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by yyyk 4y ago
That may have been true in the past, but definitely not these days. MS separates Office 365 sales from Azure sales in its reports (e.g. [0]). [0] https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-cloud-streng...
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by yyyk 4y ago
The original BIOSs were for a 8bit/16bit archs. I'm guessing this was measured on a modern arch, and the result would be smaller on a smaller pointer size. I wonder what the size would be if complied for avr.
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by yyyk 4y ago
The 'one format' thing is actually somewhat of a problem. Users may want to be sure they're staying loseless when doing an operation and with most modern formats one can't ensure that. Yes, lossy PNG can be done, but in
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by yyyk 4y ago
Israel is so off-limits, most threads about other countries are derailed by people complaining they can't talk about Israel.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>I also had to run MS SQL Management Studio, and it only runs on Windows. Azure Data Studio is cross-platform and the obvious successor judging by comparative release speed and that every SSMS install automatically installs ADS. It'
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by yyyk 4y ago
>it’s fine for the US to use it’s cultural and economic hegemonic power to crush those states for making the wrong friends or choosing the wrong ideology There's making different choices and there's 'being friendly to the
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by yyyk 4y ago
It's well known the US supported useful dictators during the Cold War, nothing new there. That should not imply simping for every anti-US regime out there, or badmouthing every country which has decent relations with US. It should be p
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by yyyk 4y ago
Castro was aligned with USSR from day 1 and kept this alignment long after the Cold War. The consequent economic policies had the expected effect on Cuba. Chavez was also always aligned with the anti-Western bloc, and his policies led to 1
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by yyyk 4y ago
>What's the real issue with Cuba? Castro nationalized assets and resources that belonged to US corporations... Sanctions on Venezuela? Again, Venezuela took the unacceptable step of nationalizing their oil assets. Also set up one pa
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by yyyk 4y ago
Thanks for Raw Strings! That was one of my annoyances and now it will be much easier. >Finally, to help out here, the VS ide will also draw a line showing what part of the code is content and what is not. This will help a lot, especially
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by yyyk 4y ago
I like C#, but the language authors have a tendency to overcomplicate with unintuitive semantics like significant spaces at the closing of the raw string literal (otherwise a very welcome feature) or struct vs record struct etc.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>That has the same ergonomics as the jQuery selector Nitpick: This crashes if #element doesn't exist, while the jQuery one does not. Also, the jQuery selector is a tiny bit more powerful (:even, :odd). IMHO, jQuery is good for what
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Regular Expression Improvements in .NET 7(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by yyyk 4y ago
I can't know whether the medical situation allows this, but Human milk banks exist and provide service, e.g.: https://www.hmbana.org/
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by yyyk 5y ago
They won't lose much if they 'cooperate' (pay more taxes) while others 'defect'. They'll still be very rich.
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by yyyk 5y ago
Leaving aside the benefits of this, these millionaires could simply report their taxes without tax accountant tricks if they want to pay more.
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by yyyk 5y ago
Yes, but you can't rely on that on a natural setting. Sometimes the body does get rid of a disease, right? Same thing with bacteria-phage relationship - and the resistant bacteria can then spread (while the better phages are difficult
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by yyyk 5y ago
Bacteriophages had serious problems that made them unsuitable for mass deployment. For example, you need to isolate a strain suitable against an infection, and that's a process which was difficult to scale. Another problem is that as f
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by yyyk 5y ago
I recall similar in function devices already existed for military use - except they made water from air, which is even more available than seawater: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/press/2021/05/hone
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by yyyk 5y ago
Is there any good argument that backward compatibility is what holds Windows back compared to other Microsoft faults? So there are a few variants of the Control Panel. That should not have prevented MS from porting every setting that matter
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by yyyk 5y ago
Firefox was just one example. There's no practical way to port everything a user might desire - everyone has their own 90% as the saying/joke goes. Haiku needs a generic mechanism, and well, this is one way. Apparently waddlesplas
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by yyyk 5y ago
Just yesterday, Microsoft found a few[0]. There's no shortage of these, but more important is the haphazard way fixes are backported to longterm (e.g. [1]). This reached the point that Google's security advice is 'always foll
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by yyyk 5y ago
Wayland fixed one problem, but there's no shortage of local privilege escalation bugs with which the calculator can still read the sudo password.
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by yyyk 5y ago
It isn't practical to write a port even for every major GTK version, much less for every other toolkit used with X11. Firefox for example is still on GTK3, and so are many other applications. Haiku should want some form of generic comp
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by yyyk 5y ago
I can't think of an ancient Middle Eastern culture with 4 seasons. Hittites had 3, various Mesopotamian cultures had 2. It really only made sense in Europe to divide into 4.
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by yyyk 5y ago
The zero-knowledge proof avoids true accusations of a particular type of cheating. However, the biggest problem is humans, not machines. An election system must be ELI5able, or we can expect a fair amount of instability regardless of trut
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by yyyk 5y ago
My subjective impression is that Debian has been losing ground, especially against Arch. I don't think firmware is the main issue - the complex packaging method and the contradictory nature of Debian 'testing' are the main is
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by yyyk 5y ago
>his positions[2] do not seem at odds with the gist of Chomsky's quote though I would like to differ slightly. Chomsky has it that Eban wants to tar criticism of Israeli policy as antisemitic* - which leads to the 'oh well, the
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by yyyk 5y ago
I was dismissing Chomsky's testimony on anything, not anything he might say. If he said '2+2=4' that would be true (if also trivial). I regret not being 100% clear in a forum comment.
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by yyyk 5y ago
That's fair enough. We can discuss arguments to a large extent divorced from who made them. This is often useful. However, the quote in question goes a bit further, Chomsky says Eban started a specific strategy of using antisemitism to

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