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by slhck 5y ago
This is my main issue with Rspec documentation.
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by slhck 6y ago
Post-CXL laser surgery is not always possible. If the cornea's thickness has already degraded too much, lasering would be very risky and lead to tearing.
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by slhck 6y ago
Well, this works just great: https://i.imgur.com/PZEnuDM.jpg There's a product called "null" without an icon.
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by slhck 6y ago
I don't think so. The source code is the same but there's now metadata that helps in setting up the same environment again, even years later. You still have the original code in case, e.g. Docker is no longer available. For instan
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by slhck 6y ago
The two main problems in academia are that a) few researchers have formal training in best practices of software engineering, and that b) time pressure leads to "whatever worked two minutes before submission deadline" becoming wha
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by slhck 6y ago
"These apps do not offer in-app purchase — and, consequently, have not contributed any revenue to the App Store over the last eight years." This is pretty grotesque coming from a trillion-dollar company that anyway already charges
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by slhck 7y ago
It says "Free Encrypted Calendar" on their website.
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by slhck 7y ago
Browser fingerprinting, for one, is something that can be avoided.
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by slhck 7y ago
That's true for normal rental car companies, which are often very picky about damages. With car2go and DriveNow, they don't usually charge for damages anymore. It would be impossible to track. You're paying for the repair wit
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by slhck 7y ago
It's not a carry-over from their DVD business. It's a consequence of how they choose to stream. My assumption is that image-based subtitles are more compatible across a range of devices and clients, as you get to choose how they l
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by slhck 8y ago
Immediately recognized the venue from the photo, which triggered some sensorial cues in my body. Essential part of a good meeting in Geneva.
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by slhck 8y ago
The importance of finding social hobbies outside of work cannot be stressed enough. However, if you are not in the lucky situation of having a partner for whom you feel responsible (e.g. by regularly doing things together, stopping work tog
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by slhck 8y ago
This, and reliability. If I have to leave home 15–20 minutes earlier just because it is _very_ likely that the train gets stuck in a tunnel due to signal malfunctions, or crawls from one stop to the next, I might as well use alternative mea
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by slhck 8y ago
I've found the opposite to be true. Got a pair of QC-35II that block everything but speech, which subjectively appears to become even louder, even when you listen to music. They're great for airplanes, trains, and low-frequency ba
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by slhck 9y ago
Note that these are upload settings. YouTube will re-encode all these videos, so they give a little bit higher bitrates than what you'd typically end up with after they've re-encoded the sources.
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by slhck 9y ago
MSU actually in the meantime updated their description. According to them they used a more recent version – see the Facebook comment thread below the streamingmedia.com link you shared. But indeed it's a little bit ironic for someone a
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by slhck 9y ago
MP4 also supports chapters; it's probably the muxer you're using that does not implement the feature. But yes, MKV supports virtually any codec, so that is a big plus. It comes at the expense of support on different platforms.
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by slhck 9y ago
Link for those interested: https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/next/connecti... > If an impending collision is detected, the vehicle’s sound system plays a short interference signal, which can
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by slhck 9y ago
I recently learned about this when I reported Internet speed issues to my home ISP (upload was basically impossible, while download was at 100 MBit/s). They said they'd look into it, but they couldn't process my claim unless
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by slhck 9y ago
The author suggests stripping the part before doing the uniqueness check. This does not mean that the username (email address in this case) would not be allowed.
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by slhck 9y ago
> According to a much-referenced study, we humans are worse at concentrating than a goldfish. So, I decided to fact-check that nonsense. Found an article from the Telegraph [1] which links to an older article [2] which supposedly support
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by slhck 9y ago
It's not necessarily about large file size (storage is cheap anyway) and memory usage (although RAM on portable devices is still kind of limited). Performance in Electron-based editors (e.g., Atom) is horrible. When you're used to
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by slhck 9y ago
The fact that this was never communicated to users is what's the big issue here. Users may not know that their battery performance is degraded. And even if they knew, how would you expect the average user to correlate bad battery healt
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by slhck 9y ago
How exactly? — Ah, figured it out: - Go to the DW playlist - Click the "..." options button - Then to "Go to Playlist Radio" - "Follow" the DW playlist radio - You can now up/downvote songs
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by slhck 9y ago
> But aren't unit tests a duplication of your code, already? No, as you'd only be specifying the input and output state, e.g. the change of a model's attributes or the correctness of a mathematical calculation. The code th
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by slhck 9y ago
Well, in that case, “your password” might be the only one you have – the one use for your password manager.
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by slhck 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that insight. I guess that in terms of perception and experiencing – at least when it comes to what consumers are used to –, sound is a different beast altogether. And then you have to differentiate music recordings from
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by slhck 9y ago
No, I don't think so, not even in terms of being purist arguments that people make. Long version if you're interested in why people some people may think vinyl sounds better than CD: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/inde
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by slhck 9y ago
I don't understand your argument… if the analogy were true, listening to a CD or streaming from the web would make most people think the recording is "fake" or artificial, longing to listen to it on vinyl. Which I guess most
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by slhck 9y ago
Do you have a reference for this? By “DRM”, are you referring to EME?

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