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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I bought a laptop with a 1920x1200 display in 2007. It was a 17" Dell, but still, it took nearly ten years before higher resolutions became common.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
uBlock Origin works very well for me. uBlock non-Origin is abandoned, you should probably switch if you're still using that.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I think the following bit at the very bottom of the article suggests that it isn't: " HDR+ will be the first application to run on Pixel Visual Core. Notably, because Pixel Visual Core is programmable, we’re already preparing the
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yes, someone linked a news article here about a tragic accident in Munich. The truck driver was cleared of all charges. Sometimes genuine accidents happen. But that's not what the article or this discussion are about, is it? I don&#x27
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I think the argument goes something like this. We fine people who text while driving because it’s a distraction, potentially leading to dangerous situations that might otherwise be avoided. Thus, if you kill someone while texting and drivin
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
No, they recognise the danger cars pose to others and the responsibility this places on drivers. What makes cars so special that it's seen as okay when a person is killed with one?
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I think the suggestion is rather that it should be a felony to kill someone in an accident, unless that person was acting recklessly (e.g. running a red light).
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Making Pizza for Hungry Hackers at Scale(4z2.de)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
On the other hand, if a serious issue is detected after a specific version has already migrated to testing, the package will never (automatically) migrate to testing as long as new blocking issues keep being found. This can make testing r
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Don't use the PIN as key, but something long and random, and encrypt it with the PIN. When you change the PIN, you only have to re-encrypt the key.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
For Twitter, you can disable video autoplay in the account settings and whitelist twitter.com in the extension. But there are other sites where this doesn't work.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yeah except most of Europe is in the Central time zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe . Sometimes I encounter GMT/BST times but only when looking at UK things. It's all CET/CEST here.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
that's only the first minute. robin_reala has a full-length youtube version that's also high definition.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
But please think twice before turning off safe browsing! Contrary to what some seem to believe, it doesn't send your entire browsing history to Google. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779990 for an explanatio
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I really enjoyed "Efficient Modern C++". I'd describe it as a good overview of new features in C++11 and 14, how to use them, and how they fit together, but I'm not sure whether it makes for a good "C++ for C progra
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The use of voting machines has been ruled unconstitutional in Germany: http://www.bverfg.de/e/cs20090303_2bvc000307en.html (English version of the ruling!). Only paper ballots are used in Germany, and they are counted
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
s/hardware/adware/ - I was confused there for a second, but on second thought this could likely have been by autocorrect.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
While I agree that Superfish was a disaster, keep in mind that it did not affect the ThinkPad line at all. From what I heard, the consumer and business lines have strong separation inside Lenovo. I have lost all trust in their consumer divi
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Well why wouldn't you hire the minority candidate given otherwise identical qualifications? Among others, this encourages students of said minorities to apply, leading to more qualified applicants. How you construe this as a negative i
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
A CS student at my university (not MIT) just raised the exact same points yesterday, so I'd say it's pretty damn relevant. It may have become less overt, but it's no less of a shit place to be a woman in 2017 than it was in 1
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I know ThinkPad laptops have this (mine is set to charge up to 90% and only start charging if it's below 80%), and I think I've seen it in some custom kernels for Android ROMs a few years ago, but I'm not aware of any popular
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Oh quit the nonsense! I'm paying nowhere near 40€ for my credit card in Germany (and have no minimum transfer volume requirement). Also, ⅓ of Germans have a credit card: https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
A new mac Mini with 8GB RAM is 819€ in Germany. A new iPhone 7 32GB is 759€. That's 1578€, or $1880. Add a one-year developer subscription and you're still below $2000. Your claim is just plain wrong.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Your numbers are incorrect, iOS market share is around 22% in the EU5 (GB, DE, FR, IT, ES) according to https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/iOS-and-Android... . And according to https://www.kant
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Sure, the amount of materials needed exceeds what current technology can get even into LEO by several orders of magnitude. Nobody's proposing to actually build a lunar space elevator. All I'm saying is that a super-advanced civili
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's nothing valid about it, it's a misspelling and a grammatical mistake.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
A lunar space elevator is feasible with today's materials (just a whole lot of them, way too much for current technology to transport to the moon). Here's a nice talk by Markus Landgraf, a mission planner at ESA, at 33c3: https:&
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Reuters is British and was bought by Thomson, legally a Canadian company, in 2008. Its headquarters remain in London.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Income includes capital gains, not only wages. "Income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents, and other forms of earnings received... in a given period of time." Case, K. & Fair, R. (2007)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I think it's more likely that 34 years were chosen because 1980 - 34 = 1946 makes sense for a post-WW2 analysis. The graph doesn't vary wildly for most of the time (most of the change is a fairly smooth motion), so it seems unlike

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