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by nick__m 4mo ago
You could launch it as a systemd user target with OOMScoreAdjust=500 in the service section; weird and unconventional but wrapped in .desktop file it doesn't appear to be unwieldy.
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by nick__m 4mo ago
That's reads like an egotic cocaine fueled rant mixed with a PBS pledges drive. I understand why the author deleted it !
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by nick__m 4mo ago
It's a Rust/ASM port, look there: https://github.com/memorysafety/rav1d/blob/main/src/ext/x86/... I am not sure if it is that much safer than the C version when raw assembly is s
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by nick__m 4mo ago
This thread made me think of this song/sketch from Kids in the Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGCdVADLWY
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by nick__m 4mo ago
excellent article, great vulgarisation and human written ! Thank you
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by nick__m 4mo ago
It's so cheaper that you can buy 2, disassemble one and inspect the electronic (spot thermometer and a cheap ESR tester). it's a charger not a nuclear power plant !
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by nick__m 5mo ago
It really depends on the union, mine concentrate on less hours for a salary that follow inflation, parental leaves and a gold plated drug insurance. I work 32.5 hours per week in the summer, have 24 days off, 2 personal days and 12 statuto
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by nick__m 5mo ago
Memory safety for existing C and C++ codebase.
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by nick__m 5mo ago
But it was truly not urgent, I would have been ok with waiting 6 months! And the scans are not scheduled months in advance. We complained that we were only informed of the date and time of the next scan a few days before it... The explanati
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by nick__m 5mo ago
I live in Québec, Canada and the longest I had to wait was 3 months for a gallbladder ablation. And my wife, who is on her fourtht year of ribociclib to prevent her spinal metastasis (breast cancer) from coming back, have timely periodical
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by nick__m 5mo ago
Either it doesn't work or it's happening gradually and then suddenly, like bankruptcy according to Hemingway.
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by nick__m 6mo ago
I had cable internet in 1997; it was wonderful in it's unmetered¹ symmetric 10Mbs glory. 1) wasn't supposed to be unlimited but the ISP didn't bother to mesure it until sometime in 2000
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by nick__m 6mo ago
The concepts feature of Nim really looks like what your looking for https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#concepts
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by nick__m 6mo ago
Thank you for posting that. I also read that on some less authoritative source I don't remember. It's truly scandalous. I wish ETFs will revolt and apply the old rule for inclusion, but I have no illusion it will happen.
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by nick__m 6mo ago
just one: why it named System/4 Pi ? (the Pi part especially)
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by nick__m 6mo ago
There a difference between overpriced and snake oil. If you claim that your cables "gives the breath-taking experience of ‘being there’ thanks to the purity of its conductors and their precise geometry" your firmly into the snake
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by nick__m 6mo ago
As long as the garbage data is authentic and the method used to produce it is adequately detailed, I agree with you that: "it's better to publish the garbage data than to not publish it" But fake data or garbage data without
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Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality(tomshardware.com)
39 points by nick__m 6mo ago|59 comments
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by nick__m 7mo ago
It's the inverse, here how you have to bet (unless you plan to be doing the hands on assassination works) : X will get re-elected. Company Y CEO will not change in 2027. This is not artist Z last tour. Athlete K will participate in th
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by nick__m 7mo ago
If someone want him dead, someone have to bet that million on the target being alive at a specific date. Unless someone plan to do the execution themselves, the bet must be lost for the target to be unalive !
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by nick__m 7mo ago
I too had esophagogastroduodenoscopy and the "sedation" I received as a barely noticeable dose of fentanyl. It was unpleasant to feel like I was drowning in saliva but it was quite bearable. If I ever receive that procedure again,
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by nick__m 7mo ago
Because the cancers cells adapt! (fast reproduction and high mutation rate of the cancerous cells make that process quicker than antibiotics resistance)
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by nick__m 7mo ago
from the article (pay attention to the part in italics): FLASH radiotherapy flips the conventional approach on its head, delivering a single dose of ultrahigh-power radiation in a burst that typically lasts less than one-tenth of a second.
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by nick__m 8mo ago
I actually like the forced saving of Québec. I also have a defined benefit pension plan, a TFSA and RRSP but I am happy to be forced to contribute the RRQ for the general welfare of the province even though I know how manage my portfolio. C
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by nick__m 8mo ago
Reading those keyboards posts, and the accompanying replies, make me feel like an unwashed troglodyte; 96-key is the lowest I am willing to go.
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by nick__m 8mo ago
Here the law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g it says "shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment not less than 25 years or to imprisonment for life." Even conspiring to acquire th
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by nick__m 8mo ago
Doing nothing different is the kind of plan I can easily execute !
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by nick__m 8mo ago
It will be worse than the dot com bust. If you believe it will happen in the next 6 months how do you prepare for that?
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by nick__m 8mo ago
I don't know if your wrong or right about "The Morning Star" but Morningstar.com is a financial firm specialized in research and recommendations. They have a lot's of influence relative to their relatively small holdings
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by nick__m 8mo ago
I don't think your absolutely right !

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