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Comment · 3 months ago
US's DoJ fined Microsoft for bundling a web browser into its own OS. EU is the apprentice.
Comment · 2 years ago
ffmpeg and x265 allow you to do this too. frame-threads=1 will use 1 thread per frame addressing the issue OP mentioned, without big perf penalty, in contrary to 'pools' switch which sets the threads to be used for encoding.
Comment · 3 years ago
Memory mapped files also known as sections in VMS/NT have just two advantages:

  * Fewer context switches among user space / kernel syscalls

  * No need to copy _modified_ data into the swap. The behavior for read only data doesn't change

That's it, nothing miraculous about it.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you want the old stricter Google behavior be sure to check the "Verbatim" option under 'tools', or add "&tbs=li:1" to your uri. Around 2008 Google started testing a new search engine logic, codenamed caffeine?, which eventually became the default. Without being sure, I think verbatim uses the old engine which wasn't trying to be smarter than you and your query, certainly is stricter and reminds the old Google a lot.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ultimately this 'frustration' is always caused by loose typing/inexistent data model and not by the iterability of strings itself.
Comment · 7 years ago
Agreed. A good tip for this is to try to find the earliest version/commit of the project you are interested into.
Comment · 7 years ago
it's subjective of course, but I find context manager decorators very pythonic, I still remember the 'whoa! that's beautiful' moment when I 1st learned about them.

But most importantly, generators as enclosures are used everywhere today with the whole async-await paradigm.

Comment · 8 years ago
It's wet :) (under water surface)

The claim of the article that mount Everest is the tallest point from the earth's center happens because earth's surface, relative to its size, is as smooth as a billiard ball. Even the tallest mountains are nothing. So high mountains located at the equator can easily "outperform" higher mountains elsewhere.

Comment · 8 years ago
And who is going to stop them, when even multi-million companies just shallow the pill(like GDPR) and even try to market it positively that they are gonna adopt it first.
Comment · 8 years ago
So how do they know if the response with the data a user requests, are all we've got about them, and if indeed where stored the proper way?
Comment · 8 years ago
Plus it gives easy access to the government to peek at your data without any significant clause. Your data are theirs too now.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
they still pick the opinions they publish.

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