Ginden

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by Ginden 5y ago
Did you publish code?
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by Ginden 5y ago
So, somehow, car exhaust filters contain tramadol. Yes, sounds just right.
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I have experience with proposing new features to languages and that's taxing. You have to deal with constant bikeshedding, provide rationales, states of art analysis for different languages etc. And your proposal can be still stalled f
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by Ginden 5y ago
If human in government office has a bug and reports wrong result when queried, it can be corrected by their higher-up.
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Safety nets provided by European countries are intended mainly for not ending homeless. If you are running business, your loses are opportunity costs. Eg. you have already 100k EUR yearly salary and you decide to try running startup. If it
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> It also doesn't include type checking for typescript. If you use `@aws/sdk`, you are going to have bad time with Typescript. Resolving its types can easily take >50% of compilation time for small projects.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Even if your results are reproducible and independently verifiable, these results are open to interpretion. Will you publish "X is associated with Y", or "we observed weak correlation between X and Y in self-selected subgroup
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> Alcohol kills humans in relatively small quantities as well In absolute quantities it's less toxic than fructose, paracetamol or THC. It's among least toxic substances found in nature. Almost no one dies from acute toxicity o
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by Ginden 5y ago
How many of these inputs can be generated by JSON-generating libraries? How many of these inputs can be generated by JSON-generating libraries on accident? 1? 2? How many of these inputs can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities? 1 (duplicate
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by Ginden 5y ago
I'm bit surprised about lack of financial reward- it can realistically be used to takedown processing servers in rather simple DDoS attack.
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by Ginden 5y ago
And many people choose to ignore that number parsing issues can happen in XML too.
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> Will you give away all your savings and possessions to an impoverished Chinese or Indian peasant? No, not like that! Only people richer than me should be taxed, because I'm poor and they are uber rich.
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by Ginden 5y ago
This post should be titled "what ORMs have taught me: world is black and white, if you use ORM, you can't use SQL". Are ORMs leaky abstraction? Yes. All non-trivial abstractions are leaky. Can you write 95% of code in ORM and
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by Ginden 5y ago
The worst rule that I have seen was that you can't have the same character next to each other. So "Pasword1234#" was "strong" password, but "ha_ivrkbs(i5HzJzee%Ii3jsk#7jaot" was considered weak - note &quo
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> There are actually many examples of things working different for the mirror image, e.g. many medical/chemical compounds work differently based on chirality. It "works different" because you consider only change in one pa
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> Turns out making up "antitrust" cases against US companies is a great source of income for the European Union. That "great source of income" contributes less than 1% of EU income.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> were barrel plugs of slightly different diameter Some of them had the same diameter, so accidentally plugging 12V to 5V port could fry your device.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> use physically different plugs to avoid accidental frying of equipment and things just plain not working. Frying equipment is not possible with properly implemented USB devices and cable - because PD requires active negotiation.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Existence of analog reality is quite problematic, because it opens can of worms - eg. hypercomputation is possible.
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> Having multiple renderers is just a waste of everyone's time... Unfortunately, Blink isn't openly governed. It's governed by Google, and if Google decides that they won't implement complex feature, maintaining that
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> Alternatively, once optical interconnect becomes cheap enough, we could return to that technology - two power pins & one optical connector. Why would we need to? Smartphones don't even use USB 3.0, because smartphone can'
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by Ginden 5y ago
> This will stifle innovation needlessly Do we have any room left for innovation in charging ports? USB-C provides 24 pins, up to 240W Power Delivery (negotiable), up to 40 Gbit/s, ability to negotiate alternate modes (so manufactur
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by Ginden 5y ago
Is it actually a thing? When I checked vacancy rates for several cities, all of them were really low.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Are you sure about that? https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2019013... > In a breakaway session, a telescope engineer told colleagues that power consumption alone could cost tens of millions
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Not sure how it would work once the mercury freezes solid due to lack of sunlight, but I think it's such a beautiful (but maybe impractical) idea :). Can't you heat it through induction heating? Vacuum is good isolation, so i
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> Another is that in a pure language, you can look at a function and know for a fact that nothing you're seeing can ever be mutated. This eliminates a massive source of cognitive load when trying to read and understand code, as well
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- Because desktops wasn't limiting web capabilities. Apple does. - Because PWAs started working on iOS in 2018. - Because native solutions are faster than JavaScript and HTML. - Headstart for development tools.
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> Chances are really good that the companies they operate gained their stature in part by monopolistic (aka, anti-capitalistic free market, as is the popular theme) behaviors. I just checked [Fortune 500 list]( https://fortune.
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Use TOR and onion services.
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I would like to notice that many of these techniques can incur significant cost of developer or sysadmin time.

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