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by gurchik 5y ago
FTA: > For customers with Kindle (1st Generation), Amazon is offering a free Kindle Oasis (10th Generation) device and cover. > Customers with Kindle (1st and 2nd Generation), Kindle DX (2nd Generation), and Kindle Keyboard (3rd Gener
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> finding a way to communicate the opportunity cost of a meeting ... I don't need this app to do it, but it could help. The terminal UI is one thing. From my personal experience, displaying the running cost of meetings in my Zoom ca
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Sorry if I misunderstood but it sounds like you're saying engines aren't programmed to make random mistakes in order to lower playing strength, but this is how Stockfish works. Lowering the calculation depth and calculation time i
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While it might solve issues with the norm process, it introduces more problems, specifically that two players of equal rating can have vastly different performance against a computer because they don't play like humans do.
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Sorry, when I wrote my comment I didn't realize you might think I was implying you feel that way. That wasn't my intention. I was trying to call out a perspective in the article that I hadn't considered before (but that I ult
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I had never thought people might blame Dr. K for his death until I read the article. The man attempted suicide in the past before ever talking to Dr. K, his friends and family said he was constantly at risk of going through with it again de
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The person who suggested the same thing in the Homebrew PR was blocked: > devlinzed - We shouldn't accept a future where spyware is the norm and rely on this environment variable. We know how that turned out with HTTP Do Not Track.
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> I am writing a novel with it. Could you say more?
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I worked at a company where the DevOps team was having a hard time retaining employees. New engineers were staying on average for less than 1 year, and that was when we'd actually get candidates, oftentimes going months without a singl
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In one of the videos on the site it is explained that they are currently targeting people who want to build "backyard houses" or "ADUs" that are popular in some places like in California. Family members can live in them
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I'm confused by the screenshots, maybe someone else who knows more about the app can explain? In his tweet he says he was delivering for 3 hours but the trip history shows he was online for double that. If true it's misleading how
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I was looking into a device to use for on-call, intending to get a "dumb phone" that was a trade for a long battery life and a small form factor in exchange for only being able to call and text (which is all I would need anyway fo
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Hopefully the Jelly 2 works a lot better than the Jelly Pro. I bought one last year for work as I was finding it too stressful to use my personal phone for on-call, something that I could easily carry anywhere and cheap enough that I didn&#
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I've thought about dead man's switches as well, but with two differences: One, I think a week is too short, as another person has already said. I'm planning a week vacation soon and want to be unplugged the entire time. Also,
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I'm not familiar with formal verification, so forgive me. Could something like TLA+ be used to inch yourself towards a verifiable spec? Although you are moving the goalpost, the hope is that eventually your spec is so simple that it is
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And your story also demonstrates the power of marketing and of a company's or product's reputation. Frequently one has already decided to buy from a company before calling Sales to discuss the products, so of course the job of Sal