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by chmln 8y ago
Windows update is probably one of the worst engineered parts of the OS. On my quad core i7 with a dedicated GPU it used to take anywhere from 45 mins to two hours to install the big updates and around 30 mins for smaller ones. Not only they
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by chmln 8y ago
I think it was just recently that China placed ads in the Des Moines Register, with reports of similar activity on the Times etc. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...
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by chmln 8y ago
No. The alleged tax fraud occurred in 1990s and to quote the article, "these maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service." So they didn't find anything illegal neither at the time, nor at any time s
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by chmln 8y ago
> seems to have used similar illegal If it really was illegal, the IRS would prosecute him, but they didn't. Why not? And if loopholes are so bad, why were they not closed and persisted through both GOP and Democrat leadership? It i
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by chmln 8y ago
The parent post has a point. Five minutes or not, it is ultimately deceptive. What really is a ~22% drop since 1970s looks like a 100% drop on first sight.
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by chmln 8y ago
Yes, its an issue, but I think you'd agree that legislating speech and expression in any way is a slippery slope. > The problem then is that the hatemongers The problem is also that one man's hatemonger is another man's pr
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by chmln 8y ago
> high time corporate boards include the people who constitute more than half the ‘persons’ in America Why everything need to match the country's overall demographics? This is legislating a desired outcome without regard for basic l
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by chmln 8y ago
No, VSCode doesn't run great. Maybe compared to IntelliJ and Visual Studio, but far worse than sublime text and vim. I have ~2ms input latency using vim on xterm. I doubt VSCode can ever achieve this kind of performance, simply due to
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by chmln 8y ago
> Why is the name even a factor? Because many people still believe in stereotypes. But whether stereotypes have any truth to them is a different question entirely.
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by chmln 8y ago
> Today, black people on average make 1/3 less income than white people. Because we must assume black people are intrinsically just as capable as white people The premise is flawed - beyond wishful thinking, do you have any reasons
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by chmln 8y ago
>React is great, mostly for bigger web apps that do need a framework and more structure, such as an SPA with multiple team members working on it. I'd argue this is bad advice. What constitutes a 'bigger' project us arbitra
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by chmln 8y ago
You can run Photoshop in Wine. Maybe it won't be the latest CC version, but it should get the job done. As someone who jumped to Linux 5 years ago, I would never consider running Windows again. Paying for a license to get my data harve
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by chmln 8y ago
> However having access to things like a network manager to join wireless networks, a battery indicator, a volume control, etc is essential in today's world, which is why I now run a heavyweight xfce environment. You don't need
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by chmln 8y ago
For the sake of diversity they could've at least added some token libertarian or conservative outlets. Also contrast the complete lack of neutral (at least relatively), established outlets like Associated Press and Reuters with the pre
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by chmln 8y ago
> The all-new Google News provides you a variety of diverse perspectives on any given topic to help you get the in-depth, balanced picture Proceeds to show stories by: CNN, ABC, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vox, and Politico. Yeah, really
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by chmln 8y ago
I think the buttons and the forms could look much better. Buttons - the hover effect is weird and messes with letter-spacing. Forms - the focus style is just a colored border, not enough to set a field apart. Bulma does forms much better -
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by chmln 9y ago
"Hate speech" and "objective" don't belong in the same sentence. It is a subjective term open to interpretation, which is why it's dangerous.
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by chmln 9y ago
> I am often discouraged to show leadership skills or be competitive with others, especially with guys at work. Men are not immune to this either. I have been successful in many work endeavors in the past and drew praise from management,
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by chmln 9y ago
Google is absolutely at fault here. They are much more involved in tweaking search results than they admit. They are especially slanted on an ideological basis. Try searching "American inventors" - nearly all the people listed are
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by chmln 9y ago
And what if feminine-coded job descriptions are a turn-off for men of under-represented backgrounds? Or non gender binary persons? By trying this hard to become "inclusive" for women they are potentially discriminating against oth
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by chmln 9y ago
> overly masculine or aggressive language You mean: - leading - competitive - objectives - driven - independently And this is what is considered "masculine". Not only that sounds incredibly sexist and stereotypical, it is demea
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Trump set for China tariff announcement on Thursday, trade war fears grow(reuters.com)
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by chmln 9y ago
> One of the biggest lie sold in the West is that if you work hard, give everything you should succeed I think this used to be true decades ago when you could without much effort get a well-paying manufacturing job with just a high schoo
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by chmln 9y ago
How would Russian govt benefit from this? I only see immediate negative effects - sanctions and other punitive measures. How did intel even conclude that Russian govt itself is behind this? A healthy dose of skepticism is necessary, otherwi
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by chmln 9y ago
Firefox gets raving feedback here, but for me it is unusably slow on a Linux machine. While websites do render fast, the UI is not very responsive, whether its laggy typing into the address bar [1] or the crawling devtools. [1] https:&#x2F
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by chmln 9y ago
> Let’s make it simple - having a diverse and welcoming community makes a project more attractive to contributors, and means that it’s more likely to succeed in the long term. Sure, I never argued against fostering a welcome environment
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by chmln 9y ago
Its all just fluff. Might have something to do with Mozilla being left-leaning. Skin color has nothing to do with non-lexical lifetimes. They will say that they value diversity of thoughts that may come when you have people with various bac
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by chmln 9y ago
> as long as you're willing to accept the haskell package madness https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-bin/
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by chmln 9y ago
> Nazi-related stuff, e.g., try to criticize Israel foreign policy or mass immigration Yeah, you don't really have free speech if you can't even criticize a domestic policy like immigration. They convinced you that it is Nazi t
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by chmln 9y ago
I believe webpack can run using multiple threads at least [0] [0] https://github.com/webpack-contrib/thread-loader

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