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by samatman 2y ago
Intuitive is a synonym for "what one is used to", so I believe you when you say that according to your intuition, what you're accustomed to makes the most sense. In a place with considerable skew in daylight hours between the
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This is true only in the trivial case where the entire document fits in a single chunk, correct? That seems like a meaningful distinction.
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by samatman 2y ago
But where is the line? Proof A and Proof A' are identical, except that Proof A says "and therefore" where Proof A' says "and so we see that". Different proofs? Proof A'' is a faithful translation of P
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by samatman 2y ago
"Cut a deal" is an idiom, not slang: it's appropriate language to use in a business context, for example. The origin is hazy, of the theories I've seen I consider this the best one: "deal" means both "an a
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by samatman 2y ago
Apple has never put any technical or legal obstacles in the way of installing other operating systems on Mac hardware. Nor do they assist in any way, it's consistent benign neglect. The old Intel machines made excellent Linux boxes, e
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by samatman 2y ago
You're misinformed. You're describing rental, it's an understandable mistake, but despite the shared etymology, rent seeking is something entirely different. It is by definition any scheme which extracts wealth without provid
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by samatman 2y ago
This is also true of being a doctor, practicing law, growing fruit, programming computers, driving a cab, creating art, making music, running a car wash, and crab fishing.
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by samatman 2y ago
> regularly get OOM warnings Ah, yes that was why I asked what I did. I'm quite confident they sell a lot of stock MBAs, is what I said, as a guess at what we were trying to 'tell'. As for "low on application memory
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by samatman 2y ago
Usenet was much worse, the way I remember it.
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by samatman 2y ago
Counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974171
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by samatman 2y ago
Better than what, is the question. Where people stand on this question ultimately lies in whether they trust what Apple says. For example, Gatekeeper / OCSP, the service mentioned in the GP. Apple says the following: > Gatekeeper
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a great point. I'm going to start calling 418 the brown M&M of server response codes.
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by samatman 2y ago
How we can tell what? That they sell a lot of stock MacBook Airs? They do. I don't find the topic interesting enough to find a link, but I'm pretty confident on this one. > a lot of people use their Macs as they would an iPad
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by samatman 2y ago
> I think Apple should shift away from personal computing (iMac, MBP/A, iPhone) This is going to be the most insane thing I read all day. > Get [their SoC] into data centers. This is a great idea. Apple discontinued servers a
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by samatman 2y ago
On the one hand, sure, Apple loves to get that extra margin for more RAM and SSD, no doubt. On the other hand, the MacBook Air ships with 8GiB RAM standard, and it's robustly popular. One could suppose that all those customers are suf
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by samatman 2y ago
You're discounting what's actually being said here, and said by many people. I don't play Factorio for the same basic reason as so many others in this thread: it's too much like programming, and I want to use that energy
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by samatman 2y ago
I'll be generous and pretend you said intelligence, not IQ. What is the mechanism you propose, by which the birth of a child makes every person now living incrementally dumber?
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> That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true. You have committed the Fallacy of the Inverse.
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by samatman 2y ago
There should be a term for the fallacy on display here. The Spurious Generalization Fallacy perhaps? At no point did you address whether the shifting habits of younger generations will be bad for their literacy, instead making a general poi
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by samatman 2y ago
SQLite might indeed not be the best tool here. But there are ways to make it work. You could use the blob streaming API to chunk the files into and out of the database, although this is not fire-and-forget and would require a pinch of dat
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> Is anybody depending on this for mission critical data? There may be the occasional entity with mission critical data which does not, sooner or later, entrust some of it to SQLite. It would be difficult to populate such a list, howev
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by samatman 2y ago
Is this some strange fantasy roleplay? If you go murder someone in Liechtenstein, there are only a small handful of places in the world where you are not guaranteed to be arrested and extradited back to Liechtenstein to face trial, at their
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by samatman 2y ago
There is a critical principle in English common law: de minimus non curat lex. Paraphrased, the law does not concern itself with trifles. Mean words causing hurt feelings qualify. I acknowledge that it can be a very big deal for the person
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by samatman 2y ago
They really aren't. Anything signed will load, whether you download it from the App Store or not. Yes, there are some extra steps involved in loading unsigned programs, and the process is designed to make it sound a bit scary. I think
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by samatman 2y ago
People certainly die during heat waves, on the Subcontinent and elsewhere. High heat at high humidity is dangerous to endure. However, there is no historical record of the wet bulb temperature outdoors exceeding human body temperature, anyw
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by samatman 2y ago
You didn't need to make a throwaway account, Drew DeVault. We know you wrote it. We have the smoking gun. Gig's up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793 Someone's reputation was tarnished beyond reco
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The original McDonald's menu had nine items. One was a milkshake. This is never going to happen.
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Headline stripped of bullshit: "Fe(3+) reactivates telomerase of in vitro colorectal cancer cells".
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by samatman 2y ago
This appears to be an alternate article, rather than an alternate headline for this one.
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by samatman 2y ago
No. That puts the government in control of deciding who is, and is not, the press. Which is contrary to the letter and spirit of the First Amendment, which was, in fact, explicitly, written to preclude that possibility. Your statement is al

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