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flaviu1

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    I'd expect it to go something like this: - There are many many languages without classes that make good use of enums - Doing this refactoring is excessively verbose - Someone makin…

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    Comment #29126330

    I don't have a deposit banking relationship with any brick-and-mortar banks, so for me it's very convenient: I have a way to turn my paper money into electronic money.

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    Comment #28946154

    There are some excellent multimeters around the $25 price point, like my Aneng AN8009 (especially after doing the capacitor mod) Take a look at the reviews at https://lygte-info.dk…

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    Comment #28840371

    On iOS, all browsers are Safari, just with different themes.

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    Comment #25200380

    That'd actually be acceptable to me, since I wouldn't feel the need for redundancy--but it looks like the cheapest 1TB SSD that can be found is $67, while I can get HDDs for $15.88…

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    Comment #25200218

    > Data leaving their network is going to be more expensive for them. Not $10/50GiB more expensive. They want people using their streaming services, and I'm certain they already hav…

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    Comment #24720680

    That's very different--that's on my own hardware, and my fingerprints don't leave the phone. This is amazon's hardware, and they store the fingerprints in a centralized database.

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    Comment #24481076

    What would be the proper way to do something like this? I've made a couple desks myself, but I've never been able to figure out a good way to do joints.

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    Comment #24100171

    I've generally had two choices: 5-12Mbps DSL or cable. A couple times I was able to get Google Fiber, but I'm sure you know how limited the availability of that is.

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    Comment #21698110

    You need to take 10 minutes out of your day to remove the plastic enclosure. Depending on your setup, you may also need to make some minor modifications to the drive: google.com/se…

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    Comment #21550889

    looks like they're not: https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4f3c01186bb3f7d71d0...

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    Comment #21238694

    > It seems to reduce the potential for security leaks Misguided views like this are exactly how. Turning off autocomplete doesn't improve any sort of security, since the site alrea…

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    Comment #21186273

    Because you're immediately dismissing a whole set of thought with random anecdotes. The only way that policy decisions should be made is with hard data. Policy decisions shouldn't …

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    Comment #20962523

    > If there's anything that Fukushima should have taught us, it's that we underestimate the risk that bad things can happen with nuclear, and we overestimate our ability to engineer…

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    Comment #20936289

    It calls you, and then you need to pick up and press the one key to authenticate yourself.

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    Comment #20889445

    I'm not really impressed by this article. The two main points: > An investigation by ProPublica identified more than 60 accidents since June 2015 involving Amazon delivery contract…

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    Comment #20772696

    It uses a custom CPU and ISA that's specialized for the application: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14750/hot-chips-31-analysis-i... > Internally the DPU uses an optimized 32-bit I…

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    Comment #20650959

    Courts aren't stupid, I don't think they'd look kindly upon you if they see you've done this.

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    Comment #20226987

    The milestone there targets a completion date of 05/01/2019 for all the attached issues, but they still haven't resolved all of them.

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    Comment #18531160

    > The result of this training is stored in a file called "dictionary", which must be loaded before compression and decompression The docs say that the dictionary is required for bo…

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    Comment #8105793

    I don't necessarily trust the adblock developers. The whitelist can say that a sitekey is only used on certain sites, but how can I know it isn't also being used on others? If site…

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    Comment #8051072

    What if you want reproducible random numbers, such as in, I dunno, AES? That limitation would prevent any sort of decrypting things.

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    Comment #8049393

    No, they are on the same heap since the GC isn't a moving collector.