throwaway_pdp09

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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> Sick article A little red-faced here but I don't know if you're saying it's good or bad (suspect former but not sure). Matters as upon it depends whether I read the article or not, so... help me out? :)
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Are you speaking from personal experience with ITER? You've said some damning things about projects in general but there's no backup for: "crushing engineers pitilessly under the weight of the bureaucracy" "Elements
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Of course there were itanic-targetting compilers, they worked, just not well enough to deliver on marketing promise (edit: and what the hardware was theoretically capable of).
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Donald Knuth said "The Itanium approach...was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write."[82] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanic So they
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Means nothing without saying what the clock goes at.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> You can't just release a CPU for which there is no operating system sure you can. That's what compilers are for.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
You sound like an expert (no sarc), so please allow me to broaden my education if you will, there's quite a bit you said that suggests stuff I'm unaware of. > It needs to be shippable without bruising. I thought all apples brui
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
For the malus-curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonovka . So how's it taste?
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
If it's large, edible, tasts good and lasts well (which IIRC apples usually do) why not?
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Ur maths...
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
MAOIs are not uncommon. Just off the top of my head, tobacco plants and st. john's wort. If this is credible, and I'm not saying it is, a decent list https://www.botanical-online.com/en/medicinal-plants/d
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Thoughtful reply, thanks. I agree in some places, not sure in others. Wish we could take f2f. Thanks!
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I complained to MS about a serious performance issue. Even finding out how took time. Nothing happened. I reported it slightly differently. Nothing happened. I spent several hours overall, all completely ignored. I no longer consider bug re
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I think you're right about the touchpad, it's my understanding they removed scrollbar visibility because of that input style, however ATM I'm using windows and and I have a trackball with a scroll wheel and I very regularly l
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> revealing them only on interaction but you can't interact with them except by bringing the mouse over the right side, and you can't see them so you literally have lost a visual cue of the very thing you want to interact with.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Seems to be.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> We've given up on protecting our freedoms Now "we" bloody haven't! You may have, I and others have not and will not. Decades ago people were literally fighting fascism and dying for it, these days whiners can't
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> Unless 100% of people agree to the restrictions then you are imposing on others, not just yourself That's silly. 100% of people will never agree to it eg. people who are in prison aren't agreeing to it.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
The discussion is about proportionality. > Why do you think I'm OK with the outrageous number of gun deaths we have? I'm not but guns tend to be used to kill other people much more than drugs can be used to kill other people. S
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> Depending on the jurisdiction... well, ok, I see your point but is this one of those cases? I'm pretty sure it's not; to rescue is a transient thing and of extreme circumstances, and nothing like caregiving which is a lon
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Edit: are you replying to the right post, because if not that would explain me getting in a tizz. I'm afraid I'm tired and having trouble understanding your post but am curious. Please correct me where I go wrong as I try to make
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Thanks for giving the name, it's been bugging me for the past hour at least. I just couldn't get it. When I read over SDM I got the impression it wasn't terribly useful, if anyone wants to set me right please do.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
And on the whole, I'd strongly tend to agree.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I'm not taking sides here but, original post > Other adults decided that they're going to take care of this guy Taking care of people is a good thing. What you're suggesting, of other adults banding together and ruining so
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Things are bad not in absolutes, which you are suggesting, but in degree. Contrary to your flat statement I do not agree that taking heroin is bad, it only becomes bad when it affects other people negatively.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I struggle to see the weirdness. Whether or not what you say is true, and actually I suspect it is, that doesn't change the massive death discrepancy I gave.
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Are you from the US? If so do you agree with US gun culture which "2017, [...] the [the CDC's] National Center for Health Statistics reports that gun deaths reached their highest level since 1968, with 39,773 deaths by firearm&quo
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Please let adults evaluate the risks and make up their own minds. Otherwise it sounds like MPTP https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/01/12/frozen-addicts-garage-d... but that kills dopamine producing cells, so
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by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> UIs are not UX Do you know the difference? Tog gave a definition but I don't think UI people know what that is. They just call it UX cos it's the latest sexy term. > Also most programs have terrible UX (and bad UIs). And i

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