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by s_kilk 10y ago
> much of the content is online Hmm, no. many of the classics of compsci are not available to read online, and there are even some which are practically impossible to find even as shitty scanned pdfs
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Show HN: Bookmarks via email (Firefox extension)(addons.mozilla.org)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It's also the only reason Donnie Yen's character exists in Rogue One.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
If Intel can't do it, who can?
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The End of Tech Optimism(theringer.com)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Same, after about 48 hours uptime my MacBook will start dropping network connection every few minutes. This can only be cured by a full reboot. The MacBook also regularly (at least once per week) drops all input devices (including built in
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Good to know, thanks! :)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> Plus it has way better battery life. How much battery time are you getting? And which battery do you use? And are you running Linux or Windows? (I'm considering a T420 right now)
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Interesting, thanks! It seems like a lot of effort. I think I may just snap up a 2014 MBP and install Ubuntu on that.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Any issues with Ubuntu? or did it all just work out of the box? I'm really interested in the XPS 13/15, but don't want to end up with a brick.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> It runs Linux very well. I've been researching into the XPS series, and online there are plenty of reports of problems with Linux. Can anyone here confirm first-hand that they have an XPS 13/15 that's running Linux flawl
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Are there any Thinkpads for sale now that don't come with trash-tier displays? I've been doing research, looking to replace this Macbook some time in the new year, and it looks like the new T470 is keeping the abysmal displays of
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It's just good old-fashioned prejudice. Because you have attributes X, Y, and Z, you must therefore be a bad person.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
How's the American style government working out? /s
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Ask HN: Anyone Running a Razer Blade Stealth with Linux?
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by s_kilk 10y ago
The tax money would be spent on nukes, not public services.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I dunno, as a latecomer lisp-enthusiast, that cadaddaaadr stuff seems heinous to me.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> I stress that the types are not enough Exactly. Quick, tell me what this function does: foo :: Num a => a -> a
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Same, easily in the top 3. It's also my favourite opening lines of any film: > Newsreader: Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. > Newsreader: The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques. > Newsre
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Well, the four-year-old didn't go out and buy a tablet or phone for themselves. They're watching videos on Moms device, while she's signed in to her Google account, hence all that activity shows up in the "Women 30-40&qu
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> we might see a 32g model next year? Wasn't this year supposed to be when 32GB landed?
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Maybe western governments find their odious record on human rights aspirational, rather than repulsive?
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I hate the sea, and everything in it.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Right, and that's the bit I'm not keen on. You either end up with a totally bespoke stack of libraries for each project, importing the same boilerplate for basic things like csrf-protection, or you have Luminus vomit a bunch of co
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> Has anyone crossed from one language to the other...? Yes, I've been doing Clojure for maybe four years, and picked up Elixir over the course of 2016. Frankly, I think I'll be preferring Elixir over Clojure for most tasks fro
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by s_kilk 10y ago
What is the deal with the low-quality title editing on here? So often we see good, informative titles get mindlessly edited to match the `<title>` tag of the target page.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
At a previous workplace we just ripped out the MySQL bits and persisted data to MongoDB instead, which was massively more performant under heavy load.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Mindless pedantry.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> how can they be losing money when they are literally the defacto code hosting site? Because, to a first approximation, no-one is paying them for that hosting.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
May I ask which service (if any) you're moving to?

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