Jiro

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by Jiro 4y ago
This needs to have (2001) added to the title.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Are you sure the compiler didn't say "since having a null pointer gives undefined behavior, we can optimize out the part that confirms the address is non-null"?
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by Jiro 4y ago
He didn't even do that. He used text descriptions; the original pixel art wasn't involved.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Demanding passion for the job is one of the toxic features of the software industry. It's your job, not your life.
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by Jiro 4y ago
>When I clarified that I only cared about technical material, he replied that he only read technical material on the job, not after hours. He's heard of work/life balance and doesn't want to do work during unpaid hours. No
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by Jiro 4y ago
>There is no right answer to this question. Unless the chance of getting the job is unaffected by the answer, and it doesn't sound like it is, there is a right answer to the question.
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Many are shrugging that off and saying: if that's transphobia then so be it, proves my point. And increasingly, people are agreeing with them. Women can push back against accusations of transphobia because they can respond with acc
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Not too late to create training data by which the social media platform can detect and remove subsequent scams. How is that going to happen? We're assuming the AI posts exactly like a human until the comment about Pepsi comes out.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The AI could comment as well as a human until it gets to its payload, which is a scam. People will vote it down after they get taken in by the scam, which is too late. Or maybe not even then, if the payload isn't a scam per se, but
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by Jiro 4y ago
>I will keep it as green as possible, even if it cuts production by a big percentage. I'd rather have it fail that be not environmentally friendly. My life does not depend on it, I can afford to fail and that is why I want to try. I
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by Jiro 4y ago
The problem is that "may contain sesame" is not a legally valid excuse for containing sesame, but "does contain sesame" is. And the part about "may contain X" not being an excuse comes from existing precedent,
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by Jiro 4y ago
Consider the flip side of your suggestion: If you make money when the program works, that also means that you don't make money, or you make less money, when it doesn't. The last thing I need as a programmer is for a poor manageme
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by Jiro 4y ago
>which are restricted to their own site and don't explicitly say anything untrue What's so great about implicitly saying untrue things? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos...
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Very large companies have very large numbers of employees and many different activities on the go. Someone else posted that the law firm has 29 members, not "very large numbers of employees".
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by Jiro 4y ago
In a free market, there wouldn't be a need to sell line cutting in the first place because it would be legal to run an airline that you can fly on without dealing with the TSA at all. Forcing everyone to go through the TSA is inherent
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Your totally ignore the key element here: a new technology is allowing denying entry at a whole new scale. What's your opinion about Facebook or Twitter blocking people? I'm pretty sure they block people using computer techno
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by Jiro 4y ago
"Unrelated to their dispute" is a fuzzy category. How would the venue actually know that she's unrelated to the dispute? They're not going to have access to the internal management chart of the law firm in order to be
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by Jiro 4y ago
I've always been confused about these. If you push the button, and it's an intersection with walk signs going both north/south and east/west, which one of those lights does the button apply to? (I don't live in Aus
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by Jiro 4y ago
This is one of the ways in which the deep state matters. "The Trump Administration" can be opposed to actual-Trump.
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by Jiro 4y ago
In order for a gift to serve its social function, it must be specifically matched to its recipient. Cash is not specifically matched to its recipient. (The exception is if there's some other social expectation that specifically says
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by Jiro 4y ago
The answer has to be A, under reasonable assumptions. If you assume that the university wants to find out the opinions of all students, and if you assume that students who didn't respond still have opinions, then the problem is that t
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by Jiro 4y ago
Good luck building your own payment processor for such a company. Payment processors are regulated and you can't just make your own.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Could this potentially be used to root a device?
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by Jiro 4y ago
I'm reminded of the arguments why GNU will never call GIMP by a friendlier name.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The world's. There are not an unlimited number of acceptable methods for romanizing Hebrew.
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by Jiro 4y ago
You can still buy alarm clocks too, even though your phone has one, just like it has a flashlight. Cheap alarm clocks are so cheap that only a slight benefit like always having it on your shelf is enough of a reason to buy one. (Expensive
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by Jiro 4y ago
They are connected because the protests are about Covid restrictions .
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by Jiro 4y ago
>If you’re an attractive white guy from an affluent background you are more likely to skate away from something like this without consequences. If you are a white guy you are less likely to skate away without consequences because it is p
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by Jiro 4y ago
If you think that nobody would be fired for refusing to work in unsafe conditions and nobody would be fired for not drinking, you're still agreeing that the situations are similar. You're just agreeing that neither would get you
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by Jiro 4y ago
How does that reasoning not apply to being forced to endure all sorts of unsafe working conditions? "No thanks, I don't drink" would earn demerits and maybe get him fired, just like "no thanks, I don't walk above v

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