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mcdee

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    Comment #39108074

    It's called ineffassign

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    Comment #37819895

    They use 1FL/1FR for first floor, 2FL/2FR for second floor, etc.

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    Comment #37494005

    Why would carbon dating be relevant for extra-terrestrials? Without knowing the amount of C14 in their native environment, I don't see that you have a basis on which to calculate a…

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    Comment #32582552

    > With staking, the biggest holders just sit there and collect coins with few operational costs. Every holder who is staking is rewarded for staking, in proportion to their stake. …

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    Comment #30640373

    The "kiln" testnet is currently running and will carry out the merge in the next few days, which is the final step before the existing proof of work testnets transitioned to proof …

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    Comment #27683686

    In this case the third party could be the employer that pays the salary, or the bank that receives it. The decision to trust the issuer or not is down to the entity viewing the inf…

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    Comment #24665787

    A slight aside, but so many of these keys seem to have the touch point / button applying force perpendicular to the direction of insertion, I wonder if there is any long-term poten…

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    Comment #24431112

    The point of having separate imports for separate versions is to allow for use of (for example) both v1 and v2 of a module within the same codebase, if required. Your idea would fo…

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    Comment #23033780

    It's non-obvious, though. Change something in /etc/systemd you can expect to have to tell systemd about it. Outside of that directory, there's no indicator you should do so. "Long …

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    Comment #20942951

    > All we store is an encrypted version of the user's master keychain Is the seed created and encrypted on the client or the server?

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    Comment #19872051

    Yet having moved from (primarily) Java to (primarily) Go I find I don't miss them.

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    Comment #19764187

    The thief would transfer it to an address of their choosing, which wouldn't have a guessable private key (and obviously be known by the thief).

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    Comment #19761834

    > Additionally, we identified 13,319 Ethereum that was transferred to either invalid destination addresses There is no such thing as an invalid Ethereum address. Separately, what t…

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    Comment #19659251

    > Among other things, it includes a cost-based optimizer that can complete the TPC-H benchmark, CDC, and two major enterprise security features. But was this enough of a value jump…

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    Comment #12409276

    There are two separate issues. The lack of statistics is one thing, but the use of ->> instead of @> is another. Look at https://explain.depesz.com/s/zJiT Vs https://explain.depesz…

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    Comment #12409174

    True it doesn't solve the problem of not having statistics on the values, but it does bring the query response time down to the same order of magnitude as the non-JSON table.

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    Comment #12409049

    I'm using JSONB and the downsides on performance are not noticeable for most cases. For those where there are real problems then crafting a custom index usually fixes the issue. Us…

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    Comment #6345211

    Actually the ISO format does not give you timezone information. It gives you offset from UTC, from which you cannot infer anything about the timezone in which the date resides.

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    Comment #5863209

    Sysadmins generally have the highest levels of privilege on any given system. I've worked in and around sysadmins in some very large firms and when you're responsible for things li…

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    Comment #5309412

    Interesting. Would be great to have something like that with interaction built out as a simple component. Hmm...

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    Comment #5309400

    So how much of this is open source and available? I can see lots of uses for something that looks this good and to which you can overlay your own information.

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    Comment #5212523

    Sorry, just to confirm: GitHub's cost model aligns with your revenue model (as opposed to your cost model), and this is a bad thing?