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by simula67 4y ago
This is also my biggest frustration with macOS because you can use same application for multiple activities. A browser can be used for researching a problem in the code you are writing and at the same time to play music from Amazon Music. W
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by simula67 4y ago
Usually standards will have holes. Therefore, it is necessary to ask: what happens when a competing standard notices a hole in the current standard? In this case, it is better to have a reference implementation, matching which, the competin
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by simula67 4y ago
I think with Pacman finally supporting parallel downloads the last major technical advantage that Debian based distros had over Arch is now gone. I think it is time that Arch is considered as a serious base for more projects.
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by simula67 4y ago
Is there any way to root a third generation Chromecast and install AdBlock for YouTube? I have been trying to use dns.adguard.com for my Openwrt router and it does not seem to block YouTube ads on my Chromecast. On a side note: the difficul
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by simula67 4y ago
Does anyone have reviews of any comparable ARM-based (good battery backup and speed) Windows laptops? Seems like there should be a transition of the entire laptop market to ARM, given that Apple has demonstrated that ARM processors are viab
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by simula67 4y ago
The Assassins' Creed video game franchise weaves real history to it's fictional story line. Playing the game or watching the game movies on YouTube can yield interesting Wikipedia rabbit holes.
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by simula67 4y ago
Orkut had an excellent user interface: public scrap books where you could leave messages for each other that anyone can see, no word limits, no voting, no infinite scroll, no AI systems trying to "maximize engagement", etc. Modern
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by simula67 4y ago
Ultimately, interviews are about a process of elimination. There are M applicants and N spots open. If M>N (which is most cases) we need some way to go from M candidates to N job offers. How do you run this selection process? One way to
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by simula67 4y ago
> They separated from West Pakistan on the basis of their Bengali Identity This is not true. People in the Indian state of West Bengal also speak Bengali and have a Bengali identity. The split of Bengal into West Bengal and Bangladesh wa
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by simula67 5y ago
Why some arguments for 'Gold money standard wouldn't work' do not make a lot of sense 1. 'Co-operation under anarchy is impossible to achieve' The whole point of money is to get people with different motives to co-o
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by simula67 5y ago
> Most people accept this, but tell them if you increase the number of dollars but leave cheeseburger production the same, you'll need more dollars to get the same amount of cheeseburgers as you did previously, and they insist this
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by simula67 5y ago
Why Americans refer to petrol as gas, even though it is liquid, is still a mystery to me.
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In the long run, wars make us safer and richer(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by simula67 5y ago|1 comments
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by simula67 5y ago
HN hug of death? Mirror: https://archive.is/Vz4M5
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by simula67 5y ago
> Even worse are image results. > The problem is that search engine results – especially on mobile – are not how you find that any longer. I think the biggest story of the web in the last decade is the slow but steady decline of Googl
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by simula67 5y ago
Following projects seem promising: * OpenCompute[1]: A Facebook lead initiative to build and design open source hardware, mainly for data centers but also for enterprise. * RISC-V[2]: An open source ISA and alternative to x86 and ARM. * Clo
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by simula67 5y ago
This is why the study of ancient languages used in religious texts are important. Many churches still conduct some activities in dead languages. For example, the Roman Catholic Church still publishes texts in Latin and trains people in Lati
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by simula67 6y ago
What is your answer to the Thiel Question?
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by simula67 6y ago
So it's Bluestacks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueStacks ) for GNU/Linux?
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by simula67 6y ago
I think they are most likely to move to Ireland or the Carribean and not Swaziland 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shif... 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun_e
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by simula67 6y ago
> Learning about historical events where there are multiple inevitably biased narratives Not just historical events. For example, Vladimir Putin's Russian page looks very different from the English page. If I suspect bias, one quick
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by simula67 6y ago
Is Chuck Feeney Jewish?
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Qore is an interpreted programming language with no GIL(en.wikipedia.org)
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by simula67 6y ago
There is something missing from this argument: How is Bitcoin a store of value?
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by simula67 6y ago
Not trying to armchair quarterback here, just speculating for entertainment > Around this time, Mozilla started paying serious attention to Chrome. Chrome had started with very different design guidelines than Firefox: > * at the time
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by simula67 6y ago
I wonder what the authors thoughts are on the Moscow Metro. Schematic map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Moscow_m... Seems like a bunch of concentric circles with lines going away f
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by simula67 6y ago
I meant in a hands-off manner.
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by simula67 6y ago
How do you make sure you don't get hacked using Wordpress? I hosted my own blog for a short while and got hacked, so I moved back to Wordpress.com.
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by simula67 6y ago
It is not possible to have a decentralized meeting place. Meeting places are supposed to be centralized, that is their point. Many people say that they should consider Mastodon like email, but even then, there must be a forum where people n
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by simula67 7y ago
Non-clickbait title: Google might prefer divesting $22B AdSense business to avoid antitrust litigation.

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