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by fn1 6y ago
> Monetizing personal information, however, seems pretty reasonable to expect based on past history. Which history would that be when it comes to Apple?
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by fn1 6y ago
> My mom constantly tells me she doesn't get my text messages from android to her 100% apple ecosystem. That is weird and never happened to me. SMS works everywhere. Does she maybe have your number in a blocklist?
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by fn1 6y ago
Apple sells hardware. They are a hardware company, who realized early on that they need to ship great software to go along with their hardware. They are not interested in new users on devices which don't increase their hardware-sales.
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by fn1 6y ago
> The number of parts/unit differs by an order of magnitude For reference, a single car has about 30,000 parts, built by dozens of suppliers.
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by fn1 6y ago
Why crippled? 1blocker works very well on Safari?
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A new guide to living through climate change(theatlantic.com)
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by fn1 6y ago
So let's write code in a way that doesn't trip up junior engineers... That will also help seniors when they are tired or under time-pressure.
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by fn1 6y ago
Also software is not patentable in the EU.
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by fn1 6y ago
...also use shellcheck
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by fn1 6y ago
Really minimal template, that works well for all scenarios and doesn't cause unexpected behaviour (like changing IFS does): #!/usr/bin/env bash set -eEu -o pipefail DIR="$( cd "$( dirname &qu
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by fn1 6y ago
Not geo engineering, but I strongly believe DAC (direct air capture) of carbon will become widespread. (DAC because BECCS' needs/effects are too complex)
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by fn1 6y ago
Could you write code in a better language like kotlin and then transpile it to javascript?
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by fn1 6y ago
Can't you just serialize all issues into the repository and then write scripts/hooks to sync them in/out of textfiles in the repo?
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by fn1 6y ago
That is like the requirement which was added in FIDE-rules 1972 stating that king and rook need to be on the same rank while castling. Before that you could promote a pawn to a rook and then castle vertically across the board.
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by fn1 6y ago
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function” - Albert Allen Bartlett
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by fn1 6y ago
Many benchmarks say JS-VMs are blazingly fast, at the same time others say they are battery-hogs. And Apple is even optimizing their CPU for it to run faster. IMHO that is about JS-memory usage and GC, which never really get's proper a
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by fn1 6y ago
Survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by fn1 6y ago
It's just that JavaScript has no threads, which is it's problem.
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by fn1 6y ago
Have you tried putting each important sentence on it's own paragraph? Just the important ones. That makes a difference in focus/readability. Try it.
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by fn1 6y ago
I seriously recommend the switch. I went for an Intel ax200, costs about 50$, and my download speed went up 8 fold.
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by fn1 6y ago
> hey, why can't I install a program on a different disk than my OS? Apple user here (had Linux on the desktop for 5+ years and windows for a longer time): Why would I care whether my program is on one disk or another? Why would I e
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by fn1 6y ago
> In the consumer world the Dell XPS [...] are the way to go for a designer I have to use a Dell XPS 9560 and had two issues with it, most people never realize: 1. The Intel Thermal management driver is buggy so the device shuts off on v
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by fn1 6y ago
This is called the dialectic of german philosopher Hegel. He called it: Thesis, Antitheses and Synthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
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by fn1 6y ago
This is also why ArrayList is almost always faster than LinkedList in Java.
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by fn1 6y ago
Not an operation but: Barry Marshall drank the bacteria Helicobacter pylori to prove it's involvement in gastritis and ulcers. Before that everybody assumed bacteria wouldn't survive stomach acid and these sicknesses were causes b
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by fn1 6y ago
I do that too. And afterwards I scan the page for archival.
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by fn1 6y ago
> I wonder what 'institutional complacencies' we have. Problems we assume are unsolvable but are actually very trivial to solve. I spend a lot of time optimizing builds, because the effect is a multiplicator for everything else
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by fn1 6y ago
That is the point of pandoc. You can write in markdown and then convert it to word for your uni.
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by fn1 6y ago
Since that axis really cannot be constructed, I think a better way to present your sentiment is the following: Is it possible that we still miss a large discovery in medicine, akin to the introduction of evidence-based treatment, hygiene, i
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by fn1 6y ago
Isn't the main issue "financial products" (all these abstract things built over normal stocks)?

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