TheSoftwareGuy

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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
>Of course, they still have to get caught, but it won't be the DA that has to do something about it, it's the defendant's lawyer who will do it. But unfortunately, this means that anybody who can't afford a good lawye
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
I'm not sure if you are being serious or not, but I'm sure the US government is getting useful intelligence out of this as well. The US has an interest in knowing how this happened
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
> Amazon pioneered hyperscale logistics efficiencies Actually, I believe that was Walmart as well: >TIMMER: I used to ask my class, I’m talking 1985, “Where is the world’s largest supercomputer?” And the correct answer was, “It’s at t
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
> Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices We need to make those things illegal and we need to make sure those laws are enforced. This is the greatest downfall of capitalism, moral
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
FORTRAN does the same actually
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
I think the wind at his back is key here. His car was acting like a wind turbine
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5y ago
Floats are still represented in 32 bits, or 64 for doubles
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Well the solution is simple, just make a new LLC for each GitHub account you need! I'm definitely kidding, but unless there is more in there TOS (which I don't intend to read) I don't see why this wouldn't be a workable
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Personally, I didn't know about the ( ... commands ... ) > some_file.txt syntax. Like, I knew about file redirection, but I didn't know you could group commands like that and redirect all their output with one
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
How?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
I think we could just stick with positivity rates and case numbers to figure that out, like we have been doing. Once the vaccines start working their magic, we’ll see it in those metrics. That way we don’t have to try and guess how infecti
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
More like you want users to be able to move their data around, send it, email it, etc, without thinking about 50 files in 10 directories that need to be placed in the right way. Rather just have 1 file with all the relevant data, and any st
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
How do unions rely on “a steady flow of meat into the grinder?”
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Same on mobile safari
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Linux is not the only OSS Operating system. OpenBSD, FreeBSD exist, just off the top of my head
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Looks useful! Pro tip, as a professional C/C++ dev, for macros: Wrap the body in a do-while loop, to force a semicolon after it’s called https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067226/c-multi-line-mac...
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Revisionist history did a really good episode going in depth about all this: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/31-puzzle-rush
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
It's necessary because normally, when iTerm encounters a BEL character it plays an audio file through the default audio output device. It needs to be patched to instead interact with the device over HID instead.
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
> cat > Catenate TIL the words concatenate and catenate exist, although they seem to have almost the same exact meaning
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
I think the 7th fact is that the Fair Labor Standards Act only requires employees be paid for labor that is "integral and indispensable" to their duties. In hindsight, it really should be something closer to "time spent at th
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
A phone would still need a regular battery for normal operation. At that point you can just use for everything
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
I agree with you. For some reason, every now and again studies like this -- ones that are interesting but under-researched -- are posted on HN, and I don't get why. People then treat these studies as if they are conclusive evidence of
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Looking at the linked src code, there’s lots of mixed tabs/spaces for indent. shudders
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Sounds like apple didn't want any competition for in-store ads
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Pretty sure you can embed javascript in a PDF document, actually.
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
The fed is absolutely an agency of the us government: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm >The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by th
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
The linked article talks about usage by the military
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
I think there is also a third option (might be a variant of #1): they are cooperating with the CCP, but the CCP does not value what TikTok provides them very highly, and so they don’t care enough to do much
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
Interesting. 6.6% seems like a pretty insignificant investment. Does anybody have any idea what 6.6% could really get them?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 6y ago
If the lobbying they do is unfair, then they should change the rules around lobbying

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