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by ssl232 4y ago
My family got its first Windows computer in 1997 second hand, and it came with Toonstruck, Titanic: Adventure out of Time, and Discworld 2. All were and still are amazing, so I'm glad to agree with the author's assertion that 1996
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by ssl232 4y ago
Nick Lane's book The Vital Question is a masterpiece. I reckon he's figured out the origin of life there. I hope he gets on some podcast like Lex Fridman to talk about it all, because his ideas are just waiting to explode into the
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by ssl232 4y ago
I don't doubt that the government can make life hell for its opponents if it wants to, I just doubt that ordinary voters will allow it to get that bad. Tories have such power right now because they're taking actions (and making si
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by ssl232 4y ago
I think for the reasons you give this bill is never going to actually get through in its current form, or, if it does, it won't be abided by nor enforced. The reason it's gotten this far is because government ministers don't
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by ssl232 4y ago
The Python wheel "ecosystem" is rather nice these days. You can create platform wheels and bundle in shared objects and binaries compiled for those platforms, automated by tools like auditwheel (Linux) and delocate-wheel (OSX). Th
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by ssl232 4y ago
In Scotland the electrification of part of the (200 year old) network involved rebuilding every car and foot bridge and tunnel along the route to add enough spare height for the overhead wires. It's one downside to being "first&qu
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by ssl232 4y ago
Indian Railway must have some fascinating stories. It's absolutely ginormous and historic. Isn't it also the largest employer in India, which must put it in the millions? The fact it works at all shows there must be something spec
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by ssl232 4y ago
I think the commenter was making the point that, whilst blindly getting on a train arriving at the correct platform 2 minutes early would work in most parts of the world, it doesn't in Japan.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Tell me about it, as a native English speaker living in Germany. This happens even when the website has an English language version. I don't understand how they think this is helpful. My browser literally told you the language I want t
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by ssl232 4y ago
I noticed in the Assembly3 section that it uses SolveSpace as its solver. FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE as its main CAD kernel, and this supports mating and constraints between parts (at least, CadQuery supports it, and it's essentially jus
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by ssl232 4y ago
> Isn't Britain still part of the European continent?. The author is likely referring to what is colloquially known in British English as "the continent", which means the mainland part of Europe.
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by ssl232 4y ago
I don't personally find Thunderbird to be bloated, especially compared to e.g. KMail (which even a few years ago was still buggy and unstable for me). "Complex" might be reasonable but I expect a lot of that comes from email
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by ssl232 4y ago
There is. In the UK it's typically called plasterboard. I think the original commenter was trying to make the point that bricks are almost exclusively used for the outside, whereas in the US it seems to depend on the location. I'v
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by ssl232 4y ago
I'm not buying your argument, but perhaps I'm missing something. Is there not a free market for lumber? If the market is functioning properly then any company attempting to reduce supply to push up prices will find themselves losi
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by ssl232 4y ago
Reminds me of the Juicero [1]: an attempt to bring DRM to fruit juice. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
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by ssl232 4y ago
You'd have a point if there hadn't been countless hardware manufacturers in the 20th century who didn't have to rely on DRM for their success. EDIT: not sure why you're getting downvoted, you don't deserve it from w
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by ssl232 4y ago
It just has to be strong enough to require marginally more effort to cut than a typical high security bike lock. A good planner will anyway choose a design that's significantly thicker to avoid the replacement cost when someone does tr
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by ssl232 4y ago
The Android app [1] was last updated 2 years ago. I'm not sure it's useful to list the link on the website alongside the Linux release from a month ago... [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kde.ktrip/
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by ssl232 4y ago
And even if they did, many (most?) bathrooms have doors that open inwards, so you have to touch the same bare metal that they (and every other previous user) also touched... and I'm yet to be convinced by the usual argument that it&#x2
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by ssl232 4y ago
Both YouTube and StackOverflow are searchable in places other than YouTube.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Got to give this guy some credit. It's ridiculous that videos showing StackOverflow questions and answers are more discoverable via YouTube than the underlying content via direct search. Not sure if it's Google or users to blame,
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by ssl232 4y ago
What's different about Germany when it comes to piracy? And what about using a PeerGuardian blacklist to block known trackers?
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by ssl232 4y ago
It gives you access to the original dictionary from a view. I've not played with it yet but I guess that means you can modify it. EDIT: apparently not: >>> keys.mapping mappingproxy({'Diane': 70, 'Bob&
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by ssl232 4y ago
I guess to indicate that the method the @mydispatch.register() decorator wraps will not be added to the class namespace; it will only be accessible via the function wrapped by @singledispatchmethod. As is typical in Python, an underscore in
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by ssl232 4y ago
TIL about dict reverse mapping in 3.10. This will be rather useful: people = { "Diane": 70, "Bob": 78, "Emma": 84 } keys = people.keys() # dict_keys(['Diane'
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by ssl232 4y ago
> It turns out that this is not the source code. As with so many other things in Python, there's a special case you have to know about: there's a separate C implementation of the operator module. :-/ I actually kinda lik
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by ssl232 4y ago
This wouldn't work in the UK where Zebra crossings like this need to be accompanied by yellow "lollypop" lights.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Rollercoaster Tycoon were famously programmed in assembly by Chris Sawyer, essentially on his own. I recall they worked on my Pentium 166 practically without issue, even with large maps; perhaps only a tiny bit o
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by ssl232 4y ago
I'm not sure you understood my comment correctly.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Most of what you said I agree with, but not your last point: > Either way, we're going to need Fusion to run it in the future. In my understanding, the economics of Bitcoin mean that eventually mining will be performed with predomin

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