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by petjuh 7y ago
We have a great architect right now, but he's really just an engineer designated as the "architect". He also codes sometimes.
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by petjuh 7y ago
They also took the money before having to reimburse the tickets, so it acted as taking in a short term loan.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I like this idea because it is a membrane-first type of scenario. I've always thought the idea of naked molecules replicating outside of an enclosed space to be unlikely. It is likely that membranes were there from the very beginning,
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by petjuh 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894784/
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by petjuh 7y ago
The translation system's universality is the best proof that there is a LUCA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894784/
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by petjuh 7y ago
Those statues are from a later period than Homer. Not saying that they didn't have access to dyes during his time, though.
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by petjuh 7y ago
What's interesting is that both green and yellow come from a common root wood which originally meant grow/growth. They were the colors if plant growth - green in summer and yellow in autumn. https://en.m.wiktionary.org&
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by petjuh 7y ago
Perhaps people didn't need a word for blue because they could say "the color of sky". For example the English word "green" comes from "grow" in PIE, meaning "the color of (plant) growth". Even &q
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by petjuh 7y ago
Wouldn't Chase be more interested in net profits and/or collateral?
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by petjuh 7y ago
The first floppies we've had were the 5.25 inch kind which were truly floppy. I remember how strange it felt to hold the new ones which were in a hard case.
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by petjuh 7y ago
In a sense, any API that has its own functions and data structures becomes like a DSL. For example OpenGL feels like its own language, even when you write it in C or C++, or C#.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I wonder if Republicans would be more willing to believe in climate change if it's solved through endless wars instead of taxes. Perpetual war to keep the planet cool.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Someone who steals your phone needs to have "physical access" to you. A random pickpocket is most likely to steal your phone and they're not interested in your phone. Most hackers never have physical access to people. The int
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by petjuh 7y ago
Well, you haven't given any new info to Google on that case, at least. If you have an Android phone they could guess your work and home address from your commute patterns.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Proto-indo-european also had extensive use of ablaut, and a dual number.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Armenian is an Indo-European language, Basque is not, so I am not sure how they can be related.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Ha, reminds me of the days I used WINAPI programming. The message pump would be done with a simple while loop that has GetMessage(), TranslateMessage() and DispatchMessage().
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by petjuh 7y ago
The big difference is that IE6 was a PITA to develop against while Chrome is a breeze. Developers wouldn't have hated the IE6 monoculture if it was as fast as Chrome and had developer tools and features as nice as it.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Orwell's book primary point wasn't about the surveillance (although there is plenty of surveillance there, to be sure), it was about how history is rewritten and people are trained to change their beliefs on command. It's muc
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by petjuh 7y ago
No, but I think the idea is to create a web API that connects to the database instead of having the phone connect directly to it.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Do these leaks happen with other providers and if so, do they happen statistically-significantly more often with Chinese ones?
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by petjuh 7y ago
I switched to Chrome the same day the beta was released mostly because of the speed. Nowadays I stay because I keep my passwords synced over my Google Account and I'm not sure if Firefox works with that.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Also the comparison to a PNG instead of a JPEG was a bit disingenuous since PNG is a lossless codec. I understand it was done to sound impressive but if you compare lossless PNG to a codec that just reuses the same frame and uses a lossy co
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by petjuh 11y ago
Well, that could partly explain the wealth-gap - if black people are robbed of their money by the police of course they will have less.
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by petjuh 11y ago
> The Netherlands consistently ranks as one of the best places in the world to live. > However, the Netherlands’ record for getting women into top management roles is dire. Isn't happiness what's important? We had a neighbor
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by petjuh 11y ago
I had read that if people didn't age at all, they would have a statistical lifespan of something like 800 years (or maybe half-life?). It's just that the everyday dangers add up, if you roll the dice enough times.
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by petjuh 11y ago
Branch prediction is already extremely efficient for loops, it simply assumes the last comparison will be the same. For loops this is true for all but the first and last iteration.
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by petjuh 11y ago
Unfortunately their services are too convenient. I use them for almost everything I can, my reason being that they already know enough about me from my google searches, so I might as well use every other service they have. Plus they're
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by petjuh 11y ago
That's what I've been wondering - why don't the browsers add a few more scripting languages, like python? If IE didn't exist, Chrome and Firefox could do it, just for fun, they're very open to new features.
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by petjuh 11y ago
I read A Big Ball Of Mud while in high school, left a big impression on me. Unfortunately, I've since seen that my projects all gravitate towards it at the end.

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