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by User23 3y ago
The Secret City was a huge inspiration for my childhood sketching.
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by User23 3y ago
On the flip side I personally know a small business owner who got fined thousands by the feds for slightly overpaying his legal migrant workers. So failing to be properly exploitative is also illegal.
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by User23 3y ago
> Isn't cheaper labor the main reason for migrant workers? I’m pretty sure the perception of a better quality of life is the main reason for migrant workers. I’ve never heard an H-1B say the reason they migrated is to drive down wag
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by User23 3y ago
His work on fuzzing and test case reduction is really interesting too.
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by User23 3y ago
As an aside Stevie Wonder is active in the NFB and at CSUN. I’ve never had the opportunity to meet him, but he greatly contributes to the blind community.
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by User23 3y ago
Sure, but it’s an alternative way a large SaaS provider might attempt to defend whatever competitive advantage its code provides. I’m not saying it’s equivalent or even as good, just that a company with good data controls could probably gro
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by User23 3y ago
Well it's not popular (even though it ought to be), but Edsger Dijkstra's A Discipline of Programming is an approachable and informal (by the author's standards) look at solving non-trivial problems in a provably correct wa
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by User23 3y ago
Trade secrets can exist without any supporting legislation.
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by User23 3y ago
It’s true though. So-called “Intellectual Property,” with the partial exception of trade secrets, is all creatures of Congress (or other legislative bodies). The law itself is cognizant of this and at least nominally attempts to respect the
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by User23 3y ago
This[1] is one possible start. Bear in mind though his approach is academic so don’t expect a tidy list of what the working C programmer needs to know. [1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1520
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by User23 3y ago
Yeah Dijkstra's main objection to goto is that it's really hard to formally define its semantics and even if you do, the formalism is so complex it's hard to reason about. Break and continue on the other hand are considerably
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by User23 3y ago
How does that follow?
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by User23 3y ago
The correct answer to “do you know why I pulled you over?” is “no sir.” There are exceptions, but as a general rule being honest, polite, and not volunteering additional information is the way to go. After all even if you were going 90 in a
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by User23 3y ago
You might want to take a few dozen hours to dig through John Regehr’s work to understand the current state of the art of C programming.
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by User23 3y ago
Looks like they’re entering the classic looting of the company by the executive team phase of the corporate lifecycle.
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by User23 3y ago
Yep. To my read this is Open Source(tm) getting exactly what they said they wanted.
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by User23 3y ago
Fortunately there are enough good old books that you could read them nonstop for the rest if your life and not get through them.
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by User23 3y ago
Just what we needed, another euphemism treadmill. Getting old kind of sucks. While with fortune you’ll have gained some wisdom and assets, your body and mind are noticeably deteriorating by the time you hit 40 and it just gets worse from th
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by User23 3y ago
I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve lost to Moria, Angband, NetHack, and FreeCiv to name just a few.
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by User23 3y ago
I would pay good money for a tabloid eink reader, so 17x11 inches. Ideally it would fold. A folding pair of 8.5x11 screens designed to work together would fit my use case too. So far as I know, nobody makes such a thing. Ideally it would be
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by User23 3y ago
It’s arbitrary and based on tradition.
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by User23 3y ago
A big reason why is Search today is an AI Librarian. That AI may be more or less smart, but at the end of the result that's what people mean when they say Search. They certainly do not mean a robust query language that will allow them
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by User23 3y ago
It’s about as legally meaningful as wedding vows in our legal system.
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by User23 3y ago
Where? Sure there is plenty of empty land in the USA but that’s just it: there’s nothing there so nobody wants to live there.
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by User23 3y ago
Recently in 2020 homicides peaked in the aftermath of the “mostly peaceful protests” and the subsequent law officer retreat to the donut shop. Traffic deaths also surged due to depolicing. It’s good though that we’re still down from the blo
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by User23 3y ago
Homicides are decreasing exactly the same way inflation is decreasing. Down from recent highs but still quite elevated.
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by User23 3y ago
The USMCA has been very good for Mexico. It’s one of those facts that’s off narrative so virtually nobody knows it’s so.
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by User23 3y ago
It’s sad that we (barely) care more about recycling soda cans than we do batteries. If throwing batteries in the regular trash is such a costly thing why on Earth don’t we collect a deposit and offer deposit return to anyone who turns them
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by User23 3y ago
Another option that’s crossed my mind is putting the modifiers on the front edge of the board.
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by User23 3y ago
If you enjoy noetic surprise this is a must read.

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