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by 13of40 4y ago
> ...Want to open a network socket? Same... From your compiler's perspective you shouldn't be messing around with all that, you should have an abstraction that lets you say "Pass a by value, b by reference, and c as an out
572.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think the question is how much it (H1B) costs vs the person's disposable income, in addition to the cost of spending time pursuing it, having a place to do the paperwork, having a stable address and even a stable identity... I'm
573.
by 13of40 4y ago
An Indian friend of mine several years ago explained it quite clearly to me: Who do you think has the resources to get an education, get an H1B, then travel halfway around the world? The guy whose parents are sleeping in the hallway?
574.
by 13of40 4y ago
> Solving the same problems over and over Years ago I was a manager on a (software) test team, and I can definitely relate to this. We were locked into a cycle of ... "The test pass ran and one of the test cases failed." &quot
575.
by 13of40 4y ago
> why can't these poor people get access to proper medicine and treatment? Speaking of the US, one of the issues is that drug treatment and mental health care are for-profit businesses, so someone reaching out for help is likely to
576.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think the question is which one of us needs to clean the damned thing.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Ah, OK, I looked in my email and it was the guy who invented the encryption scheme, but he said "Yes, I invented it [referring to the encryption]. It wasn't based on anything else, except that it used the same CRC he [Phil] was al
578.
by 13of40 4y ago
Gun question not withstanding, am I the head of my household or is my wife?
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by 13of40 4y ago
Weird, I talked to the guy who invented the crypto scheme for ZIP and he said he invented the CRC algorithm for it as well. I wonder if there's more backstory there. Edit: He invented the crypto not the CRC, which Phil Katz was alread
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by 13of40 4y ago
Exactly this. Also, for example, no security cameras at Trader Joe's and no scales in the self checkout at Whole Foods. I'm a grownup, you don't need forcing functions to make me behave like one.
581.
by 13of40 4y ago
I neither skipped nor repeated any years.
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by 13of40 4y ago
That's a good point. We had computers in our homes a lot of the time, and in schools I believe they were subsidized by tech companies like Apple. The 80s and 90s businesses that I got to see basically had antiquated mainframes and mi
583.
by 13of40 4y ago
That's an interesting experience, because my family got our first home computer in about 1981, the kid down the street had one, and there was one in my first grade class around the same time. From then on, they were available in every
584.
by 13of40 4y ago
One of the reasons the "terminal" (the old console subsystem) stagnated in Windows for so long was that they assigned ownership of it to the same team that owned Explorer (the local one, not IE) and for basically every release up
585.
by 13of40 4y ago
A few years ago...maybe "several" now...I was having a rough day at work and decided to take an hour or two off and go for a walk. I ended up near our city's zoo, and I remembered that my company got discounted admission, so
586.
by 13of40 4y ago
It's kind of a weird situation we're in with this. Facebook and Google track your location by default and you can go back and look where you've been on a map. I used it to figure out the details of an automated traffic ticke
587.
by 13of40 4y ago
Yep, that's exactly the question. All of this stuff is awesome when I'm trying to get a job done, but it peels a lot of the magic away from the world.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I recall a time, many years ago, when you could be at a pub with a couple of friends and some really obscure question like whether it's a duck who has a corkscrew willie or a woodchuck, and nobody would know the answer and there was no
589.
by 13of40 4y ago
There are private services that make it look like a real street address. The top hit when I just googled it was $9.99 a month, so pretty affordable.
590.
by 13of40 4y ago
Yeah, is it localized to eleven fallback languages, and accessible to blind people, and included in the security threat model? Including anything in Windows costs serious money, so for some niche features you might need to install an out o
591.
by 13of40 4y ago
Turbo Pascal 3 on an IBM 5150. Pick any font color as long as it's green. Editor does automatic indentation and understands arrow keys. Compiler is built in and does one damned job, making EXEs. Runs from a floppy disk and you inst
592.
by 13of40 4y ago
FWIW, I tried a representative word from each category in the Dewey Decimal System and got a significantly below average score. I feel like that should be at least an average spread for concepts, so I agree that it's probably biased t
593.
by 13of40 4y ago
I like to think of it more like a beautiful coral reef.
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by 13of40 4y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. Zip was designed so it could be written to a non-seekable stream, meaning the Central Directory structure that points to all of the file records is at the end of the archive. Its location is found at
595.
by 13of40 5y ago
It's not even that. When you buy a domain, it's not like you get control of the content it used to point to as well. There's nothing for OP to delete.
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by 13of40 5y ago
Another downside and word of caution: I left my $1200 Rad City bike in the garage over the winter and it got unplugged somehow. By spring it was no longer able to charge, and replacing just the battery cost another $600.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I was out for a walk in Kirkland (across the lake from Seattle) the other week and found a little paved path that ran about 1/4 mile through a wooded area. I could tell by the amount of engineering they would have had to do to raise t
598.
by 13of40 5y ago
I think they're talking about something like this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/22/22945975/rondo-energy-dec... Basically, in their words, "a large insulated shoebox full of brick". An
599.
by 13of40 5y ago
The city replaced water mains near my house a couple of years ago that were made of asbestos impregnated concrete. I think the replacements were PVC, so I'm sure they could wrap the cable with something similar. The whole thing sound
600.
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