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by maratc 3y ago
> If you have 100 mice, it's quite likely that around 20 of them will die within one year of cancer. If you have 100 people, about 40 of them will be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetime (39/100 females and 41/100 mal
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by maratc 3y ago
Mazda are amazing in this sense. In about 2017, my Mazda did what you describe, but starting at about 2019 they don't have any touchscreen at all (at least my current Mazda doesn't). The knob does everything. Mazda, if you're
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by maratc 3y ago
With unskippable ads.
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I won't doubt the fact that you know that other cross-platform messaging apps exist.
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Living in the country where absolutely no one uses iMessage, the whole kerfuffle about the colour of the message bubble leaves me completely flabbergasted. I mean, probably the curvature of the Earth is involved, but from here this looks li
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by maratc 3y ago
as is excit.ing :)
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by maratc 3y ago
> Avoid writing groovy at all costs. No one on the team wants to get good groovy and if you do, you're weird. I guess I'm weird then, having produced about 100K LoC in Groovy over the last couple of years. We'd move to Git
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by maratc 3y ago
I'd suggest you wait until you spend a whole day on script approval and @NonCPS idiosyncrasies before you define Jenkins pipeline Groovy DSL as "basically Java". This doesn't mean you shouldn't be writing it, you sh
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by maratc 3y ago
You're correct. I sometimes forward my devs the script they need to run locally in order to replicate what Jenkins does. It has the looks of make <target> THIS=THAT AND_THIS=THAT AND_THAT_THING=SOME_OTHER_THING ETC=ETC S
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by maratc 3y ago
Thanks for that, we use it all day every day! It's too bad it's been declared "end of life", without any replacement in sight, and nobody these days is fixing some bugs that are really bothering us sometimes...
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by maratc 3y ago
"central" today being both France and Germany — according to the proposal would be 2 hours behind Germany but still same 1hr behind France.
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Portugal is already an hour behind the rest of Europe.
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by maratc 3y ago
I don't have current time display on my microwave, it doesn't hinder my microwave performance in any way, so that problem doesn't exist for me.
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by maratc 3y ago
TIL protocols other than TCP/IP exist and are used for connecting printers.
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Inkjet cartridges are highly sophisticated devices, it's really where "the magic" happens. They have much complexity, not helped by the fact that the ink is drying on the printing head and so hinders its ability to print. Las
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by maratc 3y ago
> the endless stories about the Ukraine-Russia war ... also have no place on HN. If you think something doesn't belong here, there's a "flag" button. I personally have used it in the past for both the stories about th
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by maratc 3y ago
> Hacker News is a blackout zone for the current violent events taking place in what used to be called "the Levant" This is not limited to either "violent" events or "the Levant" — HN is not about any type o
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by maratc 3y ago
> Or perhaps 10 days? The French tried it for several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
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by maratc 3y ago
No, you define a connection on the WiiU and provide the DNS server as a parameter. The author has a DNS server up there sending your WiiU a request that causes it to run a payload (which resides on your SD card).
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by maratc 3y ago
Some guys came to rob me at Copacobana beach, some 100 meters from a police station. I showed them my empty pockets and they went away.
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by maratc 3y ago
The delay is probably between 0 and 9 seconds, and probably differs between people who are listening at the same time. It does not seem like there is an obvious solution to this.
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by maratc 3y ago
> Why not? Sculptors sometimes make dozens of sculptures per year, by themselves. Sculptors today are stationary and they depend on money (a mark of a civilization) and tools (same) and supermarkets (same) and demand for their work (econ
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by maratc 3y ago
What I think you might be missing is that Venus could be a pet project of a single person, done in their free time over some period. The statues, especially in the context of the greater site, could not be made by one person — many people s
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by maratc 3y ago
Not much to be gained by adding that, as verbs in biblical Hebrew have either past or future tense (past in these cases). In this context, the term is "invented" to explain why past tense is used to describe events that haven&#x27
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by maratc 3y ago
We don't know how this will play out, and probably instead of sideloading the new stores will be downloaded from the app store. So say you want WhatsApp on your phone. Today: AppStore - get WhatsApp. Tomorrow: AppStore - get Facebook s
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by maratc 3y ago
> people outright reject software that is exclusive to a store that they do not favor That's a funny thing to tell to your kid that he's now an outcast in his school because everyone plays that Battlefield game — but his dad &q
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I like the experience more than the alternatives, so I'm not ready to switch it for what is for me a worse experience. You probably won't be able to convince me otherwise.
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by maratc 3y ago
Given that this scenario has happened on the PC side of things, where I now need to have a Steam store, Epic store, EA Store, Ubi store, and GOG store (it's optional — thanks GOG!), I'd say it's not as baseless.
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by maratc 3y ago
No, as alternate stores will change the experience for everybody. I download 0 new apps per year, but I use WhatsApp, Outlook, and Google Maps. Today, I get them all from one store - one password to remember, one credit card to have, one st
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by maratc 3y ago
Next step: IBaaS, where you can buy a million install-bombs for a mere $0.1.

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