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by valvar 5y ago
If you're using tools/languages that change rapidly (like Kotlin, in my case), syntax from a few years ago will often be outdated.
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by valvar 5y ago
There are a lot of mirrors, too, as anyone can host an instance, so if those don't work you can always try others.
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by valvar 5y ago
What's the point of clicking through to the article if you're not going to read it, though?
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by valvar 5y ago
It varied :-p. But the best-seller in our vending machine was the white, sugar-free variant.
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by valvar 5y ago
I think that's clearly nonsense and not a helpful take (if you lie to your kids, unwittingly or not, that will just erode their trust in you). Of course you can find desperate adult actors, just as you can find desperate investment ban
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by valvar 5y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but which ones, and could you provide any sources? This is the first time I've heard that.
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by valvar 5y ago
If you're talking about aspartame it's about as possibly carcinogenic as the moon landing was possibly faked.
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by valvar 5y ago
Well, that's you. Everyone drank Monster at my uni and I don't think there were any reports of sleep issues. Of course it depends on your existing caffeine tolerance, and I guess most students consume quite a lot of caffeinated be
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by valvar 5y ago
Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?
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by valvar 5y ago
>it's common for unfurnished apartments in Zurich cost upwards of $2,000 I'd say that's the lower end, actually. Zürich is indeed pretty pricey.
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by valvar 5y ago
It increases the costs, sure, but is the increase significant? It seems to be fairly common to write bots for various online games that only rely on video input. The cost of development is higher, and the hardware requirements somewhat stee
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by valvar 5y ago
Is the main purpose of these really to prove that you are human, or to improve their ML datasets?
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by valvar 5y ago
To add to that (as I guess many will not know this — I certainly didn't until recently), the group of dialects is called Alemannic German, and is not exclusive to Switzerland. There are similar dialects spoken in all of the surroundin
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by valvar 5y ago
This is like a textbook example of malicious misrepresentation.
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by valvar 5y ago
Maybe if you already use the things that they are pushing on you, you won't notice anything. But every time I've updated my work laptop Apple have tried to make me opt-in to Siri after restarting with the new update -- they even a
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by valvar 5y ago
I'm sure this is just a mistake, an algorithmic mishap. It probably flagged the content as possibly racist. Alphabet's interests have always been in supporting social justice, BLM, etc, and censoring the other side. That's no
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by valvar 5y ago
For surprisingly excellent curated lists by anonymous 4chan users, I can recommend https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Charts
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by valvar 5y ago
What's your logic there? I would have thought that if your eyesight is poor, resolution matters much less as you can't tell the difference. You'd want to scale things 2-4 times anyway.
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by valvar 6y ago
I think your parent is quite aware of the contents of the article, and is questioning their ontology just like one would question a Jesuit's conception of 'heresy'.
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by valvar 6y ago
That's assuming the feature even materializes. I don't it's cynical to assume that Google might shelve a "feature" that undermines their own business at the first opportunity.
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by valvar 6y ago
That's assuming it's their money to begin with (I'd assume it's a loan). With those numbers it takes about a decade to make it back — perhaps more with capital costs. That doesn't sound bad at all? What were you exp
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by valvar 6y ago
Writing a blog post about how you enabled the writing of that blog post is the most fun part! I just happened to write my own today in a very similar vein [0]. I guess using webhooks to automatically deploy might be pretty obvious, but I di
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by valvar 6y ago
It's a common line of thought that often surfaces and it is listed in the HN guidelines as one of the things that should not be insinuated. So that's why your parent is getting downvoted.
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by valvar 6y ago
IQ tests measure the g factor and also happen to be the best way to measure it. So those opposed to IQ should either come up with a better way to measure g or be open about their rejection of the existence of differences in cognitive abilit
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by valvar 6y ago
I don't understand how people can say that demand is greater than supply or the other way around. Aren't they exactly matched, using the nifty concept of salaries? Anything else seems absurd. The demand for skilled software engine
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by valvar 6y ago
I don't know anything about how they are run, but I would assume you need a large number of on-site engineers and process overseers. What are the low-income jobs? Security?
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by valvar 6y ago
This may be a stupid question, but isn't it standard practice to require that employees use VPN? Why would they expose servers to the internet?
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by valvar 6y ago
That's really the feature that I miss most of all. If you have a catch-all, you should be able to customize the from address when composing a message.
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by valvar 6y ago
How do these other economic systems you speak of ensure that reproduction remains below replacement levels?
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by valvar 6y ago
That's exactly the point that the article makes.

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