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by jarfil 7y ago
Nothing. They estimate an average compression based on an average dataset with uncompressed text data. That wouldn't work for things like already compressed video, audio, encrypted data, and so on.
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by jarfil 7y ago
France has an average suicide rate of 12 over 100,000 per year. A company with 100K employees and over 20 suicides per year, is concerning.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Average suicides per thousand workers of a company, maybe. The US has an average suicide rate of 13 per 100,000 per year, Facebook has 40,000 employees and right now a single suicide. They'd need at least 4 more to meet the average thi
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by jarfil 7y ago
It took a mass of people who just ignored the "presented herself as" part, and don't want to listen to an explanation. Was bound to happen sooner or later, he was never much of a political correctness guy.
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by jarfil 7y ago
That's less of a K8s issue and more of a general multiprocessing issue. Would you rather have: * 96x single-core CPUs with no multithreading * 1x 96-core CPU with multithreading, but running all cores at full power all the time * 1x 96
66.
by jarfil 7y ago
Depends on the kind of difficulty. If it's quantitative, as in requiring orders of magnitude more energy, mass or time, then yes. But it might be just more difficult qualitatively, like some different and non-intuitive way of interpret
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by jarfil 7y ago
"Radius" is a distance at which something stops happening, defining a boundary between some "inside" and some "outside". Interactions between particles, waves, fields, etc. are quantized, which means there is a
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by jarfil 7y ago
For Windows there is Gpg4win, which includes a port of Kleopatra.
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by jarfil 7y ago
A filesystem is a KV store; if you can solve a problem by storing data in files, then you can use a faster and more scalable KV solution. I think it makes more sense to think of KV as a minimalistic distributed filesystem, rather than as a
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by jarfil 7y ago
The alternatives are the police tasing portestors, the police shooting portestors, the military bombing portestors... If you want to protest "police brutality" or an "oppressive regime", you might as well sit there and t
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by jarfil 7y ago
I just opened a jar of curry sauce with an expiry date of 2018. I get it, the manufacturer doesn't want to deal with any potential liability, but otherwise this sauce is perfectly fine even when expired for over a year. Throwing food a
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by jarfil 7y ago
phpBB... I wonder how many of those accounts are just fake spam bot accounts.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Then you wouldn't need to write apps targeting kids, since no kids would be able to use them, and all of this doesn't apply to apps for adults.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Is breaking a bottle over your head, dousing yourself in gasoline and setting it on fire actually dangerous? You tell us.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Much like root, the president has the power of making split second decissions in extreme situations... and that's all right. But even dictators need to somehow explain their decisions or they risk getting kicked out.
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by jarfil 7y ago
With so many satellites up there, I'd be surprised if you could find any moment, anywhere on Earth, long enough that you could do something remotely important without several satellites being able to see you at the same time. They migh
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by jarfil 7y ago
Depends on how much it compresses and can expand when breached. The blast radius from uncompressible liquids like water is close to zero no matter the pressure, a metal shouldn't be much different.
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by jarfil 7y ago
It doesn't seem to be a gas, so applying pressure would be as easy as tightening the enclosure, like fastening a bolt. Cables could be made by just sticking a superconducting core inside a compression sleeve, although they'd proba
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by jarfil 7y ago
JavaScript itself is quite safe, more so if it's running isolated like in a browser. Trusting your data to a piece of JavaScript code sent by a remote server, though, is only as safe as the server.
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's cheaper to ship 10,000 items in a single container, than to ship each one separately, which is why mail carriers bundle items together (in bags, vans, containers, etc) instead of handling them separately all the way. Domestic mail
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by jarfil 7y ago
Which line: in Japan the line seems to be "real vs imaginary", in the US it seems to be "<18 vs 18+", which to me sounds more like a thought police. Much like the infamous "I'll know it when I see it".
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by jarfil 7y ago
How does this interact with git clean, reset and checkout?
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by jarfil 7y ago
Right now, Spain is importing over twice as much octopus as it's exporting. Actual Iberian octopus prices have gone up over a 400%, while most of the locally consumed (cheaper) stuff comes from Marocco and Mauritania.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Pretty much everyone, given the opportunity, is capable of noticing a switch or modification of paper ballots. Very few, even when given all the opportunities in the world, are capable of determining if something is wrong in the software or
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by jarfil 7y ago
"Child porn", which in the US can be anything ranging from raping newborns to sexually suggestive drawings of imaginary teenager characters.
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's kind of outrageous in the sense that the value of the resources that could be pulled out of it is many times higher than anything the US is willing to offer, and Denmark knows that.
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by jarfil 7y ago
1. None (the size of a photon). 2. Short & speed of light. 3. Irrelevant, since this is about whether it was actually doable, not about doing it efficiently. 4. The output particle is impossible to distinguish from the input one, but it
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by jarfil 7y ago
Swapping contiguous regions is sequential, and Windows will preemptively write non-locked regions to disk so it can instantly discard them when needed. You can force this behavior by dropping working sets, which has the effect of "conv
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by jarfil 7y ago
The problem is not about using simple words (which I totally support, BTW), but the speed and complexity of grasping new concepts. Having to decompose, simplify and slowly explain each element of a concept, vs. just saying the thing once an
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by jarfil 7y ago
Does it? I was under the impression that all the installed RAM got refreshed all the time whether it holds useful data or not.

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