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by nanny 8y ago
What? I love Gmail and Hangouts search. I'll be very upset when they get rid of Hangouts because it's so convenient to search. What's frustrating is that you can't search Hangouts on mobile without going to the desktop G
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by nanny 9y ago
>Is one a day already addiction? Absolutely yes. I have only a cup of coffee (or the equivalent caffeine via tea) per day and get killer headaches if I skip a day. Whether this is okay or not, I'm not sure. I usually see articles sa
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by nanny 9y ago
The argument is not bogus, but it may not be realistic. But this is: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processe...
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by nanny 9y ago
And then CLOS objects, hash tables, regular expressions, etc. can be added with reader macros.
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by nanny 9y ago
>I wish people would give it more of a chance and not stop at "it has a GC" and decide that this makes the whole language worthless. Seriously! I've never seen anyone complain that e.g. Go has a garbage collector, and Go&#
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by nanny 9y ago
>To eliminate support calls I would simply design a system where any place they went FROM their email would work - maybe up to 3 or 4 links past email. What? What constitutes a "link"? This doesn't make any sense.
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by nanny 9y ago
I've been using uMatrix: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
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by nanny 9y ago
Reader View in Firefox. Chrome has browser extensions for this.
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by nanny 10y ago
Just a popular buzzword that they used without understand the meaning.
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by nanny 10y ago
If it were end-to-end encrypted by default, how would Google Assistant work?
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by nanny 10y ago
>If someone learns better through sight, there must be someone that also learns better through other senses right? No? Why does the existence of a sight-learner imply that there must be a taste-learner?
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by nanny 10y ago
A to-do list would've been a better choice. It's the classic choice for working with SPA frameworks. I thought the same thing as your parent's commenter when I read the word "blog".
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by nanny 10y ago
>One of the most common claims I hear is that someone is a "visual" learner. If that were true, wouldn't it also mean that we're leaving kids behind that learn through taste? How does that follow at all? I fail to see
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by nanny 10y ago
>Well, we read from left to right, naturally that is the order of the letters So that means "W", "e", "l", and "l" are in positions 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively? The "W" comes first? Isn&#
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by nanny 10y ago
What evidence is there that instant booking guests are more destructive than others? >The fact that the author of your parent-comment does go through and approve individuals means that this policy would hurt him/her. How, exactly? I
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by nanny 10y ago
>However there is a counter-argument from Ludwig Wittgenstein. In a summary we have language. Language is too complex a construct to be invented alone. Because we speak we know we are not alone. I'm not familiar with that argument,
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by nanny 10y ago
Maybe the host swaps to the disk? ;)
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by nanny 10y ago
I'm not sure I see the "many parallels". I don't think ivory should ever be legal, whether it's squeezed through legislation and regulation or not. Why not send our (the West's) soldiers and drones into Africa
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by nanny 10y ago
Different link, but we saw this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338096
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by nanny 10y ago
I work at exactly one of those places right now, and "rewarding" is absolutely the last word I would use.
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by nanny 10y ago
>That essay seems so wildly out of date, even though it's only a decade or so old. Funny how fast tech moves. I think the essay is still completely relevant, though. You just have to find something to replace Python with. Maybe thin
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by nanny 10y ago
You're entirely missing the point of what freedom means. The point is that you have the freedom to exercise 1-3 if you choose to do so. It doesn't matter if the user isn't currently a developer, and it doesn't matter if
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by nanny 10y ago
The benefit is that the Four Freedoms[1] are preserved. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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by nanny 10y ago
>UBI is quite literally the opposite of capitalism. It is a form of socialism How would UBI transfer the means of production from capitalists to the workers? Don't confuse socialism with a welfare state.
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by nanny 10y ago
As soon as I read your title I thought it might be this bug. I get it maybe a few times per month in Windows 7. I have not seen it happen in Windows 10. You can fix it without rebooting or killing explorer.exe by shift+right-clicking on the
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by nanny 10y ago
>idiosyncratic syntax How is something like `Dim x as Integer` not idiosyncratic? >syntax and semantics that were traditional What's more traditional than C's syntax? I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't us
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by nanny 10y ago
Nice try, but the wording says no information was marked classified, not no emails . In addition: >There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those gover
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by nanny 10y ago
>This seems like a clear contradiction of a common Clinton talking point Straight from her website: >Clinton only used her account for unclassified email. No information in Clinton's emails was marked classified at the time she s
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by nanny 10y ago
You're right, turns out Arch's i3 package is a group of packagse: i3-wm, i3-status, and i3lock (screen locker).
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by nanny 10y ago
I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).

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