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    Comment #49133312

    > Developers can't pick it up in a week... I don't think any of the new additions to the library have seriously made the learning curve more difficult. I suspect that most projects…

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    Comment #49133266

    On the other hand, I've found that for every real-world application I've written in Go, I have not found myself missing any of the containers C++ has had since 2003. I didn't reall…

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    Comment #49038408

    Those fonts make me very sad.

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    Comment #48893803

    If there is any attack surface within a properly-configured container, that's a kernel bug, right?

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    Comment #48848507

    just move the prime meridian. the one we use for timekeeping doesn't have to aligh with longitude forever.

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    Comment #48672588

    A few years ago, before I bought a Nintendo for my kid, he was playing Minecraft on an iPad. I tried to pair a Bluetooth controller, and had no luck. I think the OS was too locked …

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    Comment #48672511

    With WASM and WebGL being mature technologies, I'm not sure why there aren't more video games published this way. For really big games with lots of assets, having those assets in l…

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    Comment #48491916

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    Comment #48181711

    Aren't you supposed to find the solutions BEFORE you announce the product?

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    Comment #47202690

    Please note that the US Congress has not approved the existence of a "Department of War" this century. Calling it the Department of Defense is the only legally correct way to refer…

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    Comment #45804722

    Now make it do a perceptually uniform color space.

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    Comment #45507860

    Yep, I can't quite get as much power out of the panels on my roof as I use on average, but that's okay because I am reducing the cost of transmission by a significant amount.

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    Comment #45507755

    Probably not orders of magnitude cheaper than today. But energy prices will become very stable.

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    Comment #45367048

    How did they make any money at all without ads?

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    Comment #45339351

    Yeah, if you can't send robots to the surface to mine necessary minerals, don't bother building floating cities.

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    Comment #45339160

    > and padded I prefer to use a laptop sleeve, and then it doesn't matter if it is padded or not.

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    Comment #45275433

    Also, you need a place to build the dike. Look at a map of Miami, for example, and tell me where you want to build a dike. In front of Miami Beach? And how far does it go? All the …

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    Comment #45275388

    My parents bought a house 11 feet above sea level. The right combination of high tides and storm surge could easily flood that any time. It hasn't happened yet, but the sea level c…

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    Comment #45269769

    I used to live in this part of the country. There's an insane amount of disregard for the environment and climate. Yes, new buildings have to be reinforced against hurricanes. But …

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    Comment #44465639

    the new dock is huge and has a fan. We won't be able to find a more compact alternative.

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    Comment #44248965

    I already can run vim on my phone. That's enough for me.

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    Comment #44241666

    It almost works. But the monitor just mirrors the phone, including its weird aspect ratio and font size. It's almost usable for playing movies on a TV, but that's about it.

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    Comment #44241106

    If Android is getting desktop windowing, how long until I can just plug my phone into a monitor and keyboard and have a usable computer?

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    Comment #43267262

    I care more about total mass than thinness. But those things tend to be correlated.

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    Comment #43267245

    Is the Pro fan cooled? I have never heard a fan on my M2 Pro.