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by Cpoll 7y ago
Square is no stranger to cutting huge swaths of content, with Xenogears being an early, infamous example. Final Fantasy XV suffers from the same.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I wonder if LOC changed isn't often reversely proportional to time taken. 500 LOC feature: Add a new route that does something boring; 5 story points. 5 LOC feature: Fix mysterious performance degradation in X; 13 story points.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
That's a tough problem to solve, "Import your Address Book" has been a feature of communications platforms as far back as I can remember.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> mutation from non-chicken parents Only tangentially related, but that invokes the Sorites paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox If you follow the thought exercise further, there's other consi
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I learned from a sysadmin to use `mv` instead of `rm` when you're removing potentially critical files. Other tips include colouring your prompt highlighted red on production boxes so you never accidentally think you're somewhere s
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I can see why you might not want to, though. App ELBs charge by usage and can get somewhat expensive (like running another EC2 instance or two). They can also have cold-start performance issues in specific circumstances (traffic spikes).
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Why do they need so much power? A phone can run all day off a 200g battery and has enough processing power to do autofocusing and image processing. If it's on standby it should consume next to nothing.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I doubt surimi can ever approximate a slice of tuna or salmon, even if it's hidden in a maki roll. California roll 'crab' yes.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Why especially Amazon, I haven't seen them shutter any major service? I've seen lots of companies throw away their V1 and start over (hopefully with the knowledge learned), so my opinion is that it's okay to vendor lock-in an
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Or all the scary declassified stuff from the 50s onward (MKULTRA being probably the most recognizable).
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> For the same reason the laws of nature are the same around the universe. I wonder how much is cultural though? Go depends on a 2d grid, but is it possible that some alien Grade 9 math tends to use, say, distance and angle from origin i
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> The police proceeded to collect surveillance video from houses near the torched Accord, and noticed the suspects getting into an older model Honda CRV and a white pickup truck shortly after the failed robbery. I suspect this will be en
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Sure, but that failure is on the end of the spectrum. For electronics it'd be: Online and working / Offline and core functionality is working / Battery fire
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I imagine that's cheaper than paying for the towing fee that's the alternative?
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I've heard that number before, where is it from? Does it control for the idea that more experienced practitioners tend to be called on for more complex operations?
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by Cpoll 7y ago
It might be. I'd bet the AAA gamedev industry has the worst code quality on average, due to a combination of routine crunch, large team sizes working on the same product, and an "if it works, ship it" mentality.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I wonder why they do that instead of asking for access to the private keys.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> which translates into a price of about 700,000 yen per kilogram. I imagine a piece of sashimi is about 1oz/30g, so you get 33 pieces per kilogram. 700,000 / 33 = 21,212 Which is about $200 a piece. I'll be more conservat
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> If I succeed at answering this question in a way you like ... cater to your inflated ego. That's why it's important to have a criteria ahead of time. If I were asking the question, I would look/ask for: * A non-trivial h
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by Cpoll 7y ago
It's probably a harder sell in the US where the intruder is more likely to have a gun.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn I didn't know that hotkey. I use Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (both options appear to be defaults in Chrome at least).
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> temperature. if the temperature is right for you, chances are that it's a bit too warm for your electronics. Chips get hotter, which can result in all sorts of problems (particularly with big screens and graphics-intensive apps, b
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I can see the connection, it advocates learning how to repair your own tools and not being dependent on mechanics.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
"My first guess is 'actor'" Should that be 'actors'?
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> Always read the scripts you're going to run on your computer. I consider this harmful advice. You're promoting a false sense of security, which I think anyone that's spent 10 minutes looking through an underhanded code c
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I might be misunderstanding, but doesn't that treat 'abc' and 'cba' as distance 0? Regardless, I was also thinking Levenshtein is sub-optimal, and that you can probably solve it in O(n+m). Even if you go for Levensh
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> Essentially, an email and a password are compromised somewhere across the internet. They join millions of other email addresses and passwords, which are then cross-referenced with other websites, including Nest. This doesn't sound
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I think the risk in this case is an attacker writing to the registry, not reading it. If I can push changes to your 'prod' tagged image, I'm going to have a very good time.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Mea culpa, I shouldn't have skimmed.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I wonder if they're trying to pre-empt the issues Chef has been facing recently in selling to ICE.

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