DowsingSpoon

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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
In the past, hand-crafted assembly code was common because it was easy to beat the compiler. This is still true today in some niches.
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
It might be the parts that lead a person to commit large scale fraud with the idea that the good they can do with the stolen money outweighs all the negatives. Or, at least, that’s the popular idea of what happened to Sam Bankman-Fried. I h
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
But Uncle Bob said that if I follow his TDD process by rote then my code will automatically attain good design! /s
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
There’s no need to be conspiratorial. It was #15 for me, two hours after your comment. The post hasn’t been memory-holed, or anything like that.
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
Please provide evidence for a claim that logging into iCloud necessarily sends your plaintext local password to the server.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
That is fascinating. Thank you! Is it necessary to be able to exhaustively enumerate states? I remember a project I worked on some years ago which had me sketching out a statechart for a system which was not structured as an explicit FSM. T
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
I would love to learn more about this too. I don’t really know what you’re talking about, and have a hard time imagining how ideas from relational algebra can be applied to all APIs. For example, many database-like things already use rela
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
In addition, the Industrial Revolution led to societal upheaval which took more than a century to sort out, if you agree its ever been sorted out at all. So, if it is true we’re on the cusp of an AI Revolution, AGI, the Singularity, or anyt
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
I understand the point you’re trying to get across. For many kinds of mistakes, I agree it makes good sense to warn and correct the junior. Maybe that’s the case here. I’m willing to concede there’s room for debate. Can you imagine the fall
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
I am fairly certain that if someone did that where I work then security would be escorting them off the property within the hour. This is NOT Okay.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Okay, I now care passionately about each and everything I do. The bike ramp still sucks. What now?
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
You definitely make a good point. My thought was that large legacy projects would slowly migrate to a different language. The news of the recent introduction of Rust in Linux has me optimistic something similar will eventually happen in ot
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Best stick with “cargo cult” then! No, but seriously, that’s a good point.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
I suppose “monkey see monkey do” works just as well, if you’re looking for an alternative metaphor. The phrase doesn’t refer to any human at all so there’s also the benefit that its use can’t possibly offend, or risk the appearance of offen
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Huh. What do you mean? Why should the phrase not be used? My only experience with the phrase is to mean something along the lines of a calculated ploy to lure dissidents into exposing themselves for later punishment. The horrible historical
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
>the language will never go away Just like COBOL! Seriously, _just like COBOL_. The language will fade in importance over time. C++ will be relegated to increasingly narrow niches. It will eventually only be found in "legacy" s
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
No love for “yinz?” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Obviously, if we’d like to require programmers to release software in source code form then we’re going to need some rules. If programmers are made to release software in some source code form then what languages should we require? Clearly,
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
>Regomize is a made-up word that combines "The Register" and "Anonymize." We coined the term to reflect our practice of inventing names for contributors to On Call and its sibling column Who, Me?. We offer this explan
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5586 >NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow a privileged attacker to escalate permissions. A su
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
As a person who designed and built a hobby CPU with a sixteen-bit byte, I’m not sure how I feel about this proposal.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
What is privacy for? None of your damn business.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
My brother had a stick shift. Kids broke into his car and proceeded to drive it 15 feet into a pole and abandon it. Whole thing was caught on camera too.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
What about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
This was not a terrorist attack. This was a precisely targeted strike against the personnel of a hostile military.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Hi! I’m also a layman who doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. The article ends with “ I will leave you with a question: Are we trying to make end-to-end congestion control work for cases where it can’t possibly work?” So, it seems
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Oh! I understand you now. I thought at first that you meant something along the lines of college students at parties choosing to wear masks as a new trend to avoid being recognized on social media. Thanks!
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Are you claiming that people wear medical face masks for the sake of privacy? I have literally never heard a single person say a single thing about that. However, I’m finding I’m out of touch with “the kids” these days so maybe this is a th
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Thank you! I’m trying to read up on it now also because this is definitely not something I know much about.
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by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
Maybe I’m just an unsophisticated code monkey, but I read a little about Busy Beaver from time to time and I just don’t get it. Why is this an interesting problem? What do we hope to learn from it?

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