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by zaat 7y ago
My Lenovo X1 yoga is way more durable than my phone. My kindle reader is too. The multimedia head unit in my car is rock solid compared to my phone. My keyboard, desktop PC, printer and scanner and screen are all more durable than my phone.
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by zaat 7y ago
Most expensive electronics are actually much more durable than smartphones, and you usually not taking them with you wherever you go. I can handle ceramics and crystal glasses just fine, but I don't take them with me when I go hiking.
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by zaat 7y ago
I don't find any definition of free will as coherent, so I don't have any favorite one, but I don't see how the definition you proposed carries the common properties associated with free will, for an instance the list of prop
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by zaat 7y ago
If the system is deterministic I have no idea what the free in Free Will refer to. If we don't assume that the current situation is the product of the person's free will, his determined reaction to it isn't freely decided eit
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by zaat 7y ago
>For truly complicated systems (like brain) accurate predictions are impossible for even short time spans. The only way to make accurate predictions is to have 100% exact simulation. >But since the simulations is exactly the same as t
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by zaat 7y ago
like you say, from the article: >That is not driven by ignorance on our part, but by the explanatory need to focus on the most salient regularities. Isn't the need for explanation is driven by our ignorance?
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by zaat 7y ago
Over here it is very common to have a plastic or metal coin shaped objects attached to key rings for releasing the trolley without a coin, most of those devices can be pulled out immediately, without connecting the trolley back to the trol
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by zaat 7y ago
That, as well as their new icons, the applications icons and even more so the icons inside the applications is terrible in my eyes. It feels like when your side lose the elections, the future is gloomy because of wrong decisions someone els
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by zaat 7y ago
I'll be really happy if UWP will die. I don't care for the visual side it offers at all, and the UX is simply terrible compared to the good old Win32. Maybe I'm missing something, but the feeling I got regarding UWP is that i
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by zaat 7y ago
Totally official relationships: https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/
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by zaat 7y ago
It's my main driver since ~2003, so yeah, I did and still do.
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by zaat 7y ago
Oh well, I do use chromium as a last resort, every few months. If this the alternative, I prefer to suffer Firefox shenanigans every now and then. I was seriously annoyed by the move to the new add-ons framework, and stayed way too long on
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by zaat 7y ago
I was pretty pissed about the issue and the reasons that led to it, would you please introduce me to the trusted browser provider you are heading to? Because despite this and all the previous issues, I don't see any alternative that is
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by zaat 7y ago
I'm having hard time understanding what are you referring to. All I'm saying is that I had a perfectly working system and now it is no more functioning properly. Why would anyone see this as more secure is beyond me. Similarily, w
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by zaat 7y ago
I wish that was true, but in fact I have no way to disable this and similiar amazing security entrenchments. The monthly device bricking windows updates, for instance. If I can't do anything with my hardened computer, I don't care
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by zaat 7y ago
> It was designed to quickly deactivate any malicious add-on as soon as it was detected, before it had a chance to do too much damage. In my books, that's a good thing. I hate this attitude from security people so much. If for the s
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by zaat 7y ago
I believe the PR person have the knowledge by proxy, someone is directing him. I also believe that DHS won't give them sensitive information without requiring them to conform to the relevant regulations. I can't say I'm certa
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by zaat 7y ago
And here I am, fighting for an hour with sudden failures to sign-in to OneDrive.
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by zaat 7y ago
If anyone else wonder which Bill Campbell is it, I guess it is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Campbell_(business_exe...
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by zaat 7y ago
Did you knew for certain that your program will solve the puzzle at some time? Did you have an estimation of the date?
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by zaat 7y ago
Well, you sure seems like the kind of guy who will go through a lot of pain to get quick results. Was this a side project? did it require much attention after the initial setup?
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by zaat 7y ago
> Bernard Fabrot spent the last three and a half years computing the solution to a puzzle TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. Kudos to you, well done!
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by zaat 7y ago
According to the announcement: >In February 2019, the migration to GitHub was complete, and the ASF's own git service was decommissioned. P.S - the links you provided are not formatted correctly, and leads to 404 pages due to traili
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by zaat 7y ago
If you can't tell the difference between the average LibriVox recording and the average commercial audio book, there is no way you can produce an Audible level of recording. Even if half the volunteering recorders and their gear were a
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by zaat 8y ago
While I highly appreciated Kuhn when I was reading The Structure, this sentence from the article: >Yes, Kuhn could be a bully, especially towards anyone who challenged him, such as Errol or our late colleague Harold Dorn. But for someone
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by zaat 8y ago
My ThinkPad X1 yoga passes the above test, on Windows 10. On Linux it is less definitive, but usually does.
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by zaat 8y ago
> Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API The API of a closed source, propriety and patented software can't just be copied. See Oracle vs Google.
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by zaat 8y ago
Well, Google (or rather, the original Android) did that to Oracle with the Java API, and Oracle, being Oracle, sued.
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by zaat 8y ago
Thank you for the amazing works. There is a type in the copyright footer on your website, it states (c) 1066 - 2019
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by zaat 8y ago
Great, so my "won't recommend The Phoenix Project" made it to the top 10 (it is quarter of the votes for the book).

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