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by passive 9y ago
Well, there were regulations in place, but due to a technicality, they no longer officially applied once home internet started arriving over cable/dsl/fiber as a networked service instead of dial-up. Lots of people pointed this te
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by passive 9y ago
This may be mostly correct, but the framing is nonsense. Republicans, on issue after issue, don't give a shit about conforming to proper legislative processes. To pretend they have converted, on an issue that happens to benefit Wall St
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by passive 9y ago
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by passive 9y ago
When I visited the whales exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in New York, 3 years ago or so, they showed that early whales were kind of like alligators, so I'm not sure why this is a new discovery. Perhaps it just firms up the ti
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by passive 9y ago
I've done trivial and non-trivial projects in both, and the general summary presented here feels correct. If you've got something with content, that matches most common situations (users, content related to users, content related
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by passive 9y ago
The fact that you use the term "skin-flashing" here is a little concerning. Perhaps it was just meant as a shorthand for attractive woman, because otherwise you've taken a woman's choice of dress and behaviour and made t
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by passive 9y ago
I'm not a mind reader, but all men think this way to some degree. For myself, I don't possess a visual imagination, so the thoughts don't stick, but they do re-occur. However, I also have no difficulty ensuring this doesn&#x2
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by passive 9y ago
I'm glad you have a system that works for you and your collaborators. :) But you've also pointed out a cost to what you are doing. If everyone adopted one or the other, you wouldn't need an .editorconfig setting. You've
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by passive 9y ago
This seems fairly straightforward to me. If you're collaborating, spaces are a much better default. If you're collaborating, your job is harder than coding solo, so you should get paid more.
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by passive 9y ago
I've been writing mostly small python projects for 15 years, starting with 2.2. I've had no issues in the migration to 3. I did some building with it around 3.3, starting to commit around 3.4, and with 3.5 I build everything in it
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by passive 9y ago
Fix people's problems. Whatever level of expertise you have in any area, there is someone you should be able to find quickly who can benefit from it.
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by passive 9y ago
I've got 8 in my SP3, and Chrome by itself is usually eating 3+. My development work isn't that heavy (but is very dockerized). I'm usually around 85% utilization, and then if I have a video call I may need to shut other thin
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by passive 9y ago
From what I've heard, certain types of memory are only supported by certain CPUs/chipsets up to a certain size, and even though other types of memory are supported, those are a more power-hungry variety that laptop makers tend to
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by passive 9y ago
It does make this blanket statement at least somewhat incorrect: "Support is limited to the country you purchased the device in" But it certainly doesn't invalidate your poor experience, which sounds very frustrating. That sa
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by passive 9y ago
Well, I have found performance to be a little choppy over the last few months, but a fresh Windows install would probably help there at least some, though it wouldn't surprise me if the Creators Update isn't quite as smooth on old
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by passive 9y ago
It's a laptop* 90%+ of the time. It's a tablet when: - Reading, watching, or gaming, particularly if I'm walking around frequently - Taking notes (principle reason I got the Surface was my attachment to handwritten notes) *I
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by passive 9y ago
I think this makes sense, and is likely largely true, in terms of how companies budget for laptops.
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by passive 9y ago
That sounds plausible. I've never needed support off the continent.
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by passive 9y ago
I would recommend Python 3 for sure. I just use the installers from https://www.python.org/ and don't tend to have any problems. I prefer lightweight tools, so I use Visual Studio Code. It won't hold your hand, bu
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by passive 9y ago
I've got 256GB currently, and I definitely couldn't go smaller, but it only becomes limiting every few months. 8GB RAM on the other hand, is 85% full nearly all the time, so I actively make decisions to work around that. Enjoy you
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by passive 9y ago
Most of what I do is python, but I've done a fair amount of JS, some PHP, Java and others, as needed. I have run VMs on this, but 8GB RAM gets tight, so it's not something I do regularly. I do use Microsofts version of Bash on Ubu
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by passive 9y ago
Every laptop in existence, up until quite recently, used a proprietary power connector. The fact that Surface also uses it as a dock connector doesn't erase this fact. But it does point to the fact that many of us have such a dock, and
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by passive 9y ago
I've been using a Surface Pro 3 as my one-and-only for almost 3 years, and it really feels like time to upgrade, so I've been looking forward to this one. My workload is probably something like 40% reading, 30% writing, 25% coding
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by passive 9y ago
I don't know what kind of laps other people have, but I'm decidedly average in every way, physically, and I use my SP3 on my lap every day. Usually it's on a table or desk, but it's fine on my lap too.
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by passive 9y ago
This is not correct. My employer is in New Jersey, I'm in Canada. They purchased me a Surface Pro 3 at my request, and I've never had a problem getting support directly from Microsoft, including 2 48-hour replacements.
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by passive 9y ago
Internet services. We had one of the first ADSL deployments in North America, and while we are still stuck with two real providers, speeds and prices are pretty good, and they have mostly given up on caps.
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by passive 9y ago
C'mon Alphabet, bring this to Halifax! The land will be much cheaper, we've got a huge problem with students fleeing for greener pastures, and we have one of the best connected cities in the country.
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by passive 9y ago
Maybe it's poor phrasing, and the incredulity was about Google's ability to accomplish such a goal?
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by passive 9y ago
Pruitt has stated he would like to see officials from the industries being regulated taking these positions.
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by passive 10y ago
I don't entirely get your point, so I'm sorry if my comment is not related, but this has happened before. In the 1980s, during the Lebanese civil war, the US under Reagan blocked Lebanese immigration, which led many of them to Can

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