joosteto

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by joosteto 8y ago
When I find a glitchy site in Firefox, I try chromium. Usually turns out it's glitchy there as well.
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by joosteto 8y ago
Windows is practically clean on install compared to any Android phone I've owned My Nexus Android phones were clean. And yes, Sony etc phones are adware, but so are Sony Windows computers.
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by joosteto 8y ago
Sugar in coke doesn't sink to the bottom, indeed, but if you put a sugar cube in water, it first sinks to the bottom, and then (slowly) dissolves. Likewise, if you release helium in air, it goes up first, and then (quickly) dissolves i
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by joosteto 8y ago
And if you do contemplate them, you'll be accused of participating in project fear.
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by joosteto 8y ago
They may want to know who is leaking the sensitive information to the journalists
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by joosteto 8y ago
When I compile the example, i get: 0x7ffd0b57ebd0 0x7ffd0b57ebd8 0 OK, so gcc reordered a & b; I'll fix this by chaning the initialisation of p and q to: int *p = &a + 1; int *q = &b; But when I now run the
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by joosteto 8y ago
Response by one of the original authors: https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/05/31/the-marshmallow-test-he...
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by joosteto 8y ago
"It’s not clean until it’s been soaked in sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide, UV sterilised, gamma irradiated, then parked in a decaying orbit above the sun." By that time, you've also 'sterilised' most elec
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by joosteto 8y ago
Often the poor are fat because healthy food is more expensive. So yes, scarcity of healthy food is linked to poverty.
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by joosteto 8y ago
Multicast may be useful when the hairdresser is busy at the requested time, and algorithm searches for an available option.
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by joosteto 9y ago
But then, why is it called "twenty years of speedcubing", if he started in 1981?
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by joosteto 9y ago
So what if x > MAXNUMBER/2 ? Also, how can this be faster than x=0-x; ?
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by joosteto 10y ago
Many stories on HN, for example: 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984609 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309618
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by joosteto 10y ago
Because when your home gives free access, sharing the connection (and cost) with your neighbors becomes easier. Yes, it's possible now already, but now we're all afraid the others may abuse our connection.
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by joosteto 11y ago
If downloading more than 5% of stored data is so expensive, wouldn't it have been cheaper to upload a file 19 times the size of the stored data (containing /dev/urandom)? After that, downloading just 5% of total data would ha
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by joosteto 11y ago
About tethering restrictions: I would have hoped network neutrality would forbid those as well. Probably not though.