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by majewsky 5y ago
Not a fair comparison. 1. You're comparing a branching workflow in Git to a branchless workflow in SVN. The branchless workflow in Git eliminates step 1 and 3. 2. You can remove step 5 by doing `git commit -a` in step 6. Sure, you will
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by majewsky 5y ago
Going back through history to find where a bug was introduced usually happens on the commit level (e.g. git-bisect only operates on commits, naturally). Once you find the commit that introduced the bug in question, it will be immensely easi
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by majewsky 5y ago
They almost certainly have this data already. I live in Dresden, a city in East Germany that also has its fair share of floods from the Elbe river [1]. The city has an interactive map where you can display flood maps for various levels. It
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by majewsky 5y ago
Who are they going to go to if TSMC does not have the next node ready when they need it? I only know of Intel and TSMC as far as latest-greatest nodes go, is there anyone else?
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by majewsky 5y ago
In many cases, they actually need a rubber duck and don't know it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by majewsky 5y ago
The differences in force are way too miniscule on that scale. If you're looking for a measurable force differential across the extent of your own body, look at gravity instead. When standing up, the gravity at your feet is about 0.5 pp
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by majewsky 5y ago
FWIW, it's up in vim. So maybe the VSCode guys all used vim before? :)
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm very much pro-Rust and use it myself, but it is on HN very often as it is, and there is no need to shove it down people's throats even more than everyone already does. That's why I was hoping (and probing) for newsworthin
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by majewsky 5y ago
Well yeah, but I have read the same issue and found it not particularly remarkable out of all the TWIR issues, so I was wondering if I missed something. It's just that the poster linked specifically this one issue, instead of the homep
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Ivermectin is proposed by real doctors who treat patients on ground zero To treat Covid, or to treat fungal infections that happen as a result of Covid messing with patients' immune systems?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Pfizer actually manufactures only half of the third step in the process it acquired when it bought BioNTech. BioNTech is partnering with Pfizer (and Fosun) to manufacture and distribute the vaccine, but Pfizer has not bought BioNTech.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Any reason why this particular issue is being posted?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Meanwhile author is being hush about apple I take it he just doesn't use any Apple stuff. > you could never use without them having your [...] credit card This is provably wrong. I have an iPhone and iPad. I never entered any c
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by majewsky 5y ago
> all possible content The path to happiness for me has been realizing that I don't have time to consume all possible content anyway, especially right now (cf. "Peak Content"). So I just pick one platform every few years a
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by majewsky 5y ago
Headsets also emit radiation in order to talk to the phone, though. (Potentially less than the phone though since they need to cover a smaller distance.)
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by majewsky 5y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by majewsky 5y ago
I don't know any ones that require a button press, but usually those are unskippable because the game is loading in the meantime.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Even the DLCs for the console darling, Breath of the Wild, can't sustain smooth 30fps gameplay. It's not even with the DLCs. Korok Forest, as beautiful as it is, is commonly known as "Frame Drop Forest".
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by majewsky 5y ago
I have stopped watching German dubs long ago, but I watched a lot of the German dub of Scrubs during its original run, and much later came across the original English version. It's incredibly striking how the dubbing changed the charac
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by majewsky 5y ago
Telephone operators were female because female voices were easier to understand on contemporary telephones (their voice frequencies had a better signal/noise ratio). Their hiring into this specific profession is in fact a counter-examp
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's not just about setups, it's about social life. I would describe myself as introverted, but even for me, being in an apartment all by myself for 80-90% of my waking day eventually breaks me. The first year of pandemic-related
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm very baffled by this comment, but too afraid to ask if you are aware of the existence of toilet paper.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Your fallacy is assuming that Twitter is the same thing for everyone. I have none of what you describe in my timeline, mostly because I don't go out of my way to search for this stuff. Your argument is not unlike "why is the gover
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by majewsky 5y ago
Twitter users at this scale often have content teams that post for them. Also, 1/hour is 24/day which you can easily reach by making 2-3 original posts and then spamming out a few short replies to comments. Should not take more th
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by majewsky 5y ago
That's what GP meant.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I have a prompt display as well, but to my own dismay, earlier that year, I applied some QA config to a prod system. (It did not cause substantial harm, thankfully.) After that, I changed my prompt display so that names of productive region
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by majewsky 5y ago
I remember when even most IT people were utterly baffled by the idea that individual households could want a 1 megabit line.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Depends on the provider. My 40 € contract with Vodafone Cable (ex Kabel Deutschland) gets me 250/25 down/up.
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By using the program themselves? By listening to users' personal feedback? You're making it sound like app development without telemetry is impossible, when in fact Audacity has done very well without this crap for 20 years.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> They would have to be more professional than that I guess. There are news all the time of big companies making rookie mistakes of that magnitude. I don't see why it should be different for big companies of the organized-crime vari

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