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by srssays 10y ago
Yeah, there have been many many iterations of these apps, by different developers. SizeUp + Cinch, Divvy, Spectacles. While I think that Apple should have just copied Microsoft's approach (i.e. what Cinch does) the wealth of options fo
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by srssays 10y ago
My girlfriend has a minimum wage job in retail. She doesn't particularly enjoy it. But I guess she can take comfort in the knowledge that she is participating in a "gender revolution". Not like those traitorous stay-at-home w
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by srssays 10y ago
Even if large deposits of a rare mineral were discovered on Mars, surely a business would send robots to retrieve it -- not humans.
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by srssays 10y ago
Not much, because SpaceX is currently the cheapest launch provider in its category (except perhaps the Russians). And their capacity is maxed out. If anything they should put the price up .
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by srssays 10y ago
> Well, no. If we're going to be pedantic, we should say MiB (mebibytes), because file sizes on disk are expressed in multiples of powers of 2, Not true anymore. OS X (and I assume iOS) reports sizes in power-of-10 units. If you thi
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by srssays 10y ago
That's because it cheats! Arabic script has three layers: 1. The base forms (rasm) denote groups of consonants. 2. Then dots distinguish individual consonants (e.g. B, T, TH, Y and N have the same basic form but have different arrangem
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by srssays 10y ago
You can store hours of video on an SD card.
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by srssays 10y ago
Not the case for Arabic. There's hundreds of ligature code points, for example ﰻ (kl), ﷵ (ṣl'm) and ﷳ (akbr). And of course ﷽
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by srssays 10y ago
Affirmative action will prefer a middle-income black person to a low-income white person. It 'evens the score' for some poor people, but not for others.
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by srssays 10y ago
It's absolutely fine to give extra advantages to people with low incomes. That's economic progressivism. It's wrong to give extra advantages based on genetics, essentially saying that some people "genetically poor"
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by srssays 10y ago
Sounds like propane is a winner. Would it help to use a composite tank a la SpaceX?
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by srssays 10y ago
Sure. How about LNG (liquid methane)? We have enough natural gas to last quite a while. In the far future, hopefully we will have mastered producing kerosene using algae.
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by srssays 10y ago
A better idea would be to dig oil out of the ground, process it into kerosene, and use that to power jet turbines on the aircraft.
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by srssays 10y ago
London is special because there are a lot of Apple stores here (I count 7). That's more than many European countries have. The calculus of owning a Mac changes drastically if you live near an Apple store. If my Mac has a problem, I can
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by srssays 10y ago
iMessage makes it impractical to have a conversation with anybody on prepaid Android. Sure you can send MMSs and SMSs to them, but are they going to send more than a couple back? Nope.
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by srssays 10y ago
They are running a business. Presumably they want people to buy things. Making potential customers do research because the product line is opaque is just throwing away good leads.
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by srssays 10y ago
The immigration status of EU citizens resident in the UK is one of the only strong cards the UK has in the Brexit negotiations. The UK may well threaten the EU with mass deportations, especially since the Brexiters running the UK don't
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by srssays 10y ago
I find that the best media is created by people who have a job other than "content creation to farm eyeballs for ads". If advertising disappeared, there'd be a lot less crap on the internet.
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by srssays 10y ago
> If your final destination is Mexico or Canada, then a visa waiver might not be an option, even if you'd otherwise be eligible, because the visa rules classify some travel within North America as not leaving the United States, If y
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by srssays 10y ago
In 2014, 55% of Scots voted to stay. If we are to learn the lessons of the Brexit referendum, you need consensus to enact any major change to people's citizenship rights. Consensus there is not.
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by srssays 10y ago
That's not really the case. OTP requires a large amount of perfectly unbiased randomness, implicitly from a hardware randomness source (otherwise what you have is more accurately a stream cipher). Contrast with deriving a key using cry
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by srssays 10y ago
In a statically-typed language, the starting point is "nothing typechecks". Then each additional language feature (e.g. generics, records, ADTs, lifetimes) must be implemented as an additional capability of the type checker. This
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by srssays 10y ago
There were two separate events, adding up to 25%. The first happened instantly as the Brexit result became known. The second happened on Oct 7 at the opening of trading when there was nobody around who wanted to buy... I find that Bitcoins
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by srssays 10y ago
When bad things happen, sometimes capital controls are introduced. This may restrict the ability for people in that country to purchase foreign currencies. Even in developed countries such as Iceland.
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by srssays 10y ago
Pound sterling...
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by srssays 10y ago
...and if you're generating your lexer (with ragel, flex, etc) then you are using regular expressions.
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by srssays 10y ago
> Edit: I also am concerned if this new language makes the same mistakes as previous languages. For example, I consider allowing null as a mistake. Null is familiar, it's easy to implement, and it causes untold grief. The language i
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by srssays 10y ago
Those computers are like $3000. Even if it only saves 10% of MacBooks from an untimely end, it's still $300's worth of insurance.
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by srssays 10y ago
I am exactly the opposite. I use a debit card, but I've never used a credit card. Why would I want to borrow money (and risk owing interest), if I already have money readily accessible via my debit card?
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by srssays 10y ago
I can understand why people don't like Electron, but what's wrong with Python?

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