coltonweaver

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by coltonweaver 2y ago
A quick search seems to confirm this. A few sites list the number to be around ~1.3 billion people who speak English at all, with around ~360-380 million being native speakers. For example: https://www.babbel.com/en/mag
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Impressed that it actually got my M1 Macbook Pro's fans going, lol (Firefox)
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Spaces make the operator invalid, so it’s not actually filtering by date in that case: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en “ To narrow your results in specific ways, you can use special opera
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
From the thread, looks like the cutoff date is February 14th, 2008: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/120070351/why-ca...
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
For those unaware, "2nm" is marketing-speak. The actual physical dimensions are 45nm gate pitch and 20nm tightest metal pitch for 2nm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process https://www.pcgames
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Correct, this example is also in the JEP: String name = "Joan"; String info = "My name is \{name}"; | error: processor missing from template expression
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Edit: This comment was written when the original comment was just "Would it hurt them to use ${x} instead of \{x}?" This is covered in the article under "Alternatives", in the section beginning with: > For embedded ex
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Like others in the thread, I also experienced this recently in NYC. It’s amazing how incredibly quick the system is too. You place the items in the bin at the same time, and by the time you look up at the screen the price is already waiting
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Asus specifically is a reference to the Owl: https://www.asus.com/us/content/strix/
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
DAU is still ~24 million so while dropping by half is a steep decline, it’s still pretty good. I’m more curious to see this number in 6 months.
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
The theoretical limit of WiFi 6E is 2,500Mbps: https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/wi-fi-6-vs-wifi-... This would be nearly 4X that.
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Am I correct that this would require direct line-of-sight for any device using an antenna[0] enabling this? It seems a bit impractical for your typical consumer use-cases if so, but maybe beneficial for some more commercial scenarios. Would
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
“Don’t mistake technical knowledge for intelligence (don’t be an asshole)” Pretty obvious to state, but this is generally a good thing to live by in and out of the office.
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by coltonweaver 3y ago
Firefox users: This won't render in HDR in FF. Open it in Safari if you want to see it.
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
Yes, good call out. Important to note here.
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
Noted! Will be adding all of these to my “To Read” stack. Thanks again :)
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
I understand the clarification of this article but it seemed far too long. TL;DR - They didn’t use the pizza box to find his location in Romania, they used it to confirm that he was currently in the country to detain him. Edit: As called ou
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
> I'm not inclined to recommend it to anyone, unless you're OK with a fairly good but un-and-likely-to-never-be-finished series. I think this is enough justification for me. There's so many completed or "likely to be
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
Thanks for the input! That's a good point you've made. Maybe I can just ignore the series until we have some indication that it'll actually be finished.
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
Wow - awesome list! Thank you for sharing this with such detail. Second on the Cradle series by Will Wight too. I really didn't expect to have such a blast reading it. Edit: I've been meaning to check out The Gentlemen Bastards, w
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by coltonweaver 4y ago
Mistborn is definitely a great intro to the cosmere books. I'd almost definitely start there, see if you like it, and then get into the rest because it can be pretty overwhelming with how much there is.