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flai

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    Comment #44073480

    Objectively bad, sure

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    Comment #15175122

    Does "VM it" work? I mean, there is PCI and USB-passthrough in qemu, so this might be an option, especially since VMs are easy to sandbox (easier than physical machines where someo…

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    Comment #14834152

    Not every one of my email-addresses is used in a business-context.

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    Comment #14625263

    That is a pretty cool way to implement regenerative breaking that I honestly never thought of (even though the tram in my hometown feeds energy in the grid when driving downwards)

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    Comment #14486580

    I agree with most of the sarcastic comments but > [...] broom-swept condition > This is the first time in my life I have ever heard this phrase, in all its privilege-dripping glory…

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    Comment #14451845

    That is why stuff like pandoc exist. A more modern latex.

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    Comment #14448331

    async / await works only with Promises. As the name util.promisfy indicates, it generates promises. You never need use use async / await.

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    Comment #14440068

    Generally: If none of the work is interesting, you should be looking for a new job anyways (if feasible)

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    Comment #14440055

    I never had a crash, and thus never felt the need to switch.

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    Comment #14432072

    Spamming is always cost vs. cost. Fuzzing the votes like this is cheap for reddit, but makes it more expensive for the spammer. The best spam-filter is tricked by a hand-crafted, p…

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    Comment #14429392

    Well, considering he got an internal dev to report this issue... Not so silly :)

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    Comment #14429358

    Well, the L1-Support could have said that: "To report a bug please open the FILE menu, and click on "Send feedback". Ta-dah. Support is still shit if they can't do that. In a softw…

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    Comment #14413672

    You forget Conway's law: > organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations Open so…

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    Comment #14411450

    The thing is: There is no fast browser that also is flexible, in contrast to android.

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    Comment #14411421

    You are aware that chrome uses V8, not the other way around?

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    Comment #14406384

    No, but I believe that not being able to figure out the runtime-complexity of easy algorithms hinders you as a programmer. Being able to reason about these things is important for …

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    Comment #14400375

    Well, it is the CCC. These guys do this for fun, so having more fun while doing it is just added bonus.