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by wffurr 1y ago
The fast pocket computer might be fairly common in fully developed countries, but bandwidth is not. It’s trivial to run into use cases with limited network bandwidth regardless of how fast your iPhone is. And if you broaden your idea of yo
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I am not sure precisely it not very rational about that link. Did you have a specific point you were trying to make with it?
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They already released several updated mainboards for the 13 and 16 with newer Intel and AMD chips.
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Who needs arrow keys when you have hjkl?
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by wffurr 1y ago
You might want to check the permissions and such on the latest versions of those apps. Fossify is a fork of SimpleMobileTools but without the ads and trackers added by the new owners.
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0.5mm: https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Jetstream-Lite-Touch-Ink-Ballpoi... “Gel pens” are technically ballpoints, true, but when one says “ballpoint” it’s usually taken to refer to an oil based ballpoint like a Bic, whereas gel
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by wffurr 1y ago
The 13th amendment specifically allows slavery of prisoners. Edit: I don’t mean to imply the author isn’t paid fairly by Turso. A few posts down, the CEO of Turso asserts that they do pay fairly. The OP in this thread might reasonably won
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by wffurr 1y ago
RIP all those street trees too.
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by wffurr 1y ago
I loved how early Landsat imagery featured in the movie Kong: Skull Island about finding a mysterious lost island in the Pacific.
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by wffurr 1y ago
It wasn’t immediately obvious, but the article is on the site as html if you scroll past “the latest from Belfer”. The article body is weirdly far from the title. Ah the article is also not the paper. It’s a long summary.
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My preferred design for fusion reactors uses gravitational confinement and are placed 150 million miles away.
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If the answer can be wrong, you can make it as fast as you want.
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by wffurr 1y ago
>> "incredibly cheaply" is the reality of the world We, via our government, could also insist on trading partners having and enforcing environmental standards and fair trade practices. But that means higher prices for which
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by wffurr 1y ago
This is about plastic bags, which no municipal curbside recycling takes.
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That has a much higher activation energy than checking a feed, and only works in smaller groups. If you are checking across groups, you are managing N group chats and texting all of them.
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>> a terror group in Japan was able to injure thousands of people with a chemical attack A terror attack on civilians is a lot different than modern militaries using them on each other.
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by wffurr 1y ago
I'd encourage you to read the article. Chemical weapons are effectively useless against a well-trained "modern system" army. Part of that is the chemical warfare equipment and vehicles, but mostly it's cover-and-concea
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by wffurr 1y ago
>> They are not used because somehow all countries pretty much agreed they’re way TOO effective and horrific That’s the story but it doesn’t hold up. Chemical weapons were used as recently as the Syrian civil war. I also think if the
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by wffurr 1y ago
>> Systems are not sane. “The systems programmer has seen the terrors of the world and understood the intrinsic horror of existence.” https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by wffurr 1y ago
The latest Carbon newsletter is here, from March: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/5...
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by wffurr 1y ago
That was fascinating reading and a graveyard of abandoned "better C" dialects: SaferC, Friendly C, Checked C, etc.
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by wffurr 1y ago
This seems like such an obvious thing to have - where is it? Zig, Odin, etc. all seem much more ambitious.
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by wffurr 1y ago
There's a variety of essays on Total War and various infantry types, how well the tactics are modeled, etc.: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Facoup.b...
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by wffurr 1y ago
Fonts on the web are super hard. There’s hardly any useful browser APIs for the kind of typesetting you need for PDFs: itemization, character bounding boxes, font file sub setting, etc. To solve or properly, you need to include a lot of co
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by wffurr 1y ago
How do the courts enforce their rulings if the executive branch is wholly beholden to the president? It’s already a big problem for the DoJ. See https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--formalis...
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Patently untrue. I do, sometimes slower. My kids’ friends live on these roads.
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Solvable with a review SLO and a round robin auto assigner for reviews.
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If they keep pushing the hours between requests down like I saw on https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-number-of-full... , that might be feasible.
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This also came up recently in a thread about speed governors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812856 Just a few governor-equipped vehicles (e.g. from public fleets or prior speeding offenders) can reduce speeding on
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LA actually has a fair bit of transit. Also taxis are a thing, you may have read about them here from time to time.

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