Nacraile

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by Nacraile 10y ago
I found this fairly awkward to read. Possibly that was the point, in which case it was well made. Otherwise, I would consider the author to be demonstrably unqualified to offer advice on writing style.
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by Nacraile 10y ago
I remember a time when I was a relatively computer-illiterate youngling and my favourite game was not particularly stable. I remember churning through many progressively more elaborate superstitions in search of some correlation I could ex
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> To be entrapment, someone working on the government's behalf would have to do something that would even convince a lawful-minded person to commit the crime. As a lawful-minded individual, if multiple government websites tell me th
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by Nacraile 10y ago
You're not really missing anything. WSJ is pretty much a clickbait mill; just skip the link and go straight to the comment section for actual interesting information and discussion of the topic.
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> Though maybe that's the exact segment they wouldn't mind see leaving anyways? Generally the people who leave voluntarily are the people you don't want to see leave. Good talent is likely to have little difficulty findin
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by Nacraile 11y ago
tcpdump is just a way of capturing the traffic, it's not a great analysis tool. It's simple, command-line, and part of the base install for many distributions. Generally very useful when you're remote debugging where you do
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by Nacraile 11y ago
The use cases are certainly narrowing, but cygwin is still occasionally useful, e.g.: - You want an actually functional ssh server running on windows so you can integrate with a mostly-linux test automation environment. - You're commit
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by Nacraile 11y ago
Having grappled with mapping between posix paths and the windows case-preserving-but-insensitive semantics, I can't say that I find this sort of thing terribly surprising. Unfortunately, this kind of edge-case behaviour is unavoidable
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by Nacraile 11y ago
Believe it or not, some people clean because they like things clean, not because they want to impress other people. I am one of those people. A dirty environment makes me miserable, regardless of whether anybody else ever sees it (and I h
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by Nacraile 11y ago
The first thing to do is to try to minimize the scope of mutating operations: e.g, decompose a monolithic read-write operation into independent load, transform, and store. You can then easily test as much as possible (the load and the stor
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by Nacraile 11y ago
"Shodan searches indicate that the backdoor affects over 600.000 externally accessible hosts" It doesn't look like this is LAN-only. Even if it were, an escalation from unprivileged code execution on a single device to MITM a
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by Nacraile 11y ago
All of the played notes will be in dischord. As for the unplayed notes: each note is a harmonic series of pure tones (F, 2F, 3F, ... where F is the fundamental frequency). Different notes have some degree of (sometimes approximate) overlap
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by Nacraile 11y ago
Your comparison with motorcycles is a bit flawed. Weight is the wrong thing to look at; at highway speeds drag is a major factor and motorcycles actually have higher drag coefficients than cars. You're also understating motorcycle fu
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by Nacraile 11y ago
> I absolutely loathe the author and her husband. ... > What they are doing is like the worst form of privileged hipsterism I can imagine. Why such intense dislike? They may be odd, but they're not hurting you or anybody else.
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by Nacraile 11y ago
This is simply not true. The CRTC threatened to add a tax on Netflix and similar services (to "compensate" for them not being subject to the content requirements imposed on traditional broadcasters). They backed off of that, and
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by Nacraile 11y ago
FWIW, Amazon proactively scans GitHub for AWS key leaks, notifies the account holder, and flags the account (they will disable the account if they start seeing active abuse and can't get in touch with the actual owner to get keys rot
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by Nacraile 11y ago
I'm going to dispute the "iff". Chesterton's fence is a useful idea to keep in mind, but it is flawed in that it is excessively conservative. It demands that you prove a negative, which is not reasonable in general. (
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by Nacraile 11y ago
It doesn't even add another factor, really. If I can trick you into revealing your password, I can capture your typing pattern at the same time. Same goes for snooping or compromising other sites' auth DBs. At best this adds a
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by Nacraile 11y ago
You know, some people drink coffee because they like the flavour, not because they need caffeine :P (As a matter of fact, I consider caffeine to be an undesirable side-effect of delicious coffee...) Coffee isn't the only natural sourc
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by Nacraile 11y ago
> What other role requires you to complete an exam to be considered for a job (or even just an interview). Moreover a 4-8 hour exam with no syllabus. No 'past papers' etc As far as I can tell, essentially all of them. Of cours
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by Nacraile 11y ago
False equivalence. Germany actually has the money it's wasting.
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by Nacraile 11y ago
> It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. Care to elaborate on how a savvy business
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by Nacraile 11y ago
I feel like existing debt is a bit of a red herring in discussion of the crisis. Yes, Greece has a lot of debt, but as a consequence of the previous bailout, that debt has very long maturity and low interest, so it doesn't actually co
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by Nacraile 11y ago
In all seriousness, how are you supposed to "refute the central point" when the central point appears to be an anti-semitic conspiracy theory? How do you construct a reasoned, evidence backed counter-argument to an absurd, eviden
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by Nacraile 11y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding the implication of anti-inductivity and/or the point of index funds. Anti-inductivity only holds that strategies that return better than average can't work when applied broadly. There is nothing
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by Nacraile 11y ago
Eh. It may have worked correctly in this particular case, but it also would have been a poor lesson in grokking big unfamiliar codebases. In my experience, hail-mary grepping for words of interest is a pretty poor strategy: if it turns up
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by Nacraile 11y ago
> Engineering firms won't even talk to someone claiming to be a ME or EE with no degree, no certifications, and/or no license. I don't think software is "dumbing down" by ignoring credentials. We're ignorin
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by Nacraile 11y ago
I'm not sure I buy your implicit assertion that other engineering disciplines are somehow better at hiring than the software industry is. As far as I can tell, mechanical and electrical engineers are hired based on relevance of work e
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by Nacraile 11y ago
> "In my (very positive) experience, stand-up is about maintaining situational awareness in the team." > And how could this not be more easily done with bug trackers and status emails? As far as I'm concerned, bug track
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by Nacraile 11y ago
I'm not surprised that people quickly forget irrelevant information. The value is in the times somebody says "hey, it sounds like you're touching code I'm working in, lets co-ordinate" or "it sounds like you&#

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