Executive Outcomes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Outcomes
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The stock market measures how people feel about a company. The fact that the case is resolved has relieved a lot of anxiety which is enough to drive the stock up.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The largest problem will be finding qualified and vetted personnel. All the people who worked at the plant when it closed five years ago had to find jobs elsewhere. Even though the plant was an important employer in Middletown, I don&#x27
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The Paradox of Tolerance: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance > A good reply I found online: The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard but as a social con
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by c-linkage 2y ago
There is a far simpler solution. Just stop measuring it.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The esszet is a ligature of the long ess and a zee. I never understood why Germans "expand" it to double ess.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The world wide web has moved beyond documents to apps. With apps there is nothing left to interlink.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Welcome to Kerberos[0] over HTTP. [0] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/kerberos/
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by c-linkage 2y ago
So either the US military will seize Starlink as a military asset or they'll order "blackouts" to prevent use in theater. Of course, the blackout will be the leading indicator that an attack is incoming, so...
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by c-linkage 2y ago
My DEC VT 220, which I bought it back in 1997 for $20 from a company liquidation auction. At the time, I had two computers: my gaming rig and my linux box acting as my router. My gaming rig was hooked up to the at-the-time Sony flagship 21&
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Why stop there? Train ChatGPT on the legal code then feed live video into it. ChatGPT will then fine violators immediately for those crimes that are fineable. For arrestable crimes have it write the summons and then use text to speech so it
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by c-linkage 2y ago
This feels like a mixed blessing. Gamblers look for fast feedback on their investment, so their interest in the market likely adds short-term volatility. For people investing for investing purposes (as opposed to gambling) the gambler&#x27
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by c-linkage 2y ago
I've always enjoyed watching the show "Mayday: Air Disasters" about airplane crashes. This might sound more morbid, but it's actually quite comforting. The effort that the crash investigators go through to find the root
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The key element of making dire predictions is that you can't assume anything will change as a result of publishing that prediction. Otherwise your prediction will no longer be dire.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Because companies have ways of avoiding income taxes.
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by c-linkage 2y ago
You're right that it doesn't make sense to have everyone run their own crawler. But if there were a standardized index transfer format (that is, a standard index type and a wire encoding) then that would open up more options. One
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by c-linkage 2y ago
Reproducibility is a key element of the scientific process How is anyone else going to reproduce the experiment if it's going to cost them $10 million because they don't work at Google and would have to rent the infrastructure?
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by c-linkage 2y ago
The first rule of Hacker News is: don't point out hypocrisy.

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