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by frank2 6y ago
Uh...
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by frank2 6y ago
I would worry more about PTSD than about death or injury if I was a cop. Almost getting killed tends to cause PTSD, but the tendency is stronger if someone intentionally tried to kill you. And doing violence to another person is also potent
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by frank2 6y ago
If you have to go back to the time of the writing of the Odyssey to justify for your behavior, you're probably doing something wrong.
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by frank2 6y ago
May I ask: do you or have you recently developed web front ends for money?
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by frank2 6y ago
You missed the main point of the OP: the AlphaSmart lacks the distractions (temptations to procrastinate) of a smartphone or tablet. Do you never find yourself using your smartphone or tablet to procrastinate after intending to use it for a
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by frank2 6y ago
>Reddit and Twitter - the biggest discussion sites of all time - live with the nature of people deleting elements from conversations. Reddit and Twitter and many other sites do it the way you advocate, and yet you have accumulated 9192 &
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by frank2 6y ago
Ten years ago one of the most prolific and valuable participants of lesswrong.com used a script to delete all his writings from the site. A few days or weeks later, he reconsidered and gave the site permission to restore them, explaining th
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by frank2 6y ago
To save disk space and time during os upgrades. Specifically, the last 2 times my old, slow Mac upgraded its OS, it spent many many minutes rebuilding the dyld shared cache (during which my Mac was unusable of course).
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by frank2 6y ago
What is a BoA?
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by frank2 6y ago
>Apple would pay Intel to fab their SOCs. Why would Intel agree to that? Have they ever fabbed any other companies design?
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by frank2 6y ago
In my part of Marin County, they use a bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis, to control the mosquitoes. There are enough mosquitoes so that you'll get bit if sit in one spot long enough, but I don't recall ever getting bit while walki
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by frank2 6y ago
What editor or IDE do you use rust-analyzer with?
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by frank2 6y ago
Thanks for the reply.
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by frank2 6y ago
>for someone to "win", someone else has to lose Not necessarily: farmers use options as a kind of "price insurance" to insulate themselves from changes in the price of their crop between now and when they are ready to
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by frank2 6y ago
I think he is being truthful. He is not posting anonymously: his profile contains a link to a professional blog.
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by frank2 6y ago
>I believe the end goal is a single managed chromium runtime so each electron app wouldn’t need their own full Chromium instance. I have spent hours searching the web for any clues as to Microsoft's intentions here. I would be grate
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by frank2 6y ago
OK, good point.
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>using a $40 Raspberry Pi to do your banking So exploits for iOS have recently been published whereas Linux and Firefox have warm and fuzzy associations, so clearly Linux and Firefox will work better than iOS in this case. Is that your a
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by frank2 6y ago
I guess it won't hurt to explain the joke. The Mac has what is sometimes called a "BSD userland" with the result that cp, rm, ls, grep, etc work basically like they do on FreeBSD. But some Mac users prefer the GNU versions of
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by frank2 6y ago
Has it ever occurred to you that keeping your stuff backed up should be easier than it is?
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by frank2 6y ago
The flag --disable-background-networking might break some sites: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1320
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by frank2 6y ago
What does literally happen still in the US Navy, I heard, is that if a warship sinks, the ship's commanding officer's Naval career is over even if everyone involved knows that the sinking was not actually the officer's fault.
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by frank2 6y ago
I rename files and folders a lot. I.e., I fuss over the names I give files and directories a lot -- including directories containing downloaded software, so I was very discouraged recently on encountering software that breaks when you renam
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by frank2 6y ago
My working hypothesis for why programmer-employees in the Bay Area and New York City get paid more is that so many of them have a credible alternative to being an employee, namely becoming a startup founder, which I imagine has helped them
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by frank2 6y ago
I would be interested in reading more about how you prevent web designers from changing the page's font. I used about:config on Firefox to stop fonts from downloading, but that made it hard for me to use github.com and one or 2 other s
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by frank2 6y ago
Because when the ice melts, the water does not remain where the ice was, but rather enters the ocean. Water entering the ocean anywhere in the world will tend to raise the height of the ocean worldwide.
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by frank2 6y ago
>Is there a name for this kind of refactoring? I'd call it introducing a few variables.
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by frank2 6y ago
They didn't have a choice: if they hadn't given it up at the negotiating table, Beijing would've just taken it from them by force.
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by frank2 6y ago
You and the person I replied to above are essentially correct: >Fuzzing drivers on [FreeBSD, MacOS, and Windows] is more challenging than the Linux kernel due to the lack of support infrastructure. These OSes support neither KASAN, other
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by frank2 6y ago
KASAN is a kernel address sanitizer. Is your claim that the other OSes, as tested, do not do address sanitization?

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