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DistractionRect
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Comment #48875642
So what's the long term plan? If tests require a bunch of ram, scaling costs seem at odds with "Free Forever". Will you eventually have a pay walled tier? Or will you seek donation…
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Comment #48875537
This I didn't know, thank you for that! "Build a selfhosted codecrafters" might be a fun meta "build an X"
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Comment #46322650
> If publishing the most papers is the goal why do we even need journals? For discoverability. Someone's trivial finding may be someone else's key to a major breakthrough, but litt…
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Comment #45285401
Grapheneos is, to my understanding, a dedicated development effort that specifically targets pixels. Lineageos on the otherhand, provides scaffolding that volunteers can use to sup…
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Comment #45271746
It's still supported by lineageos. It's just the installer doesn't do major version bumps, you have to manually reflash to higher versions.
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Comment #44999034
Ha, yeah. Sailed right over my head. It's really too bad. Both about the what the platform has become and the missed setup.
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Comment #44998355
It's not the end of the world, it's a minor convenience and better than busy waiting. There are plenty of cases where you want to manipulate an object but it's not guaranteed that …
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Comment #44611246
Like? It's hard to do anything when the executive, legislative, and judicial branches are all controlled by the same party. Until midterms, there's not much that can be done at the…
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Comment #44562672
Probably because the tsa isn't able/allowed to hand out access willy nilly. It's kinda like how the police need warrants to request cellphone data, but cellphone companies could se…
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Comment #44306386
Yes, they build off other open source projects and list them in the README. I actually do run moonlight + sunshine myself, and have for more than a year. It's not too difficult to …
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Comment #44171599
Yeah, it doesn't really elaborate on why openworld might be more fun than standard tracks/cups. Sure, I can drive around in it and look at it, but what makes than fun? This article…
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Comment #44107868
It reads to me like he had he simple (relative to today) investment strategies which where profitable, and closed shop when those market inefficiencies started running dry.
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Comment #43938203
Well, I'd understand why it's difficult to extend to nationwide or even statewide just because of all the variations in road/driving conditions. So I can get how FSD never got cert…
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Comment #43937939
I've always found it odd that the leader for personal "full self driving" cars, is essentially last to the robo taxi market.
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Comment #43836116
> A genuine answer, how about looking up some studies on this subject? I figured that since you had a strong opinion on the subject you probably had strong evidence and could steer…
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Comment #43812305
Genuine question, can you provide multiple explicit examples of such bias? I heard a lot of people railing against bias in Wikipedia, but no one provides any blatant examples of it…
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Comment #43784187
Seems like using a sledge hammer to pound a nail. Why not just use an ad blocker like ublock origin?
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Comment #43746273
Emphasis on "Github flavored", which supports additional extensions to the markdown spec that a TUI can't properly preview. You need some kind of GUI (preferably a browser since it…
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Comment #43684612
You're absolutely right. I skimmed and misread.
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Comment #43684537
It's a lot of things. Their reputation, their legal jurisdiction (outside the US), that it's available now, etc. The administration is using it as a trial run for bigger things. Th…
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Comment #43676841
You're already 99% of the way there, you're just have the order of operations wrong. What you're doing is sRGB -> linear perceived luminance space -> sRGB (greyscale, where R=G=B) …
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Comment #43622934
This would happen if browser technologies/standards would, you know, standardize. However, everyone and their uncle picks and chooses what they'll support, how they'll support it, …
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Comment #43602176
Infinity blade series
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Comment #43594780
That was it! I was busy looking for a word rather than an acronym
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Comment #43594697
I agree, today's challenge was really easy. But I did enjoy the other days, I played all of them! What I'd like is an option to show the answers after failing (not by default, so y…