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by adtac 7y ago
The resolution of the camera has nothing to do with our ability to understand the road. I can drive reasonably well with just a camera feed of the road, but the computer can't. So the bottleneck is in the image processing capability of
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by adtac 7y ago
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of an unrelated analogy involving computer science and software engineering approaches 1. I shall graciously accept this being called adtac's law out of sheer humility :P
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by adtac 7y ago
Will shenanigans like this (declaring a security breach as not a security breach) be caught and fined under GDPR? According to the regulation, companies need to declare breaches in under 72 hours without any unduly delay, but Zoom left this
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by adtac 7y ago
Congrats on the launch guys, let's get bubble tea again sometime in the future :) I think I mentioned this before in person, but I'd like to repeat myself just so that others can chime in with whether they feel this pain point too
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by adtac 7y ago
Interesting. I wonder if some extreme events could have kicked up enough microorganisms that some even went to the moon! That would be a false positive for finding life on the moon.
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by adtac 7y ago
Time is hard: https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right This is all because of the fact that we're trying to represent the time taken by the earth (an arbitrary planet that has no impact on the
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by adtac 7y ago
Even ignoring the fact that physical books last for much longer than a decade, the alternative to DRM'd books isn't physical books. It's digital, non-DRM'd books. And the lifetime of a DRM-free digital copy of a book is
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by adtac 7y ago
Images are much heavier than text (and let's face it, most of advertisement is just words). But these days, JavaScript is heavier than millions of colour pixels, so maybe images are better :)
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by adtac 7y ago
This is getting tiring, the same comment over and over again.
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by adtac 7y ago
jk is better (TM) because it is a noop when already in normal mode :) Also, pressing two different keys is faster than pressing the same key twice
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by adtac 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that was just a joke
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by adtac 7y ago
>Programmers who desire tight control over performance [...] will obviously hate Go. Curious, why do you say that? Go tries very hard to prevent abstracted, hidden costs like (con|de)structors, so performance is quite obvious. Could you
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by adtac 7y ago
> In fact, Google has a patent on blocking users by means of CAPTCHAs that always return failure[1]. Erm, unless I'm mistaken, that patent says it's owned by Juniper, not Google. Google is just hosting the patent document.
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by adtac 7y ago
>You can also approach someone else at faster closing speed than c if both parties are traveling where the sum of their velocities toward each other is greater than c (like both are going at .6c). Not true. At relativistic speeds, relati
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by adtac 7y ago
Why do you have certificates in your code to begin with?
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by adtac 7y ago
Don't let your VC see this because they're definitely expecting to see a return on their investment reasonably soon.
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by adtac 7y ago
I think we can directly cite this comment in the definition of the phrase "false equivalence"
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by adtac 7y ago
I can confirm. In one of my interviews, when writing Python, I used arr.push instead of arr.append (I don't usually write JS, but idk what happened), and I realised the mistake only half-way through. The interviewer noticed it apparent
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by adtac 8y ago
Ah, so we've been trying to do good all this time with industrialisation!
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by adtac 8y ago
2x growth a month is a failure? Or 2x growth a year?
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by adtac 8y ago
Would be a nightmare to type in the browser's URL bar. I guess there'd be a marked decrease in search traffic for the term "amazon".
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by adtac 8y ago
Does the Amazon number include people working in logistics, delivery, and all that? I suspect that is huge portion of that number. Their engineering force is larger than Google's but not by much, I think (60-70k at best).
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by adtac 8y ago
250k is really pushing it. I remember reading a Google earnings report that said they had 90k employees in total. Assuming Amazon/Microsoft to be larger and assuming Netflix to be smaller, we can take Google to be the average. Of that,
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by adtac 8y ago
How would you sync your interviewing so that you have a decently sized, overlapping window where you can negotiate with multiple companies? I'd imagine these negotiations take about a month in total. That must mean that (earliestDeadli
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by adtac 8y ago
>(Triplebyte) software engineer base salaries in SF, NYC, Seattle You have 15 more chars to work with.
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by adtac 8y ago
Indeed, the most impressive part of this is that it's actually half a dozen different exploits carefully chained together to produce the final result. I can't even imagine the amount of perseverance required for each single sub-ex
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by adtac 8y ago
Following up on this, why is it impossible to use just one coil that's more powerful? IIUC To transmit power, you just need a temporally varying EM field to induce current on the other end, so why not have one that produces enough powe
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by adtac 8y ago
Doesn't matter, still sharing. Add a robots.txt if you explicitly want to disable access to Google's crawler.
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by adtac 8y ago
Offtopic, but why is there such a disparity in the percentage of colour blind people between the male and the female population?
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by adtac 8y ago
Wait, that's not how it works. How do you know that the people who voted aren't signing this as well? Everyone gets exactly one vote.

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