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by ximeng 5y ago
So following a divorce there are a number of factors that affect people's long term happiness: possibility of remarrying, quality of time spent to kids, amount of income lost due to childcare and amount of income paid to ex-spouse, and
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by ximeng 5y ago
Bunnie Huang's blog occasionally has its moments, here he is implementing a custom hardware accelerator for messaging encryption: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140
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by ximeng 5y ago
Suppose a guy and a girl married are both 5/10 in happiness, and that if they divorce they will be 2/10 in happiness for five years, then will recover. Scenario 1 The woman and the man expect their happiness in marriage to stay
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by ximeng 5y ago
It could equally be seen as evidence that staying in a bad marriage is worse for women than for men, so women will risk more to escape that scenario. (Presumably people file because they expect a better life outcome for themselves from divo
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://archive.md/drAbX
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by ximeng 5y ago
It was a recent software addition. https://www.apple.com/hk/en/ios/ios-15/features/ Another neat new feature is screen sharing in FaceTime. But there’s a huge list of improvements, it’s clear they’r
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by ximeng 5y ago
I have a few issues with Apple software, but with AirPods Pro they recently added an AI-driven voice isolation mode which was an incredible change. Went from the other side barely being able to hear you when you were speaking in a noisy env
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by ximeng 5y ago
Summary of thread - you can't keep everyone happy, and for some people there's no such thing as non-replaceable battery or broken cables if they have a soldering iron. The variety of things to complain about is greater with wirele
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by ximeng 5y ago
Zig is working on hot reloading, needs compiler and linker level support. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68 That issue has some links to people doing it in C/C++.
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by ximeng 5y ago
I hit processing time limits when I tried to use it with no easy way to get around them.
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by ximeng 5y ago
Without limited options for backup and cross-device migration, I don't use Signal for anything too important, so search is less important. Whatsapp UI and search are OK but if you have a very long chat history then simple things like j
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/index/chapternumber?p0=1&TYP... This is a list of Hong Kong ordinances, going up to around 622 (select "All" to see them all). But some of those are much more complicated t
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS WinFS - was cancelled
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by ximeng 5y ago
Normally the question is vim and emacs not vim and vigor.
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://twitter.com/menscher/status/1456057918562861059 Suggests DDoS attacks in excess of 1 Tbps, one of largest ever.
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Over 30k Gitlab servers still unpatched against critical bug(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68n4RjGhvRw Has Tesla handling some construction. Not quite there but in theory these cars should handle these situations much like people do - have an expectation of the road layout and adjust
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFEvkmvIjVo Clearly not perfect in how it handles this as it doesn’t really back up or go onto the sidewalk but these Chinese self-driving cars are handling quite difficult scenarios. It’s like
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34519318/c-address-of-fu... suggests it's guaranteed by the standard to be OK. In the standard at https://web.archive.org/web/20181230041359if_/ht
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by ximeng 5y ago
You can see the same route being driven better as new betas come out. There's just not the same openness from Waymo and Cruze as Tesla which has vehicles out there in varied conditions able to be recorded by members of the public.
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by ximeng 5y ago
What do you want to work on? It doesn’t sound like this is it. Don’t worry about the funding - negotiate an exit that’s fair to everyone if necessary, taking into account the work you’ve done to get to this point. Better to cut your losses
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28979 plenty of discussion here on Unicode including homoglyph attacks. This is for Rust but has links to Go and Zig. The Unicode standard also has extensive discussio
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by ximeng 5y ago
They've just added automatic OCR of photos as well to allow copy and paste from pictures of text.
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by ximeng 5y ago
Wechat has this feature
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by ximeng 5y ago
4) if you don’t want amp it’s an extra click (once you’ve found the non-amp link) and going back then requires two clicks
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by ximeng 5y ago
There are plenty of videos on Youtube showing the state and rate of progress of self-driving. It's clear it's got a long way to go but is improving quickly. Everyone knows that Elon Musk's twitter is not a reliable indicator
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://hongkongfp.com/2017/02/16/1-killed-2-injured-blaze-s... The subdivided flats are not perfectly safe.
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by ximeng 5y ago
The current suggestions in Google sheets disappear very quickly if you press a key and then don’t reappear, so in practise are useless to me as I tend to be typing quickly.
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by ximeng 5y ago
I think the problem is this is already on the edge of what is technically possible. To provide power to the US it would presumably be easier to take advantage of US deserts and lay cables over land rather than cross-Atlantic. This avoids se
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJunxkln578 more on the UK to Morocco solar / wind farm plan. 3,800km times four HVDC cables for redundancy. Global capacity around 4,000km of cable per year. So to make this project hap

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