enjoy-your-stay

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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
In the UK dentists are mostly private, it hasn't increased the quality or availability in the least. Public transport is actually a fairly small part of the nation's transport, the UK is very car-centric so the strikes largely inc
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
I can't say for sure, but I think cryptos are actually behaving a bit more like precious metals, in that people use them as speculative store of value - so a bit like you say, commodities. The other thing that surprises me is the sheer
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
.. serveral 'ours layter ... Thanks for that rabbit hole of nostalgia, just remembered how wild Mac OSX 10.1 in its first release was. It was a real game changer, and looked great (albeit a bit slow on my poor G4 Cube).
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
>...and still, no one seems willing to answer if they or their kids should be among the dead/maimed Why don't you instead ask that of the Chinese? How many of them are willing to go to the bottom of the ocean in order to comple
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
Money flows out of equities and into bonds which yield a higher more dependable return when interest rates are high enough. The equities market was already running at artificially inflated values for some sectors (like technology), which me
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
Really good article, and this made me laugh "Essentially, to juice its P&L in the short term, SVB ambled into 2023 almost completely unhedged".
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
Was it denazification, demilitarization, or de-satanization? I've lost track of the many stated goals. Or was it to help those poor souls in the DPR shoot down more civilian jets? Can't quite remember. Or was it to protect German
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
"ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it" It's getting more human every day!
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
I would the say the opposite is true, the western media is more than happy to discuss and (over) analyse every little detail of information that quite freely flows into our media machines from many different sources. We agonize over failure
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
People are tribal and emotional about the invasion of Ukraine principally because they see that Russia is a bully, and people naturally revile bullying - even to the point that their creature comforts might be a bit disturbed when confronti
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
Russia as it currently is, is a massive and diverse country with many talented and artistic people. It could take any number of courses, and act in many different ways to be a better world citizen, but it hasn't. Russia had, and still
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
For the longest time I've written my own smart pointers to manage the lifetime of pretty much anything that needs a cleanup - database connections, query objects, file handles, threads, mutexes and yes raw pointers. All of this code bu
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
And step 1 in marketing a new language is a cute mascot, obviously.
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure. Adding JDBC and later nio is probably what got it there the most.
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
WaitForMultipleObjects (been in Win32 forever) is not really related to IO completion Ports, whose API came a lot later. My understanding is that condition variables were designed to be a superior alternative to Windows Event objects. I&#x2
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by enjoy-your-stay 4y ago
I'm surprised to say I feel the same. I'm Scottish and never really had much affection for the royal family, but I also feel quite sad and that it's the end of an era. She was the last of the best, we'll see what comes n
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Doesn't matter, I read and enjoyed it anyway :)
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Agreed, I can't see anything stopping it mutating further if the opportunity arises. I believe the understanding is that the omicron variant may have evolved further in an immuno-compromised person (e.g. with AIDS, or undergoing chemot
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Could somebody actually tell me which 'colonies' they're meaning when people talk of this? As far as I can tell they're either already trading as much with the UK as they want to be (AUS,NZ), or have a rather one-way int
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Well, that was all good up until the point that CDS's exposed the Ratings Agencies as corrupt, and LIBOR imploded, again due to corruption.
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Motif is also a bit chunky, and the serif font looks a bit dated, but it is very consistent, and has well designed colour schemes so very easy on the eye. The dock was a really useful tool though, drag and drop printing and workspace short
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Lol, I can just hear the politicians now. "Tough on bugs, and tough on the causes of bugs!" As they add even more time-sapping process to every release.
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
>I'm tempted to say that this story uses hindsight to maybe give Apple at least a bit too much credit. >When the iPod first came out it wasn't anything obviously special. Well, it kind of was. It was the only player with th
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Or if your menu bar has so many items it can't all fit to the left of the notch? Would probably have to straddle the notch, but would still look pretty weird.
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
>people lose things, and Apple conveniently forgot about this to push the dongle ecosystem. I think it's a bit unfair to say that Apple deliberately change interfaces in order to push their adapters. They've got 2 different pro
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
Also large chunks of libc use it as well, e.g. the printf family of functions.
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by enjoy-your-stay 5y ago
In the 80's Lebanon was also a bit of a crazy place, I remember seeing pictures of American battleships firing into the mainland to attack enemy militias, which kinda reminded me of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and thinking t
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by enjoy-your-stay 6y ago
>Some people are gonna get rich off this - partly because more people view it as a threat than an opportunity. Bitcoin miners probably.
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by enjoy-your-stay 6y ago
>I felt similarly about the pandemic exposing the fragility of our economy and the cracks in our political systems. I have to say I'm of the opposite view - all things considered systems and people have been pretty resilient and hav
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by enjoy-your-stay 6y ago
I wonder why they dropped support for cairo?

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