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zumu

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    Comment #45853230

    It allocates 2 collections for every compare call and obfuscates the comparison logic. Personally I find that extremely inelegant. Different strokes I suppose.

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    Comment #45399600

    I've been on and off thinking about this problem for years. Very excited to see an ecosystem popping up. But I wonder, why JSON if the web is already built on HTML documents? Is it…

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    Comment #45203207

    If you like these, check out the INFOBAR phones from a few years prior. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/cho... People like the multi-colored one, but I've …

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    Comment #45192686

    > the bold sexy orange color of the iPhone 17 Pro The color line up reminds me of the au MEDIA SKIN phones (Japanese carrier) circa 2007. Maybe it's because I had one back in the d…

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    Comment #45177701

    > having spoken with US colleagues, much higher than state-side (although I imagine that varies from state to state). You know, it does vary but relative to any other developed cou…

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    Comment #44595550

    Yea, Intel has been in Hillsboro since the 70's. People moved from all over the world to work for Intel in office in Oregon. This has nothing to do with remote.

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    Comment #43852063

    Fair enough. But keep in mind cars only solve this last mile problem when there's high throughput roads connecting all possible trip starts / destinations. In American we have this…

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    Comment #43840702

    > If every car on the road was synced then they could drive more closely to each other and at much faster speeds. This would optimize road space, decrease congestion, and reduce tr…

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    Comment #43073614

    It's more like space / cosmos.

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    Comment #42484558

    In my experience, learning a second language to a high level involves some amount of disassociation. Only people I know without this experience spoke both languages from a very ear…

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    Comment #40575759

    > Winston Churchill would be represented by hanzi that would be transliterated Wensuteng Chuerqilu. If we actually used Chinese characters, we would write Churchill with meaningful…

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    Comment #39392234

    In my area they recycle 1, 2 and 5, so that's what I do. PET #1 is very recyclable in general. Not so sure about 2 or 5. My biggest frustration is all the recycling labels smeared …

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    Comment #39379048

    > Temporal They are well funded, but do they actually make money? Seems like the odd one out in your list.

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    Comment #39298689

    I know a few people who have gotten in through Customer Support. Worst case scenario, you get experience working at a tech company, working with engineers, PMs, designers, etc. It'…

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    Comment #39173896

    Hide the dock, make it 1 pixel and max the delay. Make finder quitable and quit it. Disable as many other mac bloat features as possible. Install a keyboard-driven window snapping …

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    Comment #38876081

    Hah, you might have beaten me to the punch! I submitted it nonetheless. Soon the world will know about all the geki-action.

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    Comment #38863492

    If you could get into his Discord (a gaming-focused chat app), you could probably figure it out by looking though his DMs and finding someone close to him to notify.

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    Comment #38863476

    He may also be playing emulated EverQuest, such as Project1999 (which has separate forums). Discourse for online games these days is mainly done via Discord, however. So there's a …

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    Comment #38214481

    After reading this, I was left with the impression Google is full of under-utilized talent, has poor product vision and has systems in place that discourage innovation and risk tak…

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    Comment #37608698

    The Chinese influence works a lot like the Latin influence on English. Japanese is written in Chinese and some extra derivatives (hiragana/katakana are derived from Chinese charact…

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    Comment #37608375

    Half of English is medieval Latin (French) and half of Japanese is medieval Chinese is a better analogy.

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    Comment #37206339

    Did Elon just play a lot of X-COM or something? His love of "x.com" makes no obvious sense to me.

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    Comment #37179823

    > There are multiple operators This is because there's just a lot more rail. Tokyo has 3x the density of stations (0.61 per mile vs 0.2) and 10x the amount of track (2929 miles vs …

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    Comment #37158056

    Ok, so my memory is a little foggy. Looks like the laser one didn't come out until 2000, but the hockey puck was USB at least!

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    Comment #37149487

    > ignoring the hockey puck mouse! The mouse was the first laser mouse I ever used and I believe it connected with USB, which was novel at the time. It was probably the most impress…