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by umvi 4y ago
Has anyone noticed numpy running slower on Windows vs. Linux given the same hardware? I would have expected similar performance, but it seems like on my setup the same python runs about 20-30% faster on linux, all other things being equal.
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by umvi 4y ago
> I don't know, I've heard so many stories of people that, after 90+ years, are just bored of life. Would they still feel that way if they had youthful energy and a more elastic mind, I wonder? Hard to tell. I myself hope I&#x2
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by umvi 4y ago
> To end on a positive note As a religious person this is actually like the most negative note imaginable for me. I mean, sure, I'll grant you life after death is "terrifying" in a "fear of the unknown" sense, bu
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by umvi 4y ago
It would be less hilarious if there were more "honey bad funded by big honey" studies. But those seem to be rare. "Alcohol bad for you funded by Budweiser" stories never seem to show up on HN but if they did they would i
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by umvi 4y ago
People hate on electron, but it's a pretty amazing piece of tech if you ask me. I can turn a browser game into a steam game with basically no effort which is nice because browsers change over time and electron helps you get a working o
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by umvi 4y ago
What kind of attack against a git repo can be realistically carried out today?
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by umvi 4y ago
This is why you enable multiple backup ways of getting in. I have a yubikey as my main 2FA. If I lose it or it breaks I can still get in with: - my spare yubikey - my phone - backup codes
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by umvi 4y ago
> wouldn't it take 8.5 billion [years]? Yes, if you are assuming the jet was emitted right now. But the jet was emitted roughly 8.5 billion years ago. The light in front of the jet has already reached us. If the jet were also travel
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by umvi 4y ago
Well then the crux of the issue is that you cannot build a global free speech platform. What is free speech in USA is illegal speech in Germany, China, etc. If you really want a free speech platform, you can only really deploy it in countri
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by umvi 4y ago
> “Right, boss, apparently because you keep talking about freedom, a large group of people are taking it to mean they have ‘freedom’ to harass people with slurs and all sorts of abuse. People are leaving the site because of it, and adver
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by umvi 4y ago
It's a pyramid scheme. You put in $10 over the course of your career, but you take out $20 during retirement (funded by the next generation(s)). If US had shrinking population like Japan instead of growing population it would quickly c
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by umvi 4y ago
> For the love of god, why do I still have programs on Linux that don’t use xdg directories? Because a lot of devs have never heard of it? I'm a linux app dev of <10 years and I've never heard of xdg until this post. I just
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by umvi 4y ago
Like settling with a patent troll vs. fighting an expensive and lengthy legal battle. Sometimes people "self harm" on principle...
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by umvi 4y ago
> It is somewhat cheap and easy to produce a file with a specific SHA-1 hash. I've never heard this? Who can I pay to create a file with the specific hash "deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef" and how much does it cos
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by umvi 4y ago
I was hoping this article would tell me how it is different from Electron. Does anyone know? I'm guessing the main difference is that electron is "full chromium" while cobalt is using a modified smaller chromium.
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Why All Cell Phones in Japan Are Shipped with an Annoying Shutter Sound(photographytalk.com)
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by umvi 4y ago
So basically just another confirmation that insulin resistance is a huge problem and that combating it with (in this case) intermittent fasting propagates into things like reducing incidence of Alzheimer's disease.
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by umvi 4y ago
Ok so it's an 8K video 100px tall with fake colors and fake 700px height? Interesting video but to be honest I couldn't understand the guy's technical explanation for it at all. It just sounded like mumbo jumbo to me. I mean,
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by umvi 4y ago
> I have to conclude that it's being upvoted here because people enjoy eating red meat and want to continue to do so Similarly, "wine/coffee/beer/marijuana/chocolate/etc is good for you" type studi
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by umvi 4y ago
In my case I have 2 branches - production and development which map to different cloud environments. Pushing to development branch will run CI/CD to auto-deploy to development cloud, and pushing to production will run CI/CD to aut
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by umvi 4y ago
Without merge commits you can never have more than 1 long-lived branch because said long-lived branches will not have any common ancestors which makes pulling changes between them a nightmare (literally every file will be in conflict)... I
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by umvi 4y ago
Not surprising behavior from id software. If you've ever read the book "Masters of Doom" (great book, btw) you can see that id software from the very beginning is really only known for making cutting edge games and that they&
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by umvi 4y ago
If it were me I would only come back on the condition they double my salary
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by umvi 4y ago
Unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies per day I just don't see how that's possible. I have a family of 5 and my kids watch several hours of Disney+ and YouTube per day, plus my wife and I watch an hour of Netflix after the k
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by umvi 4y ago
If you directly asked me I would probably say: "Well, working from home the temptation to watch YouTube and stuff on my second monitor is much higher and sometimes I find I've wasted a lot of time procrastinating my tasks because
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by umvi 4y ago
I started down that route as well but was running into the same gcc issues as when compiling manually. I found this issue https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/2046 but the workaround didn't immediately
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by umvi 4y ago
> The field has a horrendous track record: More than two dozen people arrested or convicted with bitemark evidence have since been exonerated. It's probably true that bitemark analysis is ineffective at identifying biters, but I wou
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by umvi 4y ago
I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which is also rolling release, and the one thing that bugs me is that sometimes your tools are so cutting edge that it makes it hard to get older stuff. For example it's super easy to get python 3.10 working i
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by umvi 4y ago
How does one get a copy of a screenplay in the first place?
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by umvi 4y ago
Just use vanilla html/js/css. For most stuff that's fine. React is good for web applications that require reusable components and have a lot of state to manage, but if you are building a personal site just use vanilla.

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