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by anon4 11y ago
Protocols are getting more complicated. Sometimes needlessly - XMPP; sometimes out of necessity - we can't let you poke bits in the framebuffer directly, because the graphics card is now this almost-blackbox superscalar coprocessor tha
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by anon4 11y ago
> bookmark a page Last I checked bookmarking a page is just clicking the star button to the right of the search bar. Though maybe Firefox on Windows has a different UI nowadays. You could also (still, thankfully) just enable the menu bar
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by anon4 11y ago
What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. .... Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence. In general, our model is to have a strong CEO who runs each business, with Sergey and me
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by anon4 11y ago
Maybe if we use a Sufficiently High Level description of the interface, we could Do Better This Time.
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by anon4 11y ago
Ok this is seriously amazing (coming from a C++ guy). However, one thing I don't like with putting matrix dimensions in templates is that then you can't construct them at runtime. I do understand the obvious - that you can't
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by anon4 11y ago
Those features are there because people need them. Also, any new standard runs into the xkcd 927 problem of "the one standard to rule them all actually becomes just one more standard trying to compete". The fix is to de-turingify
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by anon4 11y ago
Note that you can just learn how to make about a dozen dishes to a high standard and that will serve you for life, but learning how to write a dozen algorithms in one language won't get you through CS 101.
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by anon4 11y ago
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all
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by anon4 11y ago
Want to know something freaky? Violet doesn't contain any red. I'm talking about the deep shade of blue on the rainbow. When your eyes see light with a frequency beyond blue, they start detecting phantom red. Literally, when your
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by anon4 11y ago
There is a very strong correlation between a doctor caring about you and giving you good care. So I think the Yelp reviews are somewhat valuable. On the other hand, the woman who gave her dentist a low score should also be considered. Was t
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by anon4 11y ago
Oh, pornography is still banned in some countries that used to be in the soviet bloc. In Bulgaria for instance, even though the country is part of the EU now, porn is still absolutely banned. Possession of porn, selling of porn, disseminati
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by anon4 11y ago
1. Works perfectly in Java. Note that in Java vars are both initialised to known empty values and not initialising a var explicitly in a local scope is an error. If the compiler can't prove your code is correct, then it's not obvi
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by anon4 11y ago
Reminds me of the old Win 95 joke: ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ You have moved the mouse pointer ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ Windows will have to restart to ┃ ┃ apply this change
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by anon4 11y ago
> balance This is a funny word if you think about it. It's the property where several forces on a point are in equilibrium. This definition generalises to very abstract situations, and especially to political ones. Several sides a
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by anon4 11y ago
I don't think it's that easy and I do think the parent has a point. I mean, while you're busy writing a perl one-liner to munge on your file, ten daemons are writing to their log files, all on the same file system. You want t
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by anon4 11y ago
I'm a bit past my mid-20s, so I might be talking out of my ass, but can't you rebrand yourself as an "independent contractor"? "Years of industry experience, broad skills applicable to your situation, comfortable wi
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by anon4 11y ago
60% work time Oh man, I've been asking for this at almost every company. "Hey, can I work 4 days a week for 80% of the salary?" "WHAT? NO! Think of all the synergy collaboration meeting time you'll miss you won&#x
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by anon4 11y ago
For what it's worth, a lot of production code looks this way. It's not right, it really should be nice and neat and so on. However, I don't see it as a grave sin against the project. Messy code can diverge where needed more e
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by anon4 11y ago
Imagine if we could bring them to court over bundling malicious software with their OS and not giving the user a choice.
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by anon4 11y ago
Because they think it will be different for them.
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by anon4 11y ago
I think I can put it more succintly: "Just because you call yourself a senator doesn't mean you're not a terrorist". After all, what is the abolition of privacy if not terrorism. You force a large population to follow yo
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by anon4 11y ago
> has not been successful for general-purpose code Let me interject that it has also not been successful for AMD's line of videocards - they used a VLIW architecture before transitioning to a SIMD architecture codenamed Graphics C
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by anon4 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a bug in Firefox, at least on Linux. They insist on setting volume at 100% for every new stream because "what if the user had muted youtube and is now wondering why the funny cat video on another site i
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by anon4 11y ago
Then you're SOL, because web-delivered applications that own the experience will happen. Hopefully someone would come up with a better user-respecting user agent by then.
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by anon4 11y ago
OH GOD THE VOLUME. I usually keep firefox turned pretty low and this insisted on turning it all the way up. No big deal, I thought and turned it down again. But then it turned itself up again when I clicked the right child. Legitimately tho
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by anon4 11y ago
Why do you assume that a female VC won't do the exact same calculation and still refuse funding? Women aren't some secret cabal that looks out for each other. They are literally normal people and just as nasty on average as everyo
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by anon4 11y ago
A few ideas come to mind -1- Women have a lower salary, therefore their anchoring point is lower. -2- There are few women in the department, therefore every woman feels threatened by every female applicant - they are fighting for a scarce r
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by anon4 11y ago
Maybe a slightly weaker variant: I agree not to develop autonomous weapons that can harm humans or other living beings. The idea being that it's ok to develop an autonomous weapon that would cripple the enemy's production capabili
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by anon4 11y ago
An interesting case where Betterridge's Law of Headlines doesn't hold true.
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by anon4 11y ago
> responsible That part is kind of weird to me. I understand you want someone to be "responsible", but what do you expect the response to be? This doctor failed to deliver, let's fire himher. What follows? You get a bett

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