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by akiselev 5y ago
> I don't trust Avast either, but I can't remember why. Something about the cure being worse than the disease
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by akiselev 5y ago
> To see whether Bronze could make Rust more usable, we conducted a randomized controlled trial with volunteers from a 633-person class, collecting data from 428 students in total. Well, this paper starts off with a bang. A quick searc
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by akiselev 5y ago
Do you mind sharing some of those bookmarked users? I haven't even thought about using HN that way
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by akiselev 5y ago
VSCode uses ripgrep under the hood [1] [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-ripgrep
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by akiselev 5y ago
It's based on the assumption that storage costs per GB will continue to decrease for their definition of "perpetuity." If you assume a consistent fall in costs, the total cost becomes a convergent series [1] and there is an u
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by akiselev 5y ago
You could just read what the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-12-religious-disc... The sincerity of the belief is a measured by the credibility of the cla
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by akiselev 5y ago
Evidence points to tectonic activity and liquid water on Mars at one point in its history so theoretically, yes. The geological processes that can move fossils deep enough to become fossil fuels could have been present along with the mud sl
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by akiselev 5y ago
Even in the US that's a very uncharitable interpretation of conservatism that sounds like something I'd say in the heat of a Thanksgiving dinner argument. The more charitable one is called "progressive conservatism". Pro
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by akiselev 5y ago
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by akiselev 5y ago
> it eventually stops being about your direct technical contributions and about your ability to multiply the value of everybody under you in your org. I thought that was the whole point of the IC track: putting a technical person into
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by akiselev 5y ago
> It has nothing to do with what title you hold but if the US state gives a fuck or not. The US cares about US operatives because they have a job to do on behalf of the US. The operatives can't do their job if the host nation hold
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by akiselev 5y ago
> - Imagine you have a monolith that mostly talks to the database. You have a primary with multiple read replicas. How are you going to take advantage of millions of async tasks if your IO concurrency ends up being caped at a couple of
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by akiselev 5y ago
> fuck ton of money > tried to solve this problem for everyone It doesn't sound like the GP was oversimplifying the problem, quite the opposite - wanting to spend a "fuck ton of money" to try to solve something im
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by akiselev 5y ago
That’s literally the opposite of a black and white view - why the minority is blocking the majority is what creates the gray area. It’s the difference between small c conservatives who have reasonable concerns about how affirmative action
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by akiselev 5y ago
> RISC-V is in fact the outlier among ISAs in many of these design decisions, so there's a heavy burden of proof to demonstrate that making the contrary decisions in many cases was the right call. Genuinely asking, why ? Do we th
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by akiselev 5y ago
A minimum billable increment is not double billing when properly outlined in a contract. If one item is an hour and two minutes and is interrupted by a three minute item, the bill comes out to 65 minutes of work and 25 minutes of contractua
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by akiselev 5y ago
I think the GP just hasn't discovered the magic of the "minimum billable increment" yet. Lawyers love this trick! Customer wants you to itemize the bill? No problem - it comes with a 15 minute minimum billable increment. The
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by akiselev 5y ago
> The problem is in the ambiguity around the work "working". We (engineers, scientists, whatever) exploit ambiguity as a work avoidance strategy all the time, but for many fields exploiting ambiguity is the work. IMO it&#x2
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by akiselev 5y ago
100% agree. I only used wal2json because my risk tolerance for the project was between "can't be bothered to pay the onboarding/maintenance cost of Kafka for Debezium" and "can't be bothered to implement a read
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by akiselev 5y ago
On the bottom row to the left of the price when viewed with desktop resolution: Condition: Refurbished That's $8,000 for a refurbished computer with a processor that was launched in 2013.
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by akiselev 5y ago
I've worked with several event sourcing systems and was even seduced into implementing one out of sheer hubris once. These problems are ever present in every ES project I've had the misfortune of coming into contact with. It doesn
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by akiselev 5y ago
> So this story does seem to be continuing with efforts by Biden to keep imported prices higher and there may be an element of politics in some of this all. At this point it's likely a national security issue for the US and EU, gi
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by akiselev 5y ago
> To accurately determine their location without cheating, the player on the ground would have to find their way to a location which existed at the time, and whose exact position is known in the present day, such as the Parthenon or Sto
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by akiselev 5y ago
Coming soon to a Windows automatic update near you, next time you're running a business critical overnight batch job.
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by akiselev 5y ago
With all due respect, it seems you're so deep into the culture war that you can't see the forest for the trees. The left vs right distinction hasn't existed in San Francisco for decades at this point - it barely exists in Cal
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by akiselev 5y ago
Anyone who wants a weapon would likely just use the nearest available plastic pen, a humble but likely more effective instrument in all cases. However, can you imagine buying a $130 titanium jumbopen only to find out that it doesn't ev
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by akiselev 5y ago
That's not how recurring billing works. You have to remember to cancel those, which is half the business model.
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by akiselev 5y ago
I just discovered earlier today that my reMarkable 2 screen is broken after sitting on a shelf unused for a month or two. Suffice it say it was the worst part of my day and I even had flashes of conspiracy theory (now, really? right after a
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by akiselev 5y ago
It's better to identify those kinds of mispredictions and correct them as early as possible, otherwise the communication barrier will grow until everyone gets infuriated anyway.
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Many GPUs (and CPUs) have their stock voltage quite high because it improves yield for the manufacturer. The higher voltages don't improve yields since manufacturers usually bin parts by testing them at higher voltages, decreasi

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