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by osrec 7y ago
Sure - the only benefit of a VM is that you can mess up the VM's filesystem without worrying about it too much.
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by osrec 7y ago
Download Ubuntu and run it as a virtual machine inside your current machine (use Google for instructions - it's fairly straightforward with a piece of software called virtualbox). That should stop you from running into hardware related
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by osrec 7y ago
It's bold move, but necessary to stop people going into work. The tubes here in London were still packed a few days ago, because low wage earners still need to travel in to earn and put food on the table.
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Oxford scientists develop coronavirus test that gives results in just 30 minutes(techcrunch.com)
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by osrec 7y ago
A lot of UK broadband is advertised as "unlimited" but subject to a fair usage policy. I guess they must use a similar system to the one you described. It's pretty decent, and I'm never really thinking about my usage, wh
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by osrec 7y ago
Gold is generally not free to store. If anything, it is one of the more expensive things to store safely. Also, if someone handed you a shiny yellow object saying it's gold, you'd still need to verify it with a chemical or physica
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by osrec 7y ago
Yes, I have considered that, however the downvote patterns on those topics are unusual for HN. I've been here a few years, and know when something feels a bit off. Also, I'm not saying something that is wildly incorrect - just go
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by osrec 7y ago
How else will the populist cults survive?! /s
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by osrec 7y ago
You'd be surprised. I can imagine they've got a bit of link submission karma, which allows them to downvote. For what it's worth, I'm upvoting you!
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by osrec 7y ago
The down voting has begun! @dang, I wonder if this is something you can address somehow?!
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by osrec 7y ago
Yes, I am perplexed by this. I have noted an insane number of bots commenting positively on Donald Trump's twitter account. It's obvious they're bots because of the username, lack of other activity, spelling and grammatical m
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by osrec 7y ago
I suppose they haven't yet had a chance to test it fully in the field, so they don't know the error rates. Doesn't necessarily mean the test is useless.
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by osrec 7y ago
Ah, much cleaner!
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by osrec 7y ago
Looking at lines 460-521 in the modified file ( https://github.com/miguelxpn/php-src/blob/f4b2089b642d504be3... ), is there not a benefit to `break` out of the while loop in the nested if statements? Otherwise,
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by osrec 7y ago
The article highlights a huge pitfall of having lots of small dependencies, provides no real remediation, and says small dependencies are easier to reason about, so they're better anyway. I disagree. I personally find that with large p
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by osrec 7y ago
Mediocre in what sense?
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by osrec 7y ago
It feels especially religious to me as a Hindu. A lot of Hinduism talks about a so called "sense of existence" - a vitalising, fundamental "thing" that permeates inanimate and animate beings. The quote reminded me a bit
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by osrec 7y ago
You seem to have mistaken HN for Reddit.
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by osrec 7y ago
They are still fairly dirty. The pattern just hides it well: https://youtu.be/giU81hhoBYg
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by osrec 7y ago
Not to mention circumventing the usual corporate app deployment BS...
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by osrec 7y ago
I'm surprised they don't do it for the obviously fake accounts posting in favour of Donald Trump. There's something very fishy with some of those comments, and the profiles that they come from are very sparse. It should be
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by osrec 7y ago
Even when you opt out, do inspect your cookies. You'll be surprised as to how many are still there, solely for the purposes of tracking.
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by osrec 7y ago
Those were the most poorly conceived things in the history of tech legislation. They literally solved nothing.
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by osrec 7y ago
Not to mention the pain if you're selling low value (sub-penny) items, that get scaled by weight or some other dimension. The errors can often throw out invoice totals in the most annoying manner.
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by osrec 7y ago
Unfortunately, not all of them (especially if you're doing some complex pastes with transpose etc etc).
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by osrec 7y ago
I personally hated the ribbon in Excel, not least because it resulted in changes to all the shortcut keys. That killed productivity significantly for me and my colleagues on my trading desk. We got used to it eventually, but it was not fun
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by osrec 7y ago
Rather than using an etching solution, could you just use a Dremel style attachment to shave off the copper from the board to "reveal" your PCB design?
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by osrec 7y ago
Why is this funny to a Dutch person in particular?!
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by osrec 7y ago
I don't think Apple would even notice a fine of such a small amount. If you want to reprimand a corporate, you must make it hurt a little, otherwise it has little impact on their future behaviour.
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by osrec 7y ago
I agree with this, but do it for yourself, not (for the opinion of) others. It's easy to make this a superficial exercise (doing it to pose and look good etc), but it can become a longer-lasting and healthier habit if you focus on the

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