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atomicUpdate

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    Comment #48987816

    Considering Intel has vulkan video disabled in Mesa for recent chips, I’m guessing very little. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-Disable-New

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    Comment #48987760

    It was sanctioned by the CEO. How much was their job actually at risk?

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    Comment #48756767

    Apparently they live in a nursing home in 2020 still, because no one else is dying of covid anymore. Especially not young or healthy people within the last few years.

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    Comment #48756750

    > They’d even distrust “stand further apart” if the wrong person said it. They shouldn’t believe it no matter who says it. The entire concept of “social distancing” was completely …

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    Comment #48117620

    Enforcing a healthy diet and exercise would have a vastly larger impact than any seatbelt laws in terms of reducing health care costs. Seatbelts and smoking always seem to be about…

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    Comment #47315328

    What is a speed light camera?

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    Comment #47252478

    > When code is expensive to produce and is likely to stay in production for many years it's obviously important to review it very carefully. If code is cheap and can be inexpensive…

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    Comment #47094239

    This is the same thing as `git rebase-update`, available in Chrome's `depot_tools`, which deletes merged branches. Beyond that, this is just OP learning how `xargs` works.

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    Comment #46860428

    If my car’s brakes have a design flaw and don’t stop my car reliably, I don’t expect to have to keep paying for my car to get them fixed. The manufacturer’s warranty covers that, a…

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    Comment #46735251

    > Their standards forever dropping And yet their standards still haven’t dropped low enough for Linux to be an acceptable replacement. I don’t think that’s a knock on the Windows u…

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    Comment #46329571

    I expect the formatter/linter to be run as part of presubmit and/or committing the code so it doesn't matter how it's edited and saved by the developer. It's strange to hear of a s…

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    Comment #43284112

    No one has ever cross-shopped an S2k and an FF.

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    Comment #42248857

    My first thought is using your union representative to amplify your voice. Presumably the union doesn't want to be associated with, or known to be representing, racists so it's in …

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    Comment #42247713

    > There’s little doubt that racism played a role in identifying children as gifted even though the label was based on supposedly objective criteria. Why has the LA Times settled on…

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    Comment #42128019

    The reasoning I’ve heard is that Bluetooth traffic is easily snoopable without physical access to the device. Someone could potentially steal password keystrokes while sitting outs…

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    Comment #41888953

    > Good heavens. How were we meant to know that? It’s literally referenced in the comment that poster is replying to. It would have been less work to just pay attention.

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    Comment #41746456

    > The ability to focus on some things but not others is perfectly consistent with ADHD. This is an insanely broad definition that literally the entire population would fall under. …

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    Comment #41591739

    Sublime does it, at least with Merge. It’s weird to think Linux programs would somehow be different from Windows in this regard. Why would a program running in Linux are more altru…

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    Comment #41552512

    Both of the examples in the quote give you the answer: talk to someone that’s actually done it. It’s always amazing to me how often the person 3 desks over has already solved the s…

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    Comment #41204219

    Are you asking or telling?

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    Comment #40043232

    > Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads. You aren't. Twitch Turbo costs $12/month. If you're spending more than that on multiple subscriptions then you're better off ge…

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    Comment #39983494

    I tend to agree, assuming there are no false positives. Admittedly, I’m not sure how often that occurs, nor if we even can know that based on all the various work environments the …

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    Comment #39945008

    > the animation and the scroll-sensitive layout (vs. just having a series of static diagrams) makes it unpleasant for me to read. I totally agree; I don't understand the fascinatio…

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    Comment #39819646

    They're literally working on a feature to disable third party coookies by default: https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sandbox-tracking... How does that fit in with your co…

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    Comment #39781302

    > Simples being you need to log in to multiple different apps, but things like data moving between them etc are also complications. I don't think this is actually true. Specificall…