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by paol 10y ago
I'm desperately hanging on to my T500 daily work machine. It was the last generation with 16:10 screens and the second-to-last with the good keyboard layout. With an SSD and maxed RAM it's still viable, but the C2D processor is a
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by paol 10y ago
Exactly. The original decision was that APIs are not copyrightable. That was overturned on appeal, and it's a disastrous precedent if it is allowed to stand. Just try to imagine the history of computing if this doctrine had always exis
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by paol 10y ago
Kerosene lamps were ubiquitous before electric lighting. Look at the pictures in the wikipedia page[0], you'll recognize them for sure. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_lamp
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by paol 11y ago
Well, call it a "window manager" then, it still should handle this. But that's just my opinion of the responsibilities of WMs/DEs/whatever you call them, and I understand that some don't.
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by paol 11y ago
May I ask what desktop environment you use, and what you usually use this for? I ask because a good DE should remember the settings pertaining to each monitor configuration (display positions of course, but also things like panels placed in
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by paol 11y ago
Maybe that's the case for engines that use DEF, but the cheating was done in engines with no DEF injection systems too. In those engines at least I doubt very much "the fix will not affect the performance or fuel economy", un
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by paol 11y ago
Still 6 inches. I'm not sure why ebook readers standardized on that size, it feels too small at least to me. Finally bought one last year and ended up choosing the Kobo H20 partly because of that - it's 6.8" which is not bad,
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by paol 11y ago
To all the people replying "curb chargers", how much do you think it would cost to equip tens of thousands of street parking spaces (per town) with them? I don't see that happening any time soon, and if it does the huge capit
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by paol 11y ago
> punishment is the last thing on people's minds I wish. Just off the top of my head, there was the swiss air traffic controller who was murdered by some relative of one of the victims of a mid-air collision [0], and the Brazilian g
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by paol 11y ago
You're right that there's a natural alignment of incentives between pilots and their passengers, but as wnevets points out above there are other critical participants in the system that aren't travelling in the plane. Your &q
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by paol 11y ago
> [Aviation] professionals are given every reason to cooperate, because they know that investigations are not about finding scapegoats, but learning lessons. Indeed, professionals are given a legal safe space so they speak up honestly(..
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by paol 11y ago
Look at the design of the ship from '2001', it's like that for a reason [0]. No SF like hard SF! [0] http://2001.wikia.com/wiki/Discovery_1
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by paol 11y ago
You're right! I just fired it up and was able to install Advanced REST Client (the only thing I regularly use Chromium for) without logging in. When I first installed it - less than a year ago - that wasn't possible.
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by paol 11y ago
Not the OP, but when you're required to create a google account just to install an extension, I would say 'no'.
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by paol 11y ago
Well, that's why the null hypothesis is that there is no metaphysical soul.
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by paol 11y ago
Also, here is a pretty interesting discussion of the evolution of StarCraft bots, and the current state of the art: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/01/28/starcraft-ai-bot...
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by paol 11y ago
Ha, it may very well be, I never noticed. I find a general difficulty with processing the meaning of "modal" buttons. If it's showing the "Pause" symbol, does it mean it's paused now, or that it will pause when
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by paol 11y ago
I have autoplay disabled in FF. The trick in Youtube is to double click the play button the first time. After that all works normally. (For some reason double clicking the video area doesn't produce the same result.)
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by paol 11y ago
That's a plot point of the recent movie Sicario . (Highly recommended - it's the movie of the year for me.)
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No, you don't need a natural language interface(zompist.wordpress.com)
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by paol 11y ago
It's a bizarre side-effect of lacking query hints. This is my interpretation of the sequence of events: 1. Postgres will never implement query hints, because query hints are evil 2. In the real world people need them anyway, so they (a
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by paol 11y ago
Allow me to disagree. Before CTEs I would have agreed, but CTEs gain you the same in clarity (decomposition really helps with comprehensibility of complex queries) without the loss of having to chase down 5 different views in order to und
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by paol 11y ago
Even if none of them turn out to be from the banlieue the issues will be conflated, like they always are. Just as, if none turn out to have been part of the immigrant wave, it will be conflated with that and the open borders issue. Politics
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by paol 11y ago
It's available online: http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
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by paol 11y ago
That's not how it works. Amendments to the proposed law are voted individually, there was never any danger of having to reject the whole law. There were amendments to close each of the problematic loopholes regarding net neutrality, bu
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by paol 11y ago
> German still has an sz-ligature (...) that has actually ceased to be considered a ligature and become an actual character Can you explain why this happened? As a non-german speaker it always struck me as a stupid confusion between orth
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by paol 11y ago
Not just this idea, almost every question of consciousness/intelligence/self awareness is approached in some form or another, from different angles. I could go on about it, but I'll just say it's the best SF I've re
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by paol 11y ago
> hiding the "real" language in a higher-level encoding Exactly. In the middle of the article they discuss coming up with an expression to mean "car". Of the many word combinations one might choose (they go with &quot
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by paol 12y ago
Exactly. Another obvious example were the bombings done by the allies during WW2. Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Dresden (less known because they didn't use nukes, but with no less destruction: [1][2]) would have been classified as war crimes f
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by paol 12y ago
With the corollary that every measure always becomes a target...

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