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by joombaga 7y ago
Why? Are lasers hard to "jam" (I'm using quotes because it seems weird to use "jam" with optical media, but maybe that's just me)?
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by joombaga 7y ago
Ah okay thanks. I didn't realize you could close it with the screen inside.
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by joombaga 7y ago
> desert "dessert". Easy mnemonic: It's so sweet they had to give it two S's :) (thanks Justin McElroy)
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by joombaga 7y ago
They're all called with the wrapper function takeFunctionNameAndInterpretAsFunction It's the only function with a body.
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by joombaga 7y ago
> The Surface Duo features two 5.6-inch displays that can rotate 360 degrees, allowing it to be fully unfolded as a miniature unfold to 8.3-inch tablet. Unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems like you wouldn't ever need more tha
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by joombaga 7y ago
Are you comparing a call to a definition? `trim_string "$my_str"` is no less readable than `my_str.strip()`.
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by joombaga 7y ago
You got it! `test` is a shell builtin. `[` is basically syntactic sugar, and is a synonym for `test` with the additional requirement that the last argument must be a closing bracket `]`. `[[` is a shell keyword with more features.
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by joombaga 7y ago
How was it used?
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by joombaga 7y ago
I believe Sublime does offer the brilliance of vim. And I use vim too! They take about the same time to configure to similar levels of usability. Sometimes a more native UI is preferable. Notepad++ has a bit more built-in. There's so
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by joombaga 7y ago
Dropbox gives you 2TB for $10/month. Office 365 Business Essentials, which is the cheapest plan and comes with 1 TB of storage (as you said) is $5/user/month*6users = $30/month So same price for the storage, but you also
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by joombaga 7y ago
I prefer lower case. The height difference makes the letters easier to read IMO.
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by joombaga 7y ago
What's the tendency when a study with a small sample size that show a large observed effect get performed on larger samples? Has it been studied?
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by joombaga 7y ago
HN doesn't support markdown strikethrough, but here's the text in unicode: p̶o̶r̶t̶a̶l̶s̶
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by joombaga 7y ago
To flip this completely on its head, I'd be interested to see how childhood mortality rates have been affected by major events in plastics.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Is there a problem with their definitions?
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by joombaga 7y ago
It looks like more of the info was taken from the Yahoo! Japan source. The original URL may be the better choice.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Okay, but if 1 of my 3 highest urgency vulnerabilities is known to have been exploited in the wild, and is easy to exploit, then I may want to focus on that one over the other 2.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Tiling horizontally or vertically are unfortunately gone in Windows 10. In Windows 7 (or Vista?) it was removed from the taskbar entry context menu, but you could still do it from Task Manager.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Input is at the top of the console for me in Firefox on macOS.
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by joombaga 7y ago
I googled it. pros·o·pag·no·sia /ˌpräsəpaɡˈnōZH(ē)ə/ noun PSYCHIATRY a neurological condition characterized by the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Same with my bank, and I ported my Voice number to my carrier.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Most of the world uses kilojoules instead of calories.
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by joombaga 7y ago
Does Amazon do lossless?
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by joombaga 7y ago
My natural assumption was "QC/supply chain issues", because I've seen those too. In this case the designer actually posted about the issue on a forum, which was later linked by the publisher.
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by joombaga 7y ago
For me it's board games, and more specifically expansions. The last expansion I bought had slightly differently colored card backs than the base game, meaning you could tell if someone had expansion cards and making the expansion unusa
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by joombaga 7y ago
No, but it's less convenient, less trackable, and less safe than e.g. a credit card.
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by joombaga 8y ago
> CxO are rarely held accountable for their missteps by the board. Why is that?
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by joombaga 8y ago
And to put this in perspective, the average agricultural household makes Rs 107172 annually, or ~1526.26 USD. https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417N...
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by joombaga 8y ago
My experience is the opposite. Every little external sound is distracting. It's only when I'm ignoring some audio that I can think about problems holistically.
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by joombaga 8y ago
During the morning routine, during commute, at work, after work, with a friend on road trips. Any time really. I usually start something in the morning and lose focus as I'm working (which is kinda the goal).

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