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winkeltripel
6y ago
I consider this the most likely explanation.
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Is it cause you want to own a home one day? Or at least stop paying more rent each month than a mortgage in other states?
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6y ago
Did they actually cost less after accounting for a normal profit margin? My understanding was that Uber lost money on each ride, right?
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6y ago
I think it qualifies. It's about a community with some different standards than others. There's a different flavour of message-board with different content here.
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Public keys seem to work pretty well. I haven't a clue as to why a gang can't use public key encryption.
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> We don’t need the government to protect people from their own decisions. Citation needed. Many parts of our government do just that (FDA, EPA). We need these because many decisions would otherwise be uninformed. If you don't know
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6y ago
> conscious capitalists would still be running corporations beholden to company & shareholders before all else. Ignoring that (to be nicer than needed to employees or to over-hire) triggers automatic lawsuits from your institutional
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6y ago
> Can someone explain how the situations are not analogous? The difference is that typical usage of SQLite is co-located with an application, such that you don't need encryption, and it doesn't market itself as a great database
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6y ago
Can you hire Canadians?
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6y ago
So, When compared to paper ballots, I believe that your statements are true. Many states use electronic voting machines. These run unverified code, without verifiable paper receipts (IE a public database of all the votes + receipt numbers,
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6y ago
I see these issues all the time, with enterprise desktop apps. The scaling is only really a problem because it is enabled by default when you plug in certain displays. If the user made a conscious choice (which they would easily remember if
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6y ago
"Without any license or any payment to authors or publishers, [Internet Archive] scans print books" That's a lie, unless they are alleging that those print books were stolen, they were bought and paid for. That is how print b
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6y ago
"BSA, is a trade group established by Microsoft" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance)
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6y ago
As a heads up, the site loads with a horrible amount of pop-in. I suggest loading the items in the order you want to display them, so that after the first 6 load, the pop-in is finished, so that the screen will stop flashing.
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6y ago
It's the idea that you can opt out, but the process is not simple or advertised. It will probably involve a notary, registered post and a fax of your government-issued ID.
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units?
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6y ago
having updates forced ON is the right choice. The mechanism used in windows 10 is very user hostile, and needlessly so.
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6y ago
Except that in this case, it's misplaced, and causing benign actors far more pain than malicious actors. If they want to hurt malicious developers, they need to flag extensions as untrustworthy for: 1. age < 180 days 2. dau < 100
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6y ago
I'm using ahk to record programming tutorials without a typo. It pastes very slowly, one character at a time and it appears as if a person is typing: https://winkeltriple.tumblr.com/post/177397119146/recording
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6y ago
A buddy of mine uses dvorak with a qwerty keyboard and an inline usb switch to engage dvorak. Pair programming and everything.
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Could a saturated network interface prioritize some other company's traffic over your own in AWS? Could the same happen in your own private network? Consider that building fault-tolerance into their application may be very difficult, o
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6y ago
> Pais is a breakthrough genius. The Tech is real and in years it will be revealed to the public. Or it's already installed on Nimitz-class carriers (with huge tires tucked into hidden underwater pods). The navy is just waiting for
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I mean, he found the checkbox in KDE's settings, which should have been respected, and several other technical ways to disable it from starting by itself, all of which should have been respected. It's still a shitty way to operate
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> it's not trivial to support it correctly Back button works every time if you create pages, and navigate between them using links. There are some garbage web forms out there, but if we're comparing building SPA in 2020 or webf
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(Microsoft could allow the store to be less terrible)
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That's what I thought too. perhaps this should be profiled and adjusted on-the-fly (probably a massive undertaking)?
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I've been intending to write something like this for a while. It's perfect!
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That's why my TV is on a lightswitch!
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I'm certain that it'll be worse. Consider spending 15 seconds to change a single setting.
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> the wall clock time might be longer for parallel code That is exactly the case, if CPU is the bottleneck in your already-parallel application. It's a case where we really shouldn't be layering different parallel bits together
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