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What about eucalyptus oil candy? It instantly unblocks my nose whenever I take it, I don't think I'm imagining that.

I wouldn't call disabling the Windows Update service as "setting an option" that it's later forgotten. It's more of a thing an inexperienced user does by mistake while messing around. Windows does things behind you back, like magically restore system files if you manage to delete them, and so on, in an effort to keep running. But of course, some people are like "I deleted those files on purpose, so stay the damn out of my lawn"

But I do get your point, and Windows is indeed lacking an option to fully disable updates, even if it does have an option to defer major updates by up to an year.

You get a notification when Windows plans on restarting somewhere in the future. I just click on it and manually set the restart date 1 week in the future. That's it.

I'm also leaving the computer on for weeks and never had an unexpected reboot with this protocol.

I presume the first thing you'll do on your next Apple machine is disabling updates.

Don't forget to also disable auto-updates in Chrome/Firefox, since they are enabled by default.

As long as they remain "Designed in California", the feel-good is still there. You are not buying cheap Android China shit.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Supporting HTTP/2.0 for my site was literally just adding the "http2" word to the listen directive of nginx. Since it's also used as a reverse proxy, the backend app server remained HTTP/1.1.

And you still notice the difference in site loading speed if your site has a lot of static assets.

What about using the Windows GPU code and then going through the Steam Proton Windows to Linux layer?

This is a terrible idea which will backfire.

Many users have a "universal weak password" for sites that don't really matter, now you will be forcing them to jump through hoops just because so.

This is terrible. How am I supposed to roll coal in an electric?

It also showcases the fundamental problem with MIDI/SoundFonts - it makes your music sound orchestry/jazzy. I know there are electronic/modern sounding SoundFonts out there, but unless they were specifically made for your song, they only partially mitigate the problem.

I've also found it hilarious to listen to the MIDI version of popular songs. They always sound like kids music.

Wow, submitting a paper to an editor/reviewer is considered human research thus ethical board approval is required:

> McLellan asked Boghossian to reveal any evidence that he had received approval from the university’s institutional review board for research involving both human and animal behavior.

> The review board also determined that the hoax project met the definition for human-subjects research because it involved interacting with journal editors and reviewers. Any research involving human subjects (even duped journal editors, apparently) needs IRB approval first, according to university policy.

So from now on, writing a CS paper on a new sorting algorithm will require ethical board approval.

What if this is because a lot of internal Apple developers are using VSCode instead of XCode, and they wanted better support?

If taking home 300 mil on a 1 bil income is not incentive to you...

The progression was always towards more targeted weapons, because they have less collateral damage.

No country has had proper communism. So there is no compassion to be made.

It's simple, you start at the top, by imposing a 70% tax on the higher brackets as Cortez wants. If the marginalized group would get too wealthy (straw-man argument), the 70% tax would still do it's job.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/08/alexan...

Are we gonna talk about the Silicon Valley VC's investing in these shady companies?

> Zumigo is a pioneer of mobile services providing _deeper insights_ into consumer behavior to help secure transactions, devices and identities.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zumigo

> Intel Capital

> Aligned Partners

While due to the overall reproducibility crisis in psychology I wouldn't put one dollar on this, it's would make some sense.

A person (or a dog) could at any moment start pushing/punching/biting in the direction it is looking at, so it's important to keep track of. In a sense, visual attention predates later force.

Doom/Quake were developed on a NeXT machine much faster and more capable than the targeted IBM PCs.

You don't need to develop on a $200 notebook to care about performance.

Is the fact that iPad has a touchscreen, unlike the Macbook a factor?

I use a Windows audio software binary last compiled in 1997, for Windows 95. It still works just fine on Windows 10 64 bit.

That's 20 years of backward compatibility.

Free speech is a Western value.

Tying to impose it on the rest of the world is yet another colonization.

True diversity is allowing other cultures to live by different values.

But can you implement JavaScript in Doom?

Look for some very fit celebrities who made millions through their looks.

Do what they do.

r/IAmVerySmart

https://xkcd.com/793/

They are making the world a better place. They are fighting Trump (which by the way wants to lower taxation on the rich)

The Visual Studio Installer was rewritten from a native app to an Electron one.

They had a native app. They decided to throw it all away.

For one thing, there are many more C++ programmers out thare than D or Rust. And nobody heard of Nim.

> In which world is it okay to compile a trivial 5-line example three times slower than a full database engine

Well, as explained in the article, those 5 lines generate hundred thousands of lines of code behind the scene.

And you don't use C++ for fun, you use it because you have a serious performance problem. And in that case you'll wait the compile times, because there is no alternative.

Let's not even go into link time code generation or profile guided optimizations, which increase compilation times by another order of magnitude.