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by Merad 7y ago
You have to include supporting documentation if you claim > 10 hours spent.
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by Merad 7y ago
> So many comments here missing the point. As a developer, I can use wasm to ship a single binary that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. But we've accomplished that by effectively turning web browsers into VM's th
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by Merad 7y ago
Depends on how you look at it, but IMO: yes. Eve is one of the few (maybe the only?) MMOs with a direct and legitimate conversion between real currency and in-game currency. You can purchase (with real money) an item called PLEX, which can
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by Merad 7y ago
Having played Eve for the better part of 6 years (2003-2009) I can tell you that it's a lot more fun to read about than to play. In some ways the game is way too close to real life. You typically have to put in a lot of work in-gam
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by Merad 7y ago
Deepfake voices would twist the knife even deeper, but they aren't necessary. This kind of scam already hits seniors all the time: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec... https:&#x2F
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by Merad 7y ago
I'm struggling to see how try/catch is either magic or surprising unless you simply aren't familiar with exception handling.
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by Merad 7y ago
That video is incredible. It's hard to estimate size from the shaky footage late in the video, but I would say the fire grows to be almost 50 meters wide in the course of... three minutes? And that's with a dozen men trying to f
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by Merad 7y ago
Unless you limit yourself to flying very near the ground and very near sea level, the speed of an aircraft is more complex than a single number. In fact four different speed numbers are commonly used: indicated airspeed, calibrated airspee
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by Merad 7y ago
Anandtech was sold (or maybe Anand left, I don’t recall exactly) about 5-6 years ago. The depth of their technical writing isn’t what it used to be.
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by Merad 7y ago
I worked for a few years in enterprise app development at a Fortune 500, and our bread and butter (probably 75% of new code written) was making replacements for people's homegrown "apps" build on top of Excel or Access that h
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by Merad 7y ago
What fascinates me is that my cat understands the difference between when I've left the house and when I've gone somewhere in the house that she can't follow. I got her in college, and the first few years when I would take h
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by Merad 7y ago
Perhaps "deprecated" isn't quite accurate. I could have sworn one of their documentation pages basically said, "there's a good chance you'll run into problems if you use the CLI, and we don't recommend usi
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by Merad 7y ago
How do you apply your migrations? I was setting up a project a few weeks ago and reached for FluentMigrator as it used to be my go to tool... but apparently the command line tool is now deprecated and they recommend writing custom code to
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by Merad 7y ago
Visual Studio's debugger is especially magical with .NET. With the debugger paused on a breakpoint you can drag the "next statement" pointer backwards to rerun pieces of your code. You can also edit the code while paused an
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by Merad 7y ago
I was under the impression that there were already devices on the market that would monitor your blood sugar and dispense insulin as needed. Is that not the case? Or does this system provide some additional functionality?
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by Merad 7y ago
It sounds like those builds weren’t quite set up correctly. I’ve used TeamCity’s build chains quite a bit and haven’t seen this behavior. Depending on exactly how the builds are triggered it will sometimes enqueue redundant builds, but as t
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by Merad 7y ago
"Add a sensor" is a non-trivial exercise in the aviation world. If you're doing things correctly you need triple redundancy so you can determine when one sensor is returning bad data. Adding sensors for every little thing wou
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by Merad 8y ago
I would tend to attribute this to the fact that butter is delicious before I'd say it was an instinctual craving for fats.
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by Merad 8y ago
I'm no robotics engineer, but to me the design looks brilliant. I suspect that the biggest problem with a machine that needs to pick up and carry objects in a somewhat humanoid fashion is going to be weight and balance. They've
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by Merad 8y ago
Seems unlikely, because the Richter scale is logarithmic. For example, to bleed off the energy released by this magnitude 5.4 earthquake, you'd have to trigger 125000 magnitude 2.0 quakes. Fun little calculator on the USGS site: htt
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by Merad 8y ago
Google's motto used to be "don't be evil," and there was a time when people honestly believed they meant it. Hell, I think there was a time when Google did honestly mean it.
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Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix(i-programmer.info)
63 points by Merad 8y ago|5 comments
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by Merad 8y ago
I wonder how much longer we'll even have the option to use our own equipment. Late last year I briefly tried AT&T fiber, and it was required to use their hybrid modem/router monstrosity. It didn't even have options to dis
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by Merad 8y ago
In Firefox you can disable this stuff by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
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by Merad 8y ago
In the US a significant portion of one of the two major political parties believes that the vast majority of the government fundamentally should not exist. Do other western countries face a similar challenge?
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by Merad 8y ago
These aren't necessarily the same thing. When I was looking for a rental house about 6 months ago, essentially all of the homes I visited were set up with a "smart lockbox". You had to set up an account with a 3rd party servi
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by Merad 8y ago
> I can't remember Djikstra's algorithm either, but I would happily try and write a 15 line brute force recursive maze solver in an interview. You'd fail the interview. The type of interviewers that ask this style of ques
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by Merad 8y ago
Close, but not quite. Call centers are designed to make the general support (tier 1) agents effectively flesh and blood robots. These are jobs that might start at $10 an hour if you’re lucky, have little training, and typically very high tu
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by Merad 8y ago
> Yet once the engine or transmission fails it is done. One of my cousins owns a transmission repair shop, and from what he says at holiday gatherings he always has more customers waiting in line than he can ever hope to get to. Seems li
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by Merad 8y ago
In fact the worst shipwreck in history just occurred in 1987, killing more than 4,000 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz

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