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by peanutz454 4y ago
Chrome gets free marketing, and tons of google money. Opera could not have competed with that. Opera only went free after they did the same deal with Google that firefox had. Otherwise, it's quite an achievement that it was able to exi
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by peanutz454 4y ago
Competing for his donations?
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by peanutz454 4y ago
https://www.windows93.net/#!starwars Wow, ASCII art Star Wars! (⊙ˍ⊙)
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by peanutz454 4y ago
I agree with this, and I hope a simple comparison of photos from the two telescopes does not capture headlines anymore. I hope the next story to hit the top is one about something new we learned due to JWST, which I am sure is already happe
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by peanutz454 4y ago
Now I am intrigued, the infrared image from Hubble seems to be able to see through even more clouds than JWST! What gives?
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by peanutz454 4y ago
This was on front page a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528365 Edit: 2018, so not a few months ago
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by peanutz454 4y ago
> don't bother. They don't know enough to engage with it, and they're not going to know enough to engage with it On the other end of the spectrum we are being to forced to think of backend development in terms of user stor
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by peanutz454 4y ago
Wow! $168M/(3800 employee / 100*23 layoff) = $192,219 per layed off employee Not that I am suggesting he should pay the layed off employees from his personal kitty. Just trying to understand the numbers. Edit: OP said CEO and COO
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by peanutz454 4y ago
The pictures are rarely what you will see with the human eyes (not as much colour).
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by peanutz454 4y ago
1995 was an eternity ago. Fewer than 100 people died. I am not scared of Japan, but I am scared of one country that has no gun control.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
> Read documentation What is this strange concept you bring up? Googling saved me an entire day of reading dry documents. I may not know how the code works, but I go around telling everyone how easy coding is because of copy+paste.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
This is lovely, if only I could find a printable map so that I can paste it to cardboard to create flatable + 3D foldable - map + globe. Edit: First result on Google search (I was absentmindedly using bing earlier) is what I need : https:&
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Wow! TIL! I always use 'verbal' when I actually mean 'oral'.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Apple pays employee x, Google offers x*1.2, Apple could retain by offering x*1.2 (or more). Apple instead decides to collude with Google to not poach from each other. Now all companies everywhere decide to do this. Wages get fixed.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
From the article: We also found that bug-fixing commits by authors tended to be larger in size and scope, and address multiple issues, whereas bug-fixing commits by other developers tended to be smaller and more focused on the bug itself.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Yep, I wanted to crawl a job search website so that I could search for jobs at work, without going to the job site (don't blame me, my job back then sucked). It was impossible to find information because all the tags were generated in
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Learning in India is a misnomer. You don't learn, you cram up. I had an economics teacher who explained the concepts of economics, then she went on pregnancy leave. The replacement teacher came to the class everyday and literally dicta
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Completely forgot about bone conduction (I was thinking bed side speakers disturbing your partner, or conventional headphones disturbing you), but still you need it strapped on - a slight discomfort. Also, since you mention measuring, there
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by peanutz454 5y ago
> Your sleep is unique to you, which is why SoundMind monitors your sleep in real-time and with subtle tones guides your sleep cycles for your ideal recovery how would this work if you have a partner?
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by peanutz454 5y ago
List of things I have read : - A study that a three year old's vocabulary is the best indicator of success in life - A study that the more time parents spend talking to kids the better their vocabulary is - This study that when money i
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Why don't manufacturers advertise that more clearly? I've never seen that information on the simple specs that most models list out.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
On a job website I wondered if I could use CSS selectors to get to the important stuff. I think a lot of people have had those thoughts, and the website knew. While the page might have some repeatable structure, the ids and classes were jus
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by peanutz454 5y ago
As someone aproaching middle age and suddenly concious of health, I find claims like below... > It works miracles on everyone who tries it. There are piles of people who cured themselves of very serious health problems with it. ... very
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by peanutz454 5y ago
You are right, but there is also the net positive Hindus feel about Zoroastrians. The (probably made up) story that I heard was that when the Zoroastrians (Parsi as they are called in India) came to Indian land escaping persecution from Isl
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Sorry, I am not very technical. But does this line from the article mean that your extension can run other scripts? Specifically, we wanted to add support for dynamic content scripts and to expand the capabilities of the executeScript m
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Okay, I am converted. Now is duckduckgo safe? Or is there an article like this about it too?
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Thanks again for coming back to reply. Just like my investments, I and my partner try to diversify my donations. We will donate to a few of them.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Obviously individual differenes matter, but OPs ability has a lot to do with practise. If you work a lot with 3D objects you will get better at imagining them in your mind.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Evolution is painfully slow. Humans from 1000s of year ago are not very different from us, even in their intelligence. I believe the only trait that has changed recently is height, and there are explanations for it.
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by peanutz454 5y ago
Thanks for the list. Its just me, but I would stay away from political or religious funds.

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