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cylemons

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    Comment #48724325

    Also the sideroads intersecting each other usually don't have traffic lights which is good for low traffic but bad for high traffic. What they would do in that case is close off on…

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    Comment #48641471

    To clarify, the loot boxes in Roblox are game specific. The platform itself just has the catalog where you buy stuff directly But still, Roblox should do a better job regulating th…

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    Comment #48582989

    Yikes, does that mean each dev has terabytes of stuff on their machine?

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    Comment #48472891

    In the manpage for vfork, Linux in particular > As with fork(2), the child process created by vfork() inherits copies of various of the caller's process attributes (e.g., file desc…

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    Comment #48430936

    > If you're not overcommiting, that fork will fail, because total memory consumption will be 1200 MB which is more than 1GB. That somewhat restricts program design. Does this accou…

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    Comment #48255991

    > 69% of those who got green cards through marriage to US citizen spouses Nice.

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    Comment #48156084

    As a non Malawian no, but I do think its important to ask what the local sentiment of their country is.

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    Comment #48151492

    Now that makes sense, so its legal because the contributors can still access their code

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    Comment #48090299

    > If you actually look at the redis code base the majority of it was written by people who never worked for redis. Thats a really big deal, how did they legally managed to do the l…

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    Comment #47908077

    Apperantly the AKID and SKID extensions are used instead these days

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    Comment #47907832

    TCP still works this way?

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    Comment #47873314

    VK_KHR_buffer_device_address has 91.3% support and VK_KHR_variable_pointers has 98.66% support looks good to me

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    Comment #47832288

    When I personally use chatgpt and friends, I am not seeing any slowdowns or anything, meaning that their servers can handle the loads just fine. So then, why are these companies sp…

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    Comment #47831924

    Microsoft itself is 73% owned by institutional investors, so more of the same really. see: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/instituti...

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    Comment #47767272

    Yeah why is this so common in .NET?

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    Comment #47747982

    Whatabout the extensions? is it widely supported

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    Comment #47730410

    You mean the locking would be done in software?

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    Comment #47729397

    I assume to save on resources, even if your algorithm is not much more taxxing on silicon, maybe the designers at intel and amd just didn't think optimizing split locks was worth i…

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    Comment #47701437

    Biggest pump and dump in history

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    Comment #47657461

    > chat.agent.maxRequests "Maximum number of requests that copilot can make using agents" I don't get how this setting is relevant?

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    Comment #47647765

    There is a limit on how much copilot can do in one request, pretty generous but after some time vscode will say "this request is taking very long, do you want to continue" and that…

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    Comment #47646321

    I guess Microsoft wants us to think about all these copilots as a single product. Like, "the copilot in visual studio", "the copilot on github", "the copilot on office" etc.

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    Comment #47515455

    This a toolchain issue rather than OS issue. This wounldn't have been a problem if gcc/clang just took a --stdlib-version option and built the executables linking to that version o…

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    Comment #47437546

    Even from a quality of life perspective, imagine having an SFH in city center that is within walking distance to shops, job, activities etc.

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    Comment #47437151

    Also living standards, ancients houses are dead simple and today could probably be built with usd 5k-10k in a couple months. But most people wont accept a home with no electrity, n…