Slartie

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by Slartie 7y ago
> How do you actually distinguish between a tool-assisted human and a human-assisted tool? What's the test and where is that written in the legislation? That will probably be distinguished between by a judge looking at all the facts
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by Slartie 7y ago
Because how would it know that some little detail about some configuration has changed (maybe you moved a PCIe card from one slot to the other, a firmware of something was updated, or whatever)? It would have to scan everything, every start
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by Slartie 7y ago
But you can arbitrarily depress it. Its value is the sum of all positive aspects (such as good infrastructure, nice views at a river) and all negative aspects (such as air pollution, noise). Implementing a restriction on rents adds a huge n
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by Slartie 7y ago
When I read this kind of stories about US lotteries (and there seem to be several of this kind of stories going around), I always wonder how on earth it is possible for so many cases of failed lottery rule design to exist in the first place
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by Slartie 7y ago
Oh yeah, loved to read this! Gaming and especially moddable games are a great entry into programming. It wasn't exactly my entry, as I had programmed stuff before, but I learned a huge lot during my university time while writing a data
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by Slartie 7y ago
This was already done for the JVM. It was an utter failure, and not economically viable at all. As the OP said: this is reinventing the JVM, just worse. Including making all the mistakes again. (At least for the server, that is. I see a gre
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by Slartie 7y ago
> Right, which is why 93%+ is typically considered an 'A' but if you get less than an 'A' it means you failed to meet expectations. This is a really strange concept to me. So wherever you went to school, most students
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by Slartie 7y ago
True, and I would like any of those better than the idiocy that is the 5-star system. But the "no choice" statement was directed at where they set the cutoff in their existing system. With their lie of a rating system, they have t
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by Slartie 7y ago
That's because the riders have always dumbed down the 5-star system into a binary "one-star-or-no-star" system since the inception of Uber. Uber thus had no choice than to set the cutoff at this number.
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by Slartie 7y ago
But isn't school grading the exact opposite? Of course anything less than A means you did something wrong. But the test expects you to do something wrong! Failing to complete some of the tasks correctly is normal, expected and exactly
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by Slartie 7y ago
It's not about making anyone dance - it's about rewarding people for exceptional service. Sometimes, when I pay someone to do some kind of service for me, they go out of their way to be better than average. That is just what happe
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by Slartie 7y ago
In my perception that wasn't the idea of any company, but companies just decided to adapt to how the majority of users use the 5-star rating system: basically like a one-star-system, where 5 means "all ok" (1 star), and 1 sta
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by Slartie 7y ago
They should ask people for justification on 5 star ratings as well, like "What was the absolutely exceptional, one-of-a-kind aspect in this ride?". Because if 5 stars means "everything's normal" and it is the maximu
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by Slartie 7y ago
I wrote stuff like that while I was studying, 12 years ago, and even before during my teenage time. Did everything - design, code, frontend, backend, hosting and operations. Probably my biggest success was a database site for the game World
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by Slartie 7y ago
Opera was the first browser with any significant market share that supported tabs. I vividly remember switching to Opera somewhere in the 2000s for that very reason. It also had working bookmark syncing way earlier than the others - that wa
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by Slartie 7y ago
We're usually calling them "blinker tests" in our integration test suite. Reasons for blinker tests vary, but most are in line with what others here have already stated: concurrency, especially correct synchronization of test
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by Slartie 7y ago
But where is that mythical person who is sweating in 22C/70F while wearing summer-appropriate (thin) clothes? I've never met anyone like that. Besides...forcing lots of people to carry sweatshirts around during summertime, just so
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by Slartie 7y ago
Oh, that's a great idea! Stadia could sell it as an add-on to players which not only don't want to play their games themselves, but also aren't satisfied by watching other people play through their games on YouTube or Twitch.
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by Slartie 7y ago
That "something" is the huge, relatively homogeneous, english-speaking and thus very "international-by-default" single market. It's the one and only actual moat that the US has over Europe when it comes to developin
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by Slartie 8y ago
I am pretty sure the software here did exactly what it was supposed to do. There was no buffer overrun, no NullPointerException, not any other kind of bug. There was just software that reacted exactly as specified. The problem is: those spe
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by Slartie 8y ago
I would expect the same, at least for Lyft. Uber is a bit of a different beast. It's valuated much higher, and it banked a lot of that valuation (in my perception at least) on the perspective of getting self-developed fully automated d
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by Slartie 8y ago
I hate them, and I'm from Europe. I also don't really see them being "the norm" - the software development company I work for since 8 years puts 2-4 people into an office, and that's it. We had some experiments wit
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by Slartie 8y ago
> I’m aware of only one country, Japan. Germany is one of those, too. We have fairly good taxi services in any larger city, at least as far as I've seen as a user in the last 15 years. They usually have clean cars, are there on time
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by Slartie 8y ago
Of course they would. They are a taxi service, not a Dropbox or YouTube. They do neither have obscene demand for storage, nor for bandwidth, they need some servers tracking their users coordinates, running a "who is nearest" searc
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by Slartie 8y ago
That would match my usage pattern, so I guess you are correct. I'm using Facebook only rarely and am definitely and completely away from it for several days or even weeks between periods of usage.
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Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive(nytimes.com)
106 points by Slartie 8y ago|106 comments
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by Slartie 8y ago
Even more annoying is the same thing that they do with email notifications. They seem to keep inventing new "categories" of notifications all the time that I haven't yet opted out of - basically because I seem to be only able
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by Slartie 8y ago
She wasn't the only one. I'd guess more than half of them will not have done the task. Saying "you were the only one not doing it" is a way to lure her into eventually doing the task even though she initially decided aga
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by Slartie 8y ago
That is true. Your salary will most likely not reflect your actual value, but will be way below what you should actually earn. But - if you do it right (and with a bit of luck), you can work yourself into a position in which you've got
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by Slartie 8y ago
This guy got it! Intertwining refactoring work with quick wins that fix visible issues is key. Do not blow all your load in the first timeframe by just crunching away on all quickly fixable issues - even if that would probably shed you in a

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