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fred256

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    Comment #47923465

    “The question of whether Machines Can Think is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.” — Dijkstra

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    Comment #47629157

    https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/identity/passkeys

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    Comment #42933821

    The full list is at the bottom of their press release: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...

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    Comment #40476442

    No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related t…

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    Comment #39435110

    Semi-related, in a past life, I used ... to indicate "not implemented yet": def not_implemented_yet(): ...

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    Comment #38798294

    > MS-DOS shipped with a TUI text editor since version 5 (1981) MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not 1981.

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    Comment #38231524

    A long, long time ago I also implemented tic-tac-toe in HTML. But just as a set of HTML pages with links for each X move (and an implied O move by the "computer" player). Total siz…

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    Comment #37906606

    The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.

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    Comment #37633908

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093933

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    Comment #37140955

    Didn't this happen a few weeks ago already?

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    Comment #36426819

    And you can buy a modern reimplementation: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min...

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    Comment #36301451

    This reminds me of challenge 28 from the game Human Resource Machine.

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    Comment #36203579

    Unless I misunderstand, it's less than a frame at 60 Hz (= 16.7 ms per frame).

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    Comment #35247399

    From the paper: > A single hat is asymmetric, and so in any patch we can distinguish between “unreflected” and “reflected” orientations of tiles.

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    Comment #33573862

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)

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    Comment #33561987

    I thought this was going to be a link to https://xkcd.com/195/

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    Comment #33561948

    > He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering. Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.

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    Comment #32725224

    As an owner of both a manual transmission car and an EV, I enjoy driving them both, but I don’t want the manual transmission experience with an EV power train.

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    Comment #31610065

    These are so good I am scared.

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    Comment #30201320

    No first hand experience, but perhaps vpype with this plugin: https://github.com/zxsq-cc/hpglpype