throwaway_se099

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by throwaway_se099 5y ago
Yes they have a reputation for merciless shuttering of services, but come on. What is ample time for a company that hired a webdev one time to build them a static website and never checks webmaster@domain emails? That kind of outfit is mu
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by throwaway_se099 5y ago
> I also believe you have to follow the Greek Orthodox religion to be able to visit - they might make some rare exceptions. You need a permit (effectively, a visa) to enter the peninsula, and there is a daily quota. About a tenth of avai
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by throwaway_se099 5y ago
I've never seen a moped that you could pedal like a bike even in a photo. As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puch_Maxi
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by throwaway_se099 5y ago
The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later) UK MHRA: Dec 2. US FDA: Dec 11. European EMA/EC: Dec 21. Months later? Hyperbole doesn't help your argument.
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by throwaway_se099 6y ago
There is a perception that D has shot its bolt, having been around for quite some time without making a noticeable impact, either by itself or by influencing the mainstream.
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by throwaway_se099 6y ago
This seems to be veering in the direction of the Land of Moved Goalposts and Non-Sequiturs, but I'm game for one more round, because lockdown. It's rather unlikely that the first issue, which is an ordering problem during service
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by throwaway_se099 6y ago
> Nothing in the documentation hinted that this was a feature of systemd anywhere Nothing except three paragraphs in systemd.service(5) (TimeoutStartSec=, TimeoutStopSec=, TimeoutSec=), with references to systemd-system.conf(5) where t
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
Cyclists in Amsterdam don't wear helmets as a rule -- YouTube is chock full of videos of Amsterdam bicycle traffic, so you can see for yourself. Therefore, it's not surprising that a texting cyclist wouldn't wear a helmet. To
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> Armchair analysis based on sparse information That's internet in a nutshell, and HN is not that different despite pretensions to the contrary. What partly redeems it is the better than even chance that in posts with technical su
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees? That meeting was probably never on the official schedule. There are numerous ways to arrange suc
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> Obama not just invaded other countries, he also was bold enough to accept Nobel Peace award for it. I think your timeline is a bit scrambled. Obama got the Nobel Peace (or rather, Not-GW-Bush-Jr) prize in the first year of his presiden
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> Oddly, the linked keyboard doesn't appear to have a tab key but the Vi source code you found contains them? Am I missing something obvious? Vi has the insert-mode commands for indenting (Ctrl-T) and unindenting (Ctrl-D) the curren
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> "How do we close a statement.... errr. Let's spell it backwards". That's on the original Bourne shell and its author's evident love for Algol 68. Wikipedia has a fine summary.
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
> Sounds like UK… Britannia Hospital?
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
In those cases, the switched-to architecture could emulate the previous one with acceptable performance. For the hypothetical amd64 -> aarch64 transition, I'm unaware of the existence of software, silicon or the combination of the t
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
With certs that short-lived, you're just reinventing Kerberos, badly.
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by throwaway_se099 7y ago
A lot of developers can surely get by with a QEMU RISC-V image, which exists and is known to boot at least Fedora.
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by throwaway_se099 8y ago
> Fusion has no toxic or radioactive bioproducts. D-T fusion, which is the easiest to achieve and perhaps sustain, directly produces He nuclei (that is, alpha particles) and rather energetic neutrons at 14 MeV. Those neutrons, aside from
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by throwaway_se099 8y ago
> C++ at least has extern "C" going for it, which disables name mangling. Rust doesn't have that It does, it's called "#[no_mangle]", and together with an extern "C" fn declaration you get a non-ma
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by throwaway_se099 8y ago
Uber's system could obviously brake but not 'emergency brake'? There are two systems in the vehicle. One is the manufacturer's, let's call it System V after Volvo, and the other is System U, for Uber. System V pro
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by throwaway_se099 9y ago
Ah, a kindred spirit. I detest forced cheerfulness that is so frequently required from public-facing workers. Be neutral. Be professional. Don't be hostile. That's all acceptable. But that must-be-upbeat-at-all-costs straitjacket.