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He also famously suggested that the Irish should simply grow corn, if there was a potato blight. As if, in the middle of a famine, farmers can simply pivot to another crop that they've never grown before.
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I have an electric clothes dryer in my apartment, but growing up my family always had natural gas-powered dryers. Even when my parents added a washer/dryer to their bathroom, they ran a new gas line for it.
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In a completely unrelated story, the #1 post on HN at the moment is "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store" < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322922 >
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Uncontended acquire-release atomic operations are basically free on Apple Silicon, which synergizes with the Objective-C (and Swift!) runtimes, where every retain/release is an atomic increment/decrement. https://web.ar
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Sounds like the spec is Apache 2.0. The Python package is AGPLv3, but the vast majority of the code in there looks to be codegen from OpenAPI specs. I'd imagine someone could create their own implementation without too much headache,
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Free, and owned by a cult! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church
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It's actually a pretty nice system when you're trying to purchase something. You have a reasonable estimate of when you'll be at the front of the queue, and when that time comes, you're more likely to be able to complet
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By that same logic, a game of Monopoly is "gambling." Properties cost fake money, and your dice rolls are up to chance. And any definition of "gambling" that would include Monopoly is overly vague to the point of usele
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There's no gambling in Balatro.
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As someone who transitioned from JS to native apps before Node hit 1.0, unexpected behavior with closure callbacks make it sound more like JavaScript to me.
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4 years in federal prison is a long time, especially for an 18 year old. Even if he earns the full 54 days of good-time per year, that's still about 3.5 years in prison. Best case scenario, when he gets out, he'll be a 21 year o
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Of course it doesn't, SIP would be pointless if it did. But since GP is so opposed to temporarily disabling SIP when they need escalated permissions, I assume they must feel the same way about needing to `sudo` and enter their passwor
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> It's my computer, I should be at the top of the permissions totem pole, not Apple Here are the instructions to enable logging in as root, since privilege escalation seems inconvenient for you: https://support.apple.com&
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The numeral system may be, but the numerals themselves were introduced to Europeans by the writings of Muslim mathematicians like al-Khwārizmī.
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> Islamic culture, in particular, left a significant mark on Western thought And yet 72% of surveyed Republicans were opposed to Arabic numerals being taught in schools. https://www.the-independent.com/news/arabic-nu
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Ecuador mints their own centavo coins, but they are not legal tender outside of Ecuador. They've never released their own $1 coin into general circulation – their ubiquitous Sacagawea dollars are minted in the US.
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California has been a shall-issue state since 2022, when Bruen made may-issue unconstitutional.
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> she was at wsj editorial pages where she was to the left of basically everyone That's like saying Weiss must be very tall, because you saw her standing next to a classroom of primary school children. The WSJ's editorial repu
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These are screenshots from the extension, before and after checking that autofill box. The only visual change is the missing "Fill" button, because now clicking on the item itself preforms the fill action. The rest of the UI loo
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So Bitwarden should offer 2FA for users who want the additional security – they should never force users to enable it. It would be like refusing to save "password" as a password, because it is insecure.
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Because it barely changes the appearance at all? The actual effect of that setting is to change the behavior of the button to be autofill. The only visual change is that the small "Fill" button is removed.
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Agreed on the Levenson paper! Is there something specific about the Feynman appendix that you think hasn't aged as well, or is it more that you've squeezed all of the juice out of that fruit already?
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They should have faced consequences for their response, as much as for their error-prone device. Multiple patients had complained of extreme burns during their treatment, and autopsies later confirmed the cause of death to have been radiat
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If you'd like an example of how this can be done, Swift's AttributedString type is exactly that. It manages the association of runs of attributes (font, kerning, color, etc.) with Unicode text, and its backing storage uses a rope
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40-series water blocks can even be single slot: https://shop.alphacool.com/en/shop/gpu-water-cooling/nvidia/...
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I'm currently learning assembly programming for the original Nintendo Game Boy handheld. There is an actively maintained cross-platform toolchain[0] (a few actually, but I believe I'm using the most common one), and the instructi
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Steve Jobs said that Segways had the potential to be "as big a deal as the PC."
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That's someone who re-posted their own fork – the original repo < https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3 > was taken down in a DMCA action. The only commits they've added are to change the README links to poi
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> the Linux kernel has 849 overflow and memory corruption CVEs 4 years ago, they had 40 memory-corruption-related CVEs. Their actual vulnerability count hasn't increased by 2122% over 4 years – rather, they've become a CVE n
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Good, because you can’t have one.

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