4z01235

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[–] 4z01235 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All insurance is built on denying payouts. That's the entire mechanism by which they extract profit.

[–] 4z01235 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, not used in English. I think the equivalent is coup (which comes into English from French).

[–] 4z01235 31 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure who told you that an installation on a USB thumb drive should boot "almost instantly" - that's a much slower device than a proper HDD or SSD, and it's normal for booting off of those to at least take a bit of time. The slow boot and the slow performance when running are probably both the same thing - slow disk I/O. A fast CPU helps run computations quickly, but installing and launching programs involves a lot of writing and reading files, which doesn't have much to do with CPU speed.

[–] 4z01235 19 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

we're charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house

Oh how I wish I could buy a house for that kind of money. You should go look at what housing costs in Canadian cities.

[–] 4z01235 3 points 1 month ago

Never had one, and can't think of ever having seen one.

[–] 4z01235 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

since it's JIT, it's actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Java is JIT'd too, and Python can be depending on which runtime you deploy.

[–] 4z01235 12 points 1 month ago

Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.

[–] 4z01235 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Err" generally sounds the same as "air" as most people speak it, at least in the accents I'm familiar with. Think of how error sounds.

[–] 4z01235 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

and air on the conservative side.

err

[–] 4z01235 2 points 2 months ago

It's pretty niche, but https://alternativess.com (sport archery retailer)

[–] 4z01235 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

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