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Comment #30763656
The examples are js, but could be represented in any language. Think of the titles "trivia", "missing context", "unspecified behavior"
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Comment #30685262
This is highly dependent on where you live. For example there are pretty much no bootlocked phones in Finland
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Comment #30526582
Corrent me if I'm wrong, but aren't most cloud providers already providing redundancy in their EBS/equivalent setups? S3 had quite a lot of nines too
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Comment #30385974
In addition, the size of patches can also vary quite a lot on what the author considers a "thing". Some developers fix multiple things at once, while some others think every nut an…
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Comment #29920045
A single google search resulted in their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_(computer_scientist)
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Comment #29185719
A total shift to electric vehicles in less than 20 years sounds quite optimistic if I'm being honest. Not signing something you know you can't meet sounds like a fair choice.
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Comment #29027272
Which is why I covered them in my comment about CHP, which recoups a large portion of those "losses". Either way other power sources also require logistic challenges and/or big equ…
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Comment #29027264
I feel this is a bit disingenuous, because using the same logic burning wood is thousands of % effective, or even ∞% if the system only uses convection, making heat pumps seem like…
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Comment #28998645
>Except it is still direct electrical heating which is atrociously inefficient. Electric heating converts practically all energy into heat, making it ~100% efficient. You can make …
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Comment #28877578
You can make quite substantial sums, seeing as Mozilla makes tens of millions with default engine choices: https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-2006-audi... So yes, I…
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Comment #28877210
This is plain wrong, as the article clearly lists all the ways Vivaldi makes money
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Comment #28783931
I don't think this argument makes any sense. Just because there can be better uses for additional clean energy, does not make the additional energy any less clean. By this definiti…
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Comment #28716375
I feel the obvious solution wouldn't be to handicap your own product, but simply sell the same processors cheaper when they stop selling. I've never heard of farmers who intentiona…
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Comment #28715677
Battery chemistry often relies on there being ~some charge. Completely dead battery would be, as the name implies; dead
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Comment #28680788
Not to mention the damage to the service providers that have their other clients affected because of this. Besides, if someone robs you, would the prosecutor handwave it away sayin…
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Comment #27746760
I feel Rust offers several strong points whilst actually being performant and widespread enough to be in the kernel. I doubt you absolutely _need_ to know both to work on specific …
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Comment #27513768
Site doesen't appear to work on firefox at all