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That makes it an advantage if you learn it early enough. Some physics questions all the way up to college can be trivialised by understanding the units of the inputs and answer.

Isn't this essentially the conclusion the finance industry came to? Don't talk to coworkers, customers and partners outside of official channels.

Nvidia is worth over 3 times as much as it was at the start of the attempted acquisition.

It does when that involvement means they're one of the few architecture licensees. Allegedly.

Softbank has spent 7 years and a CEO finding out how difficult just raising prices is.

If anyone replying to this needs you to define ISA for them, their input isn't very useful.

>American couples date for about three years before getting engaged, and thanks to covid-19 very few people were out and about meeting potential husbands or wives in 2020. An unusually small number of people are probably getting engaged this year.

And all the people who would have got married during 2020 but couldn't?

I think it's just inexact US terminology that has become global through the internet because they (IMO rightly) mostly use credit cards for normal purchases. My browser says it saves 'credit cards' - in reality it saves both credit and debit.

AKA 'jingle mail'

Try opening C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\My Games

Then perhaps the distinction should be the programs called 'Windows installer' type in Explorer that TFA is talking about and not a blanket inclusion of all software that isn't ASM written on the device running it.

>If the only installer available was one provided by the OS

There's the non-sequitur. OP never said that this is what should happen. It is strange to leap to this assumption while also wanting to define portable programs and archives as 'installers'.

In the context of Windows, 'special' installers means the programs you run to be able to use a different program that don't appear on other OSes.

>any random code from the internet

Like installer.exe?

Installation-free software doesn't have to be web software.

How do you differentiate between download and install? Is self-modifying code repeatedly installing itself?

Not necessarily

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

That's a lot of rugs. Dogs?

How do you have a pre-1990 computing device that supports SSL?

Any modern car with eCall will. Some will even make you pay for it.

Car dealerships are an insulating layer to protect manufacturers from the repercussions of the bullshit they inflict on customers. In exchange, dealerships are allowed to inject their own layer of bullshit.

I switch between WSL/Powershell, US/UK keyboard layouts and Ubuntu/Windows/Mac shortcuts frequently. It only usually takes one mistake to context switch. It usually harder for me to switch to things I use infrequently - but they also matter less.

> "\" compared to "/"

Powershell :)

There are a few replies on performance here: I didn't notice at the time, I just did it because Google was still a 'cool' company.

In the intervening years I bounced between the two depending on which made the most asinine UI decisions but settled on Firefox when my FOSS sensibilities and distaste for Google hardened.

There's a hint of a belief in this thread - common also in threads about alternative shells and Vim setups - that someone who uses a tool like this will irrevocably lose the knowledge of how to use ls.

Am I perhaps a genius or is it just not that difficult to know two tools?

And exa users will still be allowed to use ls

I read the link

You wouldn't be annoyed by spending 6 months in jail? You must be old!

It's very characteristic of HN to suggest that paying $1000/hr well in advance of the court date is better than spending time calling people.

>I could just imagine, blowing the dust off my laptop and logging into my Schwab account...

Does your fantasy include the website telling you your browser is unsupported followed by several hours of installing updates?

The real humour of HN is in the sincere comments.

>Manufacturers focus on the safety of the driver and passengers of the car. Not on the safety of anyone else.

This is not true. Euro NCAP ratings depend on how the car damages pedestrians:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...

and crash avoidance technology:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...

The effect this has on the cars on the market is huge. Jaguar and Mercedes had to remove their iconic badges, pop-up headlights disappeared, the fronts of cars are much higher and rounded to reduce head injuries in a crash, and every modern car has a multitude of crash avoidance technology that defaults to being turned on when the car is started.

I haven't used an iPad keyboard but 160,000 words is about 159,000 more than I could stomach writing on a Macbook keyboard - which is the best laptop keyboard I've tried.

Perhaps I'm spoiled.