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by habitue 8y ago
Your advice is for an experienced driver who wants to become even better. The original commenter's scenario talked about novice vs. experienced. If you just tell a novice driver to scan everywhere, it's not actionable advice. Sinc
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by habitue 8y ago
You don't need 100% fool-proof internal movement tracking since it's just intended to reduce the volume of tourists in a particular area. I would think just limiting the number of tourist visas a particular destination airport can
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by habitue 8y ago
You can, but that only solves part of the problem: keeping pointer types from being used as the wrong type. You still have the equivalent of use-after-free to guard against which the lifetime system tracks for you for pointers, but not for
724.
by habitue 8y ago
I interpreted abraham's comment as "Right, it's just like the font tag, but the font tag is deprecated, so we use this instead". Implicit in my original comment was that "everybody knows the font tag is a bad idea s
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by habitue 8y ago
Ok, that's interesting. I guess I am out of the loop on this one
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by habitue 8y ago
Sorry for the confusion, I'm not criticizing hamdown, I'm commenting on the tachyon project that is linked to from the hamdown documents
727.
by habitue 8y ago
> The primary use of ether in its purest abstraction (ie not packaged in an index fund), is in the form of gas to power the individual steps of the computer. It is no more a security than the gasoline in your car. Yes, and the piece addr
728.
by habitue 8y ago
I'll save some people some typing and just post the next few comments in this conversation here: > I prefer just vanilla javascript, css, and html. They work fine, no bloated frameworks! > What do you do for templates? > Oh yo
729.
by habitue 8y ago
Ok, so usually I'm not a fan of the sarcastic "Hey, you just reinvented X! We've been doing that since the 90s!" But in this case: <h2 class=“f2 helvetica strike”>Fancy title <strong>with some bold<&
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by habitue 8y ago
No, they are definitely shutting off all TLS less than 1.2, it's required to keep PCI certification.
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Gibbard's Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
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732.
by habitue 8y ago
The GP means they were neutral with respect to the tech giants' ecosystems. They didn't favor Amazon or Microsoft or Google's tech. Consider that Apple, Google, and Microsoft all had GitHub organizations and hosted code there
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by habitue 8y ago
The fact is, there are way more attractive people than there are talented actors. So it's easy for Hollywood to make being attractive a prerequisite, and still get good actors
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by habitue 8y ago
A very important distinction between theft and adblocking is that you show yourself the ads. You (i.e. your browser on your behalf) requests that the server send you an html document, then you go and look up all of the ad links and make req
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by habitue 8y ago
Ok, well there goes that theory
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by habitue 8y ago
Likely Bluetooth 5 if I had to guess. Much higher bandwidth
737.
by habitue 8y ago
Ok, yes, this is how you promote scientific research to a lay audience: 1) They don't bury the lede. The first paragraph says what the result is immediately, if you understand it already, you're done reading. 2) Inverted pyramid
738.
by habitue 8y ago
The scene where Andy Dufresne told the warden he'd never tell anyone about cooking his books
739.
by habitue 8y ago
Can anyone clarify if the app dashboard or "wind down" modes are in the Android Beta? I couldn't find them
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by habitue 8y ago
Stack overflow was originally more like a wiki, with everything editable. Over time things got more immutable and marking questions as "community wiki" by default started being discouraged.
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by habitue 9y ago
The way Whatsapp encryption works, they don't have the keys to hand over. Telegram is unique in its state-vulnerable encryption implementation
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by habitue 9y ago
This is a Stage 0 proposal. Basically it means somebody with a connection to the TC39 (the committee in charge of the JavaScript standard) has thought this was a good enough idea to put together into a proposal. In terms of chances of stand
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by habitue 9y ago
Why can't there be?
744.
by habitue 9y ago
The X1 Yoga is what you're looking for. Has a 4K OLED touchscreen that looks amazing
745.
by habitue 9y ago
I'll be the guy this time: copyright violation is a different thing from stealing. I'm surprised after so long this meme is still going strong.
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by habitue 9y ago
Oh god. Atlantic, I love you but this one is over the top. Let's not do the whole "Silicon valley companies are in trouble because Facebook is in trouble". Nobody goes around saying "Food companies are all finally getti
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by habitue 9y ago
Brandur is not struggling with SQL[0][1]. That was an illustrative example of the kinds of walls you encounter in life as a programmer. [0]: https://brandur.org/postgres-reads [1]: https://brandur.org/postgr
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by habitue 9y ago
The argument you're making has often been made as "there are different kinds of genius". The research seems to have debunked this. Rather than seeing multiple ways to be a genius, we see some general intelligence ability that
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by habitue 9y ago
I think this is the kind of article where you have to mentally translate the self-help jargon to see if there is anything valuable in it for yourself. It's not actually a worthless article, but all the talk of synergy etc is going to t
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by habitue 9y ago
Seconded, Dynalist is like workflowy if they continued to improve the application. Totally worth moving to since workflowy is on life support

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