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by paulirwin 5y ago
I have Premium and watch almost daily and can't remember the last time I saw an ad. Isn't that the whole point of Premium?
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by paulirwin 5y ago
IMO using Observables instead of Promises for most API-type HTTP calls causes more harm than good. i.e. if you pipe the observable into an async pipe in more than one place, it does more than one HTTP call. I find in Angular code having my
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by paulirwin 5y ago
Apart from just not having encrypted data, the only way to achieve what you're suggesting is with a government backdoor into the encryption. Any backdoor - any! - will result in your data being exposed, sooner or later. Your Signal mes
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by paulirwin 5y ago
Not saying it's exactly the same thing, as I don't think a video overlay was involved, but I know someone that got their PhD in this area in the 1970s and had a long career working for a U.S. military contractor doing this. The U.
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by paulirwin 5y ago
The other link posted here is great info but might be a bit overwhelming. Some of the highlights of modern C++ to look into: Lambda functions Smart pointers = less need for * Move semantics = less need for pointers, efficient pass/retu
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by paulirwin 5y ago
And I got a good laugh out of the blog name: "Clamsplaining"
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by paulirwin 5y ago
This is spot on. (I'm a long time vegetarian, so I've thought a lot about this.) Hunting, fishing, and even specialty slaughterhouses will likely continue. The economics will cause mass meat production to go out of business, thoug
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by paulirwin 5y ago
Another example of language support for XML is VB.NET. I loved this feature when I last used it (over 10 years ago), especially the LINQ syntax for generating tags. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-ba
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by paulirwin 5y ago
My biggest problem trying Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 was not actually with graphics, that worked well for me with my Radeon card. My issue was with my Logitech T650 trackpad, since Wayland also handles pointer events and scrolling and such. I
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by paulirwin 6y ago
That is only true for the v16 preview build. Their OpenJDK 11 builds are x64 for Windows, Linux, and macOS: https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk
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by paulirwin 6y ago
... if you're willing and able to update your entire app to a new JDK the month it comes out. This is where I hope Java adopts the .NET support lifecycle. .NET also has (relatively) fast-paced releases now, once per year with LTS every
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I wish I could have made it today. I'll certainly be reaching out for more information.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
This looks great! A few questions, that I normally would email to you, but figured they could be helpful to others here: 1. What are the capabilities for the presentations? Can you present video, screen share (code), etc? What about showing
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by paulirwin 6y ago
It is frustrating that people in an area with 1Gbps down are able to sign up for Starlink while I'm still waiting. I would pay $500/mo for Starlink right now. Currently paying $45/mo for "20Mbps/2Mbps" VDSL, $7
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by paulirwin 6y ago
There are plenty of good substitutes for chicken that are rich in protein, some even complete proteins. Flavor them however you like. Tofu, tempeh, seitan, chickpeas, portabella mushroom, quinoa, lentils, just to name a few. And then there&
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by paulirwin 6y ago
No. I'm not trying to make a disgusting joke. A site that has you judge whether a person is a serial killer or a programming language creator is in poor taste when one of the top programming language creators' obituaries (with his
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by paulirwin 6y ago
It's a bit tactless to post this while Brad Cox's obituary is the top post on HN.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Shortly after I got my general license, I set up a ZS6BKW antenna up in some trees in my yard, made from wire from Home Depot and some ladder line from my local ham store. One of my first contacts on WSPR was a research station in Antarctic
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I was curious about this so had to go digging. For those that want the citation: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-you-shouldnt-cha...
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I hear you, but I'd like to give a shout-out to my favorite database deployment mechanism, which is admittedly SQL Server-only: SQL Server Database Projects in Visual Studio with DACPAC deployments. It is quite a different solution tha
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by paulirwin 6y ago
The part that I'm not grasping about this is how you harness the power that is created. I think it's great that they can start a fusion reaction this way. But how does this become practical, in theory? Does the lattice radiate hea
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Could be station identification. Many repeaters identify their call with morse code periodically.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I love FT8/FT4. It's a safe place for introverts and those turned off by the vitriol on phone to experiment with propagation and get awards. But I want phone to be a safe place, too.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I assume you're being downvoted because of the terms you're using, but you're not wrong. Extra class licensee here. On phone (Single Sideband "SSB" or FM typically, for those not familiar with the terminology, where
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Sorry to hear that. I hope this helps you, as I know how scary and frustrating that is. How many IUs were you taking? I seem to be fine on <= 1000IU taken periodically, but 5000IU daily was too much for me.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
You might want to find a new doctor. The primary care doctors I've had in my life run blood tests for things like vitamin levels (especially B12 and D) annually.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Thank you for your article. I also had alarming palpitations while on Vitamin D 5000IU, and did not make the connection until months later when I slacked off with taking it and they went away. Started taking them again and the palpitations
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by paulirwin 6y ago
This is incorrect. When creating an Azure App Service with PHP, you can choose either Linux or Windows. You would likely choose Windows if you needed to do things like execute Windows binaries as WebJobs.
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Mostly an aside to your comment, but it's somewhat related. This post's divisions of 10° latitude/longitude is pretty close to the Maidenhead grid system, used heavily by amateur radio operators like myself. The difference is
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by paulirwin 6y ago
macOS in its history has not really followed semantic versioning. 10.6 dropped support for running on PowerPC CPUs, and 10.7 dropped support for running PowerPC apps with Rosetta. 10.15 dropped support for 32-bit apps. Those were pretty sig

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