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by doe88 8y ago
If true I wouldn't discount the benefit, even small. It reminds me the theory of marginal gains popularized by Team SKY in cycling. In the aggregate all these small details add-up and may make the difference.
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by doe88 8y ago
(not native english speaker) Two times in one day I read the term doofus which I don't remember having encountered before. Is this word just trending recently or was it always frequently been used before?
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Revolutionary Semaphore: High-Speed Communications in 18th-Century France(99percentinvisible.org)
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by doe88 9y ago
This. I don't know I feel ambivalent about autopilot right now, as most on HN I always crave for new technologies, but the fact that something very dangerous can be very good most of the time and very bad occasionally make me weary of
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by doe88 9y ago
Yes this is a main difference between US and Europe, in the US there is a strong first amendment, in Europe there is no such thing, many of these countries have strong defamation and hate speech laws, as well as in this case the european la
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by doe88 9y ago
Attracted by the smell of fresh new data, all the usual suspects are present on this field. More and more smart home speakers/assistants really just look like to me the new 2018 widespread trojan horse way for collecting large amount
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by doe88 9y ago
Specifically I remembered this early conversation: http://podsearch.david-smith.org/episodes/1031#1538
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by doe88 9y ago
I don't have anything against him, I think in the iPhone X case he might deservedly be lauding Apple, their phone genuinely seems good. But more to your point, concerning watches I remember that for months on his podcast he was dismiss
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by doe88 9y ago
Thanks, from your second link it seems to use https://codemirror.net/
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by doe88 9y ago
I can be mistaking myself but I read more this article like a technical blog post than a paper . It seems to me it is more akin of the usual technical blog posts written by big tech companies than the writing of a paper formally submitted
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by doe88 9y ago
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected, they seem to have released some information as early as 10/4/17. http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201...
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by doe88 9y ago
> Why do they warn us 2 weeks after the fact ? Agreed, concealing these informations for so long is deeply troubling. I'm not againt the nuclear at all, but given the potential risks, the transparency ought to be maximal, and again
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by doe88 9y ago
Only related, and maybe it's because it's hard to differentiate themselves but I always felt there was only mediocre products and companies in the space of mouses and keyboards (other than kb with cherry mx switches). Moreover the
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by doe88 9y ago
It seems this is the second times after the Apple Watch 3 in september that the Wifi/BT module is branded with the Apple name. Does someone knows if they have designed their own Wifi/BT chipset or if it is licensed from somebody e
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by doe88 9y ago
Just a word of caution, anecdotely I installed the Container extension/feature 2 weeks ago when this was discuted on HN, I opened some tabs in different contexts, copied important links I wanted to keep, then decided to hide them,
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by doe88 9y ago
I'm waiting to see how it plays out, because if they whitelist their ads while blacklisting third party ads for arbitrary reasons edicted by them, while being an ad company themselves I can foresee some legal challenges/complaints
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by doe88 9y ago
Seems fair to me you should pay in any country proportionally as much as you generate revenues from that country.
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by doe88 9y ago
Lenovo must already be stashing money in the piggy bank.
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by doe88 9y ago
This. Strategic misteps, in mobile the most glaring one, plus I'm not sure how, but it seems that the main foundries (TSMC, Global Foundries, Samsung) have all almost caught-up on Intel. I also think this is what have permitted AMD to
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by doe88 9y ago
Counterfeiting is a real issue on Amazon, I understand the appeal of what Birkenstock is trying to achieve : if you see a product labelled Birkenstock on Amazon it's likely counterfeit, don't buy . Sometimes it is worth playing t
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by doe88 9y ago
Overall, I don't mind Mozilla having these data but I'm more concerned with Google by extension having them too, that, is unexpected.
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by doe88 9y ago
For all his unfortunate abrasiveness one strength of Linus is and has always been his capacity to see the big picture, e.g. that usually compatibility/API,ABI stability/performances trumps extreme security measures and also he has
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by doe88 9y ago
So what are the best ressources for learning C++11/14/17 for someone who already knows the old C++ ?
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by doe88 9y ago
New season of Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell has just started http://revisionisthistory.com/ Worth it.
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by doe88 9y ago
It might be a solution - albeit painful - but more largely I think the problem is somewhat different, whereas before sites didn't support FF because they didn't really know FF because it was new, now it seems they don't suppo
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by doe88 9y ago
I don't think speed is the real issue. I still use FF as my main browser, but in the past year I have noticed that more and more sites have started to drop full support of FF, sometimes a button doesn't work, other times it is imp
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by doe88 9y ago
Very informative article, in particular I wasn't aware of the fact that Hong Kong was compounded of differents parts and that the larger one was the one problematic as being leased to China and set to expire in 1997. I don't real
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by doe88 9y ago
Trying not to repeat too much popular podcasts everybody already mentioned, I would add: - Fresh Air (NPR) [various subjects] - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill [The Intercept fame] - Profile (BBC) [profile peoples, mainly Uk] - Sp
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by doe88 9y ago
Relevant link [1] for background informations on expected shortcomings of the recently announced concurrent Intel CPUs. [1] http://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/30/intel-announces-x-series-...
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by doe88 10y ago
This summer I had huge stability issues with FF, hard to say if it was related with my macOS configuration or if it was FF's fault, but matter of the fact is I couldn't practically use FF anymore, so reluctantly I switched to Chro

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