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by etatoby 10y ago
I have had the same mobile number for the past 20 years, throughout dozens of different phones and operators. This is very typical where I live (Southern Europe) where, in fact, WhatsApp is very popular. Question: how do people you haven&#x
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by etatoby 10y ago
There's good reason it's in the standard. Many applications of computer science rely on being able to accurately measure time. Having every second increased by a non-trivial amount (~0.001%) on some days, and not on others, will p
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by etatoby 10y ago
You'd get your money back from street pushers. Really.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I think Apple's problem is the very fact that they are trying to improve on their products, which are already considered top of the line. In doing so, they are putting out bad hardware / software choices that alienate existing use
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by etatoby 10y ago
Isn't WhatsApp widespread enough in your circles, as a IM replacement? I thought it was quite universal. Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?
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My Android phone has that and it's infuriating!
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by etatoby 10y ago
This makes me wonder if the Linux drivers have been damaging my (several years old) MacBook Air speakers. The sound always seemed to be louder and more distorted in Linux than in OS X, but I have never tested the level with a microphone.
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by etatoby 10y ago
> diamond is the hardest substance known to man, there is literally nothing we could use that could offer more protection Weird, I was under the assumption that density (and other more exoteric chemical properties) shielded from radioa
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by etatoby 10y ago
His point is that a lot of people have been and keep being sent to prison thanks to DNA testing and other methods, recently proven to be unreliable. Therefore falsifying the premise to the entire argument GP was replying to.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Maybe city planners should borrow some ideas from CS, namely how to handle destructive operations while maintaining O(1) average cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_array
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by etatoby 10y ago
I'm not sure what kind of protection Hulu uses, but if it's like most streaming websites, this should do the trick: https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/wiki I routinely use it to play protected video conten
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by etatoby 10y ago
Downvoted it for you. Greeks didn't scam anybody, on the contrary, they were scammed by EU leaders and bankers. After signing the EU pacts, there was little their politicians could do to avert the catastrophe (and what little they coul
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by etatoby 10y ago
I recently switched to Mint Cinnamon and I'm completely satisfied. There is not one thing I miss from Mac OS X and many where GNU/Linux is much better. As for mail, Thunderbird is not so bad.
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by etatoby 10y ago
"High quality chips" wasn't about Intel, we all know they are reliable. I'm talking about dodgy wifi, audio, ethernet, etc. chips, that offload their work to the cpu to save on silicon, have crappy drivers, or are otherw
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by etatoby 10y ago
Are they light and thin and durable and with high-quality chips and well-tested hardware and perfect integration between OS and hardware and calibrated displays and ... you get the idea. There's a reason pro users pay the Apple premium
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by etatoby 10y ago
I've been touch typing on Programmer Dvorak for more than a decade. If you type programming symbols all day long it's unbeatable: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
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by etatoby 10y ago
MAKE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET UNDERSTAND YOU'RE RIGHT AND THEY'RE WRONG
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by etatoby 10y ago
Fn+backspace is Del, so maybe they kept it for that reason
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by etatoby 10y ago
maybe you mean 50k (not x) because in Vim it's used every 10 seconds, which makes it several thousands times a day
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by etatoby 10y ago
Honestly Mail.app has been going downhill the past few years, much like the rest of the OS. 10.6 was stellar, 10.8 was meh, after that it went down the drain. I recently switched to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) and there is not a thing I miss. Thu
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by etatoby 10y ago
It may very well be. Maybe they used an US-developed microcontroller library and screwed up the unit setting.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Same here. First Linux desktop I ever used was running KDE 1. I kept using KDE for years, up to 3.x, because it was just incredibly integrated, fast, and functional. I cannot shake the feeling that it was engineered, or at least directed by
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by etatoby 10y ago
> how many people continue to insist to me that OS X is a great UNIX. It may be a great desktop OS Between 10.2 and 10.8 it was both, culminating on 10.5 and 10.6, the crown jewels IMHO. After 10.8 it took a definite turn for the worse
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by etatoby 10y ago
It's not meaningless. If I give something away under certain conditions, I'm not forcing anybody to adhere to those conditions. Instead, if they choose to adopt those conditions, they get free stuff from me (and a lot of other peo
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by etatoby 10y ago
When I read these news I'm always reminded of a certain old project. There once was a decentralized communication platform that promised to replace email, wikis, forums, article comment services, blogs, microblogs, you name it. It was
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by etatoby 10y ago
In that case, let me recommend the Vorkosigan saga, if you haven't read it yet. One of the best book series I've ever read, definitely the best among space opera. Start with Cordelia's Honor https://www.amazon.com&
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by etatoby 10y ago
PBS Space Time FTW! I'm waiting for their take on this star.
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I beg to disagree. In science subscripts are part of the symbols, just like diacritics. Superscripts, on the other hand, are part of math notation, like fractions and square roots.
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by etatoby 10y ago
This is great! It would be interesting to apply this concept to wavelets (instead of pixels or voxels) in order to work on real-life pictures. Also, 3 dimensions as in X, Y and time, to work on animated GIFs. Think about an infinite, never
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by etatoby 10y ago
Spring comes to mind as a widely used framework that benefits from those "stereotypical levels of Java abstraction and patterns." But it's the exception rather than the rule. Once you have something like Spring in your codeba

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