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by lozenge 4y ago
If you chose to build a train with only two stops, yes you could get from one side to the other in only a few minutes. That would have its downsides, like the station not being near your destination, which is why it's rarely done. You
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by lozenge 4y ago
All the owners of the back catalogues decided to go into direct competition with Netflix.
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by lozenge 4y ago
You are talking as if your salary is related to the revenue/value you bring to the business? That may be the theoretical upper limit, but the more important factor is the minimum you would accept, ie the labor market. Or the cost of re
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's a question of priorities. Microsoft must have realised these edge cases were slowing development down and how many people really want to run a game or a CD burner software from 1998? Of course, this could all have been avoided wit
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by lozenge 4y ago
Inequality has been found to cause crime, poor health, child poverty (ie something that prevents children from developing properly and reaching the same economic productivity as their peers), etc. Some effects are felt by the rich. For exam
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by lozenge 4y ago
"The idea that there would be a complete backtrack in labor rights and labor safety" Our economy has always relied on people lacking labor rights or safety. From serfdom, to colonialism, to slavery, to police fighting strikes, to
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by lozenge 4y ago
Good point. Still, this could have been caught by fuzzing, which is a term coined in 1988.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Yeah, they could have caught this with even the most basic Github Actions workflow.
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's a city state without the state as it isn't internationally recognised.
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by lozenge 4y ago
This can indicate an oversupply of recruiters which is in the process of correcting.
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by lozenge 4y ago
I have fond memories of the Gruffalo, but I'm not keeping it...
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by lozenge 4y ago
The article doesn't say the publishers are taking a loss. Maybe their larger print runs let them offer retailers higher margins?
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by lozenge 4y ago
And it doesn't support window and monitor layouts that were possible and useful in Visual Studio 2003, or probably earlier.
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by lozenge 4y ago
I didn't think it's a good video. If Microsoft s latest apps don't have a consistent design, they have spent more money on designing each of them separately. Each of those hover effects and custom title bars needed to be co
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by lozenge 4y ago
There was already a multi-year pay freeze in the NHS that added up to about 10-15% pay cut. If they reversed it and started giving the 10% annual inflation raise, then yes it could go some way to helping. However, that is so far out of the
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by lozenge 4y ago
If you use Firebase the syncing and offline access comes for free. I suspect most of the first mobile developers used to be web developers and then they taught the future generations of mobile developers to also be like web developers. Quer
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by lozenge 4y ago
You can put those on a service like AWS Glacier for next to nothing, the only challenge is keeping your billing details current.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Nintendo did this, the Switch was out of stock consistently, unless you bought it in a "bundle". A lot of the bundles were 12 months of the Online service, so basically easy profit.
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by lozenge 4y ago
So you saved all your library users the work needed for a powerful event generator system, what's wrong with that?
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by lozenge 4y ago
How will they know the correct subsidy amount? Excess subsidy would go to the owners.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Sounds like Cython. PyPy did also fix some of those issues - specifically, lists of small integers are optimised, with a deopt path for when they overflow.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Part of the reason is CPython left performance gains on the table for so long, in favour of implementation simplicity. It wasn't that difficult to improve on its performance. That policy seems to have changed now, though.
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by lozenge 4y ago
It was much simpler and more eliable when the tech companies colluded on suppressing salaries. /s
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by lozenge 4y ago
Ben Eater has some videos showing the USB protocol on an oscilloscope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0O5Uwc3C0o And some videos on using chips and breadboards
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's not the width of the tire. Think of the tire like a cylinder - it's how the flat face of the tire tapers to the non flat one.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Half the apps on Android are more interested in keeping you in the app. If I follow a link from Messages to a Twitter post and press Back, I end up on my Twitter feed, even if I never use it. TikTok is most blatant, putting refresh on the b
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by lozenge 4y ago
It started that way, now it's designed to jam in all the functionality people expect. In the iPhone s case, with one button and no Force Touch. Unless you want to stick to the old patterns of using one app at a time, there is nothing i
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by lozenge 4y ago
Do you like to have confusion?~ https://youtu.be/FIE47oX-KVo
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by lozenge 4y ago
Who exactly gave it positive comments? Fox News didn't find any - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-sign... It didn't create a "safe to film" zone. Police could still argue you
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by lozenge 4y ago
Did you try the Google Wallet and Google Pay apps? Could be in either of those. Edit: for me it's Play Store, round profile button/account switcher in top right, Payments and Subscriptions.

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