EpicEng

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931.
by EpicEng 8y ago
"the good old days", as in, "the days when the average person had no freaking clue if something was safe, but installed it anyway because it's completely unreasonable to expect them to do otherwise"? If your securit
932.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Backdoors in your cell phone OS can be used to catch criminals. They can also be used to spy on innocents. Sometimes the cost isn't worth it.
933.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Yeah, I think the issues that arise with roommates are well understood and generally acceptable given the benefits. Shared mortgages are insane.
934.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I feel like we're going in circles. I said the same thing and was corrected (these are rentals.) I then agree, and you come in saying they're not rentals. Which is it? Here's my stance: Getting into a mortgage with roommates
935.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Ah ok, I thought it was the shared mortgage idea. I see no issue with shared housing, not exactly a radical idea.
936.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>Why not? Because your equity is now at the mercy of other people who you cannot control. No one wants to default on a mortgage.
937.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I believe the GP's point is that regulation geared toward limiting supply circumvents natural market forces.
938.
by EpicEng 8y ago
But what about biology? Biologically, men and women are _not_ equal in terms of giving birth and caring for a child. They're just not, and there's no changing that.
939.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>when some people at a company (outside of C-level) are making 300k and others are making 32k there is a good reason to be aggressive about fixing pay disparity Why? That's far too simplistic. Are you comparing e.g. a senior enginee
940.
by EpicEng 8y ago
It was a joke. I agree with the GP.
941.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Sure, but I could write a computer for some new flavor of assembly tonight. The output would not by performant, but the language would certainly be low level.
942.
by EpicEng 8y ago
So you're saying JavaScript isn't a low level language because it has operators and function calls?
943.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Note the use of the comma operator in the C++ version. C# has no equivalent, hence the introduction of 'temp'. The first part is just adding to o.x, the bit after the comma is the result of the expression, which is what is passed
944.
by EpicEng 8y ago
You're right; what word would fit something that is not the real deal, but is crafted in a way to be almost indiscernible? Would it be, emu... emula... oh it's just on the tip of my tongue.
945.
by EpicEng 8y ago
How do you imagine that push back would be taken given what we know about this company?
946.
by EpicEng 8y ago
There's no need to monitor the content of the messages in this case.
947.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I think you misunderstand me. I just don't want light bulbs on my network.
948.
by EpicEng 8y ago
They literally claim to have come up with it on their own. It's the first sentence in the quote.
949.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>Making changes to micro services architectures written in different languages over multiple servers will be a lot of fun. Don't forget the 10,000 packages you need to find because they no longer have a feed available! They'll
950.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Agreed. I'd just as soon not use either and gasp turn the lights on and off manually.
951.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>LED bulbs have very long lives. Then why am I constantly replacing them? Wait, I know why; because I buy the cheaper ones, which have inadequate thermal solutions and God knows what quality of LED. You may say "well don't buy
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Facebook Says a “Clear History” Tool Will Hurt Its Advertising Business(slate.com)
4 points by EpicEng 8y ago|0 comments
953.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>China doesn't hide its spying, Because they don't have to, because they cannot be democratically removed from power and their people accept a high level of human rights abuses as status quo. US citizens do not.
954.
by EpicEng 8y ago
While you await proof of psychic powers I am eagerly awaiting proof of unicorns and leprechauns.
955.
by EpicEng 8y ago
The fact that we can't yet show a mechanism for <whatever> does not make it reasonable to assume some sort of supernatural explanation. Your logic opens the door for believing any wacky idea a person has should be taken seriously
956.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>Problem solved If the problem were "if only we had $2B more we could solve so many system problems." Of course, it's not, so no, no problems were solved even hypothetically.
957.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>Bill Gates writing billion dollar checks is not exactly micro US GDP was $19.39 trillion in 2017. 0.01% is micro on any scale. He could write those checks again and again and it would never solve systemic problems.
958.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Obviously genetics and nurture play a massive role in a person's upbringing and largely determine what kind of person they will be. What is the issue here exactly?
959.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>the problem space misunderstood and everything patched over with little fixes to get things working for a particular case. Sounds like testing found issues which were hacked over, but more will keep popping up because the design is inhe
960.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Sure. I didn't want to go into too much depth on performance here as I'm a C and C<variant> guy primarily, only writing JS when I have to.

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