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by commoner 5y ago
You're right. The division sign is also unambigious. Unfortunately, it's not usually found on keyboards so many people are accustomed to using slashes. SpeedCrunch and other calculator apps still need to have an unambiguous way of
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, that answer is incorrect since it breaks with calculator conventions. The contents of the parentheses are calculated first (P in PEMDAS), and then the multiplication is done later (MD in PEMDAS). Implicit multiplication (which does not
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by commoner 5y ago
The most important sentence in the article: > The timing mattered, though: only those who’d watched the 2x video for a second time immediately before a test, rather than right after the first viewing, got this advantage.
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by commoner 5y ago
I don't think 五 ("wu", which means "five") is pronounced the same way as the "oo" in "oops", at least in Mandarin Chinese. I hear the "w" very clearly in this counting video: https:&#x
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by commoner 5y ago
This isn't correct, because "an" is only used in front of words that begin with a vowel sound (in the dialect of English used). > The form an is used before words starting with a vowel sound, regardless of whether the wo
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by commoner 5y ago
I remember the Windows SuperFetch* memory caching service getting the same (misplaced, in many cases) complaints for a while after it was introduced on Windows Vista and 7. Unused memory is wasted memory. * https://www.techradar.
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by commoner 5y ago
Thanks, this is good to know!
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by commoner 5y ago
Windows 10 Home used to have mandatory automatic updates: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window... The situation improved after the May 2019 update, but the updates will still be a
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by commoner 5y ago
Linux has no mandatory automatic updates in the first place,* so this situation doesn't ever need to take place. To answer your question, it is possible to update the Linux kernel without rebooting, but you may run into some issues wit
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by commoner 5y ago
They must have different definitions for "at cost". Cloudflare charges the wholesale registry cost plus the ICANN fee. According to their blog post, Porkbun charges a price that would allow them to break even, which also includes
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by commoner 5y ago
The submitted link doesn't work for me, but I found these links which do: - Report: https://www.recordedfuture.com/chinas-narrative-war-democrac... - Summary: https://therecord.media/report-beijing-unle
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by commoner 5y ago
+1 for Porkbun. I used to use Namecheap until I had a couple of negative experiences with their customer support team. I then left for Porkbun (and Cloudflare for some domains) and never looked back. Porkbun is cheaper than Namecheap in the
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by commoner 5y ago
Porkbun sells .com, .net, and .org domains at cost, but adds small markups for other TLDs to earn their profit. > We currently, and historically, have sold .com, .net, .org domains at cost. That means at the cost we pay the registry + fe
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by commoner 5y ago
That sentence is under the "Limited Lifetime Warranty" section. TP-Link's "Home and Smart Home Class" routers have a 2-year warranty, not a lifetime warrranty. Also, as others have noted, the OnHub is still being so
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by commoner 5y ago
> They specifically end that warranty at a fixed point after the EOL date without regard to sale date. TP-Link's warranty says otherwise: > The limited warranty starts from the original data of purchase and is only applicable to
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, maufacturer warranties are not implied warranties. They are explicit promises from the manufacturer to repair or replace products that fall below certain standards within a period of time. For example, the TP-Link limited warranty expl
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by commoner 5y ago
That's not accurate, at least in the United States. Product warranties are issued by manufacturers, and Google's pages for TP-Link[1] and Asus[2] confirm this. The manufacturer warranty is 2 years for both the TP-Link[3] and Asus[
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by commoner 5y ago
The Asus RT-N66U was released on ‎December 22, 2011 according to Amazon,[1] and the last official firmware update was on June 18, 2020.[2] That's 8.5 years of support (assuming no future updates) compared to the OnHub's 7-7.5 year
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by commoner 5y ago
This white paper was a collaboration between Consumer Reports and Digital Labs. The results were summarized here: https://www.consumerreports.org/vpn-services/mullvad-ivpn-mo... Mullvad, IVPN, and Mozilla VPN were the
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Security and Privacy of VPNs Running on Windows 10 – Consumer Reports [pdf](digital-lab-wp.consumerreports.org)
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, you can put an email address in the "about" field of your HN profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsjfd This will be public, so consider creating an email just for this purpose.
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by commoner 5y ago
Here's a copy of the article from archive.today: https://archive.md/PhD5l
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by commoner 5y ago
The fact that your comment is not an official medical diagnosis is precisely why it's an insult. It's like calling someone "psychotic" outside of a clinical context.
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by commoner 5y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think it was phrased as precisely as it could have been. I agree that Wolfram is criticizing community-based software development, and using that reasoning to incompletely justify its d
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, here's a list of licenses approved by the OSI as open source, which includes the GPL and AGPL: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical "Free software", "open source software", and &qu
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by commoner 5y ago
Hypochondriasis is classified as a mental disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Calling someone a hypochondriac is an insult if you're doing
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North Korea bans laughing for 11 days for 10th anniversary of Kim Jong-il death(uk.news.yahoo.com)
20 points by commoner 5y ago|9 comments
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by commoner 5y ago
You may be interested in these FOSS alternatives for Alienware, Steelseries, and Razer control software on Linux: - AlienFX ( https://github.com/trackmastersteve/alienfx ): Control Alienware lighting effects on Linux - r
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PhoneAccount Abuse Detector: Scan for apps that prevent 911 calls on Android(github.com)
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by commoner 5y ago
The upcoming Rockchip RK3588 SoC mentioned here is very promising for an open source friendly product. This SoC is on an 8nm process and is 2-3 times as fast as the 28nm RK3399 used in the PineBook Pro.[1] The RK3588 beats the Samsung Galax

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