throwawayfinal

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by throwawayfinal 8y ago
Depends on the state. The majority of states either have laws relating to disclosing known STDs or laws specifically about disclosing known HIV status, or both.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
If you're building a native python application, there's no reason to adopt yet another technology. A native python app in "Docker/Containers" is going to look like a dockerfile that includes a copy of the app and ru
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
displaying language is full of corner cases. imagine having to render both english, japanese, and arabic in the same code paths, and inline with each other text display code is not so simple as it seems, and don't fall into the trap of
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
maybe future laws and policy will take into account the more-or-less finite supply of bitcoin. maybe. my point is that there is no guarantee that bitcoin will receive favorable decisions. it's hard for the lay person to understand (why
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
"Especially important for finite supplies like Bitcoin" The law doesn't concern itself with the technical implementation of bitcoin. In addition, trackable and "tainted" money is dangerous for people to accept; bitc
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
I would expect that apache and lighttpd are hosted in their respective projects; linux is used to run linux.com servers, etc.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
If Google is using GCP internally, then their infrastructure is as you said. The GCP "best practices" sections in the docs* have been top tier in my experience and you can learn a lot, even if you're using AWS or Azure. * my
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
People don't love XMPP for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons apply to IoT. Some reasons, like having to maintain state, are IoT specific. Besides that, bandwidth and code complexity is a very real concern. MQTT, a lightweight mes
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
When the "good Desktop development framework" is primarily in javascript, it's a good signal.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Sometimes there's not something to fix or do, for example, in pthread-using code. "Just be really fucking careful or we'll all cry a lot."
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
As a developer, Electron's page shows their prowess in writing good front end code, which is really important. As someone who understands the basic concept of Electron, I want a product that demonstrates those competencies.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
More than once, cutesy comments of frustration have led me to inspect something for side effects and avoid them.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
This begins to fall apart in major cities without OSM volunteers ingesting city roadwork feeds. Of course, something like tomtom wouldn't represent that ideally either without a radio data or cell service...
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Learn word. It's still best in class. Or LibreOffice. Depending on the type of manuscript, Dryad or celtx. Of course, I don't know your workflow.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
It also means that they have trouble acquiring certain types of talent (reputation is free talent advertising). In addition, having a few world conquerers around helps bring talent and money which is then turned into startups - there are a
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
In Steve Jobs' case, it was meant to instill confidence that he was in it for the long term - at the time, Apple was on death's doorstep. He also had enough cash in the bank prior to re-joining that he didn't really need the
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Please put the install links at the top.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
It's required for the proprietary camera algorithm software. The camera still works.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. North Korea is under incredible sanctions, and South Korea's embracing of the free market is considered to be an economic miracle made possible only by multiple headwinds, and some solid good l
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
This has been a known issue in xbox 360 hardware since about 2010. It just keeps popping up, someone finally thought to weaponize it.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
I think it's absolutely unreasonable to imply that this was intentional. Besides the massive amount of complexity these systems have, there are plenty of "legitimate" places to hide backdoors, instead of in a performance arch
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
I'm not sure how they could have come out of this cleanly other than waving a wand and not having it happen? They pretty clearly owned up.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Yeah, but those early WMP versions were just simple media players with really awful, clunky, slow syncing support. Microsoft took about 5 years to catch up, no small part due to USB 2.0
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
They say the design of the product, not the components are free, if we're going to be pedantic.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
I think it's more that if I spend $200 on headphones that proclaim to be good for fitness, I expect them to sound great as well and in general be worth the $200.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
I don't think it's so much audio quality while running as it is being able to use headphones both for listening at quality AND for running.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
It's looking more and more like it's a modified-but-largely-intact BSD kernel with a 3ds api (not abi?) compatible userspace. Time will probably prove me wrong.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Tech Knowledge is a self-admitted FCC/BigTelecom shill.
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Gamecube was a success. It wasn't a wild success. It also was the hardware foundation for the Wii (seriously, the wii is a gamecube and an arm chip smashed together). Wii U was probably profitable. Not a success like a company like Nin
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by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Also, I'm not saying it's impossible or not worth doing (obviously, it's possible and worth doing), just that a few minutes of thinking and hacker news comments are going to hardly touch the breadth of difficulties required t

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