Kamq

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541.
by Kamq 4y ago
> The tooling around it is second to none I feel like you've never looked at C's tooling. Admittedly, some of it is stuff you just don't need in Java, but things like Valgrind are crazy impressive.
542.
by Kamq 4y ago
Bash is trying to mimic algol68 (poorly). Allegedly the guy who created bash had a bunch of C macros that made C more algol68-like.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Why would it matter? Because that's the intuitive behavior in the terminal. The other programs you listed launch their own window and are obviously a different context. Even things like vim and emacs (the foundational terminal edi
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by Kamq 4y ago
Exactly, and this is a generally posix terminal application (windows only under cygwin/wsl). Let's ask users of the unix style terminal what ctrl-c means there.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> and mess up my perfectly configured rules Keep your rules in a repo somewhere, and the kids can't screw them up. You could even have unsigned commits change the temperature in the opposite (or randomized) direction to discourage t
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by Kamq 4y ago
Depends on the sanction (and where the company is based). Specifically for Iran? I'm not entirely sure if there's restrictions on compliance with general requests.
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by Kamq 4y ago
I'd like to see them match the 10 years of fine tuning from 2012 google. My understanding is google used to keep a lot of data around for "long tail" queries, and stopped doing that at some point. This seems to be the issue a
548.
by Kamq 4y ago
> their own (say) HTTP library, riddled with bugs which will never get fixed, because it will never have the same person-hours sunk into it that a (major/respectable) FOSS HTTP library will. The interesting trade-off here is that th
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by Kamq 4y ago
Alright, so I finally went and checked, and (according to merriam webster), the following definitions of "bank" are reasonably commonly used (none marked with archaic or obscure). > a supply of something held in reserve > a
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Because my understanding of Wayland is that the only people who want it are gui devs. That might be, but by definition those that are the devs decide what everyone uses. I mean, if you're willing to pay them to work on something e
551.
by Kamq 4y ago
> A noun phrase is not necessarily a sub-category of the original noun. This is actually something I had not fully considered. I had always considered odd modifiers to create a non-central example of the category, rather than creating a
552.
by Kamq 4y ago
The concept is a "legal person", which means there's a whole host of things corporations can do. The big ones being that they can be sued and charged for breaking the law, you can't do either of those things with, say, a
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by Kamq 4y ago
I think people really underestimate throughput of a simple file server serving static files. When serving static files, even something like old school apache can serve a couple thousand requests/second on relatively anemic hardware. Th
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by Kamq 4y ago
Perhaps in the technical definition of political, but not in the layman's definition of political. The definition of political used by the populace is almost always the narrow subset of societal/cultural fights that are actively b
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by Kamq 4y ago
I think it still fits if they return the legal situation to what it had previously been. But any instance that creates a brand new legal situation does not qualify.
556.
by Kamq 4y ago
That's not really the paradox of tolerance. At least not the version attributed to Popper. The relevant quote from The Open Society and Its Enemies is: > But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for
557.
by Kamq 4y ago
Ahh, in that sense. Fair enough, I hadn't interpreted optimistic in that manner.
558.
by Kamq 4y ago
I wouldn't call Scott Alexander a techno-optimist given that space's (the LessWrong diaspora) whole focus on AI risk.
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by Kamq 4y ago
That's what I was describing, yes.
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by Kamq 4y ago
It's kinda nice when you want to, say, name a list "list" despite there being a list function. But I agree, it isn't super important.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Tests are an investment in fast future development. I mean, they are, but what's the roi on that investment? Not all investments are good. 90% of start-ups fail, the chunk of code that's a keeper still has a 90% chance of bei
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by Kamq 4y ago
Never heard of such a thing in the US. We did have repeat teachers for 3rd/4th grade (as the article described, it was probably due to staff shortages at the time), but by 5th/6th grade we moved to having different teachers for ev
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by Kamq 4y ago
> the only power teachers have left is the power to strike. That's the only power any worker has. Pay and/or other powers tend to correlate to how often the worker ceases to work and/or how expensive it would be to replace
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by Kamq 4y ago
C is unsafe. That's kind of the point of it. But just because it's unsafe doesn't mean it should never be used.
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by Kamq 4y ago
None of those are the product. Once again, the product is the experience using the website. Those are implementation details that only weird nerds like you and I are concerned about 99% of the time. The privacy loss that most end users (or
566.
by Kamq 4y ago
Your job is to be (continuously) profitable. In a way that upper management can see. You can do everything your manager wants, but if you aren't profitable, you're going to be let go as soon as a recession rolls around (possibly w
567.
by Kamq 4y ago
That presumably depends on when the caching was put in place. If the number was in the thousands in the late-90s, you could probably get through all of the sites. If the caching was put in later, say, the early 2000s when google started get
568.
by Kamq 4y ago
I'm going to have to disagree. They built an amazing product... for a world that had only teenagers on social media. This was the truth for quite a while, and was true of the world they created their product in. They just never really
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by Kamq 4y ago
> They earned it by building garbage. No one (aside from engineers) cares about what facebook built. Facebook had scandal after scandal and on top of it, everyone's grandparents signed up so teenagers couldn't post all of the s
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by Kamq 4y ago
Based on the explanation above, it sounds like the big number is the "real number" and then they throw away everything except the first couple results when they're put in the cache. Presumably the number of results is calcula

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