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by htk 6y ago
Oh boy that e-mail chain looks interesting! But I’ll reserve my judgement until it gets released.
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by htk 6y ago
This is something that bothers me too. When I read/hear someone using curse words needlessly I take it as a sign of insecurity about one's eloquency.
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by htk 6y ago
There’s a great book on the history of Windows NT (precursor of Windows 2000) called “Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft”.
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by htk 6y ago
I don't know if everyone here is familiar with this, but the decline of Flash began or was greatly influenced by Apple's decision to not let flash run on iPhones/iPads. Steve Jobs even wrote an open letter about it[1]. [1] ht
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by htk 6y ago
Exactly what I was trying to say but in much better words.
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by htk 6y ago
Did anyone try this using AirPods Pro? On the iPhone’s speaker it sounds fine, on the AirPods I hear a lot of crackling noises between notes. Maybe the successive playback and stop of individual sounds messes up something in the compression
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by htk 6y ago
Yesterday I stumbled upon a post here about a guy trying to use a Pi as his main machine for a couple of days, and one of his conclusions was that he needed 8GB of ram to run Chromium acceptably, and I thought, hardware evolved to these ama
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by htk 6y ago
Hard to take this article serious, they compare Brazil to other countries in number of deaths like all countries had the same number of people, they talk about the number of infections being not reliable like it's not a widespread prob
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by htk 6y ago
Interesting way to see it. For anyone wondering how unreliable it is, think instead that the trade off was well planned.
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by htk 6y ago
I get what he’s saying, but the “non-experts” using code to represent their models should also let outside help come when the need arises. When your model predicts an apocalyptical scenario and government is taking drastic measures based on
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by htk 6y ago
I would say it depends on complexity. Either algorithmic or UI complexity. Web apps just aren’t as efficient as Desktop apps, and at this moment this is still relevant in various cases, probably in many less in the future.
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Scam: Tony Robbins 5000BTC GiveAway(youtu.be)
1 points by htk 6y ago|0 comments
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by htk 6y ago
Fear mongering at its best. No causation, just correlation. And the correlation is imperfect, kids who tested negative for covid also had the illness.
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by htk 6y ago
Confirmed cases are not the total number of cases.
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by htk 7y ago
Is this utility comparing to the same resulting quality?
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by htk 7y ago
Bolsonaro has no negotiation skills, and is (frankly) bad at mostly everything, but he's got a good finance minister who's saying that the country just can't stop creating value, but what is the right balance? Mandetta, the p
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by htk 7y ago
The potential for disaster was enormous, but in the end everything went well. In retrospect it was so goofy that the humorous tone of the writing was fitting and made it a much more interesting read.
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by htk 7y ago
At first I thought people would be in general more afraid of debt, as the world could stop spinning at any moment but payments still had to be made. However, now with all these government aids it might point to the other direction as in “i
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by htk 7y ago
Very accurate simulation as in two minutes of trying it I'm already getting crazy with the whistling and typing.
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Zoom updates Mac installer to remove PreFlight installation method(macrumors.com)
1 points by htk 7y ago|0 comments
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by htk 7y ago
Maybe I didn’t get this right but does it really come without a stand/mount? And only those two options are compatible?
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by htk 7y ago
For anyone interested, a hygienic shower works even better, and needs no extra space like a traditional bidet does.
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by htk 7y ago
One could argue that the greatest weakness in this case is in holding your life savings in cryptocurrency.
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by htk 7y ago
UOL is a leftist website.
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Supercars Are Doing Away with Windshields(wsj.com)
4 points by htk 7y ago|0 comments
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Which Conversations with Tyler guest is your intellectual doppelgänger?(app.involve.me)
1 points by htk 7y ago|0 comments
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by htk 7y ago
Why I don’t believe it’s accurate: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by htk 7y ago
AFTER FIFTY YEARS, billions of dollars of intensive marketing campaigns, and tens of billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies, it is still far from clear that antidepressant drugs are any more effective than placebo. The
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Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside Official Maps(eyeondesign.aiga.org)
81 points by htk 7y ago|22 comments
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by htk 7y ago
Actually in any science. He was surrounded by knowledgeable people pointing the flaws in his work and he didn't learn anything from it. Maybe it’s one form of lunacy.

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