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by rualca 6y ago
> I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have another motive behind them. I have the displeasure of working with a team membe
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by rualca 6y ago
> Youtube money must've been pretty good to keep going. The idiot's most viewed video has about 33k views. I'm not sure that's enough to cover $200k in fines.
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by rualca 6y ago
First of all, your "10x the price" means a price point between 10$ and 50$. That's hardly a blocker. Some people, when facing the choice of having a shot at a vaccine sometime in the future and have a reliable vaccine right n
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by rualca 6y ago
> We do not have a similar level of understanding for the mRNA type. And yet we are pushing it out at a never seen before scale and speed. It's my understanding that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is the first vaccine that is demo
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by rualca 6y ago
> If you care about that kind of guarantee you might want to keep a connection open and stream new updates. You don't need that. You just need to get the collection resource to be cacheable and subsequently track your resources&#x27
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by rualca 6y ago
> Depends how long the cursor is alive. The cursor is never invalidated. You can always get a valid response from any cursor, whether the resource exists or was already deleted. That's the whole point of using a cursor. Perhaps your
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by rualca 6y ago
> One way to get around this is to drop the notion of page number. Instead do greater than last element on last page. That's the whole point of a cursor, isn't it? And pagination just means querying the records to return a limi
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by rualca 6y ago
> Not sure about unix certified os's, but mac os has a much smaller install base than linux. No, not really. macos's market share is about 4 times the aggregate market share of all Linux-based distributions.
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by rualca 6y ago
> I guess my point is: is UNIX at all relevant? Obviously yes. I don't understand what is there so hard to understand. I mean, just go learn about pretty much any field where you need to target a combination of platforms that don&#x
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't understand why UNIX is such a big deal in 2020. If you're interested in learning about why standards are "such a big deal" then you can start by discovering a phenomenon called linux fragmentation".
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by rualca 6y ago
> Linux isn't technically one, sure, but given that Linux is where the OS hot-shit is now (...) is it not fair to say it's where Unix would've been had things been different? No, it's not fair. Linux is just the OS ke
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by rualca 6y ago
What notes did the reviewers left the submissions? It makes no sense to complain about a paper not being accepted if they don't refer the remarks that editors added regarding which issues required addressing and which were serious enou
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by rualca 6y ago
> I remember this as total pain to use compared to CodeBlocks 10 years ago We have radically different memories then. Bloodshed dev-c++ was always the lightest and snappiest C++ IDE around.
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by rualca 6y ago
Amazon S3 Glacier is a S3 storage class. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ If you know it can be done with S3 then you already have your answer.
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by rualca 6y ago
Me too. I haven't heard anything regarding bloodshed dev-c++ for ages, perhaps over a decade by now. Talk about a blast from the past. I still recall cutting my C++ teeth with dev-c++ writing small opengl+win32 apps with it, and strugg
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by rualca 6y ago
> This is an ivory tower view on what research papers should be (....) It really isn't, and failing to understand what a scientific paper is shows a crass and fundamental misunderstanding of what science is and how it works. You wil
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by rualca 6y ago
It might not fit the topic very well, but studying evolutionary algorithms made me realize that in the grand scheme of things individual success is always the aggregate result of pure chance instead of some intrinsic quality of the individu
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's absolutely relevant. Git needs the "rebase" command to stitch independent histories together; Darcs doesn't. That's the part I don't get from your argument. Git has rebase. It works. So where exactly
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by rualca 6y ago
> What makes Darcs different is that it does not need to organize history sequentially. It knows what commits depend on other commits, and a branch is simply a "sea of patches" whose order is inferred. This means that you can s
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by rualca 6y ago
> The UK is no island? An island that has high-speed railway connections to Europe is not exactly isolated from the world, not to mention it's ferry connections with multiple neighboring countries in mainland Europe. Additionally, G
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by rualca 6y ago
>>UX matters. Of that was the case then how come Git reigns supreme in spite of the lack of a polished UI/UX?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Git will be replaced by something that uses intuitive metaphors like "save", "load", "undo", "go back to old version", "update my work with work from colleague", "update the offici
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by rualca 6y ago
You're showing a fundamental misconception and outright ignorance of what research papers are, and more importantly what science is. For example, you're somehow assuming that academic papers about to be subjected to peer review ar
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by rualca 6y ago
> To put an example to the other comments, look up the history of the XYZ domain - in a nutshell, they had a fire sale selling domains for pennies to gain market share. Besides normal people, three groups descended upon it: spammers, squ
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) but this model of charging premium prices for domains, as long as it’s not exorbitant, works better for both end users and registrants. I don't understand how it can be argued that arbitrary price hikes works better for thos
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by rualca 6y ago
> How is a $4.18 price increase worthy of millions of HN readers’ attention on Christmas? Because, personally, I was already bit in the ass by these price hikes from a gTLD. I started a personal website with a gTLD (.site) that I registe
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by rualca 6y ago
> There are over 3 million Californians in households making under $25.5k/year Sounds like that's a problem that's largely orthogonal to covid19, and results mainly by the US's attitude to income inequality and system
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by rualca 6y ago
You're somehow trying to shift the burden of proof. Please provide evidence that supports the assertion that those who don't voluntarily comply with basic safety precautions will stop complying with the rules if they are made mand
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by rualca 6y ago
> Is it possible that with strict lockdowns people just stop abiding by the rules? I feel this assertion does not make any sense. The whole reason for a lockdown is that there are irresponsible and reckless people who don't abide by
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by rualca 6y ago
> Shareholders benefit from the profits via a rising stock price (...) They really don't. That's not how stock works. Paying dividends is the only way the company's profits get to the pockets of shareholders. The rest is j

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