Arainach

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by Arainach 3mo ago
How can we reconcile "viewed fewer than 200 times since 2010" with the absurd number of crawlers overloading the entire internet from every AI company out there?
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by Arainach 3mo ago
I'd include the geeks in that. I've been programming computers and tinkering with all sorts of hardware for more than 30 years. I first used FreeBSD in.....2001? and Linux not long after that. I've programmed OS code, I&#x27
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by Arainach 4mo ago
All sorts of employees are treated as disposable. The issue is absolutely that software engineers have no culture of responsibility or safety and no professional licensing group to enforce it for them.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Many games are held online. In person, computers get smaller all the time (and there are bathroom breaks etc.). The history of trying to cheat at chess, casino games, and more with concealed computers is far too large a topic for one repl
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by Arainach 4mo ago
By using computers.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
On the contrary, it's more important than ever. With ever more code being generated, it's essential that the code be understandable and maintainable - by human and machine.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
For those who don't follow chess, what were the allegations? This article is intentionally vague on all the details.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
You are dramatically underestimating the cost of manufacturing, stocking, and distributing an entirely different SKU and probably also dramatically overestimating the number of users of alternative keyboard layouts in the world. Put another
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Citation very much needed. Actually, it's not because we have the employment statistics to show that this isn't common at all.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
That happens with Veracrypt as well. I have plenty of friends and family who can't remember their WiFi password without remembering where it was written down, and they use that far more often than an encryption recovery code. In fleet
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Veracrypt is more difficult to set up - whether on one machine or a fleet. Bitlocker is a few buttons in the UI, configurable via Group Policy, and so much more. What is brittle or awkward?
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by Arainach 4mo ago
https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-...
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> which lives in Piper, a fork of Perforce This is incorrect. Piper is API-compatible with Perforce but is a totally different implementation, not a fork.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I've had automatic updates on for a decade without issue.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
You don't pass and fail in the middle of the course, so there is no "filter". You can't give someone a multiple choice test and then give a written test to only those who passed it, except at the granularity of an entire
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Where are you thinking? Everyone I know who speaks a language written with Latin characters doesn't use cursive. I know very little about other character sets - I believe nearly all Arabic is cursive for instance - but this has been
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by Arainach 4mo ago
There's no such thing as "filtering" in academics. You don't get to kick out the students who didn't do well on the multiple choice and only proceed with the ones who scored highly.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Measuring what is easy to measure instead of what actually matters is a classic fallacy.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
For nearly any subject of learning at a level above high school, multiple choice is a terrible way to assess knowledge. Multiple choice can only tell if you reached a final answer (or guessed it). It cannot tell anything about how you reac
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by Arainach 4mo ago
No. Most people handwrite most things in print lettering, not cursive. I'm nearly 40 and no one in my life writes anything other than their name (signature) in cursive ever.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> the people who run FAANG don't understand the dangers of bad metrics is... interesting They don't. They want some metric to support what they want to do and don't care about good metrics at all. I've spent the vast
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> I assume the regulator (or someone, at any rate) can already fine people who don't stick to contracts ....what contract? There's no contract in most cases and contracts that exist very rarely define hours. I've never en
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by Arainach 4mo ago
This is simply not true. Look at Beethoven's manuscripts for instance. https://guides.loc.gov/beethoven/manuscripts
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Doing the research takes time and energy. Switching takes time and energy. Changing all your passwords after you switch so they aren't potentially exposed in the next LastPass break takes time and energy. People have a lot of things go
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> big triple A games continue to release physical discs. Technically correct, but not really correct. It's hard to think of a game in the last decade where I've inserted a physical disk an been able to play without having to d
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Physical media doesn't work when modern games are 100GB or more. And to answer your question, most consumers don't care. The convenience of being able to buy with a few clicks and download immediately without going to a store or
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by Arainach 4mo ago
None of that is relevant. You're working on things for their employer, they control when and if anything is released. Most of us have worked on projects that were cancelled - even when that happens you don't just release it anyw
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by Arainach 4mo ago
It's mentioned in the original link for this post.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Build cool shit and follow the proper release procedures for it . There is a huge difference between something unrelated to your employer on a personal repo, youremployerrepo/api-samples, and calling something "Employer Majorpro
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by Arainach 4mo ago
This project README is not particularly useful: It doesn't explain what the project does (a file format for what ? Name dropping other things I haven't heard of isn't useful) There are no examples. It links to a flatbuffer

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