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Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:22PM (#49469078)
> Version 3.0.0 has been rewritten from scratch to keep old Reddit working while logged out

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:17PM (#49469008)
Sounds odd. Works just fine for me. I'm blocked if I disable it, but can access when I enable it.
In my experience McCarthy can spend an entire book without getting to the subject.
Re:Huntington's disease treated for first time on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:31AM (#45359383)
It’s covered in the article

>It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News.

>The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades – opening the possibility that earlier treatment could prevent symptoms from ever emerging.

Re:Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:25PM (#43440972)
two-ple, tri-ple, quadru-ple
>Why can't I just cast the music from my Youtube music app?

Because the YouTube app developers haven't implemented it? Casting via spotify works flawlessly in my experience, whether using airplay or letting spotify discover the speakers. No app hopping required.

Re:Async Await Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Programming on Thursday November 14, 2024 @07:09AM (#42135441)
Something like this, depending on how you want your input and output to be supplied.

    public async IAsyncEnumerable<HttpResponseMessage> SendTwelveRequestsAtATimeAsync(IAsyncEnumerable<HttpRequestMessage> requests)
    {
        HttpClient client = new();
        List<HttpRequestMessage> requestsBatch = [];

        await foreach (var req in requests)
        {
            if (requestsBatch.Count < 12)
            {
                requestsBatch.Add(req);
            }
            else
            {
                foreach (var res in await Task.WhenAll(requestsBatch.Select(client.SendAsync)))
                {
                    yield return res;
                }

                requestsBatch = [];
            }
        }
    }
Re:Denmark's Genius Housing Fix on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @12:15PM (#40586782)
He means that the price of the bonds backing the mortgage fall. Since the bonds are fixed interest, when interest rates rise, new bonds at a higher interest rate are more profitable than the old bonds at a lower interest rate. As such the free market price of the old bonds will drop to until the selling-at-a-loss reaches an equilibrium with the expected increased profit from higher interest rates of the new bonds over the lifetime of the bond.

This lets the loan taker buy back their own bonds for less than what they were paid (the loaned amount) when the bonds were issued.

Re:Coding and Keyboards (2023) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:21AM (#40575524)
If you get a keyboard that is programmable with QMK [0] and/or VIA [1] you can just program any key, or mod+key, to be a macro - and you can even record them on the fly [2].

[0] https://docs.qmk.fm

[1] https://www.caniusevia.com/

[2] https://docs.qmk.fm/features/dynamic_macros , https://usevia.app/

Re:HexChat 2.16.2, the Final Release on Sunday February 11, 2024 @02:49PM (#39337992)
The official client.
Re:HexChat 2.16.2, the Final Release on Saturday February 10, 2024 @12:23PM (#39328131)
Discord uses 0% CPU (4770k) and 85mb ram on my pc currently, while being in an active call. What would it take for it to no longer be "too bloated" to have idling in the background?
Re:JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~) on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @03:41AM (#38457012)
Do you use a well named function like and(), or do you use the double ampersand (&&) syntax trick? What about a not() function, or the exclamation mark syntax trick (!)? :)

Every use of operators can be considered a syntax trick until it becomes common, which is what the author hopes will happen to ~~

Re:Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:52AM (#37867976)
>Every time I start “New Teams,” it asks me if I want to go back to Old Teams

Are you sure you’re not accidentally opening the old Teams application? When you update to new Teams it leaves the old version in place so you have both, and if you open Teams with the new shortcut/application you won’t get prompted to switch back.

Re:Kafka as an Antipattern on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:09PM (#37648131)
You probably want to be closer to 7,500 messages/second before Kafka becomes worthwhile.
Re:I fucking hate Jira on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:15PM (#31814425)
Backlog by Nulab is pretty much all the good features of Jira distilled down into a simple product. I've used it and been very happy with it. https://nulab.com/products/backlog/
That would also be the first time Elon is correct about his claims, then.
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:38PM (#29029702)
I'm gonna miss FAGMAN.
Ask the Swedes, not me.
only numbers are from july, 19 cases of each *carditis after 20m doses.
Yes, they do employ a quite holistic view on online privacy; requiring you to put a lot of trust in them. I did not intend to diminish the value of your service.
Blur by Abine. Also masks your phone numbers, your credit cards and is a password manager on top of that.

https://www.abine.com/

The risk from pregnancy is way higher than the risk from covid. You'd accept a 5% risk to avoid a 10% risk, but you wouldn't accept a .5% risk to avoid a .001% risk. From the vaccine blood clot data it looks like ~.07 thousands of a percent die from blood clots, while for young people the risk of death from covid is around ~.7 thousands of a percent. Thus if a) the blood clots are caused by the AZ vaccine, and b) the risk of getting covid as an individual is <10%, taking the AZ vaccine carries a higher risk of death than not taking it does.
Boeing doesn’t make engines.
Re:Computer Science 521 Advanced Algorithm Design on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:32AM (#25893290)
Definitely. I've had a fair few algorithms classes and recognize only the answer for problem 7. It's definitely not an easy exam, but it doesn't seem particularly difficult either.