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by Uptrenda 6y ago
ITT: How to hire formulaic robots and reduce an entire profession to paint by numbers. This is really no different to current hiring though. In that you force people to learn arcane algorithm skills they will likely never use at any softwar
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I'm so sick of these profound-sounding blog posts that take 1 million words to say precisely jack shit. Yes, the key innovation around Bitcoin was to order events. You can call this 'time' if you want. This is literally the m
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Posts like this just make me realize how impossible it is to follow every security best practice and stay one step ahead of the latest techniques. You can maybe try tick the most common boxes, but expecting users to be able to police their
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
OP asserts that we have no right to complain because other people have it worse... This is a logic fallacy known as the 'fallacy of relative privation.' It's faulty reasoning because its an infinite race to the bottom. Noooo:
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
This is similar to Stackoverflow's 'Technologies I don't like' resume section. Every time I encounter something truly horrible I add it there. I also add tech to filter out roles I'd rather not get tricked into doin
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Can you imagine the insane accommodation big tech companies would design to attract top talent though? It might help counteract some of the crappiness of relocation when everything seems to be going remote. I mean an entire town is a massiv
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Alternatively: we could assume that people are capable of making their own financial decisions and don't need anyone to police what they do with their own money. Treating people like children for taking risks and assuming they are too
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Wow, this looks bad. Many VPS and shared hosting providers would be directly shellable with this. Even exploits that got you onto a web server with a limited web shell = full root. Alternatively, sites that already have shells from previous
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I really do hate Wikipedia and almost never use it. It's a collection of poorly spun word-salad stolen loosely from third-parties. And the aim isn't on quality but to satisfy the editors compulsive need to contribute to Wikipedia&
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
It's become a web trend to waste 60% of the screen by making ultra-thin, column sites with microscopic text. I don't know why. Apparently having a site 'look good' trumps being able to read it? I was curious what the fon
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Looks like the Github is here: https://github.com/buttplugio I expect we'll see some interesting issues posted there eventually
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
The iMac looks so beautiful and modern even today. Whenever I see one I want to buy it. If I had the time it would make an amazing case for an electronics project too.
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Now all we need is a good package manager for it and you're looking at a C renaissance
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I've seen the goto error-handling approach used now in SDKs written by developers from companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Nordic Semiconductor. It really does seem to be the best way to do it. And it's simple. Mess something up
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I read something ages back about a lesser known process called 'testing out' where you are basically able to just do the exams at universities to get a degree. It's suppose to encourage life-long learning and its based on the
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Too little data for such a bold claim...
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Thank you for working on such a horrible problem for developers. Looks amazing tbh. Will definitely try this out on a future project. Edit: open source part = huge. Great work
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
If Googler's did manage to unionize what would be some of the biggest changes that would happen at Google as a result? I'm an outsider so I don't have much of a picture into how employees feel about Google. But I am curious
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
It seems like you could easily build a fintech app that gives you a virtual pre-paid credit card to use with these services and gets funded only up until your budget amount. That might be a safer way to work with services like this. Could
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Honestly I was disappointed as hell with my airpods. I have to re-pair them every time I use them (often multiple times.) no matter if its with a mac, an android phone, a linux pc, or whatever. its pairing sucks. if anyone wants to buy this
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Anyone have any ideas how they might have technically 'extrapolated estimates' of intelligence? Would they have used a language-based metric like 'idea density'? Or is there another aspect to this? Would love to hear fro
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
It's a good article but light on the technical side. I would have liked to know more about alternative networking technologies that what make the vision possible beyond 'running ethernet cables' to different neighbors houses.
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
most of this is solved by using big numbers, knowing about precision expansion for different fundamental operations, real numbers, and when to use rounding. it is an insightful article but honestly i wouldnt expect to use the float type for
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I'd rather crowd fund a 100% open mobile chip. We've got 'open phones' already. But they're all still using qualcomm blobs. I think that is a huge vuln in our communications system. It's like if one company con
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I think you could use only a fraction of that money to setup a homestead and live off the grid. You would have to plan it properly: (e.g. rain fall, solar hours, land area, soil quality, rivers, and so on) and put in more work outside. But
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
This is a really good point. I had a friend who was interested in psychedelics who told me about similar neutral to negative changes in perception. He observed a number of changes: - Night vision changed and became impaired by 'visual
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Looks useful. Should make it single-header / single-file too. Regex would also be good to have.
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
Well... that article made my skin feel like it was crawling with spiders. Interesting read though. Thanks OP.
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Why Intel Processors Draw More Power Than Expected: TDP and Turbo Explained(anandtech.com)
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by Uptrenda 6y ago
I find it strange how the article puts forwards having to build a desktop computer as some kind of weird, horrific, form of torture. Oh no man! Don't build a desktop computer. Anything but that! The problem can't possibly be so ba

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