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Fatalist_ma

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    Comment #40986854

    Learning the whole course ahead of time sounds easier said than done. But I definitely recommend pre-learning the next chapter in the course instead of relying on the teacher's exp…

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    Comment #40717643

    Someone could say that, but we know and we can prove that a car is not a plane. An example of a bad plane would be the Wright Flyer.

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    Comment #39887671

    There is an interesting debate about React and signals in the comments of this article, between Dan Abramov and Ryan Carniato - https://dev.to/this-is-learning/react-vs-signals-10-…

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    Comment #39633111

    Acoordinto Gallup, October 2023: 31% want Ukraine to negotiate to end the war as soon as possible. https://news.gallup.com/poll/512258/ukrainians-stand-behind-... According to NDI(…

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    Comment #39463286

    I remember Bing Chat doing that sometimes in the first days when it was rolled out. Could it be the "temperature" set too high (or interpreted incorrectly) in some instances?

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    Comment #39253437

    BTW That's a pretty common control scheme for Soviet and Soviet-derived ATGMs. https://thesovietarmourblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/soviet-atgm...

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    Comment #28398185

    Satelite "internet"? All I have read about is the ability to send emergency text messages. The author goes on a tirade about how you can't browse Bloomberg with a 256kbps internet.…

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    Comment #28375103

    Not sure about Ideapads. Thinkpads with AMD cpu-s are not that expensive: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1645679-REG/lenovo_20... Same specs for 40% less than Pangolin.

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    Comment #28374991

    Uhh I understand that good Linux support is valuable, but the price premium for that is just too high. For the base variant(5500u, 8gb, 240gb): Pangolin - 1200$ Lenovo Ideapad 3 15…

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    Comment #28350208

    Well it's a finger-sized antenna. Admittedly all I know about antennas is that size matters. An Iphone is bigger than a finger, why is it inconceivable that it could have a compara…

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    Comment #28349010

    https://www.itabnav.com/545-large_default/iridium-go.jpg not that huge of an antenna...

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    Comment #27744810

    Does not look like that was his only metric: "but I'm pretty sure there would have been more total users of the code, likely making the amount shared in the open still greater."

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    Comment #27604096

    I'm not sure adding more concrete UI elements is the way to go, browsers are too complex as at is, which makes it extremely hard to develop them unless you have as much resources a…

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    Comment #27500114

    Before clicking I assumed the lamp had a small screen and they were using that screen...

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    Comment #27383673

    There's nothing broken about parseInt. The problem is, it can take a second argument(radix), and .map will feed it current item's index as the second argument(and the whole array a…

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    Comment #26681406

    Hmm what decline? The only thing that comes to mind is the removal of force-touch but that's not a multi-touch gesture.

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    Comment #24330216

    I think the main reason is that they can afford to not care. There is no pressure. They can afford to be inefficient because they know that as long as the core features work, custo…

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    Comment #23995925

    The argument was not convincing at all. He focuses on how UBI will let poor people to consume more. But will it help them produce more? I believe it will, but that needs explaining…

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    Comment #23652775

    > you should pick and choose your battles Well it's the same battle - it's about giving the kids access to information and an opportunity to learn coding. You can't compare that to…

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    Comment #23250664

    I don't think this is a good or even valid example. Where do we see that the method that depends on the Rectangle class no longer works correctly for instances of Square? Why does …