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This is plainly wrong considering many people's complaints about the ridiculous amount of noise these things spew out. The whiring of gas turbines and cooling systems of complete, …

Rust requires discipline too. I can go around using Arc, Rc and .clone() everywhere without upsetting the borrow checker, I can use let mut a bunch and pretend if, match, etc. aren…

Where I am from it is common to use "20 to" and "20 past" too.

You speak as though everyone on HN has the same attitude towards these things, but that's just not true. There were naysayers then and there are naysayers now.

Why? We know the price was $1300. Doesn't mean anyone would buy it for that much. So try lowering the number and see what you think? The value is what someone is willing to pay for…

I keep seeing people all over the internet adding the caveat that the data centres are necessary in comments following stories about rollout (and often the stories themselves). But…

Right, but which columns? The goal absolutely IS to select columns from a table. ie. my goal is not to select created_at, my goal is to select Foo's created_at.

I dunno, I can barely see my OLED phone's screen when I'm using it on full brightness in the sun.

I am grateful they left it at "inspired by python", as I find python with its libraries and all its warts strangely complex and indigestible. Then, from a tooling and ecosystem per…

Amdahl's law states that "the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually u…

I think they're essentially using "hashtags", so they could have many for one note.

I've taken to "installing" the webapp version on my phone. It's only a little bit different, but doesn't come with the frustrating issues the android app does.

And what would that advice be?

The road you're talking about was 1400km long

Perhaps consciousness is just an observer of those physical systems that exist in the brain, and under anaesthetic the interface between consciousness and those systems is interfer…

They're talking about JavaScript's fetch API. It's not an external library.

I think most people who would be happy with such a simple webpage are the same people who know how easy it is to do.

Sure, but these people must have left that golden zone at some point and had their clicks stolen like the rest of us.