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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I play Wordle with an ad blocker, is that good enough?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I remember The End of Eternity as being quite unlike anything else Asimov wrote, and all the better for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It doesn’t have to be separate branches - you can generate different versions of the software from the same code branch, e.g. using compiler/build time switches for those bits of the code that differ between the different target platforms. Then you would have a build pipeline per platform; even here the build pipeline can share a lot of common code, and just be parameterized for the specific platform.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

That’s Cillian Murphy’s next major role sorted then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They probably recently extracted some viable DNA from the crime scene evidence that had been kept all these years, but they are unlikely to have any DNA taken from the long deceased perpetrator - assuming he was buried, it is unlikely any viable DNA survived 40 years. But if he he still has living relatives, you can take DNA from them and compare it to the crime scene samples, and look for sufficient matches to conclude he was likely to have committed these crimes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I imagine a lot of the passengers were pissed off when the flight was cancelled because one of their fellow passengers reported some non-critical bolts were missing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Giving it a fancy name does not hide the fact it would be much better to replace the HDD with an SSD the same size. Typical Apple - marketing over substance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just as well that I am not in the US then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Easy. If I was trapped in a recently abandoned pickle factory, then I would survive on the food in the staff canteen, starting with what had just been prepared, such as pizza and sandwiches; after a day or so I would move on to see what was in the refrigerators, and finally work my way up to the frozen food. Oh, by the way, when they abandoned the factory, they forgot to turn off the power, so all the perishables are still nicely preserved.

Also, lots of things can be pickled, not just cucumbers. The word “pickles” makes me immediately think of pickled onions. There is usually quite a bit of sugar in the picking vinegar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ok, I understand what you are trying to do, but I that is not how I read it at the time. Prefix to me in this context means e.g., “kilo” in “kilobyte”, and not the “k” in “kB”. I am not sure it is helpful to split the unit symbol up like that.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Thanks for this article. Unfortunately, you used the word “prefix” when you really meant “unit symbol”. So, “kilo” and “mega” are prefixes, kB and MB are unit symbols. You repeatedly called the latter “prefixes”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What do you mean.

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