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mpenick

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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