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by dbdr 9y ago
> I've also known people who think it's OK to be in the left lane if they're going the speed limit. I would think it's OK if there is traffic in the other lanes too (otherwise you should go back to the lanes on the ri
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by dbdr 9y ago
One way to achieve snoozing in any email client is to forward (and archive) the email to 1day@fut.io (or monday@fut.io etc, the syntax is pretty complete and flexible). They will send you back the email at the specified time and date, so it
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by dbdr 9y ago
>> No matter what you do, it’s time to stop watching Netflix every night and browsing webshops for the newest clothes. > I'm betting in their final hour they didn't wish they were still at work, or got more hours in. The
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by dbdr 9y ago
A code example contains: if (x.f != null) { System.out.println(x.f.toString()); } Apparently NullAway infers that x.f cannot be null inside the branch, so calling x.f.toString() is safe. However, strictly speaking, since field
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by dbdr 9y ago
Supposing it's not a common naval code, it's strange enough behavior that the captain would think it must mean something, and "follow me" is the best intuitive interpretation I can see, though by no means obvious.
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by dbdr 9y ago
> using bench for some nice statistics 'bench' turns out to be this tool: https://github.com/Gabriel439/bench It seems to be quite useful, and I was not aware of it, thanks! Would probably be nice to have
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by dbdr 9y ago
> the editor identified the file type, compiled it and showed the output It sounds dangerous to do that silently and by default. What if the program in that state happens to do something destructive?
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by dbdr 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
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by dbdr 9y ago
http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8185...
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by dbdr 9y ago
> You need to handle X integration yourself by piping to xclip, or similar (or just cut and pasting from terminal) pass -c (or --clip) does that for you.
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by dbdr 9y ago
Would you undergo surgery if there was a more comfortable option with equivalent or better results?
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by dbdr 9y ago
Not getting the checksum wrong, getting the checksum tool wrong. While typing the source of the checksum tool, you don't have the checksum tool yet. Classic bootstrap problem :)
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by dbdr 9y ago
The unexplained parameters are the factors of the Drake equation: The number of civilizations, N, is assumed to be equal to the mathematical product of - the average rate of star formation, R∗, in our galaxy, - the fraction of formed
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by dbdr 9y ago
Thank you. It's highly disturbing that such decision could be made with the president not understanding what he is ordering, and not being presented with other options (the "demonstration" before directly bombing a city).
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by dbdr 9y ago
> "The target will be a purely military one" Dropping such bombs on cities cannot be said to be "purely military". Was Truman really not aware of the targets, or was he being dishonest in his diary? According to the W
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by dbdr 9y ago
> A few years ago they even renamed this article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27 ) [...] to "Ancient Rus" to make people forget the Kiev part. The russian version of that article is currently К
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by dbdr 9y ago
helb was saying Firefox does not send "DOM hashes", the story you link to is about Chrome.
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by dbdr 9y ago
There is misconception that "free market" means "no regulation". Actually free market theory works (perfectly) under extremely specific conditions, see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perf
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by dbdr 9y ago
> I tried to find some "Github" link in mjg59.dreamwidth.org pointing to github.com/mjg59, but I don't think there is any. There is one here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38136.html
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by dbdr 9y ago
The difficulty is that it is also a huge bet to continue "business as usual". Not making significant changes is also a choice, and based on the best science (indeed, imperfect models) we have so far, it does not look good...
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by dbdr 9y ago
If austerity means living a miserable life, you have a point. But it is also possible to lower our environmental impact AND life a more happy life, because consuming does not actually makes us happy, while spending less can give us more res
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by dbdr 10y ago
It's not easy to estimate the cost of decommissioning and waste storage over very long periods, so it is very possible that those cost are far from reflected in the current prices, by mistake or for political reasons.
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by dbdr 10y ago
I think the idea is that it only works if few enough people use it. It is (geometrically) impossible for most people to travel by car in cities.
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by dbdr 10y ago
Could you link to or repost those estimations?
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by dbdr 10y ago
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by dbdr 10y ago
Since Java 7 you can use the "diamond operator" in such cases: Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>> foo = new Dictionary<>();
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by dbdr 10y ago
If an attacker can modify the output of the curl command (on the host or on the wire), cannot they also modify the value of the hash seen and copy-pasted by the end-user? I must be missing something...
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by dbdr 10y ago
> livestock are responsible for 3.1% of US co2 equivalent warming (Wikipedia citing the US EPA) The same Wikipedia article also mentions FAO studies giving 14.5% and 18% globally. I wonder what explains the difference. Methodology? Ignor
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by dbdr 10y ago
Vegetables do not suffer. Animals suffer.
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by dbdr 11y ago
> Oracle is like a landlord I think the actual expression Bryan uses is "lawn mower" :)

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