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targonca

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    Comment #21604974

    >This thing is Pontiac Aztec bad. Is it just me, or DDG really shows an image of a turd when searching for "Pontiac Aztec"? :D

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    Comment #21563916

    Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.

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    Comment #21563094

    You would need a beefy machine to render 45 8k images per frame.

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    Comment #21522432

    So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differenti…

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    Comment #21463287

    Because you don't want to be the one whose team is lacking in agility on the next company all-hands meeting ;)

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    Comment #21451394

    I prefer this one: Where the Laplace Transform comes from (Arthur Mattuck, MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqOboV2jgVo

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    Comment #21375760

    So, you'd like to expose the whole kernel to Spectre-type attacks. Wonderful!

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    Comment #21346162

    Sounds like gentrification to me.

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    Comment #21311942

    Why not have carrier executives install 5G base stations on their houses as a publicity stunt?

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    Comment #21257131

    Sanctions aside, Iranian pistachios taste so much better.

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    Comment #21216076

    Cauliflower ears are caused by the ear cartilage dying off and being replaced by fibrous scar tissue. That's definitely not cartilage overgrowth.

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    Comment #21155898

    Yes, Epstein committed suicide, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Every sane person knows that.

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    Comment #21107464

    Are there no dedicated parking spots for the disabled in the US?

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    Comment #21102920

    >although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly comp…

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    Comment #21058946

    >this seems to be about blocking ads just for the sake of blocking ads No shit Sherlock, it's literally in their name: Adblock. By the way, ads are violating privacy: the privacy o…

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    Comment #20940855

    Yep, it's confirmed with p = 0.049

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    Comment #20911980

    I personally prefer buying FLAC from Bandcamp. It's the most artist-friendly option I'm aware of (and the most environmentally friendly too!). Some of them even include the same ar…

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    Comment #20911948

    This. Just give me FLAC with vinyl artwork in PDF. Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than CD - it's the equivalent of around 12 bit dithered PCM.

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    Comment #20878323

    >And then Mr. Tripathi went missing False. He went missing a month before the bombings: >Soon after, another redditor named Sunil as a plausible suspect after asserting a resemblan…

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    Comment #20859068

    keys = (f"command=\"buildsrht-shell '{b64key}'\",restrict,pty " + f"{key_type} {b64key} somebody\n") Now it depends on how b64key is sanitized.

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    Comment #20854377

    In Safari: View → Zoom In It's smart enough to remember the zoom level the next time you open HN too.

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    Comment #20782458

    His employer considers him trustworthy.

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    Comment #20776274

    There are tons of resources online about why UTF-32 doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna repeat them. Do your own research. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195827 https://softwa…

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    Comment #20766509

    That's... a very bad idea. First of all, there's graphemes are inherently not one-to-one with code points, e.g. Á = A + `. There's simply no Unicode encoding that will let you safe…

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    Comment #20755965

    "your adrenals are gone" Wtf. Adrenal crisis [1] would be fatal. You're talking nonsense. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_crisis