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by frutiger 4y ago
If you have multiple people with multiple devices updating operating systems/software or downloading/streaming videos having the headroom so that everyone can go as fast as possible at the same time is rather nice.
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Intel announces Arc A770 GPU at $329, launches October 12th(videocardz.com)
3 points by frutiger 4y ago|1 comments
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by frutiger 4y ago
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/cstdio#Synopsis .
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by frutiger 4y ago
Genuine question, as I have no domain knowledge: is it usual that 10% of recommendations are adopted and 90% are ignored?
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by frutiger 4y ago
Right; the first part contradicts the second part and I’m not really sure what you’re advocating for as a result.
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by frutiger 4y ago
> If we start slowly, focus not on delivering a working product ASAP but a nice codebase that's accessible for other developers to read, carefully split modules so each part of the browser is a mini project by itself, with clearly d
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by frutiger 4y ago
You don’t know the collapse happened. Locally you can just perform a measurement and you will concretely see one of the possible outcomes.
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by frutiger 4y ago
GP and all sibling comments are unfortunately incorrect. The measurement of one _does_ instantaneously affect the other. No useful information can be transmitted, since the outcomes are random, but that does not falsify the original stateme
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by frutiger 4y ago
That’s the origin of the phrase “the King is dead, long live the King”.
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by frutiger 4y ago
> Does it make sense to use a password with -sk keys? I don't think it would make a difference either way. Only if you want to protect your keys from being used by someone that has access to the private key + yubikey (i.e. someone p
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by frutiger 4y ago
This is a weird claim anyway. If you're loading first-party content into the view, then it's no less secure than running, e.g. a Node.js script (or Python, Ruby, C++ program, Rust program, etc.) as the current user. A program you
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by frutiger 4y ago
I will plug my own Python program https://github.com/frutiger/concorde , which does depend on `requests` and `cryptography`.
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by frutiger 4y ago
There’s a reason a wine glass has a stem, after all. But more seriously, the main reason people don’t hold a glass by the stem is because they are used to receiving too heavy a pour, and it becomes unstable to hold by the stem.
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by frutiger 4y ago
Humans were probably eating mushrooms before they were eating meat, so that would make meat the original mushroomless mushroom.
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by frutiger 4y ago
Maybe a social network where you can only have (or follow) a maximum of 30 (or similar) people?
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by frutiger 4y ago
They can't push you out. In uncontrolled apartments, the rent gets renegotiated at the end of every lease term (usually 1 or 2 years). There are exceptions for rent controlled and rent stabilized apartments, where the landlords have ev
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by frutiger 4y ago
> Why _do_ rockstars trash their hotel rooms? How many rockstars don’t trash their hotel rooms? How many non-rockstars actually trash their hotel room? Or maybe this is more of a “no true Scotsman” thing.
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by frutiger 4y ago
This is a reference to the famous quip by Rabi: > The eventual recognition of the muon as a simple "heavy electron", with no role at all in the nuclear interaction, seemed so incongruous and surprising at the time, that Nobel l
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by frutiger 4y ago
Use the website from a desktop/laptop. Almost all the gamification takes a back seat there. Also don’t use the word bank - force yourself to do the freeform typing.
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by frutiger 4y ago
And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.
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by frutiger 4y ago
And of course fermions.
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by frutiger 4y ago
> Why Git came to dominate and not Mercurial? I was an early proponent of Mercurial over git. While they are similar, a few “minor” things made a big difference: Mercurial distinguished between branches and heads, whereas git did not. Th
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by frutiger 4y ago
I moved to the US from the UK a little over 10 years ago. The numeric month and day of my birthday happen to be the same. For this anecdote lets assume it’s 01/01/1970. When medical staff ask me for my date of birth, I’ll say “1st
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by frutiger 4y ago
> HN is not a place… However, HN is a place where we prefer to explain why someone (or something) is wrong instead of just saying that they are wrong with no further justification.
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by frutiger 4y ago
You can choose from either at no additional charge.
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by frutiger 4y ago
If my memory of AoE2 serves, there’s even an entire Age between them.
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by frutiger 4y ago
Yes, this just highlights the cognitive dissonance that systemd haters have.
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by frutiger 4y ago
> systemd is monolithic as opposed to the old Unix philosophy of small, simple tools that compose Isn't the typical Unix kernel that most users interact with a giant monolithic program with some runtime modules but mostly compile ti
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Europe to India via Tehran and Kabul: The Lost World of the Hippie Trail(bigthink.com)
6 points by frutiger 4y ago|1 comments
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by frutiger 4y ago
> The crazy thing is it's happened 4 times now. So it should be back to normal!

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