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meditative

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    Comment #25988968

    I assume they're referring to offshore detention.

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    Comment #25967218

    you're correct. I assume they're referring to 8bit per colour (RGB) which is 24bit colour (True Colour) 16.7M

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    Comment #25611941

    I've worked with several Chinese engineers, who are quietly critical of the CCP. Since they still have family in China they know better than to be openly critical of China.

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    Comment #25361067

    https://docs.nats.io/nats-streaming-concepts/intro https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge

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    Comment #25243831

    mWh? Otherwise that's one hell of a battery.

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    Comment #25195541

    pictures fail to load when I block the domain

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    Comment #25045058

    > it doesnt matter what you know, it matters whom you know. while technically the literal reading of your sentence is not incorrect, the phrase above is referring to nepotism which…

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    Comment #24885585

    I'm not sure how fibre optics could help here, an you expand?

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    Comment #24825125

    it will look like a parabola (or ellipsis if you read elsewhere in this thread) if you add another dimension to your graph of the balls position. That could be a physical dimension…

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    Comment #24808676

    I watch F1 for the engineering, but unfortunately it's not covered much due to the secretive nature of the sport. > The only pair of teammates on the grid right now who have any le…

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    Comment #24808416

    Skype in not installed on my Surface Book, so not sure about everyone. edit: I have some fairly strict settings on my laptop, so maybe that stopped it. I also have Office365 so tha…

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    Comment #24196979

    > Windows also isn't useful for productivity Can you expand on this? I think it's the contrarian position to be taking here.

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    Comment #24099078

    Slightly off topic, but since there are linguists here I thought I'd ask. Does the word winningest seem wrong to other people? It's such a foreign word to me that feels absolutely …

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    Comment #23869482

    that was the primary driver to me moving full time into a linux VM for work. The corporate crap and antivirus made my overpowered laptop really slow. I then moved to booting with a…

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    Comment #23840828

    > how do core data structures like hash maps work without generics blessed implementations inside the language, slices, maps and channels are built in generics. sync.Map is what th…

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    Comment #23818377

    the repo top bar is wider than the rest of the content. It feels unbalanced. Personally I'm not a fan of that part. No complaints about any other change.

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    Comment #23746081

    automated cars would obviously eventually become faster than F1 drivers, it's just there's no interest in it (unfortunately). The biggest interest to most people are the drivers an…

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    Comment #23734320

    Tesla's Australian battery was not for storage, it's for power quality.

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    Comment #23573721

    Oligopoly that monopolises the market

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    Comment #23538088

    it will no doubt damage a lot of equipment, it's still cheaper to replace everything than to have incompatible spare pneumatic gear laying around.

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    Comment #23535641

    There's no remote monitoring, they're more complex and expensive. You need either multiple compressors, or run long stretches of hose/pipe. They're super cool and rewarding to work…

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    Comment #23499309

    If you haven't seen The Birth & Death of JavaScript, you're in for a treat. Gimp running in Chrome running inside Firefox https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-dea…