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Comment #49209763
I liked this footnote. A simple, intuitive explanation. > If you pay $1.00 to press a button, and pressing the button pays you $0.99, you > will press the button zero times. If you…
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Comment #48739513
Now the remaining problem is to make Magnetoencephalography devices affordable and not insanely huge.
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Comment #48497495
He’s from the EU. I think that Google can’t terminate him immediately.
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Comment #46017778
You’re risking bike shedding “bike shedding”.
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Comment #41832622
It made to the front page this time.
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Comment #41435217
Thanks for the reply. You may have a new user. :)
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Comment #41405371
Does elvish have a command history limit? Or is it configurable? I like a nearly infinite history.
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Comment #40621229
Saunas, hot baths, and excercise improve blood flow.
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Comment #40621219
Simple solutions to hard problems seem to be falling out of favor.
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Comment #40621209
What’s wrong with being excited and working hard towards something? Hoping for nearly anyone’s demoralization is not good. I wish you a spirit of adventure that takes you many exci…
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Comment #40448043
I like it too. Bigger video, more visual information without scrolling
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Comment #40348892
This is a good question! I think in the short-term fake can work for a lot of people.
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Comment #36519999
I also wonder what changed between the Cyclops 2 and the Titan.
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Comment #36519983
Interesting find! Lots of information about the winding and the materials used. I wish there was more information about the epoxy used to adhere the titanium endcaps to the hull. I…
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Comment #36010837
Do you have a link for that claim?
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Comment #35904812
I hope you feel better. This is a neat project and I’m looking forward to trying it out.
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Comment #34889574
I think you mean system call bound which is really another way of saying CPU bound. The hardware underneath is incredibly capable, but the interfaces to it are inefficient. I’m ske…
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Comment #34691595
Can you explain more what you mean by controlling dispatch?
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Comment #34254089
I love annual plans when they can offer savings over paying monthly.
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Comment #33389235
I hope this is parody. I agree with being pragmatic and not being arbitrarily constrained, but this comes off as fanatical.
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Comment #32312949
The Abe assassin did not use a 3d printer to create his gun. This is false information.
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Comment #30099336
“When the phone system went electric” I have trouble getting past this sentence. Did they mean “digital”?
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Comment #29163735
Any thoughts on whether the internal API would use streaming or unary calls?
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Comment #27965449
Here's what's new in 4.0: https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/new/index.html