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by amalcon 5y ago
>#1 assumption I always make sure to check now is "is the code that's running actually from the source code I'm looking at". Once I got so far as stepping through some malfunctioning code at ASM level on a productio
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'm pretty good with electrical diagrams and such, and I know exactly what one needs to do to stay about as safe as one can. I've fished (ethernet) wires before. I still hire electricians, because it's the only practical wa
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by amalcon 5y ago
The old technique of letting your neighbor copy your answers is both more effective (they don't need to be your neighbor) and harder to monitor (just use your phone to post answers somewhere). The other old technique of sending your o
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by amalcon 5y ago
A neat one for large, sparse integers is: for(i=0; !x; ++i) { x = (x-1)&x } return i; Which runs only a number of iterations equal to the number of 1 bits. This works because (x-1) actually just flips the rightmost 1 bit
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by amalcon 5y ago
I was like that for a long time. About 3 years ago, my spouse convinced me to go to a sleep doctor. One of the first things he checked was my nose: it turned out I had a severe deviated septum. He referred me to a surgeon who was able t
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by amalcon 5y ago
Memory is fallible. I know because I remember my memory failing me. If that meta-memory is accurate, then it is evidence that my memory is fallible. If it is inaccurate, then I remember something that didn't happen, so my memory is
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by amalcon 5y ago
Hmm, this would be pretty easy to test I'd think. You should see a definite knee in US property prices around $612k ($510k conforming loan maximum + 20% standard down payment). Above that price, loans will be harder to obtain and com
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by amalcon 5y ago
A couple of years ago, I redid the error code definitions in an internal C++ library. The error returns were of the form: -__LINE__ which, if you know C++, means your error code is just the negation of the current line number. That
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by amalcon 5y ago
Somewhat telling how none of the characters they offer have jobs that would actually be important here. You really need things like "general contractor", "boat mechanic", or "welder". Instead, they have thing
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by amalcon 5y ago
I don't see the relevance of whether the re-infection cases are symptomatic. If anything, this makes it slightly more important to be careful, because asymptomatic transmission is what makes this virus worse than others of similar let
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by amalcon 5y ago
There are multiple documented cases where a person caught COVID twice (where the two instances were genetically different, and therefore not a false positive caused by lingering dead virus). The linked article only indicates that antibody p
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by amalcon 5y ago
Yeah, 200 miles is under a 4hr drive. That's just not considered very far in the US. Most people don't make a trip like that every day, but not even once?
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by amalcon 5y ago
Yeah, this one is pretty easily explained as a statistical artifact in this way. The more religious someone is, the more time they are likely to spend around other religious people (at church, with friends met via church, various knock on
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by amalcon 5y ago
If that's how you interpret the question, then the whole concept of having "good" or "bad" taste is incoherent to begin with. If it's just your opinions on what you enjoy while not harming yourself or anyone e
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by amalcon 5y ago
Some of these questions produce obviously weird responses. E.g.: > Do you have better music taste than average? Of course I do. Logically everyone should evaluate their own taste in music to be better than average, since your own music
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'm sure that Nintendo's Virtual Console emulator series has made them quite a bit of money.
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's tricky because, while dogs can understand fairly complex vocabulary, their ability to reason abstractly about events is less developed. If the dog alerts, you spend two minutes searching, and then you reward the dog, it will have
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by amalcon 5y ago
Yeah, that was just the most recent project. When I had to drill through tile back in November, it was definitely several minutes per hole (on the slow speed dictated by the special tile bit). You're probably right about the stat incl
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by amalcon 5y ago
Also "used" in this context clearly just means "spinning". I did a modest project the other day involving my electric drill. It involved 20 holes, each hole drilled in two steps (pilot with a jig in place, full depth w
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by amalcon 5y ago
The charging time issue is basically solved for cars, but not nearly solved for long haul trucks (which both require more energy and expect a lower idle:active time ratio). It seems worth exploring alternate fuel sources for that case.
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by amalcon 5y ago
>But to explain most of these hardest cases mainly in terms of practical jokes seems just a bridge too far. Really, thousands of disconnected people all around the world playing the same big scary jokes for decades, and then almost neve
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's also important to realize that with ads, you also pay with your money , when you later buy some product (whether due to the ad or not). Your attention and personal data are only valuable in this context as a way to access your m
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by amalcon 5y ago
I've said it before and will say it again: One code review or debugging session gives an interviewer more actionable information than an effectively unbounded number of logic puzzles.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Well, for starters they wouldn't be able to claim HIPAA or PCI-DSS compliance anymore. Anyone dealing with health information of Americans would expose themselves to criminal charges if they ever use AWS again. Though it's a pri
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by amalcon 5y ago
>DOSing involves gaining access to the "command prompt" on other people's machines, and using it to tie up vital internet services. I didn't like most of it, but that bit cracked me right up.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I brought my now-spouse along for ring shopping, on her own theory that she'd be wearing the thing and should therefore have some input. She was actually more opposed to mined diamonds than I was at the time. We talked about this ext
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by amalcon 5y ago
> we even have magazines comparing the IQs of different presidents throughout history, as estimated by pseudo-psychologists. Which magazine / when? It sounds like this might actually contain some insight into the thinking of the
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by amalcon 5y ago
They do police package contents to a degree, but only for actual crimes. Postal spam isn't a crime (and probably shouldn't be, as much as I'd like to get rid of the spam). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
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by amalcon 5y ago
Less than a month ago, to sign up for my COVID vaccine. Yes, it was a good experience.
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by amalcon 5y ago
There was a chain of gyms in Boston that famously required you to go there in person to cancel. When they closed due to COVID, they continued charging their members. The closure prevented members from both cancelling and making use of gym

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