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by Zanfa 4y ago
It's been interesting looking into their "leaked" source to see how the application is architected. It's surprisingly accessible given the overall size.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Google can also return enough ads to push real search result below fold, while also making it as hard as possible to discern between real and paid results.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
They'll make it up in volume.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Can’t say much about other search engines, but Google has definitely let it slip really bad. For example, organic results being pushed below the fold, with organic-looking paid results taking top spots instead. Another big issue they’ve had
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by Zanfa 4y ago
JSON is also on average much more human-readable than the average XML document. Sure, you can do awful things with JSON and generate beautiful XML, but for some reason all of the XML I've encountered in production systems is extremely
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by Zanfa 4y ago
The myth of overly harsh measures imposed on Germany after WWI leading into WW2 doesn't make sense. If anything, the measures weren't harsh enough, since after WW2 Germany was denazified, partitioned and occupied for decades, whic
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by Zanfa 4y ago
The "death by a thousand abstractions" problem must be one of the most difficult ones to solve. Each abstraction in isolation makes sense and looks like an improvement, but given a few years, the overall code becomes an inscrutabl
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by Zanfa 4y ago
But how much of the "stuff" is actually necessary? I think part of the point is that the FE complexity is not inherent to the problem being solved, but a side-effect of having too many engineers and PMs with not enough to do, so n
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> I've been playing guitar on and off for 30 years. I'm holding the pick completely wrong and it hugely negatively impacts my playing - but I've struggled to correct it (I hold it with thumb, index and middle finger; if I
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by Zanfa 4y ago
1) It's sloooooooooow 2) It's extremely buggy, like on a daily basis where something just doesn't work for any apparent reason that is usually either fixed by killing Xcode or removing derived data & then killing Xcode 3)
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> Read the code. Believe the code. Not what you think it’s doing, not what the comments imply, not even what variable/function/class names imply. What is the code actually doing? 100% agree, but in my experience there's on
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> I'm more referring to it in the sense of "I trust you to competently administer this database and not tamper with its data" A well-administered non-tamperable database of garbage data is still quite useless. With an unpe
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by Zanfa 4y ago
This makes zero sense. > The advantages start popping up when multiple DMVs are using the same ledger; they don't have to trust each other, yet can still read and write records. What do you mean different DMVs don’t have to trust ea
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Or because their competition is so far behind that what little Apple has in terms of integration is still miles ahead.
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My 8GB M1 Air kicks my 64GB 10-core iMac’s ass in most scenarios. Don’t think I even know how to use less than 30+ tabs open at the same time. Smooth as butter.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
HEPA and carbon filters do wonders for cooking smells, particulates etc, but unfortunately do nothing for the main reason you want air exchange with outside, which is CO2 buildup.
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> But I find day2day use of measurements in inch/ft, e.g. in home renovation and architecture, way way easier than metric system. I’m gonna make an educated guess that you grew up using imperial units. There’s nothing more “natural”
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Wow, this is amazing. Just the other day I was staring at a query with multiple CTEs that took 20+ seconds to run. Ended up adding an additional WHERE clause on an indexed column to the slowest CTE, which took the execution time down to 100
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> It's not fair to say that cryptocurrency has had "zero benefits" "Zero" is not fair only because the total sum effect has definitely been negative. Ignoring all the ponzis, frauds, scams and rugpulls, you can&#
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Worst part is there doesn't even seem to be a significant amount of snow on the roads.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> Russia’s threats become completely empty and meaningless if the blackmailees know that the blackmailer can’t turn the gas back on. Empty threats are Russia's MO and have been for literal decades now. They've threatened Europe
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> Adding another nail to the coffin claiming Russia blew up their own pipeline. Or not. Blowing up NS1 to pressure Germany to allow NS2 to open wouldn't be inconceivable, while also pushing up the price of gas through other pipeline
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by Zanfa 4y ago
It's really not if we're talking about the sum of payments to Russia from EU for oil/gas. Before the 24th, the share of Russian gas was hovering above 50% of total EU imports and when the price skyrocketed, the dollar value o
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by Zanfa 4y ago
This was true because of the all time high natural gas prices (€350/MWh) and high oil prices, both of which have now dropped to pre-war levels (~€70/MWh).
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I believe some text editors call LSP processes over sockets using JSON-RPC.
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It seems to be more a case of companies not actually wanting to follow the the law and do the straightforward thing - not collect personally identifiable information unless absolutely necessary for the functionality of the product / se
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> Amazed at the quantity of low-effort posts in this thread. HN used to be more than this. It's hard for me to believe that people are acting in good faith here. I mean, they can't be that low in intelligence, right? I think HN
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by Zanfa 4y ago
It can't be a very good game given their main selling point on the landing page is the fact that you'll get paid to actually play it.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Self-checkout is amazing! Not the old-school ones with finicky scales as described in the article, but the ones where you grab a small handheld scanner when you enter the store. Then you scan items as you pick them up from the shelves and
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by Zanfa 4y ago
I’d also recommend reading The Linux Programming Interface [1] as an alternative. While it describes the Linux API, it does so through tons of examples in C, so you can see how things are actually done in C-land. [1] https://man7

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