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I'm not fat in most (if not all) measurements, but I can see my belly fat when I sit down. I've read quite a few articles/papers discussing weight loss, but it ended up helped me very little. The number provided in the articl
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Same where wondering if it performs the same/better under Linux. I imagine the battery life could be better under Linux based on my experience with Windows 11 on my own laptop, I mean, the fans don't even spin up that often under
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I thought that I should mention a book because it got talked a lot under Nvidia's "lucky success". The book is titled: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective ( https://link.springer.com/book
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3y ago
I wonder if anybody tested it's ActivityPub feature. Is it actually supported? Thanks in advance.
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> To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. Well about that, I noticed heavy inflow of spam and bots traffic right after Mr Musk starts selling the blue patch for
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3y ago
Maybe somewhat off-topic, but if you don't know, there is a video on YouTube published 11 months ago by "CBC NL - Newfoundland and Labrador" titled "This submersible takes passengers to The Titanic wreck. Climb in!"
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Many online services (including Twitter) do employ some kind of IP address scoring system as part of their anti-scraping effort. These systems tend to treat residential proxies as normal users, and puts less restrictions on them. On the oth
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Fun joke aside, I don't think that's really possible anymore since there are high quality opensource alternatives such as KVM (for server deployments) and Virtual Box (for end users). But in the CAD field, Autodesk is the clear wi
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Unless the captcha is annoying enough to a significant degrees, I doubt that it would work. With all the money in the bucket, scrapers can just hire a captcha farm to get pass the captcha with help from a real human. Also a side note: distr
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Based on the context provided through the article, I think what the author actually wanted was a Minimum Viable Product, that is, instead of coding the shortest path first, you remove the need for unnecessary paths (and without cutting corn
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Not really sure about the cross-platform caveat... `dropbox-lnx` eats away 265MB of RES for it's file syncing job, I'm pretty sure what Dropbox was doing on my old laptop was very heavily 265MBly important. Also, `keepassxc` takes
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3y ago
As far as I can tell, the network timeout (specifically SetDeadline, SetReadDeadline and SetWriteDeadline) is handled by Go runtime not by the OS, given how complex real world systems are, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
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3y ago
Ain't we are all responsible for "duping" Purism into making that phone? Just look at the hypes after the announcement and how people loved it on paper . It's a classic example on why you should never fully trust your c
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This is what "wolf cult" i mean "culture" get you I guess :( There is another story from ancient times tells the tale about two big telecom company in China stealing or damaging each other's production equipment
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I have a mental test that I always do when trying to evaluate the privacy protection guarantee offered by an online service, it goes like this: imagine if a malicious actor is holding the top most owner of the service at gun point, and dema
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> The knowledge is just transferable after all Not exactly. I do agreed about the value destroying part. But unless the knowledge mentioned is standardized, it's not really easy to transfer them to the succeeding team members. Some
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Please stop it. I watched the recent developments to Twitter, Google and Reddit, and loved it all. One way for self-hosted service to catch up is to wait for the big companies to mess up, and they're messed up very well at this moment.
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> Go take a walk or bake some cookies instead. Funny enough, I had few concept projects got un-stuck maybe because of it. Long story short: sometimes it's helpful to leave the project for a few days so you can come back to it from a
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> I think that's why you get Australians who seem to care more about the US election than our own, and every second conversation seems to have an American controversy slipped into it here. My guess is, in that context, the US is a n
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I mean, maybe the original post was an emotional exaggeration, but the systems designed like Stack Overflow where the vendor out sources their day-to-day operations to the member of the public (free-to-join for all) are prone to this kind o
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> It's not hard to find accounts of people who say they're 2x, 3x, 5x more efficient in their work now. What does "making some one 5x more efficient" actually mean anyway? Does it makes people enjoy their lives more,
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BTW: Since we're already here and I'm too nostalgic now and all, I Googled my old posts from back in time, and found a [post] that we wrote and posted on microsoft.public.cn.msn.messenger as the moderators of the group. [post]: h
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> it doesn't seem like you have much if any first hand Well, I didn't really setup any newsgroup server (other than the one in IIS for fun), if that's what you mean by "first hand". But I do donated to one out a
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In addition to been slow, I would also add another factor: lack of notification method, which exasperated the problem of it's "slow"ness. Another thing is, in effect, Usenet is a tried-to-be globally governed forum service ru
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Although my overall liking, I still found the use of exclamation mark a bit troubling since it promotes some very odd attitude that might anger our future AI overlord. Maybe it's a good idea to add `please` statement so the our compute
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> that the east does things a little differently Give the history a look and you'll know why. Unlike in Europe where people choose to unite and live largely peacefully after many conflicts (2 world wars got people fed up especially
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Well, for me, the level of anxiety is definitely different. I somehow have a few degrees of fear towards machines that could emit harmful level of ionizing radiation, and I can be nervous if the machine is operating on me (say doing X-Ray
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Back in the day, there was a strong earthquake occurred in China. During that time, some experts brought up the idea of Triangle of Life, and claiming that "If you found the Triangle of Life of building that you currently at during an
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> the article contains information about things you are likely to need Then maybe write something on the specific topic in detail than bundling them into a How-To tutorial. A How-To tutorial is suppose to show "how to" do somet
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The game mentioned, STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace, has following description on Steam: > Fall in love with the lab members all over again in this sweet and slapstick romantic comedy! Plus the impression that I got from their pro
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