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ketralnis

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About ketralnis

David King

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    Comment #46864824

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM

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    Comment #44312340

    Sure but it will just select the word in your browser

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    Comment #43840549

    If the only thing it did was give me references that's already a leg up

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    Comment #43640515

    Shrug, programmers always have weird names for things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

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    Comment #43550637

    I also don't read all of the terms and conditions, and I feel free to get mad at unreasonable items that I discovered while using the product. Fight me.

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    Comment #43498637

    Have you considered taking neutrino supplements? The nice thing about them is that they're flavour changing

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    Comment #43466574

    It's up to you if you think it's "better" but it's answering the question of whether Peano axioms are the only fundamental structure

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    Comment #43292660

    This is exactly why even as a programmer I don't own pretty much any tech crap at all. No cloud connected home automation, photo frames, voice assistant, smart lock, wifi washing m…

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    Comment #42940335

    In that case the pilot would still be able to override controls

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    Comment #42939309

    That there is a computer at ATC that a human looks at, reads what it says with their eyes, speaks those instructions over the radio in a specific protocol, another human listens to…

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    Comment #42536245

    No? You can have a photos app that doesn't phone home while not having to move to a cabin in the woods. See: every photos app that doesn't phone home, and I currently don't live in…

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    Comment #42372947

    > I love how I get downvoted for every negative comment about this rather than an actual rebuttal of the issues. It's because you haven't mentioned any issues. Just said it's terri…

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    Comment #42323814

    I don't know why it's named that way but you need some number of cross-country flights and hours because there are skills that you pick up doing that (several kinds of navigation, …

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    Comment #42323540

    No, it's not just the computer world. Affordable housing where I live is a specific thing. Below-market-rate housing purchaseable/rentable with specific income requirements. Some n…

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    Comment #42323248

    I have a lot of conversations like "There's a technique called 'secure computation', which confusingly is not just computation that is secure", "They're building affordable housing…

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    Comment #42239649

    Python also detects this situation (at runtime using refcounts) and does in-place mutations where possible https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/a2ee89968299fc4f0da4b...

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    Comment #42188800

    This is my experience. About 25% of the time I'd encounter a bug that's impossible to reproduce without both versions of the code in memory, and end up restarting the node anyway d…

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    Comment #41885158

    Also... they DID sell that seat. To the person that bought it, and paid for it, and then didn't use it. They didn't cost the airline any money. They paid for the seat. They don't g…

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    Comment #41269916

    Sure yes. Just like caniuse https://caniuse.com/flexbox

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    Comment #40871535

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e > provide optimizations for the Alcubierre metric that decrease the negative energy requirements by two orders of magnit…

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    Comment #40765177

    Maybe to give additional fans when the environment is so loud you can't hear them anyway

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    Comment #40649176

    What company was this?

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    Comment #40649147

    I'm in the exact same situation. I'm still on 7 (the last fully local version) but the cracks are starting to show. I can forgive them for iOS forcing you onto their update treadmi…

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    Comment #40649103

    > anything other than a safely encrypted SQLite file There is a little bit of subtlety to this https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/6487/pwvault.pdf