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Re:What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity? on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:43AM (#22275107)
Rooftops in Switzerland are covered with snow for many months each year. Yet this article doesn't even mention the word "snow".
Format it as code (indent with at least 4 spaces). Problem solved.
Re:A collection of bad practices in HTML on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:07AM (#21522856)
"helpful"?
Re:V Programming Language on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:44PM (#19406096)
> One can imagine modifying the compiler to output llvm bitcode. You now can throw plenty of optimisation at it for free (but you are now slower to compile).

If you look at the FAQ, you'll see they can do exactly that but using gcc/Clang, not LLVM.

Re:V Programming Language on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:55PM (#19405912)
Yet I've skimmed the entire site and nowhere do I see mentioned how to use C libraries in V.

I don't have to convert C to V and then compile the entire V program, do I?

Re:V Programming Language on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:54PM (#19405905)
I can't help but wonder why Volt on Mac is 300kB and on Windows it's 2.1MB.
Re:Startups Aren't Cool Anymore on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:33PM (#18612811)
I am not going to read that, because of the huge number of ads on that page.
Really? There's no "[-]" in front of the user name?
Re:A new JPEG format on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:52PM (#16805869)
>You'll never see JPEG-XS images stored on disk or sent over the web.

I don't see why not. The image quality is near perfect, according to the article, for not even double the average file size, and it uses much less energy to encode and decode, so it's better for your battery life on mobile devices.

It's slow as mail. I tried an URL several minutes ago and it still hasn't come back.
Re:It's time to head back to RSS? on Saturday March 31, 2018 @02:45PM (#16724526)
But Google News says "This RSS feed is deprecated"...?
Re:Pose: A declarative motion system for HTML, SVG and React on Thursday March 29, 2018 @07:33AM (#16706136)
Great, something really important like the old blink tag. /s

Only people programming ads will like this. Everybody else will pretty much hate its guts.

Re:Facebook turned on face recognition silently on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:24AM (#16482491)
I'm OK with this, under the condition that Facebook only uses it to alert you of photos you likely appear in, i.e. those two first examples of what it can do.

I would not allow them to show those results to other people.

Re:Google Calendar should prevent spam by default on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:31AM (#16445913)
Still, you should add it yourself, and not some overzealous system.
Re:Google Calendar should prevent spam by default on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:26AM (#16445897)
Somebody's birthday is interesting info to keep.

That doesn't mean you should get a notification when it comes up.

Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:13AM (#16445841)
Second link is dead. So is the fourth.
Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:53PM (#16342869)
It's insane. I can't even access the web interface of my own printer any more, because it's not https.
>Intel, AMD and Apple face class action lawsuits over the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

I sure hope Intel will face a class action suit over this botched update. Many professionals have wasted countless hours dealing with this junk.

It probably is a learning system... It got trained more. The review itself doesn't have to change. The system merely adjusted its parameters due to more exposure to new reviews.
Re:I decided to disable AMP on my site on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:46AM (#14635968)
I think people share Facebook pages because they found the content on Facebook. Speed has nothing to do with it.
Re:Linux utils that you might not know on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:10AM (#14392536)
Use `cal -m` if you want a week to start on a Monday. AFAIK Sunday is the (US centric) default.
OK maybe I'm missing something, but what is new about this patent? The schematic "how does it work" figure 6 is nothing but a napkin design. Anybody with half a braincell can make that up within 5 minutes after being introduced to the perceived problem. In other words: the subject of the patent looks to be very obvious, to me.

OTOH This might discourage other companies from implementing a similar idea, which is something at some users will appreciate.

People who have studied electrical engineering may recognize the word "dual" with the prototypical example in electrical networks: Norton vs. Thevenin. Both are equivalent but from coming from opposite ends. A current source in parallel with a resistor (Norton) is electrically equivalent to a voltage source in series with a resistor (Thevenin).

(See, for example: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chp...)

>Jigsaw does not provide a clean upgrade path for Maven-based projects to move from the packaging of code into JAR files to modules.

No upgrade path from JAR files, the most common packaging system for Java?!? That sounds like a good enough reason for me to dislike it.

Re:Vue Loop – Infinite scrolling on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:00AM (#14225548)
I see the same thing except with no crashes.

Anyway: this looks like a failed experiment to me.

Next!

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:26PM (#14091536)
I love Javascript.

But 160MB for a chat app? That's insane.

Traffic accidents happen. According to your reasoning, we should forbid people from owning and driving a car.
>Let's say someone does modify the code.

Let's not. These farmers don't want to change the software. They only want to fix their hardware.

And because of the close tightness with the software, they can't.

Using Drupal, MySQL (or MariaDB) simply works much smoother than PostGres. That is because apparently Drupal has been designed around MySQL. You may be quite sure that if you are having a problem with Drupal on PostGres, that the same problem doesn't exist when using MySQL.

In 2011, we started out using Drupal with PostGres. After a year or two, we migrated to MySQL.

I think it's likely that the situation is quite similar with WordPress.

It's very important in the storage of hashed passwords, but not in checking the integrity of files, which is the use case here.

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