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by pygy_ 5y ago
They blamed their competitor's embrace/extend/extinguish behavior to pull out of it (IIRC MS and perhaps others had asymmetric compatibility with Google talk, and that's how they justified making Google talk proprietary
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If dermatologists worked like psychiatrists they wouldn't be able to tell acne and chickenpox apart (and they'd treat both with face powder). One of the worse example is schizophrenia, which is attributed if you have at least two
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Wouldn't there be a market for 3rd party PCB and control panel kits for used machines?
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For context, YJIT was developed at Shopify, based Maxime's thesis (see lazy basic block versioning). It has been merged into Ruby core, and she now has commit rights to Ruby.
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Awesome! Do you support locks/rollback or conflict detection? If not is it planned?
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No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. This is a stepping stone. A reactive, relational store is very useful, something I've been thinking about for a long time.
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TinyBase lets you set up event handlers with arbitrary data granularity, making the data store reactive.
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Also, let Iran burn a fair bit of its oil to mine ฿S.
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We’re distant cousins, it’s not surprising we have common traits. AFAIK, there is no single trait that is qualitatively human. We distinguish ourselves quantitatively (our fine motor skills, the size of our working memory and culture).
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Market consolidation seems to be the mechanical conclusion of the current rules of the capitalist system, thanks to compounding effects.
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"React is not a framework" is marketing BS. Your code calls a library. A framework calls your code, which is what React does. It is a view framework, not an app framework though.
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That's crypto's weak point. Blockchains are effective as long as gun toting folks let the miners mine. I'd be surprised if Uncle Sam decided to drop the dollar and lose the influence it provides.
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Because sometimes you want a desktop app right now and are most productive with Web technologies.
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The market has decided that entertaining meatbags was worth less than evading taxes and stifling regulations. It seems its invisible hand is a bit self-serving, go figure...
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There are modern takes on this idea, with highly efficient (85%) burning cores that also burn the fine particles traditionally present in wood fire smoke, resulting in a smoke-less combustion. Plugging https://www.uzume.fr (si
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This is less of a concern with modern batch-rocket stoves that also burn fine particles, once hot, after a few minutes, they burn without smoke.
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I stumbled on it, but didn't bother checking :-) It appears that "used not to" is not common. "Never used to", or "didn't use to" would have been better.
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English is not my first language, and even though I used not to make these kind of homophone mistakes, I started making them once I became fluent.
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I'm in a similar position: I've had three mRNA doses, vaccines here may start to be available to my children next week I wouldn't want them to be the weak link, but having them partially immunized during a delta/omicron
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You can vote with your wallet. Don’t buy a TV, let that market die already.
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Byuu/Near committed suicide following a coordinated harrasment campaign targeted against them, their family and friends, for being openly queer.
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Notifications from Web sites are spam. Web apps that can be made resident on your phone home screen are another story, where notifications may be legitimate (e.g. chat apps).
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In French nu is both "naked"and the name of the greek letter that sounds like the latin N.
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Definitely. _why, expecting to remain anonymous, had also shared personal info about his family intermingled in the rest of his fiction prose. This may be why he vanished when his real identity was leaked. I thought at the time that these a
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Crippled seems apt though. The foreskin has a very high density of fine touch and pressure receptors that are directly involved in the pleasing sensations. You've been amputated of your ability to experience sexual pleasure to its full
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AFAICT she was just pushing her own career by doing a high profile piece. I challenged her on Twitter and asked her to remove the piece. She replied that he was famous and thus fair game.
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His real name was revealed, and at that point he deleted his whole Web presence. He was later tracked by a journalist who revealed quite a bit of additional personal info about him and his family, in a disparaging article (he "wasn’t a
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Putting it another way: there’s a well established link between health and social status in social species. Group selection looks like the most logical explanation to me.
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For social species, when resources are limited, evolution favors groups whose rejected members fall sick and die. The placebo effect comes from social support and goes beyond pain. As for the implementation details, expectations play a role
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The new maintainer announced in the Vogons post you linked to later withdrew

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