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by nix0n 5y ago
If you don't care about "workstation" branding, or out-of-the-box Linux compatibility, you can get a high-RAM laptop by looking at gaming laptops.
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by nix0n 5y ago
A few days ago, I learned that "Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules"[0]. Maybe there's something like that happening on youtube also. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by nix0n 5y ago
> ...so we don't walk around on donuts I agree with what you're saying, but I don't understand this phrase.
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by nix0n 5y ago
> The 0.00001%ers are out there Actually, on Instagram, they're not. It's Photoshop. Also, we should abolish the Forbes rich list, but in a different way and for a different reason. There's a limited amount of resources
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by nix0n 5y ago
It's hard to show causation, in general, for anything, but here's a theory. Mozilla is making decisions to remove power-user features, which is alienating power-users (we've got a whole comment-section of them right here). Th
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by nix0n 5y ago
It might be worth a shot to turn off GPU acceleration [0] [0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings
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by nix0n 5y ago
I don't think that's right. Why would a codec problem, repeatably, affect images of a particular document, but not other images?
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by nix0n 5y ago
> I expected these numbers to be higher. The actual numbers might be higher, the article notes that these numbers still don't include anyone who blocks first-party JS completely. I don't know if any of the sampled websites actu
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by nix0n 5y ago
Yes, but at least I don't have to see as many ads, and my phone's CPU doesn't spend as much time rendering ads, and my limited mobile bandwidth isn't all sucked up by ads.
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English as a Second Language
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by nix0n 5y ago
Do any of the spreadsheet lovers here use anything other than Excel? I want to like LibreOffice Calc but it's just too slow.
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by nix0n 5y ago
I agree with your (and others on this post) assertion that apologizing doesn't seem to help. But I'm not convinced that waiting silently for things to blow over actually works. Are there any examples of this?
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by nix0n 5y ago
I've got a 2009 Toyota and when I upgraded the stereo to add Bluetooth, I just didn't connect the wire from the head unit to the CAN bus. (The installation kit from Crutchfield included the pinout.) On a newer car, I'd proba
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by nix0n 5y ago
We're just jealous you don't have to listen to ads :)
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by nix0n 5y ago
I've also seen Firefox freezing and swapping heavily when real physical RAM is depleted. I was able to reduce RAM usage by reducing the number of content processes, so that might be helpful to you also.
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by nix0n 5y ago
You've misunderstood me, "ncmncm" has claimed that a "right" way to code C++ exists. I would like to see such a codebase, if one exists. Clearly, this isn't it, but I do appreciate the interesting snippet. Wo
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by nix0n 5y ago
> Coding modern C++ right[...]: when it compiles, it works I don't believe this, but I'd love to be wrong. Is there an exemplary codebase somewhere that I can take a look at?
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by nix0n 5y ago
Many businesses are incapable of thinking more than one financial quarter ahead.
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by nix0n 5y ago
> exposing all information accessed and sent, including passwords, to a third-party company They're marketing it to people whose _Google Chrome_ is running too slow. That's already being exposed to Google.
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by nix0n 6y ago
I force-quit Firefox regularly (easiest way to get my tabs to stay open), on both Linux and Windows. I've never seen any error messages from Firefox suggesting that anything has been corrupted. Are there other symptoms that I would exp
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by nix0n 6y ago
Here's an example: mortgages (in the USA) used to be approved or denied by humans, but there were certain neighborhoods where only white people were allowed. Now, there's a law against that. In the future, there will be an AI syst
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by nix0n 6y ago
Stack Overflow is certainly one to talk about this. Last time I tried (a few years ago), voting in either direction required a minimum number of points there also. These days, I accept the votes on S.O. for what they are, and hit the "
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by nix0n 6y ago
1. I care enough to pay cash when possible, even if it means rounding up my share for something like a split restaurant bill. I would hope Signal's implementation makes it so you don't have to worry about volatility or exchanges.
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by nix0n 6y ago
The HTML that is generated by Seamonkey Composer is reasonably editable as plain source. (Actually it is much more pleasant than using exclusively Notepad, because the auto-indentation is reasonable.) However, Microsoft Word generates extr
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by nix0n 6y ago
Among people I know, most individuals send money to each other via Venmo. This presents two problems: how to be sure you're sending money to the right person, and, the transaction is data-mined by Paypal. So, having payments inside o
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by nix0n 6y ago
As the last manufacturer of large passenger airplanes in the USA, Boeing's role in the US psyche and US economy is too big for the US government to let it fail. NASA, despite being part of the US government, faced a much larger risk of
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by nix0n 6y ago
The closest service I know of is privacy.com's limited use credit cards, which let you cancel a service by cancelling whatever card they have.
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by nix0n 6y ago
> With the exception of market makers, this is illegal Do you mean, this is legal for market makers? Is there any other way that the number of shares being shorted, could be greater than the number of shares in existence?
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by nix0n 6y ago
> WebView2 has to be installed separately Many Windows installers package one or more Visual Studio Redistributable packages into the installer. Is that not possible for these installers?
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by nix0n 6y ago
These are provided in easylist format (among other formats) which is compatible with uBlock.

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