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by zelos 9y ago
I've just canceled ours. Prime in the UK is £79/year for (in my experience) guaranteed free next-day delivery. But Amazon's prices have been creeping up and I frequently find things are significantly cheaper elsewhere. Plus t
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by zelos 9y ago
sitting there listening to blocks of talks for long stretches while you’re trying to stay awake after lunch is a pretty inefficient way to hear ideas. Pretty much this. I'm constantly pushed to use my training budget to go to confere
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by zelos 9y ago
More importantly - what about the reverse case? Presumably someone issuing a real ballistic missile warning is doing so while terrified and in a hurry. The consequences of pressing the "This is a drill" button in that case are a
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by zelos 9y ago
Indeed, that's a dangerous path to start down. Something like 60% of the UK population is overweight: do we stop treating Type 2 diabetes because it's self-inflicted? It would save billions of pounds, after all. Personally I think
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by zelos 9y ago
"There's another 30 hours of counseling and therapy available" (which at ~£50/hr is presumably a lot cheaper than a stay in ICU)
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by zelos 9y ago
Could you somehow mark cache lines that are filled by speculatively executed instructions so they only become visible to normally executed instructions when the speculative instructions are committed? I guess that would require a lot more l
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by zelos 9y ago
Quiet, you're spoiling the narrative we're imposing on semi-random, chaotic events.
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by zelos 9y ago
about:studies->Preferences shows "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" is enabled on my copy of Firefox 57.0.2(OSX). I don't remember opting in at install time, was it hidden behind some innocuous-sounding checkbox?
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by zelos 9y ago
Not that I don't take the point, but presumably if mankind were in an endless decline into intellectual laziness, then each of the writers in that XKCD comic would be correct: they'd each be sampling a different segment of the sam
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by zelos 9y ago
38 with two children.
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by zelos 9y ago
Can we limit them for use by parents as well? Playgrounds seem to be the place parents go to look at Facebook while their kids yell "look at me mummy" forlornly.
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by zelos 9y ago
I remember seeing something like this with an some version of 10.12 as well. Stupidly it didn't occur to me that it was a security issue.
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by zelos 9y ago
The lock in is definitely less, but for me: - Large iPhoto library - Easy syncing with multiple iPhones (notes, photos etc) - Xcode for iOS development
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by zelos 9y ago
I really hope that's not true and this is just some extended blip. That said, between this, the disk encryption bug, not being able to type "I" on an iphone you have to wonder what is going on. I recently upgrade my MacBook P
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by zelos 9y ago
Maybe I'm just way too risk-averse, but 3-4 months of expenses in savings is what I'd consider a minimum while in a stable full-time job .
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by zelos 9y ago
> Looking for years of experience in your exact Angular/React stack? Cheerio. Yes, I don't understand that kind of thing either. Getting up to speed on something like React takes, what, a week or two? Frameworks are the easy bi
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by zelos 9y ago
How come Chemical Engineering is right up the top of earnings? As someone who dropped out of chemical engineering to be a software developer, I clearly made the wrong choice ;-)
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by zelos 9y ago
That's kind of clever: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Eutectic_20water_20heater#151... Although rendered kind of pointless with modern on-demand boilers.
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by zelos 9y ago
To be fair, he doesn't explicitly say "these features were invented in Kotlin/Dart/...". He just says he hadn't read about them before.
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by zelos 9y ago
Thanks for the pointer. It builds and runs well. Font rendering is fine on my MacBook's retina screen, but it looks terrible on my external monitor for some reason.
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by zelos 9y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations for NeoVim GUI client on OSX? VimR is nice, but very buggy in my experience. I'm using Neovim.app at the moment after fixing a few bugs in it, but it's got plenty of issues.
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by zelos 9y ago
FZF is fantastic, but has anyone managed to make it work in MacVim? I just get weird display corruption and control characters in my search string when I use it. Works great in the terminal and neovim.app etc.
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by zelos 9y ago
Certainly addictiveness is an issue for all gaming - I'm pretty sure Blizzard hired psychologists, and look at the increasing use of loot box mechanics, even in full-price console games. That said, there's a kind of distilled evil
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by zelos 9y ago
How soul-destroying a job must it be to develop these games? Spending all day designing software to trick more vulnerable people into giving you their money?
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by zelos 9y ago
While I agree there isn't a huge difference any more, the iPhone 6s is noticeably faster than a 6. The gap from the 6 to the 8 is presumably even larger. I find it kind of depressing* , but people do use their phones constantly, so thi
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by zelos 9y ago
Exactly. Frequently it works out several hundred euros cheaper over 24 months to buy an unlocked phone and go SIM-only. Not that I'm planning to upgrade my iPhone SE until flagship phones stop being the size of a paperback book.
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by zelos 9y ago
I'd second this, but I'd add: 1) Be careful. Don't overdo it, make sure to warm up properly and don't push too fast up the grades. I ended up having shoulder surgery and 8 months of physio. 2) I found to really get the m
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by zelos 9y ago
It is pretty depressing that 5 years later there's no upgrade path from my 2012 Mac Mini. I'm starting to think about how to disentangle myself from the Apple ecosystem, because currently there's no new Mac I want to buy.
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by zelos 9y ago
Debugging? Xcode defaults to F6/F7/F8 for step over/in/out. Many IDEs do something similar. The alternative is to map some key combination, but it's much easier to be able to hit one key instead of Ctrl-something.
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by zelos 9y ago
The Atoms are a completely separate architecture, I don't think they're really related to the main Core etc. Intel CPUs.

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