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messe
4y ago
Areography in this case.
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messe
4y ago
You mean put an entire MINIX system into ME. It’s not just the network stack.
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messe
4y ago
I’m not a MOND proponent, but Cold Dark Matter also literally requires modifying the laws of physics, by positing new particles.
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messe
4y ago
Just say Norway to YAML!
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messe
4y ago
> High-Density Video Decoder**: 96 channels of 1920x1080p > [...] > **: @10 fps, H.264/H.265 Is 10 fps a standard measure for this kind of thing?
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messe
4y ago
The commenter above you said: > general real world implementation By this they mean the real-world-implementation that is in general use, which in this case is interpreted. Yes, Python can be compiled and C++ can be interpreted. 99% of
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messe
4y ago
Make that two. I’ve never hit it deliberately, but constantly fat finger it. I’ve a greasemonkey user script to hide it on desktop, but on mobile safari I’m all out of luck.
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messe
4y ago
> though it’s a hard button to hit. I have the opposite problem. I hit it accidentally all the time.
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messe
4y ago
They’re only trying to delay the inevitable regulation. Here’s hoping the EU forces them to get their shit together soon.
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4y ago
Because at least it has the semblance of legitimacy? Look, I’ve fairly liberal views on piracy (arrrr, etc.), but this isn’t the time or place to get into that discussion.
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4y ago
KSP doesn’t have any DRM, you can copy it and have as many installs as you want. I usually have a vanilla + two or three modded installs. Once you‘ve downloaded and copied it, you can just get rid of epic.
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4y ago
Kerbal Space Program. It won’t necessary make you “smarter”, but it will teach and given you an intuition for orbital mechanics. I think it’s free this or next week on Epic, and the sequel will be released in about a month or so. It’s highl
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4y ago
> “When the year is over, almost everybody ends up with ‘Oh, it’s correct. I don’t have to pay any more, and I don’t get any money back,’” said Mørkøre. Continuous collection also eliminates the time risk of the government losing out on
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4y ago
> It occurs to me that the future of smartphone photography, particularly on low-end phones, is likely to use the image as a prompt to run through a generative AI trained on professionally-taken photographs. I really hate this idea, but
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4y ago
You're right. I'm not. I'm not even convinced you're arguing in good faith any more, because frankly I can't imagine how a rational and empathetic individual could have reasoned themselves into these opinions. I
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messe
4y ago
"Normal mode" ≠ "Insert mode"
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4y ago
> Why the government preventing me from choosing the control I like the best For the same reason you can't drive while on the phone or drunk. If it's less safe than buttons, it's putting others in unnecessary danger.
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messe
4y ago
Sure, and precisely what the "minimum necessary" entails is up for debate. The EU just believes that minimum to be higher than you do.
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messe
4y ago
Amazingly bad takes. > Ironic since safety laws is what put the screens in the cars in the first place Screens themselves aren't the issue. They didn't mandate touch screens, or the removal of non-touch controls. (EDIT: in fact
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messe
4y ago
Generally, it only tends to come up in any area where the market seems to be failing consumers. This is interpreted as an externality that the market doesn't account for (in this case consumer safety, in the case of USB-C charging e-wa
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4y ago
You can also type ZZ (no colon) while in normal mode to exit and save. This also appears to only write when changes have been made (according to some testing in neovim on my local machine).
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4y ago
I can't disagree with you there, although to be clear, I don't necessarily agree either, I just don't think we have enough evidence to make a conclusion. I think some immediate policies that the US could introduce is universa
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4y ago
That's because the person you're replying to hasn't acknowledged the power imbalance between employer and employee. Likely because they're lucky enough to have had it always work out in their favour so far: > I have p
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4y ago
Public transport, healthcare, even the fucking roads, just to name a few. Every time I've gone to the US, I've been astounded at how awful the roads are in comparison—in particular along the west coast, which given California'
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messe
4y ago
That'd still fall under employment law here in Ireland. A precedent that allows an employer to reduce director salaries at will, would apply to other employees also here.
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4y ago
> because what you’re describing here is an employee who has _far_ more rights than an employer How so? What rights do they have that the employer doesn't? From what I've gathered here, the employer can change their salary at w
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4y ago
And with some of the least developed public infrastructure and largest amounts of inequality in the developed world by kilometers. I don't disagree with you that it's a factor in US economic growth, I'm just not remotely conv
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messe
4y ago
I might have phrased it poorly. What I meant is that there's a significant power imbalance between employer and employee and as such, employees in many jurisdictions outside the US have significant protections to prevent employers from
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messe
4y ago
Yep, in the EU you can run afoul of database rights. This is separate from copyright.
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4y ago
It's the kind of thing employment laws should really cover. The US is an extreme outlier in the developed world in how few rights employees have compared to employers.
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