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by pizza234 2y ago
> Although volunteering information about anything seems suspect. I don't live in the USA, but to my understanding, it’s common for individuals from minority groups to be taught by their families specific behaviors for interacting w
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by pizza234 2y ago
It's written in a referenced article ( https://ij.org/case/nevada-civil-forfeiture/ ): > On his drive from Texas to California, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer engineered a reason to pull him over, saying th
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by pizza234 2y ago
> I still like Vagrant. But I believe it's yet another victim of the Hashicorp license change debacle from a year or two ago. The license change is irrelevant - from the licensing page: > All non-production uses are permitted. De
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by pizza234 2y ago
The concept of "good therapist" can be misleading, as it suggests the idea that there good therapist necessarily work well with any patient (and as a consequence, patients may give up too early in their search for a therapist). I
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by pizza234 2y ago
As a person who was very introvert at social gatherings, and the polar opposite now, I'm now convinced that being extrovert is not a skill or an "area" (outside the comfort zone), but rather a state of mind. It's certain
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by pizza234 2y ago
There is no point in doing such type of conversions.
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by pizza234 2y ago
I've ported some projects to Rust (including C, where I've used C2Rust as first step), and I've drawn some conclusions. 1. Converting a C program to Rust, even if it includes unsafe code, often uncovers bugs quickly thanks to
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by pizza234 2y ago
For home (mini) server use cases, cheap/unbranded x86 SBCs are also my favorites, especially because they can be easily expanded (I've put two disks for reliability). Also, at least until some time ago, ARM compatibility was not a
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by pizza234 2y ago
In a few months there will be second hand RPi 500's on sale, presumably in the range of 40/60 $, so that price should be used for comparison against second-hand products, not the price as new.
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by pizza234 2y ago
Already explained in other comments. Devs can put whatever they want in the comments; (third party) parsers won't need to change anything, because they still treats those "special" comments as regular.
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by pizza234 2y ago
> Photography is an art form and that means you get to do whatever you want. Edit freely [...] This has made me lose faith and interest in (most of) photography. While I can't speak for the past, modern photography often feels disho
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by pizza234 2y ago
> Either school is important, in which case both the parents pushing their children and the children pushing themselves are doing the right thing to improve their chances of later success There's a difference between considering som
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by pizza234 2y ago
I've read an interview with a man who panhandled for a period of his life, and his hourly income was higher than that of an average waiter. Although I don't have official sources, when I observe panhandlers in my city, it seems pl
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by pizza234 2y ago
> as well as implementing unique AI-powered image post-processing to create high-quality images from the camera. They're not comparable, in the intuitive sense, to conventional cameras.
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by pizza234 2y ago
Related comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169771 : > "I can't quit the job. If I say I'm going to quit, I'll be threatened that I will have to pay damages for quitting."
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by pizza234 2y ago
This is precisely what Scroll (1) used to do. It seems it didn't end up well, unfortunately. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service)
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by pizza234 2y ago
> When weed is no longer forbidden, they have no interest in it just as they see little interest in getting drunk. I believe drugs (incl. alcohool) are a considerably more complex habits. Getting intoxicated have socially desirable outco
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by pizza234 2y ago
Take a person that with X% body fat and Y% muscles. They start going to the gym; after some time, they'll have (random numbers) (X-2)% body fat, and (Y+2)% muscles. On a scale, their weight will be the same, but in reality, their body
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by pizza234 2y ago
At the very least, this article should be clarified (or maybe, the backing research is garbage, which is a possibility). In the context of weight management, the concept of "weight loss" should never be considered. This is because
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by pizza234 2y ago
But this is not the finding of the research, which is, according to their finding (I'm personally skeptical) that physical activity doesn't have an impact on daily calories expenditure. In short, accoding to their finding, in your
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by pizza234 2y ago
> But the jury awarded [...] $250 in damages - the statutory minimum for infringement in the United States. > Apple's attorneys told the court the "ultimate purpose" of its lawsuit was not money, but to win an injunctio
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by pizza234 2y ago
I've used MySQL for almost 15 years, and reported dozens of bugs, a few of which were critical security issues. My definition of "very unstable" has been very vague, so I'll clarify. MySQL is stable software if a company
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by pizza234 2y ago
Very surprisingly, x86 can be competitive (and in some cases, even winning) in terms of power efficiency; see https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9965-ampereone/5 .
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by pizza234 2y ago
> the robust evidence for even things as common as flossing I'm always baffled by all the discussions about flossing, as it's something that can be very easily verified empirically: one can just floss for a month, then stop doi
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by pizza234 2y ago
I suppose they opted for a conservative upgrade policy, as v8.4 probably includes all the functional additions/changes of the previous v8.1+ versions, and moving to it would have been a very big step. MySQL is very unstable software -
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by pizza234 2y ago
As far as I remember, when a COM program is executed¹, DS is set to CS, so it's not necessary to manually set it. ¹=confirmed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13663859 .
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by pizza234 2y ago
> But the resulting jobs follow a general trend of technology making new jobs "Technology making new jobs" didn't start yesterday; it started at least a couple of centuries ago. And I take you, or even people with a meanin
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by pizza234 2y ago
> If I share somebody a python script, they can still execute it as a program as long as a shebang is set. I'm not familiar with Python, but I presume its similar to Ruby, where besides trivial scripts, this is false - as soon as th
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by pizza234 2y ago
Freedom in licensing definitely requires context and specification; an absolute view of freedom has little practical use. Game engines released, for example, under a GPL license may align with an absolute view of freedom, but they are usele
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by pizza234 2y ago
While any design requires discipline, ECS systems have little or no coupling between them, and they very easily end up all over the place; in addition to the chaotic design, one ends up also not having an idea of what happens when. For this

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