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25,050karma·12,302submissions·September 8, 2017
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Choose 2: Born in 1976, 43 years old (at time of writing), document was updated 2021-Oct-29
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Works fine in FF for me (94.0.1). There's a gently spinning 3D svelte logo casting a shadow. No jank, but 2-5% GPU usage.
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Dupe of [FDA asks federal judge to wait until 2076 to fully release Covid vaccine data]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261058 ) 1 day ago, 75 pts, 60 comments…
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This isn't a trivial task (attaching probes to chip legs, or board connectors), and it's a good write-up, but sniffing seems like a poor word choice. This isn't picking up the data via…
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Why are you referring to yourself (the author) in the third person? It seems.. disingenuous
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Related post (2 days ago, 95 comments): [Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29206959 )…
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60% of the time, do 97% of the users accept arbitrary stats every time?
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Well done standing your ground. Some retailers will try the same with postal code/zip.. that's shameless marketing collection to show which regions are performing with fliers. You should a…
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Related: [Hop]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178710 ) where the repo references Bun, and user [@Jarred]( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Jarred ) seems to …
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tar doesn't do compression either, and zip doesn't NEED to (several file formats are just bundles of files in a zip with/without compression)
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This can't be good for SoftBank/Masayoshi Son right after they just had to report a large loss (unless this risk was embedded in that report)
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Dart came out the same year as Kotlin.. it's not like this decision was made this year (they're both 10 years old). Re: Sibling comment it really is an order of magnitude better than many ot…
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Dart (2011), TypeScript (2012) and CoffeeScript (2009) and arguably Haxe (2005) all competed in the same space. Google made a optics mistake embedding Dart into Chrome - people feared antitrust, but …
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Bit of a dupe: "Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards"[0] (405 comments, 348 pts, 4 days ago) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100704 …
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It's in reference to this story (from 63 days ago): "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces (gitpod.io)" [0], original article [1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.c…
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Do you think this is a typo? They use the random trio several places. "unauthorized access to or use of Your Digital Data or an Eligible Wireless Cellular Telephone, Rental Vehicle, or Covered P…
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Agreed. This is like linking to the windshield-exclusion in your auto policy (generally an add-on because they're so regularly damaged by gravel/those without mudflaps), or the flood-exclus…
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Should have 2012 in the title (found as a meta header). nginx is the number one web server by market (although it depends on your data source/their measuring approach, so that's a bit argua…
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I think you missed the /s from GP.
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Many, many, tools/scanners will fall prey to XML, YAML and zip bombs because of the nature of the decoder. There's not a good reason why you're deliberately running a processor on thes…
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This is a much better source! I wonder why these creative designs haven't stood the test of time (sure potatoes go bad, but so do pumpkins)
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I didn't know Twitter was around in 1931 (⊙_⊙)?
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I don't think this is fair? Perhaps you haven't seen the $4 electric brushes.. perhaps they're not as good as the $80+ devices, but it's still an improvement over manual brushing.…
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Two similarly sized cities, one stopped fluoridation, the other didn't, the study shows a 17.6% increase in cavities in grade 2 students[0]. So yes, there seems a benefit of fluoride to children…
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Microsoft should be in there, but the M in this case is from Facebook->Meta... so you need Facebook to rebrand again for AAAAA.
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This isn't an SHC[0] it's an HC1[1] [0]: https://smarthealth.cards/ [1]: https://www.hc1.com/ …
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It is not, according to this comment[0] "although Element One doesn’t use slavi’s ansible playbooks but instead the Element Matrix Services hosted infra" [0]: https://news.ycombin…
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Perhaps you could provide some insight into why? I don't see how multiple personality disorder is a very useful characterization when you're describing a community made up of multiple perso…
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