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by nick__m 2y ago
it don't make sense to stock hot plutonium to use it later, it loose power and decays overtime wherever you use it or not!
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by nick__m 2y ago
only if you can formulate it as an optimization problem under 4,400bit !
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by nick__m 2y ago
The Canadian experiment have shown us that with enough unskilled immigrants GDP per person goes down. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-gdp-per-capita-rich-... https://nationalpost.com/news&#
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by nick__m 2y ago
It is excellent, I love it!
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by nick__m 2y ago
Isn't a 1x1x1 rubik's cube a dice ? Or i am missing something about the size notation ?
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by nick__m 2y ago
They buy companies like VMWare and Computer-Associate, gut them and jack the price until they only have captive consumers from the fortune 500.
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by nick__m 2y ago
My bet is on the HFCS in the processed food.
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by nick__m 2y ago
A decade ago (2014) IE5 was completely dead. Some people were still force to care about IE6 but it was marginal. The default browser from that period was IE9 !
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by nick__m 2y ago
I am impressed by the xschem developer ! from the article: https://github.com/StefanSchippers/xschem/issues/238
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by nick__m 2y ago
I have the opposite experience with warranty. I had a defective ATX psu cable and MSI support sent me a whole cables kit overnight. And recently a bought a Corsair case, the iCue controller had 2 defective ports and Corsair also sent me a r
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by nick__m 2y ago
All chemicals, not all things. While you have a point on physical injury, all things are chemicals and your water example is really bad. Dissolution and ions transport are chemicals process, so are dilution and concentration.
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by nick__m 2y ago
You will be surprised to learn that methamphetamine is not banned and that it is currently prescribed for refractary ADHD under the name desoxyn!
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by nick__m 2y ago
They are talking as if language was some platonic construct like a Turing machine with an infinite tape and you are talking about the concrete reality where there are no such things as an infinite tape. Both viewpoints are useful, they can
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by nick__m 2y ago
Did you install malware on my computer ;) How did it manage to predict so much of what in my collection with just 3 names ?
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by nick__m 2y ago
Here in Québec acces to MAID is tightly regulated. Initially I tought it was too regulated but the excess in some other provinces sporadically making the news have made me realize that Québec probably have the right level of regulation arou
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by nick__m 2y ago
thank you for the detailed answer.
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by nick__m 2y ago
I use pcks11 on my yubikeys, would I gain something by using the PGP functionality instead?
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by nick__m 2y ago
In an ideal machine you are absolutely correct! But when executed by a real physical CPU, if the array doesn't fit I the cache, iteration strategies matters!
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by nick__m 2y ago
with COM and OLE, this was possible in excel on win3.11 !
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by nick__m 2y ago
The title could be generalized to "Private equity firms ruins companies"
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by nick__m 2y ago
Puppy Linux made me think of the first distribution I used on a 486dx4-100: Peanut Linux !
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by nick__m 2y ago
If that strain produces ethanol and can colonize the guts, then it has the potential to cause the auto-brewery syndrome. That a good reason to be careful!
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by nick__m 2y ago
vectorisation sure: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2677 x64 intrinsic are nit in std lib but they exist: https://github.com/bsegovia/x86_simd.nim
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by nick__m 2y ago
while unexplored in this article, the Nim type system is pretty nice too, particularly the subrange type, the enum and the object variants.
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by nick__m 2y ago
I second your opinion on Automation Direct PLC. I use a few of them in an installation for a museum 15 years ago and they had a surprisingly good reliability/feature/price ratio.
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by nick__m 2y ago
to be safe short it with a screwdriver (unplug the unit before), unlike a lion battery it won't explode.
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by nick__m 2y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/nix_forked_but_over_p...
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by nick__m 2y ago
a lot of domestic Rinse Aid contains alcohol ethoxylate, have a look at that https://www.ewg.org/cleaners/subcategories/26-RinseAid/?sort...
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by nick__m 2y ago
You were not kidding, it is toxic up to a dilution of 1:20,000 v/v . I will stop using rinse aid containing alcohol ethoxylate immediately! https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01477-4/ful...
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by nick__m 2y ago
That and the always changing crates required since the std lib was anemic and the stupidily long compilation time. But I must admit that Cargo and clippy were nice and lifetime are easier to understand than when using std::move in c++ is re

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