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by qiqitori 7y ago
I don't get property taxes. Why make people pay taxes on land they already paid a bunch of money for?
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by qiqitori 7y ago
> Trains are not more efficient than a the average car when measured in passenger mile per gallon equivalent. And trains are much less efficient when compared to a high MPG cars like a Prius. While the article you're quoting does in
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Wouldn't adding more of the existing pieces in the back row change the game a bit too? Which piece(s) would you suggest having more of to accomodate the extra fields?
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by qiqitori 7y ago
I switched to tmux because of this bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26723 Huh, which apparently got fixed about three years ago, after being open for seven years.
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by qiqitori 7y ago
I don't think it's likely wildcards will ever be implemented in /etc/hosts, but you could hack glibc to support it without too much effort I think (somewhere in this file https://sourceware.org/git/?
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by qiqitori 7y ago
When you install 'mysql'/'mysqld' in Debian or RHEL7+-based distros, you get MariaDB... So staying with MySQL and not "switching" to MariaDB is a lot more effort. (MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and the binari
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by qiqitori 7y ago
> AVX functions start with _mm256_ I don't know anything about Rust, but a nicer word is probably "intrinsics". They usually compile to a single instruction.
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Which Tesla is twice the weight of an equivalent ICE car? The Model S (2019) appears to look roughly the same and appears to be roughly the same size as the Audi A7 (2019), and is just a bit heavier (Tesla curb weight 4883 lbs, Audi 4332 lb
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by qiqitori 7y ago
What, credit card companies sell customers' purchase history?
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Used <marquee> just a couple weeks ago to simulate a scrolling text screensaver for use as a video backdrop. Actually used the linked page as a reference and laughed a bit at the "truespeed" attribute.
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by qiqitori 7y ago
(1) was in Hadano (Kanagawa), (2) was in Matsue (Shimane), (3) was in Nagoya. Thinking back I left out a couple encounters. 4. Asked the police box staff if they knew how to get to my hotel (this was before smartphones were common), they he
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Maybe there was a major misunderstanding somewhere. In general, if at all possible, I think it's best to tell the police (or staff members of whatever facility you happen to be inside) when there's an object that does not belong.
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by qiqitori 7y ago
That's okay, but in my opinion you should instead hate the laws that cause that kind of behavior. (The site doesn't geoblock Asia for example.) The law's intentions don't matter IMO -- just look at it this way: site oper
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Huh, it's crazy that they do this at all. How do they check this kind of thing? Do they ask the buyer to display the Amazon page on their smartphone if it's just a small discount? Or do they always check on their own devices? (Ama
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Is there insurance for when banks/payment processors do odd things? If there isn't, that seems seems like an interesting business opportunity. (I personally don't think it would be much fun to sort out PayPal's misdealin
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by qiqitori 7y ago
I speak English natively and Japanese fluently, and in my experience error messages (and other messages) that were translated into Japanese are often of rather questionable quality. But you're right, people who don't speak English
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by qiqitori 7y ago
If a programmer can't at least read (normal) C, I'd doubt they're a fully qualified programmer. (Just my way of viewing things, I might be wrong. My reasoning is that if you don't know C and pointers, you probably don&#x
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by qiqitori 7y ago
I dunno... "Periodically changing user agent" sounds pretty unique if you ask me. Especially if the extension isn't super-clever and changes the user agent for accesses that happen on the same page. And the fingerprinter coul
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by qiqitori 7y ago
There's so much fingerprinting that can't really be disabled. Think about it: Performance - Single-threaded CPU performance - Multi-threaded CPU performance - WebGL performance - Video performance - Network performance (how long
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Don't put all your eggs in the same basket. I have my bank statements in an email account by a provider that is unlikely to ban people for questionable and unrelated offenses. (You can totally get banned from Google's entire platf
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by qiqitori 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification Probably this? Interesting.
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Ah, so your argument is that the lead ban has led to PCB defects that might have increased e-waste. Let't think about e-waste for a bit. Let's say you have a PCB that you do not need anymore. This PCB is made of the following mate
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by qiqitori 7y ago
Normal libraries should never register signal handlers. Google Breakpad is a crash-reporting system and as such requires signal handling to function. Also since we're on the topic, here's a nice vulnerability caused by bad signal
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by qiqitori 8y ago
> Donating one of your two kidneys is maybe a "like nothing happened" experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12629724 <-- Here's an HN post I remember about donating kidneys
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by qiqitori 8y ago
You may be able to speed things up by using a lookup table instead of branching. (If it's spending a lot of time in Rust's format function you could also use a (or the same) lookup table to convert to hex/dec/oct.)
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by qiqitori 8y ago
More information: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr... According to this page: - you can already test this right now - you can provide your own server And some more: https:/&#
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by qiqitori 8y ago
I'm assuming left is old and right is new? This looks like aerial photography shot from a plane rather than satellite imagery, which seems like it would depend more on the quality(?) of the plane than the quality of the cameras.
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by qiqitori 8y ago
Another service that does the same thing: http://urlhosted.graphicore.de/ From http://urlhosted.graphicore.de/about.html : "urlHosted is an experimental web app that misuses the part after the "#&q
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by qiqitori 8y ago
This book had a really gentle explanation of the required calculus: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Neural-Network-ebook/dp... It also builds some really simple Python code to create a simple (non-"deep"
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by qiqitori 8y ago
Hmm? I don't think I've ever heard of any lawsuits about bundled adware. (Read: I doubt it's illegal.)

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