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TheNorthman

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About TheNorthman

I am a very cool person.

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    Comment #42001243

    It's also the rule in the EU.

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    Comment #41483211

    https://archive.md/9nisn

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    Comment #40717390

    You ever think the "safe" districts are safe because the constituents living in those districts swing further left and right than average?

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    Comment #40549844

    > Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart. Why is this?

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    Comment #39845884

    > BTW, there are only 1/5 of people in The argument isn't that Manhattan is car-centric qua its people, the argument is that Manhattan is car-centric qua its infrastructure.

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    Comment #39643212

    A danish perspective: Primary care doctors are paid (by the state) based of a fixed list. A 15 min video consultation pays 162.99 DKK (~24 USD) [1]: https://laeger.dk/media/mjpbsm2…

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    Comment #39548801

    OVH have some in the US. I've only had good experiences with them. I like Server Hunter to get a general overview: https://www.serverhunter.com/#query=product_type%3Adedicated...

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    Comment #39395962

    He can't predict the future. The relevant metric must be 1. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price hike/salary increase 2. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price decline/sa…

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    Comment #39329625

    I think you're reading the chart wrong. The majority does say that police cars and ambulances are not allowed in based on that rule. It is a bad chart though. I was confused too.

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    Comment #39210096

    > If you come to an interview without any AI coding skills you would certainly be marked down. And I, in turn, would be delighted not to work for you.

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    Comment #39196794

    Very cool! While at uni, I worked on a local fishing boat doing (amongst many things) hardware/software integration, and did some work on equipment communicating via NMEA. Very fun…

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    Comment #39194707

    Imgur should work fine. It at least does so for me. If not your style, https://imgbb.com is also an option. More ads, though But please do upload a picture. That would be interesti…

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    Comment #39013269

    https://archive.ph/o34ou

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    Comment #38900125

    `nslookup`

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    Comment #38667491

    https://archive.md/bVTJv

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    Comment #38494253

    Read your own article. The byline reads: > Google is taking the unprecedented step of paying back users for all the games they bought on its cloud gaming platform. Google _voluntar…

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    Comment #37484613

    The advantage of tor over just E2EE is that it hides the sources of traffic and not only the traffic itself. So it really depends on if your threat model can handle others knowing …

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    Comment #36561688

    It's not applicable to clients. A clients traffic never touches another client, only the nodes. Of course, malicious clients can ruin it for everyone else in the form of DoS attack…

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    Comment #35784450

    > Yes, I'm sorry, that was a mistake. The correct answer is actually [hallucinates something else] Doesn't even have to be a new hallucination, sometimes it's just the exact same w…

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    Comment #35361241

    There doesn't exist a corporation on the planet, that doesn't have power over its employees.

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    Comment #35337907

    That's hilarious. "Payment of vest and explosives for ISIS attack"

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    Comment #34809571

    They're not a government organization. Haven't been for almost 10 years

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    Comment #34790207

    I was sort of vaguely aware of this but thank you for pointing it out! I think the point still stands, and that reference counting like this is just a different kind of garbage col…

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    Comment #34789613

    Nim, while providing the same memory safety as Rust, doesn't do so without overhead. So Nim very expressly sacrifices performance for safety. In rust, for example, it's possible to…