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Comment #19327405
Yes. I was thinking of third-party software that may take many years to port to ARM. Photoshop, Etc. Apple’s position would then be: great battery life unless you need to run old i…
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Comment #19327384
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-co2-emissions-fell-... “Demand for oil was also largely unchanged in 2018 (-0.3%). Within that total, demand for diesel and petrol both saw…
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Comment #19327236
Indeed I checked one of his references where he says that it is cars that are the primary reason that CO2 emissions haven’t reduced in the transport sector. The linked article says…
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Comment #19326798
I think this article does a disservice to the cause for reducing CO2 emissions. It’s unnecessarily hyperbolic and contains factual inaccuracies.
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Comment #19326613
Great article! It certainly supports the idea that Apple switching to ARM processors for their laptops isn’t crazy talk. Perhaps retaining an intel-compatible CPU for a few generat…
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Comment #19325990
If it helps defeat tracking then I’d like an option to snap to pre-defined sizes as I resize the window.
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Comment #19151583
“Fourteen examples of dreams are presented, including seven examples of interpretation, three examples of successful dream content prediction (a first for an interpretive theory of…
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Comment #18966291
This is not news. Nobody actually uses recursion for a binary search unless they're using a functional language.
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Comment #18966285
This appears to be two things: - Overcomplicated both in design and implementation - Not especially interesting or novel Unless I'm missing something?
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Comment #18965069
John Scalzi? Count me in! Note this part of the Better Worlds project: https://www.theverge.com/better-worlds
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Comment #18965048
This looks pretty good. At the moment I'm using MSYS2 on my work machine (have to use Windows). Any thoughts on this installation method? iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstr…
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Comment #18964976
I suggest one RTFM before commenting on this. I.e., don't judge a post by its title.
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Comment #18964937
Pro: Law enforcement has access to a great tool for identifying people. Con: Government has access to a great tool for identifying people.
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Comment #18964867
Here is a link to the PDF with the characters: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf This is great! Lots of nostalgia.
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Comment #18917050
Six months ago I joined an "agile" team. The team is completely disconnected from any reasonable interpretation of agile. No sprints. No stand-ups. No prioritized backlog. No sprin…
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Comment #18896129
“There exist algorithms like BBP to directly compute arbitrary binary digits without the memory cost of computing all the digits before it. These are called "digit-extraction" algo…
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Comment #18788012
I think you might be confusing "Inter" with "Intel". This font is named "Inter UI" since its design goal is for use in user interfaces. It doesn't have anything to do with Intel.
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Comment #18596003
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fallingknife.asp
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Comment #18584887
I love this. Just reading the list make me happy. I would contribute: xmlstarlet Manipulate xml documents http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ jq Manipulate json documents https://stedo…
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Comment #18438079
No more F-111s in service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvar...
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Comment #18403952
There is no way your game server can verify that the clients are actually running in a hypothetical secure mode. Any calculation or data that client could send to your server could…
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Comment #18387839
Wikipedia says: l-forms of amino acids tend to be tasteless, whereas d-forms tend to taste sweet.[7] Spearmint leaves contain the l-enantiomer of the chemical carvone or R-(−)-carv…
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Comment #18333709
Links in the tutorial menu work.
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Comment #18233574
I would love for this to happen.
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Comment #18137959
Why '(sic)' after favourite?