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by cbsks 6y ago
The PlayStation store will only issue a refund if you haven't started downloading the game or the game is "faulty", which they don't define and may be hard to prove. The Xbox store refund policy is less clear but it is c
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by cbsks 6y ago
That can be solved with the right company culture and a good manager. If someone was disturbing my work in that manner I would mention it to my boss, who would probably tell me to not spend time answering them next time and direct them to t
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by cbsks 6y ago
That is amazing. Thanks for posting it and getting the stories from your grandfather!
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by cbsks 6y ago
The 2 hardest problems in CS are: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
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by cbsks 6y ago
What is the sign of a pixel in this context? I don’t have a ML background so I’m used to pixels with unsigned RGB components.
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by cbsks 6y ago
The death rate is low because we have managed to keep it somewhat under control. If the ICUs fill up, the death rate for all age groups will greatly increase.
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by cbsks 6y ago
There are drive-in concerts in my city in the US. Weddings are allowed to be held outdoors. Some states have allowed limited spectators of professional sports.
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by cbsks 6y ago
I agree. An ultimatum given in an e-mail is more difficult to treat as a negotiation tactic, and it seems like there is much more to this story than we will ever know. They way this was handled doesn't make any of the involved parties
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by cbsks 6y ago
I understand your sentiment, but in my experience ultimatums are a common negotiation tactic and are rarely "true" ultimatums. "X is the lowest price I can sell for, take it or leave it" "How about X-10?" &quot
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by cbsks 6y ago
That’s a good point. How many other Google researchers have submitted papers to conferences without waiting for the 2 week internal review to complete? What happened in those cases if the paper failed the internal review? Without more conte
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by cbsks 6y ago
You can configure fastmail to show remote images from all your contacts, but it’s all or nothing: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/remotecontent.html Is this what you are asking about for mailto links? https
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by cbsks 6y ago
I’ve been very happy at Fastmail for the past few years. Their customer support has been quick and very helpful for me. It’s paid so I know that I am a customer and not a product. When I signed up I just forwarded my old gmail account to it
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by cbsks 6y ago
Is there a way to disable JavaScript per website on iOS? Or an alternate iOS browser that supports it?
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by cbsks 6y ago
Huh? The circles move just a few pixels that are hidden by the thickness of the lines, but they definitely move.
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by cbsks 6y ago
Thank you! That has been bugging me for a long time!
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by cbsks 6y ago
But surely it would be possible to measure the memory requirements for one of those potential inputs...
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by cbsks 6y ago
I'd be satisfied with that if I was a reviewer in the code review. I'd want that (and the proofs) explicitly mentioned in the comment, or at the very least in the commit message. At first glance the example seems contrived to me.
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by cbsks 6y ago
I abhor comments like these. It says that it needs to allocate 5 more bytes, and I can see that in the code, but it doesn't say why the magic number is 5. The comment explains the what but not the why . The commit message is equally a
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by cbsks 6y ago
I always just use my cotton shirt. Is there really that much advantage to using microfiber?
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by cbsks 6y ago
> Crucially, I would not have it crawling the entire web from the outset. Instead, it should crawl a whitelist of domains, or “tier 1” domains. These would be the limited mainly to authoritative or high-quality sources for their respecti
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by cbsks 6y ago
I don’t see what the issue is. It was a restaurant. Restaurants are still open. He sat at a table with members of his own household. Are they arguing that restaurants should be closed?
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by cbsks 6y ago
X64 apps running in a emulator, running on ARM64 Windows, running virtualized in ARM64 MacOS. What is the world coming to??
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by cbsks 6y ago
Previous discussion: Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24608925 American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review https:/&#x2F
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by cbsks 6y ago
> Imagine haggling over the range start or range size, and then picking your salary from a uniform distribution contained by that range. I think that it’s important that the last step is not random. I can’t imagine the job applicant woul
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by cbsks 6y ago
No! My wife would kick me out of the house if I brought any more bikes home! Seriously though, that would be amazing. I know several people who never would have considered being a “serious biker” but bought an electric bike. Now they ride t
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by cbsks 6y ago
As I’ve gotten older I have come to realize more and more that the world is a terrible place filled with terrible people doing terrible things? Is that just me, or is that a universal sign of aging?
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by cbsks 6y ago
If you voted by mail in California you can track your ballot status here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/wheres-my-bal... I did it and got an email “Your ballot for the 2020 General Election was re
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by cbsks 6y ago
A news article about shoulder tap operations performed by my local police department said: Police spokesperson Sgt. Riley Harwood said that during such sting operations, the underage decoys are not made to look older with different clothes
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by cbsks 6y ago
The first bullet point on the Amazon listing for the WRT54GL is “Linux-based, open-source firmware allows you to customize your device”. The original WRT54G supported loading third party firmware, until Linksys removed that ability in V5 by
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by cbsks 6y ago
Counter point: The Linksys WRT54GL wireless router was incredibly popular, in part because 3rd party firmware could be loaded to it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series

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