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91.
by mnx 9y ago
Yep. When I was using win7 with 2gb of ram, I was basically managing it manually - as soon as memory usage hit 90-95%,I was shutting apps down. If I let it swap, it would often hang completely.
92.
by mnx 9y ago
At least they are communicating. Hopefully there will be a postmortem.
93.
by mnx 9y ago
In the mobile messenger app (not lite) , click the 'new conversation' button, and top right there's a switch marked with a lock.
94.
by mnx 9y ago
Oh yeah, I'm all for it. Just noticing.
95.
by mnx 9y ago
Well, this is about establishing priors. If something seems unlikely, maybe our understanding of it is wrong? Concepts like Anthropic principle have been introduced to deal with the fact that we exist, however unlikely it may seem.
96.
by mnx 9y ago
This seems like evidence towards Gwern's theory that pineapple fund is a retired dark net drug dealer...
97.
by mnx 9y ago
This is (one of the reasons) why we need https.
98.
by mnx 9y ago
left-pad only adds 7ms on edge, seems worth it. On the other hand, Jquery adds almost a second. And you hardly ever see pages that don't use it. (Unless they use some other heavy js library). But it's just soo convenient.
99.
by mnx 9y ago
There might be some insight in this article, but the tone makes it unbearable to read for me. Halfway between apocalyptic and condescending.
100.
by mnx 9y ago
If latency is not a problem, but the production/consumption is unsteady, use a large buffer. Works in programming, works in personal finance.
101.
by mnx 9y ago
Well, a multi-machine scheduler.
102.
by mnx 9y ago
They are independent, and that's exactly why they aren't additive. Flipping a coin two times doesn't give you a 100% chance of getting heads. To expand on the intuition a little - they may well hit the same non-target spot mu
103.
by mnx 9y ago
Interesting website, clearly a ton of work went into it. If you are like me, and full length paragraphs are impossible to read for you, here's a handy bookmarklet I use for such websites: javascript:(function() { node = document.cr
104.
by mnx 9y ago
This is true of many things, but seems to be politically unpopular to notice. The right will claim that prices are what prices are and cannot be changed, and the left will claim it's all in resource allocation.
105.
by mnx 9y ago
Yes, obviously. Although those often are to some degree a result of corruption. But I am not claiming the government is universally worse at all things.
106.
by mnx 9y ago
Sure, some state-run universities are good. But that's just one example. There's many examples of things that govt's fail badly at. And many examples of things they manage OK, sometimes better than the private sector. It&#x27
107.
by mnx 9y ago
Brave also blocks ads. I would think youtube have a better chance at suing them.
108.
by mnx 9y ago
It was opensourced, but apparently nobody wanted to maintain it for free. https://incubator.apache.org/wave
109.
by mnx 9y ago
I get your point, but also... You are complaining that they are not willing to give their work away, unless you are willing to give your work away.
110.
by mnx 9y ago
Well, basically they only want to give it away for free, if you actually cannot pay for it. That seems reasonable. But I agree, an OS alternative would be great, and this seems like it could be it.
111.
by mnx 9y ago
It means exactly nothing, and I think that's the point.
112.
by mnx 9y ago
This exists. https://flattr.com/ (they changed their model, so if you remember the "Flattr this" buttons, they are no longer needed)
113.
by mnx 9y ago
Oh hey are we under a post about a guy running for president that he didn't pay for?
114.
by mnx 9y ago
I hope you are joking. The way to enforce such constraints is definitely not by disabling them in software. Imagine trying to just fix some outside presentation, and wondering why it doesn't work. Just teach people the basics, it'
115.
by mnx 9y ago
I feel like code golfers are always just slightly insane in the best possible way.
116.
by mnx 9y ago
If my $5 keyboard started inserting double spaces (without being flooded, or otherwise damaged), I would blame (and check) software, down to BIOS, before I thought it's a mechanical failure.
117.
by mnx 9y ago
is this a git->god typo, or a statement about your feelings towards Linus?
118.
by mnx 9y ago
It seems nice, but I think it should be made more explicit upon downloading, that you can only do that once. I can see myself e.g. downloading a file I received on my phone to take a quick look, intending to then download it again on my com
119.
by mnx 9y ago
Actually, XLS is not bad to work with, if you have a library for it. And it's well defined, unlike CSV. Insofar as I know, there's no way to make a CSV file that will open and show nicely in all popular versions of excel / go
120.
by mnx 9y ago
Still would need to be popularised to actually give any benefit (i.e. similar levels of accountability for minor shittinies as uber's ratings). people are lazy. Rating an uber takes seconds, and is built in to same app you need to orde

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