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by sitharus 9y ago
The short answer is there's nothing humanity can do in the medium term - short of a breakthrough in physics - that could affect the earth's core. A quick check of Wikipedia gives this link: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by sitharus 9y ago
MySQL has had replication for _longer_, but I would the MySQL team has a history of releasing half-baked functionality with a long list of gotchas. PostgreSQL has only had replication in the core product for the past couple of versions, pre
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by sitharus 9y ago
In June this year AWS shipped DynamoDB autoscaling: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-scaling-for-amazon...
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by sitharus 9y ago
In my case (also a dev) because my 2015 Fritz!Box wasn't coping in a dense WiFi area (I can see over 200 other APs from my apartment). I was also running in to issues while really pushing my network, I couldn't get much over 100Mb
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by sitharus 9y ago
Moving GCs are fairly non-intuitive. It seems like the extra overhead to do pointer updates and data copying would cause performance loss, but the generational nature of objects helps a lot. Copying means you get clean pages a lot faster an
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by sitharus 9y ago
This does not work if the root user has not been enabled locally. Source: Just tried it myself.
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by sitharus 9y ago
Reading TFA both TCP and UDP OpenVPN modes were tested. UDP was about three times faster than TCP, but SSH was three times faster than that. Possibly the SSH encryption could have been more optimal for their use case?
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by sitharus 9y ago
> However, doesn't someone who commits treason give up their rights as a citizen? You'd have to convict them first, and you'd have to charge them to do that. Keeping a citizen detained without charge is a violation of huma
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by sitharus 9y ago
Even that seems like a huge requirement compared to New Zealand where the only requirement is I file my taxes every year. If I want limited liability that costs NZ$115 +GST (though by that time you’re normally gst registered so that doesn’t
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by sitharus 9y ago
That’s a super complicated way of describing ‘push the fork button’. You really don’t have to worry about all of that.
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by sitharus 9y ago
But you have backups right? Betting on data recovery is a really poor strategy, you might drop your laptop under a truck.
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by sitharus 9y ago
You're not, there's even a relevant XKCD for this: https://www.xkcd.com/1172/ For one subset of users (of which I'm a part) I'd need one dongle - USB-C to DisplayPort - because everything else I nee
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by sitharus 9y ago
They often do for the end-drops in to countries that have strong anti-drug forces. You don't want your competent people arrested, jailed or executed.
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by sitharus 9y ago
No, it's well known that humans cannot safely ingest the quantity of salt contained in sea water. In a normal situation with available fresh water it would not kill you, but if you were stuck at sea with no fresh water the 35g/L o
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by sitharus 9y ago
My bet is they were doing a drug run. From what I hear runners will leave drugs tied to buoys off uninhabited islands and they’ll be picked up by small boats. They don’t bring drugs onboard in case they’re searched. I wouldn’t be surprised
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by sitharus 9y ago
All comms being disabled is a real red flag. My dad’s a master mariner so I’ve been around enough marine grade equipment to know that one radio breaking is rare, but 6 all at the same time is ridiculously unlikely. Either total incompetence
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by sitharus 9y ago
Not in sea water, it’d be far too salty to be edible. You’d end up drinking more water to compensate.
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by sitharus 9y ago
Creators are not paid by advertisements, they're paid by the channel that broadcasts. Either the channel will be subscription based, publicly funded, or are doing something like placing the children's content directly before adult
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by sitharus 9y ago
I agree, but I think automated vehicles will begin to dominate city and bulk freight transport. I wouldn't be surprised if automated vehicle only lanes start appearing on freeways with a higher speed limit, or dedicated parallel roadwa
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by sitharus 9y ago
According to the article it was illegal to purchase the ‘legal’ clones for personal use. They were for business use only and cost the equivalent of over a year’s salary. These illegal clones were ‘only’ 5-6 months salary, mostly built from
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by sitharus 9y ago
C# does have scoped destructors, but for GC reasons they use a separate syntax. `IDisposable` and the `using() { }` block do this. The downside is it's entirely opt-in, but it's well known and things like IoC containers can handle
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by sitharus 9y ago
It's an amusing anecdote, but unfortunately false: https://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
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by sitharus 9y ago
The only reason I have a Toyota now is the dealer was the only one who'd actually talk to me, so she got the sale. The other dealers would only show me the cheapest cars on the lot and wander off. New Zealand's domestic car indust
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by sitharus 9y ago
There are a number of sources that refer to the Space Shuttle Orbiter as a 'flying brick' and that it doesn't fly as much as 'falls with style'. Sure it's fast, but nobody's sure if it flies.
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by sitharus 9y ago
The problem with incremental improvements is you have to keep backwards compatibility. This is a big issue when it comes to keywords. For instance this is valid C#: using async = Task<string>; class BadIdea { public async as
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by sitharus 9y ago
I think it’s great people keep experimenting with new languages. Sure many will die off and be forgotten, but the people involved will learn and create. If we keep waiting for someone else to make the perfect language we’ll never get anywhe
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by sitharus 9y ago
It uses an environment variable, you can set that before running the installer.
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by sitharus 9y ago
1. The disk password cannot be retrieved. The bug occurred when creating a new encrypted volume - the password was copied in to the hint field as well as the password field. 2. Changing your password with the updated disk utility will fix t
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by sitharus 9y ago
Or Europeans simply don't mind wearing obvious corrective lenses? There are a huge number of societal factors in play here.
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by sitharus 9y ago
One was planned, but it was cancelled due to budget overruns: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Mo...

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