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Comment #48410260
You can hear the engineer in that second question. They hear a wild statistic pulled out of someone's ass and ask what is that sticking to the side?
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Comment #46923322
That is normal on his blog. He is a brand that he has developed over many years, and he is constantly promoting that brand. Yes, he has done a lot of good work in the past, but he …
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Comment #46737801
The funny part is that the Tesla doesn't have a basic dumb cruise control. It only has "traffic-aware" cruise control which uses the cameras and doesn't use the new FSD code so it …
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Comment #46552843
This kind of work is really valuable and much needed. There is also often a surprising amount of friction to making contributions to open source projects. This article did a good j…
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Comment #45302026
Indeed. When I entered "grandma's cookies" into the shared family instance is 'mealie' I was sure to include a copy of the "original" index card. (surely a copy) https://imgur.com/…
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Comment #45221235
For reference here is the cppreference page the OP is trying to improve: https://cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html Personally I am not not sure the live search on this n…
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Comment #44950043
Dataview can generate all of the data from Bases (and a whole lot more), but Bases is a lot easier to use as you can build queries in the GUI and the data comes out in nicely forma…
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Comment #43439024
Very small town in the midwest. The US is a big place and this is just one possible look.
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Comment #42207817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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Comment #42106140
The important thing to understand about why AVX512 is a big deal is not the width. AVX512 adds new instructions and new instruction encodings. They doubled the number of registers …
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Comment #41961487
I was pleased to read such positive contagious excitement and someone who can still see the wonder of the American west. And excitement of trying new experiences.
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Comment #41391034
On the website itself, "OS" "Included" and "Not Included" is strange. I don't see that I need "Not Included", unchecking "Included" should show you everything but instead it shows …
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Comment #40987542
So, can we now write a plugin for Obsidian that syncs changes to Google Drive?
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Comment #40256490
Reading the rest of the pricing page gives me the clear impression that it wasn't free initially and then changed it to free recently and the rest of the text on that page wasn't u…
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Comment #39317692
https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/average-electricity-re... us average: $0.18 Wyoming: yeah, cheap. But cold so a heat pump would still totally pay for itself.
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Comment #39317098
I was immediately reminded of this Cosby standup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_mHMgjcFY Yeah, I know, I am not allowed to like anything Cosby anymore...
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Comment #39060254
SPA?
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Comment #39057016
That article gave an example of a "typical European floorplan". It did have multiple stairs they were just not normally accessible from all apartments. If you had some emergency-on…
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Comment #39045557
Design flaw. In IPFS every piece of data (even every chuck of large files) is globally indexable on the same namespace. You need namespaces and/or a path to restrict yourself to ju…
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Comment #39014930
I was confused by the comments here. Surely someone is going to post the Technology Connections video on the toaster. I see you did it indirectly. That video is great.
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Comment #38842751
15min? try 50. I always think I will watch just 10-15 and end up watching the whole thing and then wonder why learning about a crappy refrigerator was so interesting.
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Comment #38762146
read cppreference.com But the sort answer is all the other operators are automatically generated from that one if it is defined. So it makes the code simpler. And for many types is…
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Comment #38762126
I was surprised to see `fmt/format.h` on that list, but I do have to admit that the objections seem reasonable. Perhaps because he(?) mentioned wanting to use -O0. Template code is…