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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> My best guess is that Jack plans to move the company headquarters out of the US which would explain why he chose to allow remote work indefinitely. So he can have HQ in a cheap country, but pay SV salaries to the now remote workers in
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
The future is electric, man. Think about all the coal saved by just burning scooters.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> These are generally memory errors, and are certainly undefined behavior, so yes. USB registers might be in DMA buffers or another memory location that might get mapped/unmapped at any point. Not everything fits a simplistic linear
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Absolutely not.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> And unless that's really substantially cheaper than actually buying it on disc, it's a terrible deal. It's a pretty good deal when I don't have a disc player of any kind (well, CD).
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
To me, it sounds like it should help ARM64 gain some ground (efficient physically separate machines instead of VMs); not for HPC, but for more traditional workloads.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
SWT was extremely nice.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> they are getting into the car sales and recycle business To be fair, the recycle business is basically "free money" in Germany.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Nurses are spat on, thrown bodily fluid at, bitten on a daily basis. That the USA practically abolished involuntary admission to mental wards is what creates scenes like in the beginning of the article.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> and Chris Coyne always refused Well, now he has a thousandfold outcome compared to breadcrumbs that devs would throw at him. I.e. the system worked.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> In a few years, VS Code has achieved better out of the box functionality How many years will it take until stock vscode stops lagging randomly every 10 key strokes?
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
I get angry just watching it.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
XUL could have been a tolerable cross platform toolkit. Still not sure how you can blow something like that.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Two years, tops, then it'll be unusable.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
There is no "cookie law". Nothing in the law has to do anything specifically with cookies.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> The thing that unit tests are really good for is providing a safety net when you make changes In all projects I have worked on, extensive unit tests were not a safety net against regressions, but a safety net against change.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
The soulless corporation is far from exclusive to what you call "tech". "Tech" is when they also put up a foosball table and paint the walls in bright colors.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Impressive.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Yes, of course.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
I'm starting to believe this is some plot to disenfranchise the Saudis, because the dimensions are too large for plain stupidity.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Microworkforces are the new hot thing in SV.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Slightly topical: there's a steam game "Umurangi Generation" that aims to be a realistic photography simulator.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> I think it highly unlikely you would get the finance department to go along with this. It usually involves convincing the customer at the company to convince his purchasing department that a (dummy) pre-project is needed (call it whate
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> t’s confusing to me that we’ve implemented harsh and expensive lockdown measures, but have been slow to implement a basic mask mandate. That's what baffles me the most.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> So why is `unsafe` even in the language, then? Because you cannot do "Hello world" without unsafe code somewhere in the middle.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
I'd really like to read an experience report of using the promise pipelined / time-travelling RPC mechanism in production.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> callbacks aren't OOP, they are per definition functional programming You can't just make things up on the spot.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> My personal pet peeve is the lack of powerful device search Not content search, but for general file search, Everything[0] is indispensable. I have it bound to Win-Shift-F. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Well. eventually someone looked at it. And probably Heartbleed has been used a long time before it was published.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> People just aren't auditing random code on github for fun No, just the important code that everyone is running.

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