Hinrik

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by Hinrik 1mo ago
That commenter you're replying to knows that. The original commenter before them wrote "pulled the plug" which is different and doesn't quite apply here (actually implies the opposite of what they meant to say).
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by Hinrik 2mo ago
Layperson here: what is special about Go's runtime, aside from the GC?
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by Hinrik 4mo ago
If those bugs are only present in the Linux port, then yeah, Linux users cost more to support. But if a significant amount of these bugs affect all platforms, then you could argue that a Linux user is much more valuable to them than a non-L
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by Hinrik 4mo ago
If the car you're driving has achieved super-intelligence and is capable of evolving and self-replicating, then life, uh, finds a way.
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by Hinrik 2y ago
The poster you're replying to was asking about wheat vs rice protein, not whey.
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by Hinrik 2y ago
Even worse for Icelandic ones. Keychron used to show the Icelandic flag on their Nordic keyboard page, despite that layout not including Icelandic-specific characters (Ð / Þ missing, Ö in the wrong place). I asked them to start includi
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by Hinrik 3y ago
In the U.K. they even use the term "give evidence" for the act of testifying in court.
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by Hinrik 3y ago
My native keyboard layout is Icelandic so I'm not holding my breath. I ordered one with a blank ISO layout.
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by Hinrik 3y ago
>Why hasn't anyone made a hybrid car that uses a gasoline-powered turbine generator to charge its batteries instead of a piston engine? The current engine formula (2014-) in Formula 1 racing might be of interest to you. > During
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by Hinrik 3y ago
>Luckily Init7 took them to court and they are now back peddling. You mean back-pedaling. Peddling is something different.
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by Hinrik 3y ago
This crash was also covered on an episode[1] of the Black Box Down podcast. [1]: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-2020-7-30
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by Hinrik 3y ago
Drivel. Dribble is what you do with a basketball.
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by Hinrik 4y ago
>I'm not sure what you mean by "sound the same", but just by comparing a simple change from major to minor is quite a dramatic change That's because OP is not talking about the differences between scales (major vs min
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by Hinrik 4y ago
In finance, MM is a shorthand for millions: https://www.orsurety.com/blog/is-it-m-for-thousand-and-mm-fo...
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by Hinrik 4y ago
Like the commenter alluded to, it allows accurately constrainted type-ahead. If a query starts with "SELECT FROM my_table " and expects one or more column names at that point, your IDE can already suggest the column names from my_
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by Hinrik 4y ago
You might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Police
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by Hinrik 4y ago
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
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by Hinrik 5y ago
In an asynchronous medium like Slack or IRC, the effort _isn't_ wasted, because the question will stay there, allowing people to see it later who weren't even around when the question was first asked. Just like you don't emai
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by Hinrik 5y ago
>True, but if you're having two windows side by side, the wider 16:9 will give you more horizontal space to do so. I don't know about you, but I don't read two pages of text at the same time.
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by Hinrik 5y ago
Nobody keeps anything close to that kind of amount in a savings account. They put it into various asset classes that appreciate by a lot more than 0.06%/year.
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by Hinrik 5y ago
You might want to add a slash at the end of "trash", or add a mkdir before that command. Otherwise, doing this on a system where ~/.trash doesn't exist can still make you lose files after multiple deletions.
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by Hinrik 5y ago
>I was in uni around 2007-08 and realised it was using a serious amount of my time and energy. The first public version of Minecraft came out in May 2009.
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by Hinrik 5y ago
It's more about the small effect sizes of 8 people vs 1. Still a lot of room for noise in the result.
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by Hinrik 5y ago
Drastically different? It looks almost identical to a map of the U.S. where each dot represents a town: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-population-density-...
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by Hinrik 5y ago
> The average person in the northeast spends 31 minutes commuting per day [2], for simplicity that's 0.5 hours,* 2 commutes a day, * 5 days a week, * 50 weeks a year (assuming 2 weeks vacation), is 250 hours commuting a week. You al
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by Hinrik 5y ago
I found it amusing that the originator of the takedown email commented with this: >We are genuinely committed to open source and do want to make as much as possible as free as possible. The fact that I am sitting here and writing in thes
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by Hinrik 6y ago
>To be fair we're in one of the worst chip shortages in a long time, GPUs are supposed to be like 3-600 for low to early high range. What's your point exactly? The recently released PS5 and Xbox Series X had launch prices of $4
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by Hinrik 6y ago
> Edit: oh wow, to -2 in less than 2 minutes. > It's a point of information, not an endorsement. Please follow the guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), specifically: "Please don&#x2
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by Hinrik 6y ago
comprehension
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by Hinrik 6y ago
What doubt? The momentary mismanagement of one nation's disease control unit means you'll ignore the globally-realized benefits of the greatest life-saving achievement of modern medicine? Sounds a bit like you were searching for a

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