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danachow
4y ago
That’s quite a leap. One of those is for ibuprofen, which has virtually no similarities with acetaminophen and the first one is for a xenograft model - there are tremendous problems with getting carried away with that result as you seem to
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danachow
4y ago
> jQuery has faded into the background, no longer interesting. It’s a mature, stable technology, still in wide use - and not really a competitor with react. That you claim it’s “no longer interesting” says more about your own preferences
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danachow
4y ago
You are getting the replies because though unintentional your prior wording implies that MMORPG was some niche experimental, concept type genre until 2004 which just doesn’t jive with history. EverQuest was out for years already and was imm
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danachow
4y ago
Interesting that your liability insurance covered everything without question since there are a few obvious points of fault/negligence with the hotel (if a stray drunk patron can destroy their IT equipment, somebody fucked up, not to
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4y ago
> If they can still somehow taste the difference between them, then you change your mix so that they can't tell the difference or eliminate them from the study. This has lots of problems, not least of which it is assuming you could
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4y ago
> Or drinks where you cannot tell if they have any alcohol in them. Proving this for a sample is pretty much impossible because you’re simply masking it and the sensory performance of humans is highly variable. You can get some imperfect
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4y ago
Yes it was traditionally a pro health fad food - and this is precisely one the reasons Wendy’s is marketing it. That and it still has a little panache as being more “upscale” than iceberg. In the 00sKFC tried to market their chicken as a pr
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4y ago
Dodge hasn’t been an independent entity since 1928 and Dodge and RAM are still part of Stellantis (the thing that Chrysler morphed into). RAM truck VINs still to this day use the same Dodge manufacturing code and RAM trucks supply chain did
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4y ago
> But the problem is: people usually are familiar with how being drunk feels The problem is people know how alcohol tastes. Have you ever had a non-alcoholic beer?
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4y ago
Administered nasally it has very poor systemic bioavailability.
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4y ago
> You use twitter in a different way than the vast majority of users. Can you actually back this up with any evidence, because I don't buy it off hand. You're saying it's uncommon for a huge long tail of rare users and lur
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danachow
4y ago
Your examples are still straw men. I do occasionally have the misfortune of using twitter - sometimes a link is posted or sent to me, or I am curious if something specific is trending. It sucks ass and is unenjoyable in my opinion - the wor
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danachow
4y ago
> but every modern filesystem has checksums for every block. At least 2 people have informed you that you’re wrong. Now it’s up to you if you choose to educate yourself on this topic or remain a fool. > Checkdisk isn't powered by
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4y ago
> SSDs have a lot more aggressive error correction than most filesystems Most filesystems do not do any error correction. ZFS, btrfs, ReFS, bcachefs are a few notable exceptions. And for the most part these schemes are for multiple devic
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4y ago
> Filesystems keep checksums of every block of data. False. A limited number of filesystems keep checksums of data - most notably ZFS and btrfs. Some like ext4 and APFS will do it for metadata only. One of the most commonly used filesyst
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4y ago
> Journaling means every block has a checksum. No it doesn’t. Many journal filesystems use a checksum for log entries, but that is certainly not covering every block of the filesystem with a checksum. And that checksum only comes into pl
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danachow
4y ago
No a handful in this abstract context (strengthened by the word “only”) means not so many (which given even the power of the computers at the disposal of the NSA at the time was enough to ruin your 2 weeks).
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danachow
4y ago
SLS is a detergent not a soap. Look at the ingredients in a soap like ivory or zest (which used to be a detergent until 2008), or Irish spring (which I like, but is definitely a cheap soap) - the first one will be sodium palmitate or tallow
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4y ago
Because in the good old days you expected to share an expensive page printer with many, and it made sense to put a powerful embedded computer (for the time) to do rasterizing within it. It could save on bandwidth, RAM, and storage. The RAM
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4y ago
> For those disparaging this person's job title of security engineer: an engineer dealing with network security of IP traffic is a different skillset from a security consultant advising on human involved phishing attempts & cons
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4y ago
Sorry but the author doesn’t even agree with you. Yours would be a fair take if the author in didn’t multiple times state or imply that their “security engineer” title gave them some relevant expertise. - I mean it’s literally the rather cl
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4y ago
How can they force arbitration with a third party?
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> ARM spends it on pc being wrong. Heh, having dealt with x86 for years, this is comparatively such a nothing burger. It's always a simple known fixed offset. > softfloat vs softfp vs hardfp vs vfp That's something not reall
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danachow
4y ago
Wait what? The person with the stolen credit card will report the fraudulent charge causing a chargeback for the seller - how is that “business as usual”? If the business is getting hit with chargebacks they sure as fuck have a financial mo
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4y ago
> 15 minutes of cranking would give 4 hours of play time. Ok that doesn't sound fun at all. But here are the bigger problems: > https://housegrail.com/best-hand-crank-generators/ Those things are fucking hug
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danachow
4y ago
Right at the very beginning: > ultra-portable pro-mixer and audio interface. TX–6 is our ultra-portable, battery-powered mixer and multi-channel audio interface. comparable to larger units, but with even more tech packed into one sturdy
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5y ago
> Also it’s not an idea that “poisons” other languages. It’d be pretty uneconomical to preserve generics in the runtime representations of any language—c++ doesn’t do this either and it heterogenous approach (opposed to java’s homogenous
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5y ago
Well from reading the thread on DSLreports he seems quite knowledgeable. The same frankly cannot be said for the badmodems site operator. This guy makes a self deprecating comment (he called himself a moron) and is offended when it is repea
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5y ago
He’s demonstrating the use of a transformer to step up the voltage. The thermal properties are because of the lower current - not the line frequency. The transformer requires AC to work, but that is not the only way to convert power, and o
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5y ago
> AC is still way better for power transmission, and I don't mean giant power lines spanning from one city to another, I mean from the curb to your home, or within the walls of your home. First you say AC is way better for transmiss
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