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by z92 7y ago
Using a display name like "Steve Jobs" makes it look like a troll account, misleading at the least, getting blocked isn't that much surprising. You have to restart without trying to get a boost using popular figure's nam
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by z92 7y ago
The question is : How many fires are there in CA yearly? It's like 2000 to 4000 different fires that start at different places in the same season. And how many of those were started because of PG&E? 2? 3? But PG&E has to pay fo
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by z92 7y ago
There's a difference between gitlab and gmail. People pay for gitlab while gmail is free. Google can easily declare "either you take it for what it is, or leave." Gitlab can't.
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by z92 7y ago
It's far more easier. I had some sqlite2 database on an old system but nothing to convert it or even dump it. Had to download sqlite2 source and delete all tcl .c files. Then ran gcc *.c -o sqlite2 and it was done. That much
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by z92 7y ago
The author implied it was a thought experiment for "particles" like electron, though actually demonstrated from the very beginning for non-particles such as photons. That claim still might not be true.
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by z92 7y ago
Actually the mysteries are deeper. This one can't explain "Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure" experiments, which is also a double slit experiment. But the arrangement allows you to detect the path AFTER the photon has traveled
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by z92 7y ago
Analogy with software development : you hire a contractor, who outsource it to a local developer, who hires a development house in India, who hires a programmer, who hires some college kids that actually do the job.
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by z92 7y ago
Title should be "Beating Decades of Optimized Single Threaded* C with 80 Lines of Multi Threaded Haskell" That's not what I expected to read.
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by z92 7y ago
How do you type in that language on that device? Moving on a virtual keyboard using the joystick should be supper hard way to do it.
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by z92 7y ago
Wonder what happened to those that invested in Bitcoin as soon as it made front page here in Hacker news. At that time it was selling like 40 cents for 10,000 coins, if I remember correctly.
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by z92 7y ago
Also the 50 years factor. Digital camera that we use today started to sell in the market at around year 2000. And then those were only VGA resolution 640x480 pixel.
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by z92 7y ago
It was spotted from the satellite which carried it there and is now orbiting the moon. Not too far I guess.
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by z92 7y ago
I link a few old news with it : First there was a news that electric grids are hackable. And Russians might be after those. Then there was a news that White House called for some of the power transmission switches be turned manual, which ar
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by z92 7y ago
Note that air conditioners are basically heat pumps. To cool one side it MUST throw the heat on another side. It "moves" the heat. Which is why a pocket air conditioner that blasts off cool air on one side is impossible. It has to
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by z92 7y ago
Rise in new signups might be a side effect of Facebook removing fake accounts as a part of its purging fake news initiative. Those fake account holders are creating new fake accounts as their old ones are dead.
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by z92 7y ago
Because it's still the best language for writing library routines along with a header file, which then can be used from most other languages with least runtime overhead.
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by z92 7y ago
Astronomical calculations which can be very calculation heavy and depend on the geographical location of the requester, therefore can't be cached.
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by z92 7y ago
Written as if it's a 25 year old tech no one uses now? I still use cgi scripts. Though these aren't "scripts", rather compiled binaries written in C. That made some of the pages with heaviest calculations, load in under
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by z92 7y ago
I browse JS disabled. And if some page doesn't render and really want to read it, toggle it on with a single click using a browser plugin for that site only.
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by z92 7y ago
I always download with "-f 18".
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by z92 7y ago
Excellent job. Thanks for all the hard work. A few usability issues. 1/ Doesn't work without javascript. and 2/ At screen resolution 800x600 the search field gets completely hidden. Shown bellow. https://imgur.com&
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by z92 7y ago
Indeed. But you get the point.
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by z92 7y ago
That was because you couldn't "sign up" for Orkut. You had to receive an invitation from someone who already has an account. Therefore it spread in regions where people knew one another, instead of spreading smoothly. The rea
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by z92 7y ago
That engine will be equally spammed by SEO posters. Look how hard google is trying and still failing.
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by z92 7y ago
Color ink tank printers are what everyone uses here. https://www.ldproducts.com/blog/best-ink-tank-printers-of-20... These are inkjet printers but no cartridge. Rather you buy ink in bottles and fill the tanks up. 4 bo
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by z92 7y ago
shouldn't rust being faster than C be something of a red flag that they aren't quite the same algorithm? Or that the algorithm is sub-optimal? The difference isn't much. And Rust is more like FORTRAN. Maybe a bit faster tha
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by z92 7y ago
Julia was astonishing. It's a high level language that's performing almost like C. Last time I checked, many years back, the spec was changing and the run time did crash. Guess it has gone a long way since. The other one is Lua. M
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by z92 7y ago
Free as in speech. What are permitted and what not. How much of the net is banned or blocked in which regions of the world. DRM isn't a problem as long as non-DRM isn't forcefully eliminated by it.
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by z92 7y ago
By health of the Internet, the numbers that I look for is how "stressed" is it when it comes to resource management. Like bandwidth or dns. And how much "free" is it, still?
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by z92 7y ago
Good work. Almost there. Things that doesn't work starts from where you might need to change word "ciw", visually select word "viw".

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