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by evilduck 5y ago
Is this actually a current problem? I haven't heard of this issue occurring at all in recent years beyond "better safe than sorry" warnings against it when people still ask, and even the original claims didn't seem espe
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by evilduck 5y ago
I think this is the more interesting stuff. We know how the trajectory looks from the A-series chips that have rolled out over the last decade. What's currently a concern is if this sort of design can compete with Xeons or Threadrippe
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by evilduck 5y ago
Does something really have to be equal to or greater than WWII in damage to qualify as a bad year or two? That's quite a high bar to set.
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by evilduck 6y ago
Windows is still shipping without CLI tools and Linux distros also mostly don't ship with build-essential or headers, -dev packages or every language toolchain. Every system requires setup and MacOS shipping with older GPL2 packages pu
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by evilduck 6y ago
Internet connection speeds, in context. Latencies faster than milliseconds are not found in home internet connections (or anywhere maybe?) and 30 second latencies in Starlink would have prevented the product from even existing or would impl
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by evilduck 6y ago
Write-only in this context means that the cost of maintaining something vastly exceeds the cost of rewriting that something from scratch. I don't know Spring and Spring Boot well enough to pass judgement, but this situation generally a
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by evilduck 6y ago
TBF you can learn how MOSFETs and compilers work on your own too, you don't need college courses for those either. A higher education degree is a package deal and isn't necessarily intended to be a vocational training course, for
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by evilduck 6y ago
On the gaming front, I've been trying GeForce Now recently and while it may not be great for competitive FPS games, it has otherwise destroyed any reason why I'd ever purchase another gaming PC unless they start jacking up the mon
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by evilduck 6y ago
Wow, obvious bias much? Great way to engage in reasonable, level headed conversation is to lead with telling people they should be ashamed for not holding your values and opinions. I honestly can't think of a better way to demonstrat
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by evilduck 6y ago
We're well within the realm of sci-fi speculation here, but if you have a gravity generation device that can be directed you could augment traditional aircraft to safely allow for high G maneuvers or sustained accelerations that would
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by evilduck 6y ago
Bubble Guppies routinely has weird consequences of choosing their cast and setting to be mer-people but that premise being incredibly restrictive to a long running show. They float and swim around like fish yet somehow they have scenes that
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by evilduck 6y ago
https://nextjs.org ?
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by evilduck 6y ago
Maybe we should set student loan rates to reflect the actual risk being assumed instead of offering deceptively low interest rates with the fallback of modern indentured servitude. People might think twice about going to school if their stu
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by evilduck 6y ago
But it's not a guarantee that as a mostly unqualified and unemployable high school kid that they can predict the economy and job market 4-5 years ahead of time and if they just take on a crushing amount of debt for an education that th
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by evilduck 6y ago
The trouble is finding balance between simple DIY implementations or cobbling together a house of cards. "Allow CRUD of names" ok, you'll have it next sprint. "Allow upload of their resumé docs" no problem, two more
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by evilduck 6y ago
I've smoked a dozen or so cigars in my life, so I'm no expert, but you only draw cigar smoke into your mouth but you don't inhale. Think of it like using your diaphragm to inhale but in a kind of halting way combined with jus
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by evilduck 6y ago
The most common, fastest and cheapest leather making method is called chrome-tanning which uses chromium-sulfate, which is kind of a nasty chemical. Virtually all unnatural colored leather is made this way too (though most brown leather is
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by evilduck 6y ago
Whaaaaat? 15 years ago takes you all the way back to the PPC to Intel transition, Apple has released tons and tons of price competitive products in that timeframe. Not cheapest, but competitive. The first Intel Macbook was easily the best a
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by evilduck 6y ago
They already let us fly with numerous lithium fire hazards per person. All you need is something like a metal barreled ink pen to pierce the battery pack. Heck, what protection is there from me getting some volume of mercury on board? A pre
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by evilduck 6y ago
I don't think anyone is trying to make the case that a single stylistic preference impacts readability, but in aggregate many diverging preferences definitely can. Add in programming styles and a flexible language like Ruby can look li
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by evilduck 6y ago
> Then there's the myth that in dinner it 'evaporates' (TL;DR it does not in a meaningful way) I'm going to take exception on this one. Alcohol acts as an _amazing_ pan deglazer and general solvent without any real su
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by evilduck 6y ago
Chess was no exception to moral outrage either: "We answer, chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while at the same time it affor
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by evilduck 6y ago
Drug paraphernalia has a specific use (or at least, let's assume that for the sake of argument), but youtube-dl is more like a crowbar that has legal and illegal uses. If I have a crowbar I can legally use it all day long for construct
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by evilduck 6y ago
Creating or providing a tool and using a tool are not the same action. Likewise, since there are legal fair use scenarios of copyrighted materials (short clips, criticism, satire, academic, etc) so even using the tool isn't inherently
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by evilduck 6y ago
Without guidance of some sort, looking it up can be a challenge because you may not know what to search for and vetting new information for quality is its own problem too. A child on the internet today has to contend with deliberate science
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by evilduck 6y ago
I think they meant to not ship secrets inside the container using the Dockerfile keyword ENV, because they're retrievable. If you must ship a ENV value in an image to the public (it's quite useful for config values that need a def
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by evilduck 6y ago
Wouldn't the act of timing a download mean that I download and pollute my cache with new assets from the site trying find where else I've been? Does this only work for the first site that tries to fingerprint a browser in this wa
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by evilduck 6y ago
Do you want reviews on specific knives or specific steels used in knives? /r/knifeclub generally has decent reviews from time to time on the knives themselves (build quality, design, ergonomics, annoyances) and there are some ok Y
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by evilduck 6y ago
I'm not sure what your country's going rates are but for the US, a small business might budget a few thousand dollars total for their website. A minimal security audit that would catch missing or stupid security would basically do
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by evilduck 6y ago
In construction and landscaping work those companies are usually licensed, bonded and insured. If they fuck up the work there's obvious financial recourse. Also, the measure of them fucking up is generally a lot clearer for physical la

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