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envp

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    Comment #44584093

    Am I missing something… why does this sound like eugenics with extra steps?

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    Comment #43115320

    So it’s okay because he’s rich?

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    Comment #43092640

    It already underwent some recent shrink flation. I used to be able buy 12oz bags but they’re 10oz now, consumers are getting shafted regardless :D

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    Comment #43020744

    The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr

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    Comment #42926589

    fyi, the resume link is dead/inaccessible

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    Comment #42095300

    Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new…

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    Comment #41801344

    Another joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake Michigan :D

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    Comment #40904689

    The problem is also that the rate of, and ease of production of terrible content far outpaces good content. So it does matter that there’s loads of junk because finding something w…

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    Comment #40816194

    There’s already regulation affecting SDLC practices in the financial industry (SSDF in the US, DORA in the EU). Definitely not a stretch for other (“important”) areas to start rece…

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    Comment #39882832

    So far I’ve gotten to the end for a few colors. Quite fun, took my about 20-30 guesses!

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    Comment #38535821

    Sure the customers decided, but what about their relatives? If any of my relatives uploaded their genetic info to this, it by extension has a huge part of my genetic info too, and …

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    Comment #36339724

    I typically associate in-app video ads with C-tier mobile games that are a few steps removed from a click farm. None of those has a home on my device. I’m glad and feel lucky to li…

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    Comment #34470562

    What good is a treatment if you can’t access it? If you’re poor enough even food poisoning is “untreatable”.

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    Comment #34397810

    Best summarized by this quote from a coworker: “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.” Utilities exist, but they tend to be different . There’s also oddities like the…

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    Comment #34185641

    That’s an average dachshund

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    Comment #34169969

    Certainly, but without knowing the workload that was used for the benchmark it’s a meaningless marketing number.

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    Comment #34162957

    > up to 4x Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.

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    Comment #34162647

    Perhaps the title could be better worded as: “New insights into cell death brought on by Sepsis”

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    Comment #34141027

    I’d bet that’s unlikely. A lot of if Rail’s power comes from the meta progamming (convention over configuration, was it?) which would be needlessly hard in extension land. Extensio…

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    Ask HN: Laid off while abroad on F1 OPT

    Hello HN, I'm unsure if this is the right forum but I'm desperate for advice on how to handle this situation: My partner was recently laid off while they're still traveling abroad.…

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    Comment #32782930

    Python's type hints are undecidable. You cannot know, without evaluating the type-level program if it will halt. The only way around this would be to set a recursion depth, which c…

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    Comment #31865350

    I lost some clothes, sneakers in a duffel bag on my first ride with LIRR from NY Penn. Nothing valuable, but certainly essential. Was told off by the on-duty person to either show …

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    Comment #30082398

    > Some of you mention dislikes help you decide what to watch,” said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “But dislikes were never shown to people on the homepage, search results, up next sc…