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by hesk 5y ago
The difference is that a US merchant must accept US dollar for your purchase but must not, and in fact does not, accept cryptocurrency.
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by hesk 5y ago
The homepage looks really interesting. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
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by hesk 5y ago
I happy with command line interface. That's just my workflow.
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by hesk 5y ago
What's a good Lisp dialect to write small programs in? I have some Emacs Lisp experience but I wouldn't use it to automate small tasks. For that, I typically use Python.
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by hesk 5y ago
Thanks!
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by hesk 5y ago
How does geizhals compare to idealo?
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by hesk 5y ago
Two questions: 1) How does a core know in which private cache of another core it can put the evicted data? Wouldn't that just remove data from that other core's cache that the other core needs? 2) Cores in today's processors
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by hesk 5y ago
AFIAK, Protonmail private keys are kept client-side. They are decrypted by the password inside the browser UI.
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by hesk 5y ago
So, I'm reading the linked article by RMS about Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) [1] which is one of the reasons why they object against GitHub Copilot. The key argument why as SaaSS is ethically wrong is because it denies cont
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by hesk 5y ago
I think a bike is one of those items that you have to try out before you buy it, so I would not buy it online and I also would not go to Google to research it (at least initially). When I was in the market for a new bike a few years ago, I
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by hesk 5y ago
> It's important that people be able to speak to power, and a core part of that for humanity is socializing, being able to form groups to support each other and pool ideas, skills and resources to have a greater effect than what any
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by hesk 5y ago
Just say no.
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Neil Sardesai: They should just place the tabs vertically(twitter.com)
2 points by hesk 5y ago|1 comments
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by hesk 5y ago
I read that to mean that there is not "us" only "me".
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by hesk 5y ago
OT: In my recollection that comic ends with the 'That's terrifying' panel. Does XKCD ever update comics or is that a new iteration?
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by hesk 5y ago
Fine them 4% of their annual revenue.
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by hesk 5y ago
Is this the same as Filevault or is it something different?
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by hesk 5y ago
I can relate. I went through a clean install recently because my last was about 5 years ago and I wanted to start fresh instead of installing from a Time Machine backup. I had a checklist from last time in my notes and remembered that it on
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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house(theguardian.com)
1 points by hesk 5y ago|1 comments
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by hesk 5y ago
It's well known that Google uses clicks on search result as a preference signal to modify its ranking. This way, decisions by users turn into decisions by the algorithm.
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by hesk 5y ago
At first I thought the headline referred to Bill Ewasko who has been missing in Joshua Park since 2010 [1]. I came across that story after somebody on HN posted about the Death Valley Germans [2]. A couple of hours well-spent. [1] https:&#
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by hesk 5y ago
SQLite is great! But if you have mainly analytical queries over your data, you might want to give DuckDB [1] a go. It's an embedded database that uses a columnar representation similar to MonetDB (it's from the same group). [1] h
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by hesk 5y ago
Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing.
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by hesk 6y ago
My favorite bakery treats are Franzbrötchen from Butter Lindner. They are a deli bakery chain, and I'm sure that in Hamburg you can find a local bakery that makes better ones, but they are oh so delicious.
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by hesk 6y ago
> In fact, the bread is so fresh that once you slice it, it's really only good for two or three days max until it starts to get stale. If you put sliced bread in the freezer it stays fresh for a long time. I often get bread sliced a
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by hesk 6y ago
In addition to the answer by skykooler, virtual GPUs also allow you to set hard resource limits (e.g., amount of L2 cache, number of streaming multiprocessors), so different workloads do not interfere with each other.
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by hesk 6y ago
Since you're already using brew, I am running emacs-plus@27 on Big Sur on an MacBook Air M1 and it works perfectly. brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus brew install emacs-plus@27 Edit: code
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by hesk 6y ago
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Who needs Twitter when you have TV?
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End of Neanderthals linked to flip of Earth's magnetic poles, study suggests(theguardian.com)
3 points by hesk 6y ago|0 comments
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by hesk 6y ago
The macOS mail client shows an unsubscribe button.

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