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by dmm 11y ago
No it looks completely different in Firefox for mobile. There is no way on FF to distinguish which comments are children.
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by dmm 11y ago
> HN on Android looks exactly the same in FF, Chrome and the stock browser. I just checked too and Firefox looks different in the comments and it has been broken since the beginning of the mobile changes. The comments on FF for Android d
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Everyone I know carries a cellphone. They track you everywhere you go, even when the gps is off. Ever wonder how Google provides its live traffic info? New cars have gps and cell radios. If they don't already report vehicle position I&
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by dmm 11y ago
A big problem with Amazon is that for many listings you have no idea what you're actually getting. One example I recently saw was a listing for a name brand phone case half the sellers were actually sending fakes. The review section wa
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by dmm 11y ago
The term open source means you have to, at least, have the right to use, modify, and redistribute modifications. It's more than just being able to see the source.
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by dmm 11y ago
Or click the "web" link under the title.
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""" Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one
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by dmm 11y ago
AMD has excellent in-mainline-kernel drivers that work out of the box. It's much better, if not quite as fast, as the proprietary catalyst drivers.
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by dmm 11y ago
I think fastmail has proposed jmap as a replacement for imap: http://jmap.io/
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by dmm 11y ago
Non-defense discretionary, the part of the federal budget most of those people are probably being paid out of, is about 17% of the federal budget. The rest of the budget is SS, healthcare, defense, interest. Lazy govt workers are a tiny por
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by dmm 11y ago
One of the hardest aspects of automation is reproducing the quality of human labor. The first generations of automation are rarely as high-quality as handmade things but automation is still pursued because it can be less expensive.
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by dmm 11y ago
> However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone This isn't true. Intel sold AMD a license and shared technical details. From wikipedia: "In Februa
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by dmm 11y ago
No it wasn't necessary to maintain backwards compatibility. Type erasure was implemented to allow libraries to upgrade to generics without breaking compatibility with existing applications.
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by dmm 11y ago
apt-get source sbcl
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It worked for MRIs. The technology was originally called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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Another example is Werner Forssmann, the inventor of cardiac catheterization """ In 1929, while working in Eberswalde, he performed the first human cardiac catheterisation. He ignored his department chief and persuaded the o
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by dmm 11y ago
How much of the japanese diet is actually made up of soy? The numbers I've seen are <5%.
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by dmm 11y ago
He disassembled a clock and put it inside a briefcase, intentionally making it look like a movie-style bomb. He was repeatedly told not to plug it in and he did so anyway. It's pretty clear he brought a hoax bomb to school to cause a s
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by dmm 11y ago
Has anyone implemented HLS or DASH in an application that required low-latency? How low were you able to get it? With DASH I have been able to achieve 5s by using small chunks and a short interval between iframes.
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by dmm 11y ago
The lack of a stable kernel API may be part of it but I think the main reason drivers don't get into the mainline kernel is that they are written as big hacks: hard coding values and not following standard kernel practices. Check out t
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by dmm 11y ago
That makes sense, thanks
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by dmm 11y ago
Bitrot still affects traditional RAID. > As much as it affects ZFS, that's my point. That's not true. RAID protects you against disk failure but bitrot is caused by unrecoverable read failures. Check out this ars article: htt
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by dmm 11y ago
If you're 30 you probably shouldn't have a bunch of money in govt bonds. If you're 65 it may be a really good idea.
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by dmm 11y ago
I think tsunamis are much lower over deep water.
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by dmm 11y ago
Why do you think it's impossible? My understanding is that all of the foxes sold as pets are sterilized so there wouldn't be a risk of introducing a foreign species.
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Who wants to team up and sabotage the game by installing debian instead?
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Scores in the US are strong affected by outliers. We won't significantly improve our ranking without addressing those outliers.
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Everything the USGS produces in the public domain. Have fun :)
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I worked for the USGS for a few years and learned a lot about this. The old topo maps were compiled, drawn, and edited by hand, from primary sources. Look at an old topo and notice the different symbols for barns and houses, outline vs fill
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by dmm 11y ago
I don't understand how no one talks about the systemic, generational poverty that a large proportion of the US black population lives in. It's just incomprehensible to me how people can't see how this leads to crime. A kid ac

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