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by pdpi 3mo ago
> I thought a wicket is what you call an out? Now it’s something else, too? It's a metonym. The actual wicket is the wooden things the bowler is trying to hit. Because hitting the wicket eliminates the batter, the word is also use
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Down by six is literally that — they were six runs (points) behind. Six is a "magic" number, because that's what you score for knocking the ball out of the park (so the cricket equivalent to hitting a home run). Yup, batter r
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by pdpi 3mo ago
It’s surprisingly simple, actually. A cricket pitch is a long strip. Bowler bowls from one end, batter strikes the bowl from the other. Scoring is done by running from one end of that strip to the other (the unit of scoring is literally cal
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by pdpi 3mo ago
If you read carefully (emphasis mine): > The main problem is USB-C's bandwidth complexity - especially when paired with the Realtek RTL8159 Ethernet controller, which requires USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) to get the full rated 10 Gbp
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Cmd and Ctrl being separate keys is legitimately one of the things that keeps me on macOS.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the product lifecycle, not the device lifecycle. The M1 Mac mini, the PS5 and the Xbox Series X|S were all released on November 2020. Since then, Apple has released the M2 mini (Jan 20
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Sure, and what I'm saying is that I'm ok with them doing that. It's a matter of consistency. The PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One all followed the pattern of dropping in price over the course of their lifetimes, b
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Macs have much shorter lifecycles than consoles, and Apple doesn’t have a history of reducing prices over that lifecycle. Consoles have much longer lifecycles and typically drop in price over time (as components get cheaper). It seems fair
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Insofar as I'm concerned, a GET request with a body is an attack-shaped aberration. E.g. Somebody who's trying to get me to mix up validating query string parameters and request body parameters. Hacky things not working is a featu
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by pdpi 4mo ago
What's so unbelievable about meal deals? It seems like a really straightforward bundle purchase.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
When you have a game that weighs in at 100GB, only a tiny fraction of that is built from code. The rest of it is binary assets that most VCSs struggle with. What makes this worth considering is the fact that they designed it to handle binar
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by pdpi 4mo ago
The GDPR is almost trivial to comply with if you’re not harvesting data willy-nilly. Likewise, the legal risk for small indie games here rounds to zero. Most such games will, at worst, lose access to online leaderboards if their developers
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Consider for a moment that end-to-end encrypted messaging protects criminals of all sorts. Surely that’s a bad thing and requiring back doors for law enforcement shouldn’t be considered an attack on anybody? I absolutely agree that the prac
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by pdpi 4mo ago
I'm not saying DHH is more widely known than Fabrice Bellard. I'm saying that it really depends on your audience. I can think of many colleagues over the years who would know who David is, but not Fabrice. (Also, I specifically ch
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by pdpi 4mo ago
"Tech people" aren't one single homogeneous mass. His name is unlikely to show up in the same conversation as, say, DHH.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
> instead of either sampling a few uhs and ums and treating them as noise to be silenced If you're not paying ttention, ctting out specific sounds can easily cause more trouble. I for one would be quite pset if I couldn't hear
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by pdpi 4mo ago
VS Code is built on top of the general-purpose Monaco editor component that's used by a bunch of other projects. This thing is basically meant to be the Monaco of rich-text.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
This case isn’t about Google’s users getting low-quality search results. As you say, you get what you pay for. The actual issue is that, in some searches, the AI summaries would claim the plaintiffs were guilty of scams and all-around shady
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by pdpi 4mo ago
If I post “heathrow83829 is a convicted poopoo head” (replace with your favourite crime) as if it were a factual claim, you’d be well within your rights to sue me for defamation even if people should apply some critical thinking skills and
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by pdpi 4mo ago
As in rendered server-side.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
As funny as it would be, ML isn't really a great fit for ML, I don't think.
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by pdpi 4mo ago
> It sounds like a contradiction that someone could learn something new by answering a question. Isn’t that just spitting out something they already know? A while back I started participating actively on Reddit's r/explainlikei
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Cool catalogue, but it had nothing to do with inheritance. It’s more “nine ways to do polymorphism-adjacent things using ad-hoc polymorphism (“traits”) instead of subtype polymorphism (‘inheritance’)”
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Indices are supposed to reflect a part of the market. That's why you have all of S&P500, the Dow, NYSE Composite, and Nasdaq Composite (and several others) in the US — They each reflect different attributes of the market as a who
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by pdpi 4mo ago
I'm not succumbing to any such fallacy. Compile-time checks don't obviate the need for runtime error handling, and I love the robustness of Erlang's runtime error handling. However, that doesn't change the fact that we s
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by pdpi 4mo ago
> you don't get bugs related to typing because elixir is somehow magic, I've never followed Elixir particularly closely, but what I saw in some Erlang discussions was different. Discourse there was that you need to gracefully h
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by pdpi 4mo ago
> “Tab to improve”. What I’ve written so far isn’t up to Gmail’s standards, it seems. I find this infuriating. I have my own voice, my own writing style, and I deliberately use some "bad" writing tropes for effect. For any non
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by pdpi 4mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't quite clear there. That's what I meant, that Lenin is the one who took the "emergency powers until communism is established" interpretation of "dictatorship of the proletariat", and turned it in
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by pdpi 4mo ago
The two aren’t independent. Marx’s idea of communism required a “dictatorship of the proletariat” as an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism. Lenin took that notion and, under the pretence of needing absolute power to prevent
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by pdpi 4mo ago
> So, how can they strike when they're all volunteering? I fail to see the difficulty? Editors striking would mean them not doing the volunteer work they normally do. How much vandalism do you reckon will go undetected if they do go

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