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by xnyan 2y ago
Cloudstrike customers voluntarily agreed to allow Cloudstrike to push kernel drivers. What should Microsoft have done to prevent this?
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by xnyan 2y ago
I get an average of 2.5% cash back on all purchases made with my credit card. I pay the balance in full each month and have never paid an interest charge. Why on earth would I not take the free money?
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I don't have any data to back it up, but I've never seen as strong a reading culture as I did in my two years living in Russia and East Ukraine. Very strong cultural respect for books and the written word. Also, zero enforcement o
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by xnyan 2y ago
>these changing stations can be replaced without any difficulty Don't disagree that a plastic changing station can be efficiently made by someone else, but I think you may be misunderstanding their advantage. Koala is providing a se
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What do you think is the goal of the commenter's behavior on hackernews? Is the platform big enough to be target of low-effort karma farming, and does karma matter enough here to be sold?
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by xnyan 2y ago
Something similar happened with TV broadcasts in the US ~15 years ago. The solution was just to provide an adaptor for free for anyone who wanted one.
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by xnyan 2y ago
>We observed that exposure to road traffic noise at school, but not at home, was associated with slower development of working memory, complex working memory, and attention in schoolchildren over 1 year Pretend I'm dumb, why is this
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by xnyan 2y ago
> the audit described in the source article doesn't seem to mention any such costs. Not sure I understand what you're saying - it's not mentioned in the article, which means it does not exist? Anyway, have a nice day.
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by xnyan 2y ago
I had a very hard time understanding what they were saying. Whitespace between single, short sentence. Sounds in my head like they pause 5-10 seconds between each sentence. What is going on?
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Does this analogy consider the costs involved with sending out the police? When the compiler is wrong, do armed agents of the state with broad discretion to employ violence in the commission of their duties get dispatched? What is the poten
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> I would expect that 90% of the time (in fact, 87% here) they won't find anything Not opposed to the hypothesis, but we're talking about the dispatch of armed agents of the state who are permitted to use violence in the discha
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by xnyan 2y ago
Devs maybe, but the author is talking about production environments which are definitely moving to rootless.
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The effective state and local tax rate is ~12.5% in Texas and 9.6% in California.
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> privacy.com Love the service, the problem is they effectively charge a 1-5% commission to use it because you lose credit card loyalty/rewards programs benefits. Last year I got nearly 3% back, I think that's too high for the
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by xnyan 2y ago
I hear this, and I believe people, but it leaves me in a confused state because I don't understand. I (think) I've used them all, and the only password manager that is in the same class or better is bitwarden, which is also web&#x
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The answer seems obvious to me, ipad running macos would then compete with the mac. It’s the same reason apple does not release a laptop with a touch screen.
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> Otherwise they'll never be able to hire anyone from the Japanese Royal Family plenty of people from Indonesia or, more generally, anyone from this list DHS and the federal government in general require a surname and a given name.
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Similar background, what worked for me was taking a somewhat unglamorous job that was as close to dev as I could find, in an industry that has a hard time attracting talent. In my case, I got a job as an admin/developer for a hospital&
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by xnyan 2y ago
> Looking at the price of display module I am worried iFixit is also there with Apple They mentioned in the article that one of the reasons they ended the partnership with Samsung was over the high cost of repair parts.
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I took remedial math at UNC Chapel Hill. My parents decided to homeschool me my entire childhood, but their math ability ended at about the 8th grade, everything else I had to figure out on my own. I always thought I was bad at math, but it
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My dad and I replaced a 100MB HDD with a 1GB HDD for $100. When did this happen?
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>In 2022, they gobbled up 460 terawatt hours of electricity... Total global electrical consumption is around 22k tWh a a year. 0.5 tWh for what datacenters give us is significant but more than worth the value they provide imo.
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> That's dumb. Like saying a car isn't a replacement for a horse because it can't jump over hedges. A car is not a replacement for a horse, it's a replacement for what was the most common use case of the horse, gettin
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> how they arrived at these "taboo conclusions" I agree with many of the "taboo" conclusions, so just like the paper I am not commenting on their veracity when I say these are common beliefs held in many righter leani
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Serious question, let's say you had a ton of money and wanted to get this done, is there physically enough available Rust talent (at market rates) in the world today to port ffmpeg to rust in any reasonable amount of time? My understan
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>Windows and Mac pretty much the only mainstream alternative That's not the world we live in today?
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It's also a part of their anti-trust defense strategy. Firefox staying alive as a marginal but existent alternative to chromium based browsers is currently good for google.
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It definitely would have been more interesting.
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>the universe is super deep outside of the most popular content Oh man, you have no idea. The 16 year gap between Jedi in 83 and Phantom Menace in 99 was a huge pit of consumer demand for more Star Wars content that was filled by license
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> That’s not what a VPN does though. Mullvad itself is extremely clear that use of a VPN alone is not enough for the reasons you stated. Mullvad VPN (which is what they advertised) is a suite of products and services, some of which are:

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