thawaway1837

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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I don’t get this. You’re basically locking yourself to a single development eco system, and a highly limited deployment eco system. It’s not clear what the benefits of either are either. I get that the MacBook gets great performance for bat
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
There’s more studies than controlled ones. Sociological studies strongly suggest that masks do work. For example, there was a recent study that compared COVID hospitalization rates of districts in Tennessee that had mask mandates vs those w
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Wasn’t the original Skype that Microsoft paid billions for also based on BitTorrent technology? Not BitTorrent exactly, but close enough that if the blockchain spinoff was bought for that much the blockchain folks would certainly consider (
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Premium = Too large to be bullied by Apple
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Vivaldi is the true successor of Opera, more so than the Opera we have today.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Right, until random builds start breaking in Visual Studio because some CSPROJ somewhere because visual studio is looking at the wrong DLL since there is no deterministic way to determine where VS will look for DLLs under many circumstances
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I was without a phone for a out 3 months. After the first week of constant anxiety because it constantly felt like I had forgotten something, it was incredible, getting used to not having Google Maps at all times, and drawing up the courage
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The security stuff for NodeJS is really frustrating. If anything, NodeJS is more secure than something like the JVM or C++. If I include a 3rd party package in the JVM, I have absolutely no guarantee that it will work well, much like in Nod
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Sweden’s strategy failed on its own terms. There is absolutely no arguing that. Their first goal was to protect the vulnerable, and they failed miserably at that. Fundamentally because Tegnell resisted the fact that asymptomatic carriers ex
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The federal government stopped giving the police military weapons. They also had consent degrees with several departments that helped improve things. These and others are all things the current administration has reversed and is almost cert
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
They’re arguing that the whole idea behind the web is that different people can try different things with different priorities and constraints. The priorities shouldn’t be dictated by a single company. I don’t fault Google for what they are
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I think this is true of any “answering engine” in an ideal world. In an ideal world, it would act as a function and return a single output for any input, because any particular question should ideally only have a single correct answer.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Well, Linus has already said he doesn’t care about your (or anybody else’s) accessibility issues. Is the kernel getting impossible to compile on anything less than a monster $2500 gaming rig? Too bad. Stop being poor or from a poor country.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The 0.5-1% fatality rate would be a LOT higher if all those people did fall sick at the same time. Hospital systems would collapse because of the number of sick people. Doctors and nurses would be missing because they would almost all likel
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
In about 3 months. For a disease that was growing exponentially before action was taken and even now is only just stopped growing in countries where action was taken. And no mosquito outbreak has caused entire hospital systems to collapse i
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Umm, for one thing because going into lockdown wouldn’t do anything to prevent death by mosquito? You do know that mosquitoes have wings and can move from place to place without humans right?
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Is there any reason whatsoever to believe the US would help India in a conflict with China? I see absolutely no evidence of this being the case. The US has never in the history of India stepped in to help India. In all likelihood, if Indana
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Because there was no open source alternative, the web was a terrible app platform (and frankly it’s still not as good as Silverlight was a decade ago). In an alternative universe where Silverlight, instead of Flash, had become the de facto
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
A lot of people? Relevantly, a lot of developers and ops folks who need overlaps with US hours.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I’m pretty sure the author isn’t teaching anything but is instead pointing out the unfortunately common pitfalls when having someone new start with the JS ecosystem.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
If Bill Gates wanted to do that, wouldn’t he have done it through, I don’t know, Windows? It was only the most widespread OS until a decade ago with a market share of over 90% worldwide.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
And he mentions Solyndra. By that logic every Venture capitalist’s Wikipedia page should have a massive section called scandals that lists all their investments that did not pay out.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Right, because people are gonna provide core dumps in their feedback. Again, if you don’t want telemetry, don’t use the build Microsoft uses specifically to collect telemetry. Don’t complain that the build MS uses only for telemetry require
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The whole point of an insider build is to collect telemetry.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
There are SO MANY Linux distributions that overlapping a name is hardly a big deal (and the registration is not that big a deal either...as the article points out itself, despite the registration, there is a Linux distro also named Maui). T
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
No one I know wants to have a child. The primary reason? It’s super expensive. And people my age entered the workforce right before the Great Recession, which hammered their wages and they lost years of salary growth, followed by not even a
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
It doesn’t help that the US backed out of a policy solution that would actually be cheap and orders of magnitude more effective than anything that they have cooked up since in the TPP. Backing out of it also means that the rest of the world
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I’m curious if you programmed professionally before SO. I feel the average junior developer’s, or even senior developer’s, for that matter, code was a lot worse than the average SO response, which has now become the baseline for all types o
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
This is unsurprising. The Jet team was basically picked apart and focused on Walmart.com and other Walmart initiatives as soon as it was bought. I’m surprised Walmart kept the brand going in the first place, since the focus was clearly on W
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Isn’t that more of an Electron issue? I mean, is anyone clamouring for VS Code, for example, to be rewritten in native toolkits?

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