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by Merad 4y ago
At least in terms of gaming I think multi-core CPUs killed them. A big argument for sound cards used to be that they'd give you higher quality audio and use less CPU. I can remember benchmarks from the mid 2000s showing less CPU usag
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by Merad 4y ago
Look at the example dockerfile farther down in the article. They're performing the build inside of a dotnet sdk container then creating the application container. It sounds like you're performing the build outside of a container a
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by Merad 4y ago
> If what you’re asking of these students can easily be automated by a tool then the problem is in the assignment. Either don’t request it, knowing it can be automated with ease, or accept that bubble sorts are a long solved problem and
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by Merad 4y ago
> How about - as an employee - using external offer to get a raise and stay at current job? Is that always a bad idea? I'm too lazy to look it up and verify but IIRC the majority of employees who ask for a raise with another job off
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by Merad 4y ago
Someone who's consistently working extra spoils the situation for the rest of the team. They'll eventually end up having the most knowledge and experience since they're working with the code more and they'll almost cert
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by Merad 4y ago
> An xhr api request returned an expected 403, which resulted in the browser suddenly concluding the basic auth (which was unrelated to the api call) was invalid and the user needed to be reprompted for credentials again. That sounds lik
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by Merad 4y ago
> Do you think the existence of these older cheaper planes is holding back the development of upstart companies aiming for a price point that's closer to the Cessna 172 than the SR22? Things in aviation are incredibly expensive beca
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by Merad 4y ago
The issues are totally unrelated. Jet turbines have always been capable of running on almost any fuel. I would hazard a guess that what Airbus did here was mostly certifying that the alternative fuel wouldn't cause any major problems
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by Merad 4y ago
Growing up on a farm we were constantly shooting squirrels out of fruit trees and off of bird feeders. It was amazing to me how they were barely concerned with gunfire and not at all bothered by the dead bodies of other squirrels. There w
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by Merad 4y ago
I've yet to work at a company that has managed to figure out a strategy to get the majority of devs to write clear and descriptive commit messages the majority of the time. At least if they include the ticket number I can look at the
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by Merad 4y ago
Isn't that slower and less efficient? Usually the CI has to run a full build from scratch before it can run the tests, but locally for me it's going to be an incremental build that takes a second or two. I can also run the subset
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by Merad 4y ago
> I've seen too many cases where the devs wouldn't even run the code locally. Lazy devs are going to be lazy no matter what processes their team uses.
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by Merad 4y ago
The books are ambiguous. There's an explosion caused by a device made by Saruman, but it isn't described and there's no indication AFAIK if it's supposed to be simple black powder or something magical.
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by Merad 4y ago
> a dirty read occurs when you perform a read, and another transaction updates the same row but doesn't commit the work, you perform another read, and you can access the uncommitted (dirty) value It's even worse than this with
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by Merad 4y ago
Christopher Tolkien had no say in the Hobbit films (or any other prior films). JRRT himself sold the rights to film adaptions of his works to United Artists a few years before his death. The GP is correct that the Tolkien Estate sold the
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by Merad 4y ago
> Most of us carries at least 1 kg (~2 lbs) fat It's a lot more than that. Even a fit (healthy, but not necessarily peak athletic shape) adult man will have about 15% body fat, 20% for a woman.
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by Merad 4y ago
100%... just switched to a company that uses Teams, hate it already.
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by Merad 4y ago
> UUIDs have a few distinct advantages: you'll never run out I'm curious what kind of applications are limited by the range of bigint values? I have no doubt that such applications exist somewhere, but most software engineers
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by Merad 4y ago
I used to work at a company that had some LoB apps used on iPads in a manufacturing facility... if the user login failed and the first character of the password was upper case those apps would retry with it lower case.
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by Merad 4y ago
An unstart is a specific phenomenon where supersonic flow of air into the engine gets disrupted. It's very different from a compressor stall where the airflow _inside_ the engine is disrupted. Wikipedia has a pretty decent explanatio
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by Merad 4y ago
Even ignoring the fact that human euthanasia is illegal in most of the US, it's rarely that easy. Both of my paternal grandparents lived into their 90s but suffered from mental decline (different forms of dementia) and died as shells
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by Merad 4y ago
Not to be an ass, but playing with css and html isn't programming. At all. It's making web pages. The web is so universal today that many people conflate "making web pages" and "programming". And there's
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by Merad 4y ago
> I'd like to ban all automatic, select-fire or semi-automatic firearms You're looking to ban at least 75% of all guns in the US. It might even be more like 80-90%, but I'm too lazy to look for a source. How do you inten
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by Merad 4y ago
Please don't waste everyone's time by asking questions if you're going to summarily dismiss any response you don't like.
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by Merad 4y ago
> Choosing to buy a gun should be thought of as one of the stupidest decisions the average person can make. Yeah, we're not at that point. We aren't remotely close. Recently polling shows the country split almost 50/50 o
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by Merad 4y ago
When people bring up this I don't think they realize that there are already very few limits on what you can own in the US... if you have the money. There's nothing inherently illegal about owning fighters or tanks, for example [0
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by Merad 4y ago
> If you find yourself in a situation like the article, don't wait until someone died to deal with those things. You may not have a choice in the matter. My own dad is 75, my mom passed away two years ago. I've tried several
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by Merad 4y ago
I'm going to assume you aren't American, because it sounds like you're working off of some fairly skewed views of the country. The vast majority of gun owners are pretty much normal people who don't want to shoot anyone
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by Merad 4y ago
2 acres was the total farmland, they would rotate which areas they used so on any given year only 30-40% of it was actually growing crops. They never sold anything that I can recall, but they loved being able to give extras away. Both of
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by Merad 4y ago
100%. Growing up my parents were hardcore gardeners (arguably smalltime farmers) with about 2 acres of farmland and an additional 2 acres of fruit trees. We'd eat pretty heavily out of the garden from the late spring through the fall

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