dinkblam

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   by dinkblam 2y ago

   > The phenomenon that something which was previously working correctly, suddenly does not work correctly when one tries to demonstrate the operation to others. the same word is also used for the reverse situation, i.e. if something that
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   Apple Maps on Web Now Supports Firefox Browser(macrumors.com)

   4 points by dinkblam 2y ago|1 comments
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   by dinkblam 2y ago

   so 2.8% is "healthy" for the US, but 5.3% for China is a "disaster"...
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   by dinkblam 2y ago

   i am waiting for version 2.0 "Enclave"
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   by dinkblam 2y ago

   Even if you mount the DMG, there is no infection. You'd need to launch the malicious app. Edit: its not an app but a command-line binary with ad-hoc signature.
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   didn't you notice that most movies and series in the last 5 years have been dark to the point of not even being able to to notice which eye color people have? not enough to ruin all the newly produced stuff, they also need to ruin all
7. 157.▲
   by dinkblam 3y ago

   > works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) so heavy metal is OK but speed metal and doom metal are OUT.
8. 158.▲
   by dinkblam 3y ago

   thanks for objectively confirming subjective prejudices
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   by dinkblam 3y ago

   thinking about my iPhone-using non-nerd family, i believe the security warnings are a good thing and should not be outlawed. a good part of recommending a iPhone to non-technical people has always been that it does not have Android's m
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states ugh? there is more law & order in Malta than in the US. been there for nearly a decade and according to Wikipedia [1] the homicide rate in the US is 6.4 while it is 0.4 in Malta.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    looking at the stock market we can conclude that a taiwan invasion is deemed quite unlikely by investors. another million dollar question: is the likelihood of another magnitude ~8 SF earthquake priced into nasdaq?
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    why would you believe Intel can actually catch up to the far-ahead competition? TSMC aren't standing still, they obviously aren't stupid and they have shitloads of money. Intel probably scores zero on those 3 points.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    absolutely the same here. the problem with Swift is that it is a systems programming language and not an app-development language. far to cumbersome, complicated and unproductive for writing apps.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    Apple isn't 'embarrassed' by bugs at all - only if those bugs result in widespread public attention. Filing 100s of extremely detailed bug reports on their 'feedback assistant' will do less to change anything than o
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    i am less dissatisfied with Reuters than with other options i've tried.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    one thing which doesn't seem to mentioned here is that paper bags are not a one-to-one replacement. a plastic bag is a useful item that is used over and over again. a paper bag is an awful noisy, loud and inflexible item that is immedi
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > The disadvantage of using a Merchant of Record like Paddle is that I don't get to reclaim the VAT at the end of the year. > That's because it's some kind of B2B relation: > I sell them my app in gross with 0% VAT,
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    thanks for the explanation, will definitely check it out. > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "automatic trade copying" both providers i mentioned provide integration with "trade copier" systems that automati
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    nice! do you have any explanation why those trading algorithms have had so great performance figures in the past but basically stayed flat (or negative) in 2023? i've observed this at a few others like velvetai and whitecloud capital a
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > Some of those that work forces are the same that burn… that made my day.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > Italy is the 6th country in the world in terms of GDP/tax ratio. and yet there are no countries in (mainland) europe with worse roads or infrastructure.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    there is a huge difference between accelerating to 100 km/h in 1 or in "a couple" of seconds. given constant acceleration (which is unlikely, first you are traction limited by the tyres, then the highest acceleration, then sl
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    why would anyone waste calories on a non-alcoholic drink?
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    people always complain that companies don't "do good", but a little-known fact is that this is often down to this being actively discouraged by governments. in most countries, it is basically impossible to write off donations
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    it is easy to make the headlines by just telling people what they want to hear. hard truths, not so much.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    thanks for the info, weird that this isn't answered in the FAQ
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931424
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    > The key question remains: do the potential catastrophic consequences justify the financial and logistical costs of maintaining a transformer reserve? isn't this something that can be trivially answered with game theory? you just n
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    so it took us 6 years (1997-2003) to go from 300MHZ to 3GHZ but another 20 years to go from 3GHZ to 6GHZ.
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    by dinkblam 3y ago

    Probably the only place on earth companies are fleeing even faster than Germany.