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exrook

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    Comment #48556537

    This is not quite an accurate telling of rockstar's reaction, there were actually receptive to it and paid out $10k for the discovery. Though it's an understandable mistake given r…

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    Comment #47816595

    It's a bit ridiculous to imply Tokuyama gets better shinkansen service than Hamamatsu, because it has Nozomi service. Looking at the schedule towards Tokyo for Monday, April 27th: …

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    Comment #38170346

    This should be at least (2001)[0], if not (2000)[1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20010111052400/http://www.csse.m... [1] https://metacpan.org/release/DCONWAY/Lingua-Romana-Perli…

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    Comment #37943529

    For those interested, the key takeaway from this IMO is that by issuing many sequential reads, the memory controller will hold a target row open for an extended amount of time to s…

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    Comment #35621339

    Try adding the EasyList Cookie List[0] to your adblocker to block them all. It's present in the uBlock Origin filter list settings under Annoyances but not enabled by default. HN r…

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    Comment #33039163

    I'm not sure where your getting this from, a phone number is _optional_ for CSGO, adding one is said to improve your "trust factor"[0], theoretically improving your matchmaking exp…

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    Comment #26191782

    I'm confused, have you found the try operator ("?") insufficient for your use cases? I believe it does what you are describing, ex: fn process_file(p: Path) -> Result { let file = …

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    Comment #26048464

    Also see Alaska's unorganized borough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_Borough%2C_Alaska

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    Comment #25739850

    Liquid drum and bass mixes https://youtu.be/YIWFNVb7whk

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    Comment #25243576

    > I bought the camera used recently and didn’t update the exif date in the camera. I uploaded it on Wikipedia and I’m cool with it without copyright. The image is for the people. P…

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    Comment #24753727

    Could you expand on this a bit more? That's certainly the impression I have of semver.

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    Comment #24720971

    I'd highly encourage anyone interested in this case to hear the oral arguments for themselves, you can listen to them here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?469263-1/google-v-oracle-a…

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    Comment #23802771

    > That precludes GC This isn't the case, there are tracing garbage collectors implemented as libraries [1][2], and there is consideration being made for supporting tracing GC in th…

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    Comment #23190598

    Nope, no support needed. SSLH will proxy SSL traffic to whatever other SSL service you have running (nginx, openvpn, etc.), and send the SSH traffic to openssh. It look like it eve…

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    Comment #23167264

    Why not instead modify the test so that it more accurately measures the capabilities of interest instead? Such as in your elevator example, make it so that the operation of the ele…

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    Comment #23155124

    Well there is POWER[0], not that it's a very affordable choice, the cheapest motherboard + cpu costing $1,732.07 [0] https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html

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    Comment #23083669

    My first thought was that maybe this was some sort of anti-captcha where the images were adversarial examples that a neural network would classify as a shopfront? However from the …

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    Comment #23045970

    I don't think we are in any disagreement that whoever is uploading the data "owns" the data. The interesting idea is that the entity storing the bytes has 0 information about the d…

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    Comment #23042663

    I think the distinction this protocol makes is that by using XOR as the "encryption" method, given any input block you can choose a "key" to decrypt with to produce any other outpu…

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    Comment #22551828

    Check out Permutation City by Greg Egan for some inspiration ;)

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    Comment #22532593

    This is why many new reactor designs do not use water as coolant but instead molten salt[0] or inert gas[1], to avoid the risk of steam explosion. This alone does not make those re…

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    Comment #22510163

    I don't know if this is what you were thinking of, but capnproto[0] does exactly that with a promise like interface. Actually this may be the paper you were referencing, from the b…

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    Comment #22488890

    Personally, I like that as a human, I have the capacity to use tools as an extension of my being to improve myself and my place in the world. I don't think applying the same tools …

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