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by ginko 7mo ago
Not to be a stickler (ok I like being a stickler) but temperature delta, especially deltas between degrees celsius, should be given in kelvin. A 1.8K difference makes sense. A 1.8C difference would be 274.8 kelvin!
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by ginko 7mo ago
During that peak Vienna’s housing situation was infamously bad though. You’d have single rooms shared by multiple families and beds being used by multiple people on a timetable.
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by ginko 7mo ago
>The math for Bezier curves is usually a bit beyond me, but this seems to use a simple lerp (linear interpolation) to split. Why is that valid? This can be explained through the bezier's polar form (aka blossom). There's plent
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by ginko 7mo ago
I'm Austrian myself. There's plenty of potato dumplings etc., but they're just variants of other flour/cheese based dumplings. Potatoes are important but certainly not indispensable. Compare that to pork for instance. Re
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by ginko 7mo ago
Honestly I find the impact of the Columbian exchange on cuisine of the old world overblown. Tomatoes potatoes and corn a sure are great, but you can do without them. Italian cuisine was different but most of the modern elements were in plac
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by ginko 8mo ago
I still think someone should set up a voice chat bot that answers to "Computer!" and has Majel Barrett's monotone voice.
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by ginko 8mo ago
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by ginko 8mo ago
I don't mind ok and cancel being on opposite sides. It's mainly ok not being bottom-right that bothers me.
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by ginko 8mo ago
I'm mainly team monorepo because working with git submodules is such an needlessly miserable experience. At work we have a pretty large project with many teams having moved to using nested git submodules for their stuff. Whenever you c
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by ginko 8mo ago
Notice how they moved the ok & cancel buttons to the bottom right since it’s the more logical location to put them. Meanwhile gtk now puts those on opposite sides of the window title bar by default.
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by ginko 8mo ago
>And that's why it's probably not China. I mean, why would they make it that obvious? That's just what they want you to think!
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by ginko 8mo ago
Poor guys would have to reduce margins from 50% to 40%. ;_;
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by ginko 8mo ago
The Mona Lisa is a panel painting and doesn't use canvas.
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by ginko 8mo ago
Why were forward slashes so popular in computing product names in the 70s and 80s? PL/0, PS/2, CP/M, etc.
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by ginko 8mo ago
As a longterm thunderbird user I find this annoying. I appreciate it being maintained more actively again but I really liked the fact that the UI stayed stable for years. Changing things to make them "more modern" is just annoying
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by ginko 8mo ago
He's a college dropout that never done any research. He's a salesman.
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by ginko 8mo ago
>In the end, the console wars of the late 1990s were won by Nintendo, which built on the momentum of the Nintendo 64 by launching the GameCube in 2001, along with an arsenal of handheld systems Does the author live in a parallel universe
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by ginko 8mo ago
Most diving computers have replaceable batteries. Same for waterproof quartz watches. Why do you think this is impossible for mobile phones?
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by ginko 8mo ago
How can it be treason if they’re not even US citizens?
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by ginko 8mo ago
The wikipedia article gives a lot more detail and history than this fluff piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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by ginko 8mo ago
Is it really so hard for you people to imagine that MAYBE, there's politicians that see what social media look like these days and think they might want to do something against that? The fact that all of these companies aren't Eur
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by ginko 8mo ago
So if I offer my services providing electricity through a bicycle transformer for the cheap cheap price of $1000 per kWh does that mean everyone has to pay that price.
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by ginko 8mo ago
Qr apps just sound cumbersome compared to contactless tap to pay.
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by ginko 8mo ago
What's the value of it being online? Surely being able to run it as a native application would be preferable?
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by ginko 8mo ago
Not grandparent but I was rather thinking of medieval city centers in Italy or Spain. edit: Case in point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxYQWHrzSMES8HPL8 This is an alley in Coimbra, Portugal. A couple years ago I stayed at a ho
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by ginko 8mo ago
"user" feels quite descriptive and neutral to me. It's a person that uses the device they own or are given access to. That's it. I'm the (super-)user of my Linux PC. I have total ownership and control over it. Argua
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by ginko 8mo ago
Wouldn't circumventing trademark lockouts like this be fair use under "Sega v. Accolade"[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
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by ginko 9mo ago
Intel has been making GPUs since the late 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_process...
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by ginko 9mo ago
Fluid in heat pipes moves through capillary action.
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by ginko 9mo ago
>The "salute" in particular is simply a politically-expedient freeze-frame from a Musk speech, where he said "my heart goes out to you all" and happened to raise his arm. Yeah, no. I thought so as well initially but t

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