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by pizza234 3y ago
I've been on both the sysadmin, development, and hiring sides, and with data models at scales of 50M+ records, devs who "understand that sql is more than select [...]" are rare in my experience, as they're a cross betwee
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Golden quote describing Intel's trend: > AMD should be commended for not wasting area and power chasing bragging rights. [...] Matching Golden Cove’s 6-wide decoder would have been great for bragging rights, but won’t affect perform
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> in my mind there is absolutely no reason at all to start feeding myself artificial sweeteners when there is enough sweeteners in nature. For you probably there aren't, but for others there is a very valid reason: to some (me inclu
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> I am sure that the associate director of science at NASA never visited a chemical plant. /s You haven't read the text attentively. "Visiting a chemical plant" is different from "taking a stroll nearby" it,
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This is very gross disinformation and/or incompetence (which explains why "others" won't listen). The default Debian tools, apt and apt-get (and related tools, like gdebi/aptitude) won't put the system in an in
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by pizza234 3y ago
> great need for new basic knowledge in the sciences if we wish to improve the conditions of human life on Earth. We need more knowledge in physics and chemistry, in biology and physiology, and very particularly in medicine to cope with
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by pizza234 3y ago
> I'm completely and utterly tired of fixing the next 14916498th bug that's caused by package X and Y having shared dependency Z, then X updating Z to Z+1 and breaking Y This is not "Linux", it's users who mess a
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by pizza234 3y ago
It's easier to watch the movie :). The specific chemical has been connected to several classes of diseases (if memory serves me well, 6), in a very large research that was part of the legal case(s).
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In term of specific PFAS, the film Dark Waters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film) ) dramatizes DuPont's legal battle over PFOA/C8. In the legal cases, it came to light that chemical compani
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And just to clarify: prevention is different from treatment (the context was treatment). But most importantly, for clinical cases, physical exercise and similar won't do anything; just imagine a typical case of child abuse.
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It is definitely a cultural (environmental) problem. I wouldn't judge as assholes the surrounding people; it's just there is no education (I wasn't any different, until I had to deal with some cases) about mental health issue
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> physical exercise is one of the only things that uncontroversially helps prevent depression. You clearly never had to deal with a case of clinical depression.
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> it's that there was a solution for the problems it is trying to solve. A community. And the friends that come with it. Very wrong. I have some familiarity with therapy, and in a way, community is actually detrimental when it comes
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by pizza234 3y ago
Destructuring (/pattern matching) itself is supported by several languages (although more in general, its flexibility depends on the language). It makes sense to support it in modern languages, as it's practical and intuitive. IMO
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> What percentage of those will actually be exploited in the hands of typical users? There's not exactly worm grade exploits flying around for these devices. In addition to the sibling post, Bluetooth is another attack vector. A pho
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by pizza234 3y ago
Security is topic that is definitely worth taking very seriously, and worse, it's in contrast with an industry fundamentally designed around planned obsolescence. I don't have estimates, but I think it's safe to estimate that
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by pizza234 3y ago
According to multiple sources, Ubuntu has more than 30% of the market share; independently how it is, it definitely has a lot of weight in the Linux world, and its practices/standards.
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by pizza234 3y ago
In the case of GNOME, absolutely. GNOME devs are infamous for actively fighting users' desire for customization. They have a long history; here's[¹] an example from a couple of years ago (not sure how the situation described evo
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by pizza234 3y ago
> but Nvidia just works Not really. On some/several/many Nvidia cards (I had a few), one can't even boot with a stock Ubuntu CD, because Nouveau has (unfortunately) a very lacking support, and proprietary drivers are not p
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by pizza234 3y ago
> they markedly changes the taste, indelibly affecting the thing it's sweetening. Heck, even stevia adds its own distinct nastiness to whatever it flavours. This really depends on personal tastes and on which food is used. I use asp
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by pizza234 3y ago
I own one, too, and it's a piece of crap. It takes ages to sync, and, adding insult to injury, every time the app is updated, it syncs the AGPS, which is a very slow operation. The on-demand screen backlighting is unreliable (one needs
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by pizza234 3y ago
This is an example: https://imgur.com/a/PQlxEXc (not sure why Imgur tags it as mature). I've found this type of pizza both in the north and in the south. The overall quality is consideraly lower, starting from the
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by pizza234 3y ago
> In Italy there's a bunch of things called "pizza" which are not round flat bread. True, although the canonical/widespread pizza is the round/flat one. I've never heard of "Pizza di Pasqua" and &q
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The variables in the quality of driving are far from being a few, and include: - driving aggressively/dangerously/poorly - the above includes not being focused on driving (eg. talking on the phone) - reacting angrily to other driv
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It can't be excluded. I remember a friend of mine overclocking his CPU (around 20 years ago!), and notificing that the maximum clock they could achieve, would decrease over time. I guess that when put under thermal stress (which may be
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by pizza234 3y ago
Regarding my own case, it was a Google Nexus 5X. Performaed a factory reset, but the phone is still super-slow. 100% sure that this is not perception. I'm talking about seconds-long delays. Regarding the acquaintances, I don't rem
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In my experience, the current bottleneck with (Android) phones is that the get very slow without any apparent reasons after a few years. I've had multiple reports of acquaintances complaining about their phones getting slow after a few
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I did for a bit, but it's a bit tricky, in the sense that differently from other types of products, games have a very strong separation between the artistic and the engineering aspects. This has very significant consequences. If one wo
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> Create an operating system specifically for the database and make it so you boot the database. I have the impression that this is similar to the adhoc filesystem idea; this seems in principle very advantageous (why employing two layers
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The alternatives are: - merge the two products in one: the higher-end users would pay less (for the same quality), but the lower-end ones would pay more (for a slightly increased quality); lower-end clients (which make up the majority of th

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