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by GuB-42 1y ago
Had Apple offered a good licensing deal to the company, it would have been good for the company too. Especially if said employees had stocks as part of their compensation package. But it was cheaper to Apple to just hire a few key people an
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think the myth about exactness is that you can't use strict equality with floating point numbers because they are somehow fuzzy. They are not. Some operations involve rounding, notably conversion from decimal, but the (rounded) resul
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The Garmin is a sports watch, the use case is for people who want a smartwatch that is not a sports watch. Why pay 4x or even 2x the price for features you don't need? In fact, I am tempted by the Pebble Core 2 (which is the lower-end
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> WD-40 isn't a lubricant WD-40 is a lubricant. The WD-40 company says it is [1], the Wikipedia article says it is, attempts to reverse-engineer the (secret) formula have found compounds typically used as lubricants and it is rath
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I wouldn't say it needs refactoring. Maybe more documentation, or some work on naming. But I believe that code you write has to be at least a bit unusual. Every project worth making is unique. Otherwise, why not use something off the s
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Never had much success doing this. At best, it worked for a few days, maybe weeks before buzzing again. I tried a variety of lubricants, stuff that I had on hand (WD-40, 3-in-1, lithium grease...) but not petroleum jelly though. So unless i
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by GuB-42 1y ago
In Europe, it actually matches the law, it is actually better. - You have a 14 days retraction period, where you can send back the item and get your money back, defect or not. Amazon gives you 30 days and free return shipping. - Legal warra
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I added this to my toolbox in addition to traditional linters. My experience is that it is about 10% harmful, 80% useless and 10% helpful. Which is actually great, the 10% is worth it, but it is far from a hands off experience. By harmful I
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is British. Also, I know it, it has been translated in my language (French), the movie made out to the theaters, and we even have a well known school named after it (42). So it is known even to non-
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Is the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy still part of the geek culture for people in their twenties? I still think 42 is pretty well known, but it doesn't mean people have actually read the books and recognize that part.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't know about this app but many of the "Contains ads - In-app purchases" apps offer to remove the ads for a one-time payment.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How come you know about the Bugatti Chiron? Did you even saw one for real in your life? The simple fact that you (and me, and everyone else here) know about it show that people in marketing are doing their job. I don't remember seeing
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I'd say the C++ community is torn. Some part of it want C++ to be Rust, with a focus on compile-time safety. Others take "C++" literally as "C with extra stuff" and value performance over safety. Companies like Goog
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The protocol itself is resistant to ossification, no matter how it is implemented. It is mostly achieved by using encryption, and it is a reason why it is such an important and mandatory part of the protocol. The idea is to expose as litt
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Mozilla is nothing like Xerox, if anything Google is the new Xerox: they have way too much money so they throw it at R&D side projects without a business plan. The big one for Google is transformer models, they basically invented LLMs o
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> So they hurt quality of life by making it more painful to get anywhere No, they only made it more painful to get into the city streets by car. And probably not by much, as it only matters if you are not stuck in traffic or waiting at a
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> I don't miss headphone jacks AT ALL ... But then I tried the OG Airpods, and then the Pros with ANC ... Then I tried the AirPods Max ... I bought a pair Now, what you miss is around $1000, for hardware that will likely fail faster
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Most people don't make a difference between raw and pasteurized milk when drinking it. I tasted raw milk and I don't think I can. Obviously, you need to compare the same quality of milk, full fat is going to taste different than s
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Icaridin generally doesn't last as long as DEET though. For fans, I have seen people make mosquito traps by attaching a bug net to a fan, sometimes combined with a CO2 generator as bait. I don't know how effective it is in practic
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It seems to be relevant to hiring and startups, that is, if you hire people for particular tech skills, or build your startup around some specific area of expertise, half of these skills will be irrelevant in 2.5 years. On a personal level,
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And we still use 2 digit years! For example, credit cards often use the mm/yy format for expiration dates because it is more convenient to write and considering the usual lifetime of a credit card, it is sufficient. But it means there
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Which nation? Nationalizing means every country will have its own payment processor, how are you going to coordinate all this? Will each platform have to deal with dozens of payment processors that depend on the whims of their respective go
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe the other routes simply weren't tested for. Sex is how most people get HIV, so it makes sense to start from here. The second most common is by sharing needles, usually by drug addicts, and I can't think of an ethical way of
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This! That's what I wanted since LLMs learned how to code. And in fact, I think I saw a paper / blog post that showed exactly this, and then... nothing. For the last few years, the tech world became crazy with code generation, wit
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Not porn, video of a protest Not commenting on ID checks but depending on the protest, some images can be violent and definitely "adult". I never understood why we go out of our way to "protect" children against see
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by GuB-42 1y ago
If you like these kind of posts, maybe you should go to https://hackaday.com/ it is all articles like this every day, though usually more on the hardware side. Here is one in the same vein: https://hackaday.com&#
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by GuB-42 1y ago
"Least effort" is the way of life, it is not just how the brain works, it is how the universe works. From the principle of least action that is maybe the most fundamental law of physics, to chemistry, to biology, to human activity
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is complicated, and culture and legal systems will have to adapt. But you can have it both way. Often, a distinction between fair and unfair is if are competing against the authors directly. Take Ghibli memes for instance. While obviousl
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I have be wondering about do-not-check lists to go with checklists. I am mostly thinking about packing list, as it is common to overpack when travelling, so it can be good to have a list of things you think will be useful but are not. For e
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I didn't feel like the original author was blaming NASA. The entire Apollo program was a publicity stunt. That doesn't make it less awesome. A moon landing definitely earns you the right to show off. Not sure about the quarantine,

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