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by jholman 5y ago
I'm not sure what "update assistant" means, but I opened the Settings for Windows Update, and manually told it to check for updates, and it refused to give me anything. I wasn't waiting to be forced, I was proactively s
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by jholman 5y ago
Their release cycle is way more opaque than that. I had to wait literally over a year (after "release") for them to let me install the upgrade to Win10 that would give me WSL2 (I don't remember what version that was). They
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by jholman 5y ago
Holy shit, just linking to an meme weapon like that, and not warning people? Not cool! To the uninitiated, do not follow that link unless you don't have anything else you need to do today. It is famous for destroying days of producti
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by jholman 5y ago
Bought ABSB in 2010, still got the receipt, $43.13 Canadian. Tried to get an upgrade code to ABSB 2 in 2013. Never heard back, despite trying every email address I could find. Pretty disappointing. I hope you're doing well, though.
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by jholman 5y ago
The traditional extension of this joke is: "Hey. Don't oversimplify. First you gotta hammer them flat and trap lightning inside them."
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It's always a quiet little pleasure when someone uses "disclosure" correctly. :)
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Bank books worked like that in Canada in the late 80s or early 90s, yeah. It's interesting what seems impressive.
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by jholman 5y ago
I don't think Steam wants any more from me than any other payment processor. And for that matter, if you don't want to give them CC/address, you can use Steam gift cards, right? I confess I'm not sure; I've trusted
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by jholman 5y ago
> any two vertices are connected by (i.e. are the endpoints of) exactly one path No. You just described a connected acyclic graph, not a tree. In addition to being connected and acyclic, a tree must also have a root , and is thus implic
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by jholman 5y ago
You know the RCMP are the local police in rather a lot of Canada, including being the provincial police in 7 provinces, and the municipal police in a great many municipalities.
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by jholman 5y ago
Well, chicken me out!!
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I'd like to agree with you about the "nothing needs..." construction being incorrect, but remember that you're never allowed to accuse Shakespeare of using English poorly. All that glisters is not gold— Often have
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by jholman 5y ago
Fluent native English speaker here. "Not everything needs..." is definitely acceptable English, and sounds more-correct to my ears. It would also be fluent to write that sentence as "Some things do not need...". As a lo
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by jholman 5y ago
Agreed about the relevance of the quote you posted. Totally disagree about what it means, in terms of what violates the spec. I do care about conformance with the HTTP specs. REST doesn't even have a spec, so saying you don't co
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by jholman 5y ago
> If you want or need your API to be idempotent, use POST for creation and updating. This bit is wrong. First, implementing idempotence for your endpoint is UP TO YOU, no matter what method you use. For some methods (though not POST), i
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by jholman 5y ago
Help me out, where in the spec does it obligate the API designer to use verbs other than GET and POST?
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by jholman 5y ago
> several orders of magnitude more engineers than the US Wait, what? Several orders of magnitude, like at least 3 orders of magnitude? So even though India has 4x the population of the United States, it's training at least a thous
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by jholman 5y ago
I laughed and upvoted, but you never know. Maybe the utility curve turns a corner.
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As a non-American working (legally) for a while in America (in Silicon Valley), I ran into a situation where my visa lapsed and I wasn't sure where I stood legally (like I wasn't sure if I was even allowed to be in the country any
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by jholman 5y ago
> The only unions I have ever interacted with have been good ones. Wild. As a non-American non-employer, my current job is unionized, and I believe that union to be a major factor in the rampant dysfunction, though probably not the dri
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by jholman 5y ago
That sits on top of the ear, crushing the ear cartilage against the skull, right? How can anyone choose that style of headphone?
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by jholman 5y ago
ON THE ONE HAND..... The comment you replied to said "with a given ISA, how custom can the uarch be", implying that it would not be very custom. You replied, in your first paragraph, that on the contrary, it could be pretty cust
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by jholman 5y ago
Why would the default mode of operation for a 128-core datacenter chip be to have 120 idle cores? Obviously the default mode of operation is to run all cores, or very nearly all cores, at full tilt all of the time. This chip is designed to
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by jholman 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing with either of your paragraphs, they're both correct... but the thing to note is that, to some degree, they argue in opposite directions . That's because a consequence of the second paragraph is that it&
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by jholman 5y ago
I'm not close to any NASA missions at all, so this is just my take. It seems clear that NASA is more happy than not about what SpaceX is bringing to the table. Any model that spins a NASA-vs-SpaceX narrative is confused and wrong. I
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No kireji, no kigo, not even close.
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I wonder if it's a good way to hire "people who job with technology".
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Is this a test for "is the consistent with iOS"? I can spot all the differences (edit: hmn, not all of them, especially on Hard), but some of them are just worse. Who thinks "2h ago" should be as bright as the name? Wh
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by jholman 5y ago
btw fyi... on Rita's page, at the bottom, the Comics I Like hover effect is only showing 4 links, but there's a fifth all sneaky-like at the top (spacetrawler?). looks like a bug?
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Do you reject volunteering? Do you reject volunteering for non-profits? What about non-profits that have some paid employees? What about for-profit companies that you believe have a net positive effect on the world? What about jobs that

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