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himinlomax

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    Comment #48979268

    They provide a service that simply nobody (except GCP and Azure) can easily match. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

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    Comment #48944492

    *Digital Versatile Disc

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    Comment #48731200

    > They were never "purchases" and it's more that the terminology has been faulty and misleading, more so than the business model. They were advertised as purchases. That they were …

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    Comment #48575252

    They died of it too early for that.

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    Comment #48409574

    What's ADB?

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    Comment #48109651

    Prusa, but it's more expensive.

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    Comment #46423603

    The promise of self driving is what's driving Tesla stock. Two things can happen: The dream is a bust, and Tesla is worthless. Or the dream pans out, and almost all other car compa…

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    Comment #46238403

    A distinction without a difference.

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    Comment #46120408

    I don't think we read the same Deep Work book.

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    Comment #45973062

    You can't protect against _latent bugs_ with phased rollouts.

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    Comment #44281782

    Before Uber, in France half of the time you got an irascible driver who never had change and whose credit card terminal was non functional.

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    Comment #44023408

    There are many aspects that point to the text not being completely random or clumsily written. In particular it doesn't fall into many faults you'd expect from some non-expert tryi…

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    Comment #43567117

    10% on British Indian Ocean Territories, whose sole inhabitants are US soldiers at the Diego Garcia base.

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    Comment #43494660

    > That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock. Ctl-Shift-P does the job where available. Not entirely sure how AI makes it any better.

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    Comment #43409808

    > An entire generation of women from conservative backgrounds couldn't attend university in Turkiye until the 2000s because of the hijab ban. They could have just removed their hij…

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    Comment #43254387

    > For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence. Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada are main suppli…

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    Comment #43254375

    What's the price of solar power at night?

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    Comment #43099273

    The solution may already be here, in the form of ceramics already used in aeronautics. A French startup is working on a small reactor for industrial heat with them.

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    Comment #43095216

    There's just no economic case for fusion. It's useful research, but current fission does the job better, and we already have decades of proven reserves, centuries likely if we kept…

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    Comment #43077139

    The dual stack strategy was criticized 20+ years ago on these grounds, it seemed pretty obvious to me, and as you point out critics were right.

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    Comment #43034088

    > Keep in mind that for most aircraft the airline can pick and choose between different engines. 737 Max can only have CFM Leap engines. A320 can have either Leap or PW GTF.

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    Comment #42985851

    Sshfs doesn't pass inotify and other things, so your IDE doesn't know a file has changed (git, compiler output, and so on.) VScode sees file changes immediately.

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    Comment #42886546

    Is there something similar for Python? I only write the occasional script, and the default time functions are just bad.

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    Comment #42696598

    Patroni is pretty good at this.

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    Comment #42683750

    > It's good to interrogate the wallpaper of colonialism Complaining of colonialism in the context of WW2 and implying, if I'm reading you right, that the West is the bad guy is qui…