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by ddalex 5y ago
I see the software keyboard layouts of Maemo everywhere :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
> make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts Since the dollar is not pegged to a gold or silver standard, I'd say the ship of this section has already sailed.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Iasi, not Lasi, with a capital I, pronounced like [eeashee], major university centre in Northern Romania.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Wasn't it remastered and upscaled recently ? The netflix version looks decently good IMHO
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by ddalex 5y ago
> Hopefully your laptop and hand grenade have radically different power discharge profiles Li battery fires are not unheard of, unfortunately, so the profiles may start to resemble sometimes.
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by ddalex 5y ago
The chocolate bar doesn't start a violent fire if pierced. If it would we could power our laptops with chocolate :) The flour conditions of exploding are far more difficult to achieve than a LiIon battery conditions - orders of magnitu
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by ddalex 5y ago
by this logic the compiler would optimize any short-circuiting because it KNOWS the programmer WOULD NEVER deference an invalid pointer
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by ddalex 5y ago
> a 100WH battery a hand grenade typically releases 250kJ, or about 70Wh you're asking for the equivalent of 1.5 grenades in your lap :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
I am utterly confused. How would the compiler know that has_value() guarantees that the ->label dereferencing work, since this is a bitwise operation ?
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by ddalex 5y ago
Not if BIOS doesn't allow that to be turned off.
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by ddalex 5y ago
> There's nothing to stop you from booting into another OS and deleting the files implementing the harmful functionality. If there are checks for the presence of these files in other parts of the OS, you can remove them Encrypted di
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by ddalex 5y ago
Having grown up in communist Romania, I had this experience - the first computer I toyed with was a Spectrum clone, which we had at the school, and had access to it for about 2h/week. I definitely knew what it is and how to use it, but
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by ddalex 5y ago
> companies exaggerate claim That's called false advertising. > one should not believe in company marketing claim/promise Or, better said, the companies leading with false claims will be in trouble as they lose the trust of
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by ddalex 5y ago
> that’s the way of the world. Keep your promises until it's inconvenient to do so ? If they can't use the older hardware with their new software, they should upgrade the hardware for free since they promised the capability is
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by ddalex 5y ago
I mean it behaves like a software KVM, at which point you can use a hardware KVM without the added latency penalty due to memory copy....
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by ddalex 5y ago
The problem is that you have to have a monitor plugged in the windows card otherwise it goes all wonky. At that point you could just use a KVM....
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by ddalex 5y ago
> putting one's own first isn't the natural state of things I am very confused about this statement, can you please explain what is the "natural state of things" ?
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by ddalex 5y ago
Correct, I did a double translation in Google Translate to make sure I get the literal translation, and copied the wrong part.
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by ddalex 5y ago
> {Romanian language equivalent of the phrase} Acul din vagonul cu fân. Literal translation: The needle in the hay wagon.
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by ddalex 5y ago
can you please share more details about the tool and what did you do? I feel I am in the same boat, and a bit lost :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
> It would just be very nice to work in a mission-specific context with a very senior team. It would be for EVERYBODY. This is why it's so hard to find such an opportunity - there are very few senior people who love to get stuck in
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by ddalex 5y ago
You mean item 17. I would argue that the restoration is way more valuable than the original in this case. The original is a decently executed yet run-of-the-mill iconography with nothing remarkable about it. The restoration is a unique worl
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by ddalex 5y ago
Not if the service is hijacked via DNS spoofing, or some other means.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Well, they have to recoup somehow the dollars they given to SA for oil.... The europeans are doing it smarter by selling them cars and nice clothing with "high value" brand names on it....
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by ddalex 5y ago
Having grown up in Romania, I remember the seasons and general climate being quite different just ~30 years ago, with much colder winters (and lots of snow) and much milder summer where the ~40C heat waves would last just a couple of days i
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by ddalex 5y ago
> > and US has proven unable to build a Mercedes > And yet neither the US or EU could affordably fix a Mercedes Or an Apple product :))
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by ddalex 5y ago
> EU has proven unable to build an Apple and US has proven unable to build a Mercedes
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by ddalex 5y ago
On the other hand the people in EU are happier, have better social protection, better benefits, better health systems, better consumer protection, better application of rules and laws, they make for more productive employees. Do the shareho
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by ddalex 5y ago
> In 2021 you can turn a muni bond ETF into 6.5% return by levering it ~2x. Until the black swan event comes and you lose your shirt.
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by ddalex 5y ago
if you have an unsecured dog in the car, definitely you need a helmet cause that dog will become a projectile in any serious accident

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