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by masfuerte 4mo ago
It's copromancy. Picking through the clanker's doings in an attempt to predict the future.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
Another option (he's using Windows) is "change what the power buttons do" in Control Panel to make the sleep button into a no-op.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
More simply, I wonder if anyone's tried adding an equal weight to the back of their head. This would double the weight, but people can carry very heavy loads on their heads as long as the weight is acting downwards.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
There was a similar article about the same database a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356563
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
Yes. It has the simplicity of a traditional flag but recognisably represents the earth. The 2016 one (which this thread is about) is too similar to the Japanese flag. Or the Blaupunkt logo.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
Giuliani was hawking pardons in the final days of Trump's first term. I'd expect that Trump will be much more interested in money than PR in the final days of his second term too. But he might not live that long, which must be e
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
My impression (as someone who was alive back then) is that the early TV dinners often weren't that different from something you'd cook yourself, but the industry has spend half a century optimising them into cheap chemical slop en
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
We would have had a quorum requirement if it was a proper referendum but it wasn't, it was claimed to be purely advisory. Of course, it was never going to work like that if leave won. David Cameron is an arse.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
What do you think it means? One meaning of anti-social is "hostile toward society". Do you think this doesn't describe social media?
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
> To make processing this massive dataset practical, we built a Julia pipeline to extract the bits directly into a DuckDB database. The raw data is a bit more than 1GB per annum. The data of interest is 176 bits every 12.5 minutes for 19
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
π?
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
Then they'll be in breach of contract. Lots of government contracts have a "no outsourcing" clause.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
There aren't address conflicts. And users aren't choosing this, it's part of the IPv6 spec. Each interface has a unique address, but you can't tell from looking at an address which network it lives on.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
A terminal emulator could choose to display different foreground blues, depending on the background colour.
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
My Mother received an email from her supermarket confirming her delivery date. It said they were coming tomorrow morning while she was out. She'd just made the booking for a completely different day so she couldn't understand it
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by masfuerte 4mo ago
I've heard that this is quite common. The criminals drive the car a short distance and leave it for a few days to check if it has a hidden tracker. If the vehicle isn't recovered they assume it is clean.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
You seem to be talking about registries (who manage tlds, so you have no choice for a particular tld). OP talked about registrars (who sell domains, and there's a wide choice). Though I'm not sure how that's supposed to wor
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
Thanks for clearing that up. So if you employ someone who's actually really slow then I guess you just fire them? I'm based in the UK, where firing people is harder, so this wouldn't fly. That said, I know interviews are ba
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
And if you define shortcut keys for your styles it's as quick to type as markdown.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
Imagine I'm an employer who wants to adopt this system. How can I distinguish the candidate who spent four hours from the candidate who spent twelve?
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
> And then, to people who say "the challenges take more time than the budget, so I'm forced to spend more time" People aren't saying that. They are saying that other candidates will put in more time. If I do a profe
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
I got about halfway through before the AI cliches drove me away.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
The film looks great too. It was such a missed opportunity.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
That seems like a lot of bother. If I hit the 1,048,576 row limit I'd start a new column.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
The modern version is to use @media to achieve the same annoying effect without js. Fortunately, there's a finite number of rules so I've found that if you zoom far enough the text does actually start getting larger. Though I ex
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
And unused muscles start to significantly decline in your mid-forties. Maybe thirty years after playing trombone as a kid.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
Yes, but like Windows for Workgroups before them, they didn't need to rely on DOS services once they had started. They were 32-bit multitasking OSes that could host multiple DOS VMs and (in the case of WfW) a 16-bit cooperatively mult
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
Yes, but this is much more effort than a traditional search result that has a relevant quote from the source right there.
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
By offering money?
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by masfuerte 5mo ago
The bit I never understood in this story is the accidental leak of the debug symbols. Microsoft publishes them anyway. They are not a secret. Back in the day, the symbols shipped on the CD, and they published updated symbol packages for

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