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by jussij 3y ago
Here in Australia Chromebooks were popular in schools, but in recent years they have lost their gloss: https://au.pcmag.com/laptops/95381/demand-for-google-chromeb...
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by jussij 3y ago
You can still program today without using an IDE. Just ask any Vim or Emacs user.
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by jussij 3y ago
You can get by using the agnostic names for the functions, because the windows header files will handle the conversions for you. For example, inside the WinUser.h header you'll find this MessageBox definition: #ifdef UNICODE
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by jussij 3y ago
This sounds like it might be a form of retaliation against the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act. The problem China faces going forward; while this might cause some disruption in the short term, this is not a good long-term strategy, as it w
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by jussij 3y ago
Snowy Hydro 2 was a scam from day one. It was created by a LNP government so that it could convince voter it cared about climate change. Once that leader was ousted the truth came out and the real LNP climate denial was there for all to see
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by jussij 3y ago
Why is it, despite having some of the largest LNG gas resources in the world, the Eastern states of Australia pay more for their LNG than customers in Asia? Is it a coincidence that Western Australia (WA), a state with the most government r
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by jussij 3y ago
There are plenty of youtube videos showing Wagner forces control the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. They can't all be fake.
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by jussij 3y ago
That was Prigozhin originally position. He offered support to the president and the government, just not Shoigu. But things might have changed since that first statement, because since then Putin has now come out on Russian TV denouncing th
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by jussij 3y ago
I'm not sure the Kremlin is full of irrational individuals ready see their country totally annihilated. I suspect the Kremlin is full of self-serving individuals determined to look after their own self-interest. They'll be happy
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by jussij 3y ago
The language cetainly seems to like using that 'dot' operator: const exe = b.addExecutable(.{ .name = "demo", .root_source_file = .{ .path = "src/main.zig" }, .target = target
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by jussij 4y ago
What are the 'consequences of getting this wrong'? Surely if a company has 'y' users all wanting to use a software product that company purchases y+1 licenses just to make sure they are covered. The problem is a company
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by jussij 4y ago
And surely that's a problem for the employee's company, only because they're the ones imposing the restriction, not some external third party.
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by jussij 4y ago
Bond yield and price are inversely related, meaning when the price goes up the yield goes down and vice versa and this relationship creates the risk. If a company buys low interest bonds (i.e. interest is yield) in a market where interest r
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by jussij 4y ago
I'm not sure how this idea is even considered unique in the computing world as we have been able to talk to computers for decades. For example, Dargon's Naturally Speaking is several decades old and it lets you talk to the compute
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by jussij 4y ago
This is the beauty of modern C++. The code has become so hard to read (without years of prior knowledge) that as a human, it's rather hard to find any possible errors. The code can take on a Schrodinger state where it appears both righ
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by jussij 4y ago
Not sure what this has to do with the Australian Government? This particular item of lost property belongs to a mining company, and since they don't want to take the blame, they've already trying to passed the blamed onto the cont
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by jussij 4y ago
I suspect that might b the same story in a few other countries around the world. Here in Australia, we had a decade of these 'climate wars'.
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by jussij 4y ago
I was recalling my time writing Windows applications using C and Win16/Win32. That combination made it easy to write a badly behaved application; a stray C pointer here, an uninitialized handle there and before you know it, you've
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by jussij 4y ago
For anyone who was actually around at that time you need to remember Windows was Windows 95 and that meant a badly behaved application generally required a reboot. From what I remember of that time, Windows Explorer seemed a little faster,
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by jussij 4y ago
There are attempts being made to store Hydrogen as 'green ammonia' which hopes to totally eliminate those issues: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-11/queensland-hydrogen-t...
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by jussij 4y ago
The Sydney Metro has 22 driver-less trains operating across 13 stations: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/australia...
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by jussij 4y ago
On any given day, our hospitals — by design — operate at 90 to 100% capacity. That's why we have sought waivers to allow critical access hospitals to operate above their licensed capacity Peel wrote. https://www.politifact
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by jussij 4y ago
The event in 2014 that you refer to was the Revolution of Dignity and once again the concept of revolution goes hand in hand with the concept of democracy. Revolutions only happen when the people of a country are so fed up with their lack o
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by jussij 4y ago
If you have just one patient in hospital with COVID and no other ailment that will represent a degradation of the 'normal' operation of the hospital. If you have 10% of the hospital population in hospital with COVID (and just for
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by jussij 4y ago
The coupe you speak of was the Ukrainian General Election. In the west that is referred to as democracy.
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by jussij 4y ago
Firstly the date on the link you provided is from Jan 11, 2022, 9:52 AM so it's a little dated when considering a fast moving pandemic. Further googling reveals this similar headline: "Over 40% of NYC’s COVID-infected hospital pat
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by jussij 4y ago
Someone with a broken arm will most certainly take up a seat in the hospital waiting room, but would be unlikely to be taking up a bed in hospital. Someone with COVID could well be in hospital for weeks if not months and if things get serio
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by jussij 4y ago
The reason Ukraine is at war with Russia is because Ukraine refused to accept Putin's puppet leader, Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainians got fed up with Viktor Yanukovych and his corrupt government so they voted him out. That annoyed Put
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by jussij 4y ago
Another big difference is how much pressure COVID can exert on the hospital system. The COVID hospitalization rates are magnitudes larger than the worst ever flu season.
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by jussij 4y ago
Most of the features listed seemed fairly standard for any programming editor. But what surprised me was this requirement: > Autosave on focus lost I'm not sure why any software would initiate a save that was not requested by the us

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