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by xiii1408 7y ago
I think you're absolutely right! And they even have been offering vegetarian options in other countries for some time. One of my friends from India was quite surprised when he moved to the US that McDonald's doesn't have m
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Had a similar experience with an Alienware laptop a few years back. It was a headache to try to configure drivers. Thankfully, you could actually enable only one GPU in the BIOS! That, paired with AMD gradually improving their drivers ove
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Or arXiv. Elsevier authors can post their papers on arXiv and/or their own website.
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Career progress in academia is mostly based on publications in top-tier journals in your field. If those journals aren't open access, you're required to publish in closed access journals if you want to (1) get a Ph.D., (2) get te
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by xiii1408 7y ago
At least with most DOE-funded research, we're required to retain the copyright to the official "release" copy of papers. This allows us to redistribute the official paper ourselves. Even if you don't retain the copyrigh
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Yes, this. A "global language" is by definition a language learned by significant numbers of people as a second language [1]. By most people's accounting, only English, French, and Spanish are global languages. "Minor&q
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I'm continuously baffled by our (Americans') fixation with innovating on public transit technology instead of actually building any that people could use right now. Why focus money on developing a hyperloop++, when we could have s
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Yeah, there's at least a supreme court precedent, set by Texas v. White . It outlawed unilateral succession, but ruled that "revolution or consent of the states" can lead to secession.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
In each of those cases there's absolutely a process (albeit a long and arduous process) for secession. It's a process truly democratic countries need to have. Don't forget that Scotland very nearly did leave the UK, with the
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by xiii1408 7y ago
A neighboring school to my high school actually was a women's prison before it was repurposed as a high school. That said, the architecture was actually quite nice, with lots of natural light and open space.
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When I first realized you could do this I was blown away. Just set `DISPLAY` in your environment to an X server (any X server, anywhere) and any applications you run will appear there. Of course, there are immense problems with this. For
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The SCMP wants to be seen as an authoritative regional news source, so it avoids blatantly biased coverage on the news side. It's generally pretty neutral. The opinion and longform side of the paper are another matter, though. Almo
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Shit! Did you get the bonus in the end?
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Is this actually true, though? To figure that out, you'd need to do a speed test to the target host, then do another one while simultaneously running Speedtest. Your Internet speed is also affected by the peering agreements your ISP ha
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Yes, this 100%. It was fun (and kind of hilarious) to have an old Dell PowerEdge Server in your dorm room back in college, when power was free. (And, in my case, mostly generated by dams, so not that bad for the environment.) Keeping on
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Thanks for the rec! I unfortunately decided to install RW_LEGACY years ago when I set it up. It's now in a weird state where it has SeaBIOS installed but legacy boot is disabled. From what I've read, I need to boot into a Chrome
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by xiii1408 7y ago
This is great news! Chromebooks are dirt cheap and for the most part have amazing build quality and keyboards for the price point. I just can't stand the flimsy plastics and hinges of most "normal" laptops at that price. I
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Thanks for this great primer! Not quite through with the article, but I've recently been using my Raspberry Pi as a workstation (I mostly use SSH anyway), and I've had issues / confusion with hardware acceleration and X vs.
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Using SSH over Tor is a supremely dumb idea unless you really need to hide your SSH sessions and you're already using other methods (pre-shared host fingerprint, single-use SSH key) to secure your session. 1) Tor exit node operators
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> "Unfortunately, one of the rats accidentally drowned during swimming training; therefore, the final animal number of the [experimental group] was 17." Damn, poor guy. > "When training, a screw nut approximately 3% of
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This has been well-known by swimmers for a long time: chlorine itself is pretty much fine for you. It's the chemical reaction of chlorine with waste products, including human waste, that produces toxic byproducts and the concomitant &
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ROSE has been around for a long time, and from what I've heard there's tons of legacy code. I wouldn't be surprised if there's significant technical debt or other structural limitations. That said, I don't really k
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> That said, there are better researched layouts that DVORAK, with actual modern research behind them. Any references? I'm curious.
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by xiii1408 8y ago
I can type at 120 WPM, and it's not all that useful. I'd gladly halve my typing speed if it meant avoiding the occasional bout of RSI.
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Yes, that's a bad thing. The Chinese state has a documented history of executing people on demand in order to harvest their organs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... . Even if you wer
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Hardware acceleration is disabled by default because many graphics drivers suck and will break the browser if hardware acceleration is turned on. You can just go into the settings and turn it on (and then off, if you have problems). Chromi
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Quality entertainment. Unfortunately, the original post is flagged.
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“Replay-based” REPLs for compiled languages(github.com)
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There's a little bit of truth to this--historically, lower doses of hydrocodone and oxycodone mixed with acetaminophen were a lower drug schedule in the US, allowing for less stringent requirements on security during production and tra
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by xiii1408 8y ago
Mods should, at the very least, change the title, since it is very misleading. There is language in the deal that would give China control over the port if Kenya was unable to pay back the loan. While concerning, this is very different

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