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by Slartie 8y ago
Sudden loss due to crash = unlikely (fortunately) Grounded for unknown timespan due to some kind of severe damage = does happen from time to time (good thing, because otherwise, crashes would become more likely...) Since the effect on the l
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by Slartie 8y ago
x86 Docker containers will not run on ARM, even if you install Docker for ARM. Docker is an entirely useless layer to support cross-architecture deployment. Heck, even full-blown VMs (the real ones, that docker partially replaced) are mostl
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by Slartie 8y ago
2-3% CC fees are a waste. But you don't need blockchains to fix that. You need someone to legislatively force the CC companies to stop playing the cashback bullshit game, which is the real cost driver (much more than fraud) as it funne
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by Slartie 8y ago
Would guess that as well. Very common error, which comes in many fashions and which can be made in practically any language. I'm mostly working in Java, where it's the same thing with System.currentTimeMillis() used instead of Sys
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by Slartie 8y ago
I've implemented some sort of "poor man's Docker" using LD_PRELOAD, back then in 2011 when Docker wasn't a thing. It works by overriding getaddrinfo (IIRC) and capturing name lookups of "localhost", which
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by Slartie 8y ago
The fact that you were apparently able to do what you did is a perfect indicator for the problem behind that "sales boost": it is a straw fire. And a very expensive one. How fast will you be gone once the nice rewards give way to
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by Slartie 8y ago
But don't forget that they also need to invest $0 into additional infrastructure necessary to accomodate Amazon and deal with various other problems their presence would have created.
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by Slartie 8y ago
Did exactly this, a few weeks ago. Was heavy Chrome user, now fully on Firefox (and Safari on mobile). I am so satisfied with this decision, and the transition was much easier than expected.
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by Slartie 8y ago
None of them is a web app. All of them want to provide certain views on their content that are uniquely identified by their URLs. This is especially true for Twitter and Reddit, which both aim to have their views on tweets and threads to be
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by Slartie 8y ago
In order to be blackmailed by the US and Saudi governments, you do not need to have a lot of money. They don't really care about that, because they also have a lot of money. What they care about is whether you have something that poses
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by Slartie 8y ago
It's a neat psychological trick to get people accustomed to non-content-neutral pricing strategies by mobile network operators. Basically it is a counter-strategy to the net neutrality people. While net neutrality is usually argued as
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by Slartie 8y ago
I actually taught myself the skill of reading. Real reading, including understanding what the words and sentences mean. While learning countless other things that 5-year-old kids usually learn, partially on my own, partially taught by my pa
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by Slartie 8y ago
This one (especially HN commentary) is a good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18806315 After reading it all, I don't really see him as being any more successful in predicting than you and me. You get some ri
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by Slartie 8y ago
I went on a similar, but slightly different path. I thought it was an article not so much about a dystopian fantasy, but about the harsh (and in some ways also dystopian) reality of AI and ML systems not being "debuggable" and und
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by Slartie 8y ago
Maybe they would, if the sociopaths wouldn't assimilate many of those "successes". I consider a certain number of successful businesses to be a relatively stable statistical certainty in a society which provides the necessary
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by Slartie 8y ago
You of course need to know when they're doing their homework. Enable their device(s) for internet access in your home router during that time, disable it afterwards. You can surely hack together a nice solution to quickly block/un
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by Slartie 8y ago
School does not require 24/7 internet access, so even if they have their own computers on their desks, just shut down their internet access except for the express purpose of doing homework, for which you re-enable it for a limited time
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by Slartie 8y ago
There are less harsh methods of convincing kids to do their part in the household. Taking their devices with screens from them or limiting their screen time/internet access works great in today's world! Kids should always get basi
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by Slartie 8y ago
Anyone implementing business-critical applications which have to continue to function if external services go down. Ever wondered how cash registers work? Exactly like that. The world may burn down around you, but as long as your cash regis
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by Slartie 8y ago
Actually most miners have tried to get the best possible hash per kilowatt ratio out of their cards, which makes sense given that electricity cost is basically the main cost of their business. And the best ratio isn't achieved by overc
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by Slartie 8y ago
64 bit pointers require double the space in memory, hence your caches inside the processor can only hold half the number of pointers. This means more cache misses and thus more waiting for abysmally slow (when compared with L1/L2 cache
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by Slartie 8y ago
Because the adjustment window is not real-time-based, but block-based: every 2016 blocks, an adjustment is done - with the obvious caveat being that the duration it takes to mine 2016 blocks is based on the global hash rate. Also, the downw
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by Slartie 8y ago
I've been using the same system for almost 5 years now, with no real problems. Has more than paid for itself by now. I didn't switch to OpenHAB though, but instead hacked their original desktop control software, which is actually
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by Slartie 8y ago
This thing targets people who started using Photoshop back in the day when it still wasn't a subscription service for basic and mildly advanced image editing tasks, and who thus grew accustomed to the Photoshop UI. I personally know se
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by Slartie 8y ago
> AWS has brand recognition, and no one will get fired for going with AWS. Now replace "AWS" with "IBM"... Funny how the exact same thought processes that used to happen on big lazy enterprise corporations now transla
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by Slartie 8y ago
> Technically, as long as objects aren't exchanged between modules, it would be possible to use ClassLoader isolation to have two libraries each load their own incompatible dependency at run time. It's on my blue-sky TODO list.
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by Slartie 8y ago
Let me guess: Netflix? From the outside (I've never worked at any of FAANG, I don't even work in the US) it seems to me that they are the most likely of those companies to actually hire seniors as seniors, simply because they appe
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by Slartie 8y ago
Maybe there's a style guide for the US intelligence/cybersecurity apparatus that demands ugly design straight out of the 90s? Maybe that style guide is also top secret ;-) I've been wondering about that since Snowden afforded
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by Slartie 8y ago
Sure. Replacing single files deep down in some directory hierarchy in an archive. Compressing bigger amounts of files as efficient and fast as possible, so I want to customize a lot of parameters of the algorithm. Extracting many archives i
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by Slartie 8y ago
But a MacBook is neither a smartphone nor a tablet, which is what the term 'mobile' refers to. A MacBook is a laptop, which is a portable version of a PC, and in that landscape, ARM is a niche instruction set.

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