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by dleslie 5y ago
This looks almost identical to the Pinebook Pro, down to the port placement. Interesting! The ARM processor on the Pinebook Pro can sometimes be a bit of an annoyance, as it's not the beafiest processor and emulating x86 on it suffers.
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by dleslie 5y ago
We're on hacker news, most everyone here works in tech.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Bingo. A, B, and C should all just leave at a regular, reasonable time. And sometimes each of them has reason to leave early, and doesn't need to justify it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Employee A: I have an event that I must attend and cannot inconsequentially avoid. Employee B: I want to go home and relax.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It is possible. Don't work extra hours just because you don't have responsibilities waiting for you at home.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> it's pretty darn hard to say "no" unless you actually have a good reason not to. Why? You say, "No, I'm tired and I've already worked a full day." And without waiting for a response, you stand up and
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by dleslie 5y ago
o.O If you're delivering on schedule and performing comparable to expectations then it shouldn't matter what hours you work.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> You leaving for those deadlines means someone else implicitly needs to pick up the slack. It really doesn't. That's only the case in an abusive work environment.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's no more a straw man than the poster they were referring to; both describe their perspective of a described situation, from opposite sides. Neither is discussing "leaving early", both are discussing "leaving on time&
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by dleslie 5y ago
I think you're over estimating the willingness of customers to remain loyal to a device and not the content it serves.
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by dleslie 5y ago
It seemed odd to me that their fail context didn't set 'err', but assumed it would be set by the origin of the jump. At least, I would have initialized 'err' to a failure value, so that any mistake that led it not t
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by dleslie 5y ago
> Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share? Not all diseases are equally harmful, right? Perhaps the indigenous populations of the Americas simply lacked a disease as deadly as those brought by the Europeans.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Ha, I wasn't sure if it was earnest or not.
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by dleslie 5y ago
You wouldn't hire someone with near-but-different skills and a decade of competency because they don't fit a niche, highly specific of requirements? I think you'll spend more time and effort hiring than you would've spe
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by dleslie 5y ago
> In 2001 when EarthViewer was first launched, the real “Brians” were still running the parent company, Intrinsic Graphics, doing what Unity and Epic/Unreal now have billion dollar valuations to do. The main reason that stalled, IMO
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by dleslie 5y ago
It was run as a loss leader for years, when there were still numerous viable competitors.
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by dleslie 5y ago
None of that pricing would seem all that unreasonable of Youtube weren't operated as a loss leader.
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by dleslie 5y ago
id Software going to Bethesda.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Ha, I suspected this would be Hirrolot. Take a look at their GH; it's fully of handy, and not-so-handy, C preprocessor hacks.
980.
by dleslie 5y ago
JAMStack isn't much of an option for services that can't trust the clients and cannot rely on high latency consensus algorithms. It's also brutal for battery life.
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by dleslie 5y ago
> The GIL might prevent two Python threads executing simultaneously, but it doesn’t change the fact that a Python thread can be preempted, meaning your global state can change at any point during execution without warning. That thread be
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by dleslie 5y ago
> All the static content stored with the site still loads, and my modern browser still renders the page (HTML, unlike HTTP, has excellent lasting power). But any links offsite or to dynamically served content are dead. For every weird ex
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by dleslie 5y ago
I wonder how many folks think they're writing thread safe software with ease, and are unaware that they are leaning on the GIL? Could be that the impact of this change is far broader than just a few key libraries.
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by dleslie 5y ago
They seem to have fixed my personal gripe with the PinePhone: the camera was terrible.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Crystal, Carp and Nim are my "I hope these catch on" languages. Each has an elegant and intriguingly modern approach to performance targeting programming.
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by dleslie 5y ago
This is why I prefer cars where the stereo is replaceable.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Aye, I don't wear sunscreen as it tends to irritate my skin. Long sleeves and pants do the job just fine, usually; but the fabric matters! Ie, a thin cotton T will provide a little protection, but you'll still get burned eventuall
988.
by dleslie 5y ago
People trying to search it likely raised its indexing priority.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Isn't 86box the natural successor, given that it's an actively maintained fork of PCem? https://github.com/86Box/86Box
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by dleslie 5y ago
> MP3 is obsolete What should we be using instead for lossy audio?

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