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by pradn 5y ago
We're all talking anecdotes, but all I have to do is install the NVIDIA driver updater and I'm good to go.
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by pradn 5y ago
Windows just works. I can't remember the last time I had a driver issue with wifi or had an issue with new hardware working. Every game targets Windows first, so they all work without any extra work. My computer is a tool, and I don&#x
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by pradn 5y ago
You're absolutely right that UX should have precedence for equal info. There's a reason why I like going to the slickly-made Verge instead of every other site for routine news like what was announced at a particular company's
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by pradn 5y ago
I had no idea about this, thanks! It's surprisingly hard to set up good images in a hand-coded-in-vim website. You're supposed to include multiple image sizes and set up the code for loading each in HTML. So what could have been s
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by pradn 5y ago
It's reasonable for good journalistic organizations to have access to secret government records. They just need to be responsible with them. The same discussion happens any time there's a leak of intelligence/surveillance&#x2
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by pradn 5y ago
I use Windows 10 every day, and I think the days of the desktop UI mattering are over. 95% of my time is in Chrome and Steam games. Windows already has split screen and that's enough for home use. That said, I can't say how it fee
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by pradn 5y ago
Do you have a regular day job and publish on the side? How do you manage it?
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by pradn 5y ago
Would APL work as well with the unusual symbols replaced by keywords? Any with APL experience know?
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by pradn 5y ago
It seems like in a democratic society, people are wont to underprice resources like this. How does someone get elected to ban lawns or golf courses if the majority likes those things? The same issue occurs with trying to get people to do th
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by pradn 5y ago
Americans might be more familiar with Kuwait compared to other countries for the nefarious reason of having fought a war to defend its oil.
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by pradn 5y ago
Bloom filters are the equivalent in computer science. Just beyond the basics, but ubiquitous enough to be annoying when it’s on the front page every other week.
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by pradn 5y ago
People who like retro-style indie games, people looking for something new aside from PC/console games, people who want to make games for a handheld, people looking for novelty. People trying to find joy. It's easy to figure out wh
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by pradn 5y ago
It's not meant to be the only solution. Apple should lock things down for service people, certainly. On top of that, audit logs would offer peace of mind. There's no reason they couldn't be presented in a way that is easy to
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by pradn 5y ago
If you call play "waste", I don't know what to tell you. Joy is what people live for, not maximizing their employers' ROI.
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by pradn 5y ago
There should also be audit logs recorded by the device and sent to the user's Apple account. So you can see which apps, screens, and data a service person used. This is a routine ask from companies to cloud providers, for example.
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by pradn 5y ago
That's amazing. I picked the country Chad and I see no trends at all! With word and account blocking, I get good control over what I see, even in the official Twitter app. (A good number of the control methods, like disabling like numb
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by pradn 5y ago
While this is one line of thinking, in another way of thinking, we're just now in a perpetual cyber cold war. As long as there are some rogue nations that turn their eyes away from cybercriminals, or adversaries that actively promote t
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by pradn 5y ago
How about Emacs in eVIl mode?
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by pradn 5y ago
In addition, Buddhism monasticism in at least the first millennium and a half of its life was simultaneously cloistered off from the laypeople, but also very much of it - individual monks owned and invested property and so did the monasteri
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by pradn 5y ago
I found myself going to Netflix by default because its UI is so much smoother in every platform. Amazon does have things I want to see, but I don't want to put up with the slowness and jank.
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by pradn 5y ago
The wild thing is we still have thousands of nuclear weapons, and the number of nuclear-armed states has grown since then. We just perceive a lower risk now-a-days, which I hope holds up.
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by pradn 5y ago
I tried to write code with small functions and was dissuaded from doing that at both my teams over the past few years. The reason is that it can be hard to follow the logic if it's spread out among several functions. Jumping back and f
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by pradn 5y ago
I also believe there's significant chunks, like the network stack, written in memory-safe languages like Rust. An improvement over C.
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by pradn 5y ago
At least for SaaS websites, I imagine you're limiting who can buy your software if you don't comply with relevant a11y guidelines - think government, healthcare, and some big companies etc.
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by pradn 5y ago
It seems to me that the US government is doing this at the right time. We're not in the early stages of cryptocurrency. We've had 10 years for lots of new ideas to mature, and we're on the verge of the most promising of all -
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by pradn 5y ago
The way search works: 1) terms are split into tokens 2) tokens are looked up to find documents 3) documents are ranked by scoring functions I suspect sorting by chronological order might require too many document metadatas to be retrieved a
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by pradn 5y ago
How much of it is Google getting worse and how much of it is garbage websites hyperoptimizing for SEO? Practically all news websites are chock full of ads. There's tons of filler websites that just copy/paste text from Wikipedia,
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by pradn 5y ago
Some loans are backed by certain rent levels. So commercial real estate owners don't have as much freedom to reduce their prices as you might think.
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by pradn 5y ago
It doesn't seem like anyone believes cryptos are supposed to be currencies any more. All the talk around them is around them being a new, exciting, and potentially very lucrative investment class. If you go to Coinbase's front pag
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by pradn 5y ago
That makes sense but I think it should be possible to tell that a "state" refers to another country, not a US subfederal unit.

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