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by jsmith45 4y ago
But the gold standard has its own issues. The gold standard is effectively a system of pegging all participating currencies to one another. A dollar is X milli-ounces of gold, a Pound Stirling is Y milli-ounces. They are effectively pegged
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by jsmith45 4y ago
> A captain is given wide latitude in how to run His ship. Sure. On the other hand, an admiral is technically allowed to micromanage the ships under his command. They seldom do because it can lean to needless conflicts, hurt egos, etc. W
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by jsmith45 5y ago
I've not seen much issue from UEFI beyond mobo manufacturers occasionally releasing really buggy firmware. UEFI also permits rather advanced features. For example, if a mobo manufacvtorer wanted to, they could theoretically code in sup
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Yeah, I must say I prefer the math teaching approach of: 1. Explain some problem that is difficult to solve using other techniques. Ideally the problem should be interesting, even if potentially somewhat abstract. 2. Propose a technique to
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Decimal representations have one really minor advantage: they behave more the way people expect with respect to which numbers are exactly representable especially in the size ranges of every-day numbers, since they exhibit mostly the same b
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The EU's proposed Digital Services act mandates a proper appears process for account suspension/termination related to transmitting "illegal content", is "or incompatible with its terms and conditions". This ap
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by jsmith45 5y ago
I am also aware of several Vancouver businesses (some of which are technically in other cities like Delta) that would also strongly oppose Point Roberts being ceded. It makes it easy to offer non-international shipping to US customers, by w
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by jsmith45 5y ago
> I think Solid is in this camp too, but I haven't used it. Correct. Solid is all about signals (reactive values). When you run any effect (rendering updates are effects created behind the scenes for you), it will get run once immed
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The last DST change gave about a year and a half notice. This also gives a year and a half notice. But that is a super, super weird date given that it means we would set the clocks back, and then set them forward again about 2 weeks later.
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The late changes to daylight saving time rules pretty much always mean that for several days to potentially over a month, users will be encountering systems with the incorrect time. Often times they will try to "correct it" by man
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by jsmith45 5y ago
One could also see this article as pointing out that these uncured meats are actually cured, but simply using an unapproved curing agent, and thus must by law be misleadingly labeled as uncured, and must be misleadingly labeled as no nitrat
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Which is weird given that the term that allows them to modify the terms explicitly referenced number 18 as an exception. The only valid argument for it being legal to discontinue this on you is that G-Suite is not GApps, and both are discon
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Purchases won't go anywhere. You will be forced to the new plan, and then when you fail to pay you will lose access to the mail and the workspace apps (so will lose Docs Sheets, etc access), but the account remains a valid google accou
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by jsmith45 5y ago
I'm really confused by this complaint. If I hit a restaurant's order button I get taken to food.google.com where I am asked to pick a platform to order on, which includes doordash, grubhub, or the restaurants own website (if avail
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Hardly a surprise. From what i have heard, it sounds like Google's internal use of GCP is mostly automated, using internal apis. I.e. it sounds like are not clicking through the screens, or even using the external version of the APIs.
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by jsmith45 5y ago
It does not help that there are two number 4s in the article, but I'm assuming you mean the "don't read text off a slide" one, which yeah has very few situations where it would make sense to break.
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by jsmith45 5y ago
One major problem with it is that even in those dialects, a double negative can also be a positive, and outside of some semi-fixed constructs that mandate one or the other interpretation in that dialect, the distinction relies things like t
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The US wants Russia to stop trying to attack and annex its neighbors, including Ukraine. My understanding is that Putin can't stop the invasion of Ukraine without looking so weak that he is liable to be immediately pushed out of power
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The ransomware protection (Controlled Folder access) blocks write to controlled folders. The admin specifies folders to be protected, which by default includes a bunch of user profile folders like "Documents". At that point no ap
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Some asterisks were eaten from the file as well. Right before the .mum on each of those lines there should be a asterisk, as the goal is to glob for all the mum files related to that feature. The exact file names change depending on platfor
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by jsmith45 5y ago
`dotnet-dump analyze` allows analysis of dumps on Linux using the same SOS debugging commands that work under windbg. They even added some native memory examination commands. You are lacking the rest of a native debugger, but well, asking t
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Super Mario RPG did frying pan as a melee weapon back in 1996. Sure it was character locked, a single player game in a totally different genre, etc, but it still means frying pans ere an established video game melee weapon long before befor
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The realistic definition would be that if a human could not reasonably be expected to drive in it (fog/smog with less than 6 inches visibility, hurricane, blizzard, military invasion) then the cars are not required to drive it in. And
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by jsmith45 5y ago
The gap between level 4 and level 5 is huge. Basically, if you can find videos online of Waymo giving up and requesting backup for a situation not severe enough for humans to do the same, then you are not really at level 5 yet. If you canno
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by jsmith45 5y ago
I think to the extent that that a program needs interactivity whether via network, or some form of user interface, it is pretty normal to see something at least vaugely OOPish if you squint right in the overall program structure. This can b
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Perhaps this commit?: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Glob... Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487441
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Sure but if you have code like the following: pid = vfork(); if (pid==0) { int something; exec(); // cleanup code that uses something _exit(1); } Then the compiler (which knows `_exit`
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by jsmith45 5y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but from what I have gathered with respect to domestic Fedwire based wire transfers: Fedwire is arguably the main settlement system used in the US between banks that participate in the federal reserve, w
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by jsmith45 5y ago
Not all hooks are implemented in terms of reducers. `useMemo`, `useCallback`, `useRef` for example are not based on reducers, (or effects). Obviously the effect hooks are based on effects not reducers, and some like ` useDeferredValue` are
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by jsmith45 5y ago
> Lactose is a specific, well-understood example of some people absorbing nutrients much better than others. I think there are other examples, and I expect there's a lot of variation in absorption efficiency that's less known.

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