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by nevi-me 6y ago
Yea, Apple has great build quality. I have a 2013 HP Envy 17 that's also survived because of the ability to replace (keyboard, battery 2x, SSD). Its chassis has unfortunately started collapsing, but I want to fix it and donate it to a
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by nevi-me 6y ago
How about the RAM? I'm assuming that you got 16GB? I thought 8GB would be barely usable for me, but I've been pleasantly surprised. I still use my desktop for heavy enough work, but 8GB is manageable for now.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. I had limited experience and use of macOS, but didn't like it much. I bought the Air last month under duress, because I was going to a place t
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Whataboutism is a slippery slope. We can't justify action being taken by looking at the times it wasn't taken. What about the idea that the tweet you've linked to was not after a sudden mob of violence was mobilised?
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by nevi-me 6y ago
True. Not a great example, but "don't think of an elephant" is a good example of this effect, where someone who otherwise wasn't thinking of elephants, starts thinking of one. The context of the discussion becomes less r
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Apps and updates to apps. If much of the internet is crippled already, targeting app stores and YouTube could be seen to be limiting options effectively for users. With app stores blocked, what prevents the government from blocking messagin
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by nevi-me 6y ago
The extreme supporters are some of the people believing that the election was rigged, despite the inability to provide information that can convince an unbiased court. If we extrapolate on this, can't we conclude/believe that some
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Twitter is an American platform, and I doubt that they would expend resources to try quell misinformation and disinformation from third-world countries that have lower followership, little financial incentive and very low legal risk; relati
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Bearing symbols that represent the depression of Jews in Germany, symbols that have been banned there, is being Nazi.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
What more damage will be have done, by the time he's gone on schedule? I think that's part of what's at stake.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
This goes both ways to an extent. Any data that you can model in Mongo, can be modelled in a SQL database. There's often the argument that documents aren't structured, but in many cases, there's structure if you categorise th
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by nevi-me 6y ago
I'm playing around trying to create a JIT execution engine for Rust code. I was struggling a bit with the codegen part, so the description of the function structure helped make more sense of what I'm trying to do. Thanks
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by nevi-me 6y ago
The final battle was great. One small thing that I wish they did better, was not to butcher the African language that they used. Whenever they spoke, many of us cringed. Small thing though, Chadwick still won our hearts.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
I second this. With so many movies in the epic, they'll still be fun to watch 30 years from now. Vision really disappointed in the penultimate. I think his character was hyped up a lot in Age of Ultron. Became disappointing seeing him
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Google increased their pricing, I think last year or 2. My website used to be within the free tier, but after the increase, I started paying $100 a month. I ended up spinning up a self-hosted tile server, which I used for new projects unrel
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by nevi-me 6y ago
I've been hosting my own tileserver for a while, but because I couldn't build the latest times from OSM, I had to use outdated tiles. I can't remember what I used, but I built a Docker image in the end.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Does it make sense to put quotas on internal services, that I assume are unlikely to be used externally? Is it a security recommendation? I'm curious, as I might learn something from interesting asnwers to the above questions.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
YouTube Music failed in an interesting way. My music has been playing, but I started hearing ads (I'm on Premium), which prompted me to check what was going on.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
It uses a random-number generator, no longer a physical machine
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by nevi-me 6y ago
The numbers weren't drawn out in sequence, but rather they're arranged in sequence after the draw (makes it easier to check). The article also didn't mention this, but a random-number generator is used. The older physical dra
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by nevi-me 6y ago
But would Apple be content with going from 5nm to 3nm nodes so "quickly"? Given that AMD has been able to squeeze out their Zen 2 and 3 IPC without the need to change nodes completely, it could make sense for Apple to do the same.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
And there is/was an 8 character limit on COBOL variables.
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Thanks Paul :) I think with compute functions/kernels, we're sitting under a grapevine, so we'll be able to add a lot to Arrow without yet needing Gandiva bindings. The Rust stdsimd [0] work will also enable us to better use
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by nevi-me 6y ago
There's rudimentary statistics support, but I've found that it accounts for a lot of the write time (I wrote some tests last weekend, I can ping your team when I put them on GH). Improving our stats writing could yield a lot of be
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Talking about Gandiva, something that's open for taking: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5315 (creating Gandiva bindings for Rust). I think DataFusion is mature enough that we could plug in Gandiv
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by nevi-me 6y ago
More interesting for me is 10x, which seems like will be announced a bit later today
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Could Google possibly be able (before were discuss willingness) to push an update to root certificate via Play Services? I'd like to think that anyone not using Play Services (i.e. Android with no Play) is likely using a custom browser
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by nevi-me 6y ago
We built a 3-language system where we used grpc-web with Angular, a Go service, a few JVM services, and 2 experimental Rust services; with grpc. I'd suggest investing in the time to get the compilation tooling fine on the TS side, then
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by nevi-me 6y ago
And what happens when orders go wrong? Last month the grilled chicken place gave me chicken which wasn't grilled. I called them (they have a national call centre), and the store manager called me shortly after, to apologise. Following
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by nevi-me 6y ago
Why play an ad when you can provide bad service, and so ruin their reputation; like they might be with restaurants? I stopped using Uber Eats and local alternatives here in South Africa, because I learnt on a day where they provided poor se

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