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by dahauns 9y ago
A bit off topic, but I've especially wondered this about large motorcycles (both superbikes and choppers). Many of those models are so incredibly loud in everyday traffic, I can't believe they passed those tests. I mean, supercars
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by dahauns 9y ago
> I think 'considering the immediate response' used to be a valuable heuristic, but isn't any more. Too many people have become too polarized. It's also the medium. Social media...now that I think about it, actually t
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by dahauns 9y ago
IIRC it's rather AVX-heavy.
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by dahauns 9y ago
> Another related, highly recommend reading: Sorry, I don't follow your recommendation. Urgh, what a mess of a post. All the (very valid) arguments that could be made for prototypical inheritance and functional programming style are
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by dahauns 9y ago
>These stricter punishments surely make people more afraid of breaking the law Actually, far from surely.
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by dahauns 9y ago
True, but English is kind of a special case, being today's lingua franca in many areas of the world.
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by dahauns 9y ago
Whoa, easy there on the css effects. Might come out a bit silly otherwise. http://imgur.com/a/Dk9Jl (No, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight - this is a 100% crop from Chrome.)
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by dahauns 9y ago
My mistake - of course, ex falso statements are still logically valid. They are just unsound and don't allow sensible further reasoning, i.e.: great that you agree with your premises, but these are the problem ! To the matter at hand:
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by dahauns 9y ago
>You can disagree with some of the premises of that argument, but it's a valid one (philosophically speaking). Philosophically speaking, If I reject some of the premises, this would be a classic ex falso quodlibet, so - unless I sub
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by dahauns 9y ago
I know what you mean. But...since it's notoriously hard to attract public attention with existential values, I'm all for sportsball metaphors. They get sh*t done. :)
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by dahauns 9y ago
>having your identity only available to law enforcement after a court order or after a security breach...or after access by a third party without a court order (however unlawful it might be)...
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by dahauns 9y ago
>Pennsylvania has higher fiber deployment than Sweden Has it? The best numbers I could find was ~60% for Sweden, and ~40% for PA. http://broadbandnow.com/Pennsylvania https://www.pts.se/sv/Nyheter&#x
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by dahauns 9y ago
Two paragraphs in: "The good news is that the industry could readily eliminate many of the damaging side effects that do exist."
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by dahauns 9y ago
Homestar Runner! I'd certainly miss that.
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by dahauns 9y ago
regarding java - take a look at: http://nebula-plugins.github.io/ Haven't worked with them myself, but colleagues are singing high praise.
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by dahauns 9y ago
Well, that's what it was invented for...
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by dahauns 9y ago
Yeah, and Lenovo had Superfish and LSE. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huuuge Thinkpad fanboy. But the argument "it's still better than HP in any sense" just doesn't hold water in its generality. What is "it&qu
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by dahauns 9y ago
There are Lenovo notebooks with exactly the same problem. By your logic, you should sell the Thinkpad as well...
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by dahauns 9y ago
You sure do - the variation between devices is the manifestation of the ability to control layout depending on the recipient's display's resolution and size. If anything, a PDF designed for A4/letter is going to be cumberso
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by dahauns 9y ago
Which launch video are you talking about? The only ones I was able to find don't show enough material to see post-take-off maneuvers.
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by dahauns 9y ago
> Microsoft might follow Apple's lead of OS developers including cloud sync. You mean OneDrive?
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by dahauns 9y ago
>The new version doesn't have those problems. See, that's the thing. It may be much better than before, but starting from such a low level this doesn't mean much. Considering the whole Geekbench history I have a hard time
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by dahauns 9y ago
Or my favorite, <a href="javascript:void(0)"...
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by dahauns 9y ago
Throwing that back at you: Don't conflate Java problems with static language problems...
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by dahauns 9y ago
While it gives good insight to the problem of sync vs async functions, I've come to find its conclusions problematic (and it rather blatantly ignores Chesterton's fence), especially with "Java did it right, but they have star
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by dahauns 9y ago
> The [EU] legislation doesn't have a fixed period. Sure does: 2 years. http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guar...
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by dahauns 9y ago
Knowingly and willingly giving users a false sense of security? How is that not worse in every way? If they couldn't manage to get false negatives down to an sensible level without compromising security in such a blatant way, there&#x2
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by dahauns 9y ago
Industrial consumers in Germany pay nowhere near 30c/kwh, more like 10-15c. (depending on size and exemptions)
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by dahauns 9y ago
How on earth is this an objective measure for plugin quality? There's so much you can interpret into these numbers that they are borderline meaningless.
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by dahauns 9y ago
In practice, "this is safe" often transforms to "I thought this was safe" at the most inopportune moment.

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