XCabbage

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Simple uses of quantifiers can make regexes take quadratic time unnecessarily(markamery.com)
2 points by XCabbage 2y ago|0 comments
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by XCabbage 2y ago
It's not just that it requires recall. It's that it requires no non-trivial thought beyond recall.
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by XCabbage 2y ago
This doesn't feel like a "reasoning" challenge. The mental skill required to solve most of these seems to be the ability to loop over all known members of a category like "popular brand names" or "well-known ac
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by XCabbage 2y ago
The problem, of course, is that due to "disparate impact" doctrine, this (and colourblind hiring in general) is de facto illegal, and DEI scale-tipping is de facto mandatory (even though it's almost always de jure illegal). L
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by XCabbage 2y ago
He concedes no such thing. Reserving jobs for members of a "black coalition" that any black person can join is obviously DEI, not cronyism. It's a de facto race-based filter, not one based on favour-trading or past links to t
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Indeed, it didn't have race-based questions, which I don't think anyone claimed. Rather it had totally arbitrary questions, not related to merit in any plausible way, and a score cutoff that made it highly likely you'd fail
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by XCabbage 2y ago
No? So this whole section on Wikipedia is just false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Facebook#COVID-1... (You may be right about the government "pressure" being grossly overstated, I dunno. But t
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Oh, come on. No, per the reporting, they didn't specifically mention the laptop, but they DID tell SM and tech companies to expect an imminent disinformation dump the week before the NYP published their story (which they'd been si
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by XCabbage 2y ago
This is really obviously not intentional, let alone requested by the Trump admin.
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Huh? When has Facebook ever implemented political censorship on behalf of Trump ? I am not aware of a single case of such a thing even being requested, let alone granted. The scandals about government-directed social media censorship were
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by XCabbage 2y ago
No, it is true and has been covered in all major newspapers many times over. The Hunter Biden laptop story was censored due to warnings from the FBI, and Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Building a professional reputation? Letting people contact you with feedback and improvement suggestions? Pure personal pride? Plenty of reasons to want your work to be attributed to you regardless of whether you're directly monetising
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by XCabbage 2y ago
For that matter, what if it's a different device (or entire different human being) on the same IP address?
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by XCabbage 2y ago
It's the most appropriate possible example here because for many non-American readers it will be the one date that they have heard spoken in American English enough times to recall how Americans say it. For people who don't have m
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by XCabbage 2y ago
> If want a user to schedule a reoccurring meeting at 8am on the first Thursday of every month, you can also keep a set of timestamps as milliseconds since the epoch No, you can't really, especially if the recurring meetings go on m
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by XCabbage 2y ago
I don't understand this cryptic hinting. What's wrong with the rule, and what thing that the law was trying to prevent does the rule mandate as a remedy?
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Unauthorized read access to private emails you were never legitimately CCed on already is impact. It should not be necessary to come up with a further exploit daisy chained on top of that in order to be taken seriously. (Otherwise why sto
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by XCabbage 2y ago
A "non-departmental government body" - more usually known in the press as a "quango" or "quasi-autonomous non-government body", because we cannot make up our mind in the UK about what things are part of the &qu
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Obviously, the retaliation is bad. Should disqualify Lord Hendy from his role. But I would also like to make sense of what the actual risk alleged to exist in Euston is, and how Gareth Dennis or the ORR inspector thinks it should be mitigat
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Not really true. National Rail, which owns the tracks is a quango, not a private company. The actual train operators are truly privately owned but it is important to understand that they are not privately making any major strategic decision
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by XCabbage 2y ago
What aspect of the UK's nebulous "constitution" do you claim was violated here? (Or are you just reflexively/thoughtlessly saying "unconstitutional" because it would be a First Amendment violation in the USA?)
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by XCabbage 2y ago
The odd vs even versions rule you describe, while followed by a few projects, is not part of Semantic Versioning (aka SemVer) - there's no mention of it whatsoever in the spec at https://semver.org/ . Indeed it is basic
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by XCabbage 2y ago
WTF? Right now, this post on HN is titled "Critical Vulnerabilities in Package Manager Revealed by Secret Scanning Research". That's nonsense. The title of the linked Medium post is "Exposing Hidden Dangers: The Essentia
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by XCabbage 2y ago
> even this length of sentence has a high chance of producing a hardened, bitter criminal with hacking skills. You present this as an argument for a shorter sentence. But from another perspective, it's an argument for never letting
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Wait, receiving compensation from a US source while in the US on an ESTA is prohibited? Wouldn't that mean that even the activities I described as legit "business" - a remote worker coming to the US on an ESTA to meet their U
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Interesting. I know for certain from experience that some ESTA visitors and their employers assume the law does NOT work like this, and that as long as you're visiting for a legit "business" purpose you are not required to su
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by XCabbage 2y ago
Preamble: As I understand it, it is permissible for a European who works for a US company to visit the US as a "business visitor" on an ESTA in order to visit the company, as long as the visit is not for "work". Various
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by XCabbage 3y ago
> it just wouldn't make sense in the context of the game show for the presenter (who knows where the goats are) to ever open a door to reveal the car and give you the option to switch No, but it would make perfect sense for him to o
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by XCabbage 3y ago
Ah, nice - so "my color doesn't appear on the list" is a problem that fixes itself automatically when you complain on HN about it!
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by XCabbage 3y ago
Perplexingly, my color appeared there shortly after I posted this. Does that link contain colors of recently active users, perhaps?

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