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by rwallace 9y ago
So it does! Trying it now, don't yet know how comprehensive it is, but it seems to work well on a Medium post, at least. Thanks! Now, how to increase awareness of that feature?
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Then perhaps they need to choose between their goal of adhering to the letter of web standards and their goal of having anyone use their browser. To be more exact, they need to understand that this is the choice they are making, whether the
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by rwallace 9y ago
People keep asking why Firefox is losing market share to Chrome and how to reverse it. The answer to the first question is simple: it doesn't do anything Chrome doesn't, so there's no particular reason to use it unless you ca
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by rwallace 9y ago
> If you learn a lucrative enough skill, and the basics of negotiation, then you can find a corporate job that can fit your needs. I have a friend with narcolepsy, he worked ten years at a company that let him come in whenever he wanted
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by rwallace 9y ago
> "the Sony rootkit CDs" -- was this illegal? Hacking computers is very illegal - to crazy extremes, indeed. But the other examples are relevant, thanks! Upvoted.
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> The fraction of things that humans can do which machines cannot is shrinking monotonically. That's only true until it's not. Our little enclave of civilization that currently exists on this planet has a finite lifespan, just
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> The executives have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders and will be personally accountable if they willfully neglect that (vs just the company being liable). There is almost no valid argument that an executive could not anticipate the
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by rwallace 9y ago
Why the hell was this comment downvoted? It has correctly summarized the problem: the company is effectively selling umbrellas for 1/3 the wholesale price. Increase the deposit to 70 yuan and you don't have to mind if people keep
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by rwallace 9y ago
I had no idea Chrome could do that. Tried it just now and it works perfectly. Thanks!
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I've looked through 3/4 of them so far, and most of the failed projects here are actually because there was no market for the product in the first place. Then there is designing the product wrong (so it doesn't do what the us
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by rwallace 9y ago
Generally speaking, life is worth having even if it contains suffering, but there are limits. I like being alive, despite the bad times, but given the prospect of a lifetime spent locked in a cage, I'd rather be dead, and that, or some
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Ah! That works, thanks!
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I'd love to have such a feature, but this doesn't work for me. On Chrome, it's in my bookmark bar but it has no effect. On Firefox, it doesn't allow dragging to the bookmark sidebar. (I actually don't see how it cou
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What type information exactly are you thinking of, that the optimizer would be able to make use of, is lost?
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The vessel will spin around the occupant. The glass of water test is equivalent to the case where the vessel contains air, and the answer is the vessel still spins around the occupant for a while, until the fluid transmits the motion to the
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> Going to C-- and then from there going to LLVM loses a lot of the semantic information that one can provide to the LLVM optimiser. What semantic information?
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by rwallace 9y ago
Looks good! A lot of things seem to just work. Can you stop the cursor blinking? If you do something like pi 1e20, I think it should print out all the digits it has instead of printing zeros.
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What advantages do SVMs have at this stage?
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But breaks stuff more often. Why would that be a net win? Probably a net loss because you incur the mental overhead of putting down whatever actual problems you are trying to solve and getting into a frame of mind to try to fix your compute
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> counterproductive, in that presenting updates through the same channel tends to conflate them in the minds of users, with the result that critical security updates instead end up being given the lesser attention more appropriately due
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by rwallace 9y ago
That is indeed what such people believe to be their motive, but they have forgotten something very important: when you start a war of all against all, retaliation can take any form, not just the same form you used. Previous poster remarked
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by rwallace 9y ago
I don't understand the advantage of this. Surely it must exert the same forces as the usual shaft-mounted propeller, and therefore require bearings of the same strength? What's the advantage? Is it something to do with the load be
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by rwallace 9y ago
Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder; personally I find the live one more aesthetically pleasing.
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That last sentence is definitely good advice! Working on open source during the time is a great idea, but make sure you clear it with your employer first. By default, they would have copyright claim on work you do during time and with facil
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> BTW the transformation is visible in literature, which is how I noticed it. The sense of geography in, say, Jane Austin is completely alien to today Now I'm curious, don't remember such a difference, but then it's been a
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> The quality of Google's search results has already gone down, thanks to results being personalized based on previous searches and other data, a feature it seems no one asked for. Actually, I appreciate that feature very much. I li
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Just science fiction, as far as we know.
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What exactly do you find problematic about npm compared to the traditional package management systems (i.e. apt et al?)? I ask because having started using npm some months ago, I find it works better than anything I've ever previously
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> But if we make it our social norm that bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of and to be taken lightly, won't it change the equilibrium for future generations of lenders and borrowers such that an inefficiently low amount of lendin
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> The 68000 (1979) had 40,000 transistors. Where did you get that figure? I'm curious because the figure I've seen tossed around is 68,000 transistors (the story going that this is where the model number came from).

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