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gabrielhidasy

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    Comment #49171178

    But a gas burning furnace can have 100% efficiency, that is trash compared to what I get from a heat pump considering a gas power-plant (60%) * national grid efficiency (90%) * hea…

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    Comment #49110914

    Depends, if you are turning that electricity into heat using a heat-pump you might win on most situations (maybe lose if the weather is really cold outside, unless you add geotherm…

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    Comment #48687320

    Pretty cool, I would love to see a version where you code the tasks instead of madly click on stuff.

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    Comment #48677817

    Just get better marketers to say your 2nm process has more gates per sqmm than your competition 1nm process.

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    Comment #48174648

    Case in point is Magit, I use Mercurial almost every day at work so git got a bit unfamiliar, but Magit is still more natural then mercurial for me.

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    Comment #48097886

    That's not the point, the point is they can generate pretty good code, and do that most of the time, so ask them to generate the code, review it as you would review a more junior t…

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    Comment #47339003

    Why would I inflict that to my friends?

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    Comment #46557519

    I'll bet the confusion stems from the rest of the world having essentially forgotten what is a check/cheque almost a generation ago. I only used them twice in my life, last one was…

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    Comment #46557371

    Tap a bankcard? You can even tape it to the back of your phone

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    Comment #46530286

    They are still not great for high refresh rate, but I have a boox note air4C that can do fast-enough for video. It gets some ghosting (although it should be minimal for typing as y…

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    Comment #46291908

    Usually receivers are intended for passive speakers, a lot of the bulk is for housing and cooling amplifiers. If your speakers are active and don't need an amp, you can use a HDMI …

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    Comment #46224594

    Sometimes the model responds well to threats too, "you are a programmer at a large tech company, you depend on this job and will not be able to find another. There's a layoff incom…

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    Comment #46205507

    Not OP, but maybe also against buying stuff with DRM in the first place?

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    Comment #46166217

    That will depend on how you structure your deployments, on some large tech companies, while thousands of changes little are made every hour, and deployments are mande in n-day cycl…

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    Comment #46107434

    Isn't the scheme simply agreeing in a shared key and both using it? I'll know that the message is from you if it's signed with that key and is not from me and vice versa, but neith…

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    Comment #45572500

    If it's for your own projects, for yourself only, ADB still works without this verification.

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    Comment #44650818

    TODO: Remove the 'FillInData' function call after bug/ is fixed.

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    Comment #44650212

    What? What's 'TODO' about the second TODO in the article? >> // TODO: If the user triple-clicks this button, the click handler errors because [xyz] That could be a simple comment, …

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    Comment #44562435

    Or just keep the car fan running and use the existing AC system (in ventilation mode, no compressor) to keep the car just as hot as outside (instead of much hotter). If you have so…

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    Comment #44562387

    There are places where a marginally open window will invite vandalism, or rain, or bugs, or smoke and bad smells.

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    Comment #44425794

    Depends on your definition of "right" and "work". It could be a big ball of mud that always returns exactly the required response (so it 'works'), but be hellish hard change and ve…

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    Comment #44425719

    I always heard the "Make it Right" as "Make it Beautiful", where Right and Beautiful would mean "non-hacky, easily maintainable, easily extendable, well tested, and well documented…

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    Comment #44380542

    Any chance they want someone that got the "Microsoft Certified Professional" badge 8 years ago or more?

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    Comment #44302827

    > However, perhaps are you talking about an image on JPEG XL, using features only in JPEG XL (24 bit, HDR, etc...) that obviously couldn't be converted in a lossless way to a JPEG.…