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by amadvance 4y ago
Europe can also benefit from immigration. One advantage of immigration is that immigrants do not have to grow up to be productive.
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by amadvance 4y ago
The similarity to humans is what makes it scarier. History (and the present) is full of humans who have thought themselves to be superior and tried to take over the world. Eventually, they fail, as they are not truly superior, and they will
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by amadvance 4y ago
It really works! With few interactions, ChatGPT was able to create a not so obvious -filter_complex pipeline, like: ffmpeg -ss 00:01:00 -t 00:02:00 -i input1.mp4 -ss 00:03:00 -t 00:02:30 -i input2.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v][0:a][1:
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by amadvance 4y ago
They tried to fix that mess, like with the recent git switch/restore. But it looks like it was too late.
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by amadvance 4y ago
Where I work, we use Bitbucket Server, and as client vanilla git.
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by amadvance 4y ago
Even lookup is not easy to be done securely. You don't want that a malicious server/database knows that you are accessing always that record. See this discussion about how to achieve that: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by amadvance 4y ago
People pirates because it's the simplest way to obtain what they want, and not because it's the cheapest.
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by amadvance 4y ago
How data is split in chunks ? Just curious.
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by amadvance 4y ago
I do both. Information of the actual behavior of the code as comment, and information about the changes of the behavior in the commit.
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by amadvance 4y ago
It's anecdotal, but I don't see this happening in the Android ecosystem.
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by amadvance 4y ago
The SA part (ShareAlike) is even more restrictive, as it imposes a license on the derivative work. "— If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original&qu
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by amadvance 4y ago
> I WILL merge your change if you pass my review. Doing that, you remove the possibility at the submitter of a final check before the merge. Especially if the merge happens on another day, rechecking with a clean mind helps to find misse
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by amadvance 4y ago
I do something similar also with if() and others: if (condition... && condition... && condition... ) {
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by amadvance 4y ago
The key moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7cNeFtGM3k&t=35595s
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by amadvance 4y ago
Theoretically, it should be possible to add an x86 emulator to wine, and compile to WASM to have everything running in the browser.
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by amadvance 4y ago
A common interview suggestion is to not give the first number. But if salaries are public, the potential employer already has it.
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by amadvance 4y ago
> browser plug-in that removes clothing from every image loaded Yep! Remove clothing and make-up to show everyone as they really are! You can call it the "ugly truth" plugin.
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by amadvance 4y ago
We may not call people QA, but in the end each person has different skills, and the same problem will arise inside developers. Anyway, the same happens for any multi-phase cycle. Like with code review. When there are dependencies between pe
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by amadvance 4y ago
I'm frankly puzzled how SCRUM sprints are even expected to work with a development + QA cycle. When a sprint starts, what QAs people are expected to do ? When the developers finish, and QAs start testing, what developers are expected t
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by amadvance 4y ago
> The entire business model you are relying on for income has been completely broken for 30 years. Many people have their lives depending on that business model. They just cannot realize that such system is dying, if not already dead. It
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by amadvance 4y ago
Is a cast to uintptr_t also OK ? void *oldptr = malloc(73); uintptr_t savedptr = (uintptr_t)oldptr; void *newptr = realloc(oldptr, 42); if (savedptr == (uintptr_t)newptr) { // not changed }
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by amadvance 4y ago
Youtube allows unlimited videos with unlimited size and with good quality completely for free. You can also keep ads disabled if you want. No other service is even comparable.
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by amadvance 4y ago
> The same way Wordpress obviates the need for web devs. Devs had to step up to create something better than Wordpress to stay on the market. The same way, artists have now to create something better than DALL-E results.
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by amadvance 4y ago
Take care that if dedup is enabled, information is leaked. More information at: https://blog.heckel.io/2017/01/08/zfs-encryption-openzfs-zfs...
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by amadvance 4y ago
> > Can they selectively drop packets > Absolutely not. That practice should literally be illegal. Why not ? From an engineering point of view, with a scarce resource, dropping only the biggest user (Netflix) looks reasonable. Obvi
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by amadvance 5y ago
Not the parent, but we use it to store binaries. Code is in git.
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by amadvance 5y ago
GCM is typically implemented in Intel assembler with the PCLMULQDQ instruction https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
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by amadvance 5y ago
C is even better. One instruction less than C++ ;) https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/oc19Gc4eY
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by amadvance 5y ago
Just consider antibiotics. A medieval king could die for a banal infection.
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by amadvance 5y ago
Denormals give the guarantee that if a != b, then a - b != 0. Without denormals a check before a division may fail to detect a division by 0.

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