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by pdpi 3y ago
Until vapes came along, anyway. I really don't understand what happened there.
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by pdpi 3y ago
> If the expansion rate is dropping, surely it is headed towards zero? Expansion rate could be dropping but converging to a non-zero value. That seems unlikely to me, but it's an answer that would fit that description just fine. The
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by pdpi 3y ago
You're already gaming on linux with Proton on the deck. That's pretty much the experience you can expect.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility is definitely one of the strengths of the Windows platform. On the flipside, it's also at the root at the insanity that is the forbidden word list in MS Teams channel names. https
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Take your computer out of your room? That’s not really an option eg for people who share a flat.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Three quarters of your photos should be of… whatever you want them to be of. For me, the value in photos is the process itself. Finding the composition, getting the shot, then editing it when I get home. Whether or not I ever look at the ph
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by pdpi 3y ago
Right. "By design" is doing all the work there, because the design goals are different. Phones are designed that way as a way to prolong the longevity of the phone. This bike is designed this way as a way to extract a subscription
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by pdpi 3y ago
> and he's been proven right despite the obstacles he himself foresaw I wouldn't trust anybody to be right about the benefits of something this big if they don't also foresee the obstacles you'll face to realise tho
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by pdpi 3y ago
That sort of control over the supply chain is the kind of logistics play that Tim Curry was famous for as Apple’s COO.
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by pdpi 3y ago
Public key cryptography is pretty pointless if you don’t take advantage of the public part. One, you can’t send me any encrypted messages without my public key. Two, you can’t verify my signatures without my public key. Insecure algorithms
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by pdpi 3y ago
Today’s Onion is responsible for this[0] amicus brief with the Supreme Court, which is possibly one the best pieces of satirical writing in history. 0. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292&#
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by pdpi 3y ago
Even if you don't want to just summarise the comments, you can view the comments section for most articles as crowd-sourced research on the topic. You can easily walk away from most interesting discussions here with a shortlist of topi
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by pdpi 3y ago
How does that follow from GP’s point? If remote interaction with a human doesn’t quite measure up to face-to-face interaction, how does an LLM improve upon that?
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by pdpi 3y ago
Apple has documentation about using icloud passwords from Windows[1]. I tried setting it up a while back but it doesn't support Firefox. If I recall correctly, you get links to the extensions from within the icloud app on windows. 1.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The problem is he's trying to make a fairly subtle point about a topic that tends to cause kneejerk reactions. Climate change is happening, he's not contesting that. This particular event might seem like it's related to clima
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by pdpi 3y ago
The situation is understandable for budget phones sold in developing countries, but that's almost entirely irrelevant to what companies like Samsung and Google do for their flagship products.
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by pdpi 3y ago
The first step in separating polymorphism and inheritance is understanding that there are several forms of polymorphism. The one that gets lumped in with inheritance is subtype polymorphism, but there's at least two other sorts (not
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by pdpi 3y ago
The point is that the Golang version is closer to this: interface IPerson { public string Name { get; set; } public int Age { get; set; } } public class Person : IPerson { public string Nam
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by pdpi 3y ago
Perhaps counterintuitively, this is exactly the sort of usecase WASM is meant for. A VM that needs to be simultaneously lightweight/cheap and very high performance (because it's being used to do the heavy lifting for a slower&#x
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by pdpi 3y ago
In this particular case, we're talking some tricky code around array handling in the JS implementation of a major browser. It's pretty much the archetypical location for a VM escape bug. That's most definitely not something y
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by pdpi 3y ago
For a low-power device, a microSD card draws something like 300 mW while writing (less than 100mA at 3.3V) , versus something like 8-10W for an NVMe drive (up to 3A at 3.3V).
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by pdpi 3y ago
Extension methods in a language that explicitly supports them and with good IDE support are perfectly fine. I love them in Kotlin. Extension methods as a compiler plugin that rewrites the AST... not so great. Great IDE support is a large pa
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by pdpi 3y ago
Why? What purpose would that serve?
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by pdpi 3y ago
> Bad parents are not the victim, they are part of the problem It’s not an either/or situation. I would argue they are both.
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by pdpi 3y ago
It’s not “another option”. It’s a tool for dealing with the only option they give you.
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by pdpi 3y ago
And, like attorneys and medical doctors, we could really do with having a clear system of professional ethics.
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by pdpi 3y ago
On the flipside, policy makers don't really understand the societal effects of a policy like this either. They're narrowly focused on one specific perceived benefit (a tool for law enforcement), while ignoring all other consequenc
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by pdpi 3y ago
Their internal Phabricator is quite different from the open source version. When I worked there (around 2017), it was definitely miles ahead of anything I'd used before. A lot of how it works is probably... controversial, I guess, but
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by pdpi 3y ago
The only thing the word “refactoring” tells me is that you’re rearranging code without changing functionality. It doesn’t tell me why you’re doing it. You could be doing it for all sorts of reasons: to extract part of the code into a sepa
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by pdpi 3y ago
Beatles, not Beetles. It's a dumb pun on "beat".

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