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by prvc 6y ago
In fact, this is conventional for letters in general-- not only to Santa, and not only in French.
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by prvc 6y ago
>This library is called Dear ImGui. Please refer to it as Dear ImGui (not ImGui, not IMGUI). >(The library misleadingly started its life in 2014 as "ImGui" due to the fact that I didn't give it a proper name when when I
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by prvc 6y ago
It's a no brainer if the only alternative is death.
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by prvc 6y ago
Anyone care to explain the meaning of this?
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by prvc 6y ago
Could someone explain, from Twitter's perspective, how reading data from a legally obtained hard drive constitutes "hacking"?
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by prvc 6y ago
If the probability of surviving a drop has been quadrupled, then it must have been less than 1/4 for the last generations.
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by prvc 6y ago
I wonder what the environmental impact of all the new adaptors that customers will need to buy is.
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by prvc 6y ago
How difficult would it be to rally the whole community around a hostile fork?
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by prvc 6y ago
Could you elaborate as to what the specific differences are?
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by prvc 6y ago
They should really be asked what is their precise criterion is for using the term "public broadcast service" instead, when it seems to simply be euphemism for the same thing.
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by prvc 6y ago
At the risk of sounding frivolous: because it is an asshole. There's a lesson in that, I think.
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by prvc 6y ago
A bit off topic: what is this site? An unofficial Twitter mirror?
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by prvc 6y ago
>1% with the display Which is, high as it is, another surprise! I wonder how that happens.
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by prvc 6y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382438
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by prvc 6y ago
Perhaps the opposite is true-- to wit, a concept given a special name makes it easier to remember, marks it distinctively, and the assignment of the name itself indicates that it is an important concept. In the case of prolific discoverers
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by prvc 6y ago
Don't see how this would be better than performing a blind web search, at least without any kind of description for each item in the list.
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by prvc 6y ago
No.
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by prvc 6y ago
A better analogy than opera would be the trade in things like illegal drugs, opiate painkillers, or tobacco, etc. Which depend intrinsically on exploiting particular human frailties and vulnerabilities, and which have harmful effects.
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by prvc 6y ago
>I definitely don't want people thinking in any way we got money to write the entry Certainly; archive.org has been singularly beyond reproach in that regard.
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by prvc 6y ago
Thanks for responding with that clarification. I'd like to clarify, in turn, that my original post was intended more as observation than accusation. No malicious intent imputed! One thing I would like to add, that I think we would both
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by prvc 6y ago
>"not for profit" and "not an adverticle" Neither of those cases excludes the possibility that the article was influenced by a PR campaign in some way (author's intentions are in fact irrelevant to this question)
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by prvc 6y ago
Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
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by prvc 6y ago
Most people are not extraordinary, by definition. I have never detected any cultural message which states that everyone ought to be extraordinary in order to be worthwhile. The opposite seems to be valourised, in this cultural moment, in my
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by prvc 6y ago
>PeerTube does this using technologies such as WebTorrent and WebRTC. In theory, this can help PeerTube scale without expensive centralized servers. I wonder if this is actually that useful for reducing server bandwidth for the long-tail
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by prvc 6y ago
>Screened apps Screened, primarily to be in agreement with Apple's business interests. The user's concerns (privacy, functionality, avoiding other types of malware) are given far less (inadequate) consideration. Worse, they are
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by prvc 6y ago
... as far as this source is concerned at least: https://www.webmproject.org/docs/container/#video-codec
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by prvc 6y ago
AV1 does not appear to have been added yet
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by prvc 6y ago
>I have never seen an Opus file in the wild. You have likely heard one. For instance, if you are a Youtube user.
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by prvc 6y ago
How about a plaintext transcription?
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by prvc 6y ago
That does not show, however, that "personality" is used as a "cover" for discrimination. That argument, in fact, implicitly assumes equalism (i.e. that all groups have equal distributions of traits), which in turn justif

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