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by mantap 5y ago
What is Google if not a website that openly flouts copyright law? I don't remember Google getting license to store my website in their index or to show my images in Google Images. I don't mind, of course, but it goes to show that
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by mantap 5y ago
74% backing sounds pretty good for a cryptocurrency. I wouldn't touch tether myself as USDC is better in every way, but I don't think there's going to be the fireworks that people predict if the peg falls only to 74 cents.
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by mantap 5y ago
Theoretically Pfizer has higher efficacy, especially with variants. Giving Pfizer to the old and AZ to the young probably saves more lives than the other way around. If you decide that you don't want to give AZ to the young any more, i
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by mantap 5y ago
You can bridge through JavaScript. It's not a big deal in practice. WASM is still very immature. You do not want to build your whole app in WASM if you want to keep a full head of hair.
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by mantap 5y ago
This is what worries me. I have had the AZ vaccine. Will I be at risk of this syndrome every time I am exposed to coronavirus? In other words, is the risk cumulative?
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by mantap 5y ago
It is relevant to the discussion because the AZ and JJ vaccines are for the "rest of the world", so comparative differences in the cost of IG between US and other healthcare systems is relevant.
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by mantap 5y ago
It seems crazy that they are using JSON in a QR code. There are much more compact encodings they could have chosen.
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by mantap 5y ago
GPU have high latency. For a chess engine like stockfish which is designed to search as many positions as possible, the latency of a GPU is a big problem. Engines like LC0 that do use the GPU work by searching fewer positions but with a h
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by mantap 5y ago
Every culture has certain principles that are taken as axiomatic. The prioritisation of those principles is also axiomatic. For example, where I live, nearly all people wear clothes, and they generally think that wearing clothes is importan
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by mantap 5y ago
There's a difference between wanting to ban something because it is a threat to your autocracy and wanting to dissolve something because it is too powerful and abusive. Punching down vs punching up. I think most people of that persuasi
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by mantap 5y ago
If you took all the money spent on sanitising things and instead spent it on buying higher quality masks you'd see a much bigger effect. And this works from the individual, private enterprise or public health perspective.
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by mantap 5y ago
Arguably API design is the most creative aspect of programming. The space of possible interfaces is infinite, whereas function implementations are heavily constrained by the interface and often there is only a handful of ways to write an
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by mantap 5y ago
When you get down to it, copyright is a whole bunch of contradictory rules. Courts decide every time there is a new kind of work, whether it is copyrightable or not. Trying to divine whether something is copyrightable by analogy to other ki
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by mantap 5y ago
Haskell has the worst operator overloading of any language I've used. There's tons of niche operators, only some of which have names, it's so hard to Google them. Haskell should have enforced that every operator must have a `
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by mantap 5y ago
There's a huge difference between reading music and sight reading music. Being able to read music is important because it is how musical ideas are communicated with precision. Sight reading is a skill that is only useful in certain p
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by mantap 5y ago
Graham Linehan is one of the most doctrinaire anti-transgender individuals, anything he writes on the subject should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.
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by mantap 5y ago
You can use !s instead of !g and you get the google results through startpage without going to google directly.
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by mantap 6y ago
I'm sure you can find one on Google :)
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by mantap 6y ago
That is just an ad hominem. If you have an argument, state it.
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by mantap 6y ago
I'm sure that if the Palestinians were granted either citizenship in a Palestinian state or equal citizenship in Israel, there would be many fewer ideologues in the region.
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by mantap 6y ago
It works in reverse too. For people who habitually eat spicy food, when eating something non-spicy you can end up only tasting the "blandness" and not appreciating the flavours. Exactly like how cold food just doesn't taste a
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by mantap 6y ago
Things would be a lot clearer if positivity rate was the reportable number, not absolute number of positive tests. This would also encourage countries to test more rather than less.
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by mantap 6y ago
That strikes me as a bad thing. A bug that is easy to fix is a bug that could have been fixed sooner. That's exactly the kind of bug that causes the worst issues. Bugs that are hard to fix but readily identified are at least possible
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by mantap 6y ago
Aircraft software is different. Pilots are supposed to know this kind of thing when they get a type rating. The chief engineer absolutely should do. Knowing which sensors the autopilots are using is not even arcane, it's basic knowle
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by mantap 6y ago
Why not both? A little DRAM on SoC and the rest of the DRAM on the motherboard. Kernel in charge of "swapping". Maintains expandability while keeping most of the performance benefit.
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by mantap 6y ago
The mathematical term is "product". It's a product.
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by mantap 6y ago
Around the world millions of people learn Java as their first programming language. It is not hard to learn how to use types or generics. What appears to be difficult is to go from an untyped language to a statically typed one. Which is why
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by mantap 6y ago
The world isn't split into liberals and the far-right. It's split into tolerant people and intolerant people. Some people wear a thin veneer of tolerance to cover their intolerance. These are the people doing the canceling. These
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by mantap 6y ago
You've got to consider the 2nd order effects. Remove autocomplete=off? Developers will be forced to make their own DIY crappy text inputs just to get rid of it. And break everything but English input in the process.
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by mantap 6y ago
Actually this is a common misconception. BrE allows either -ise or -ize, whereas AmE only permits -ize. The -ize spelling in BrE is called "oxford spelling" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

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