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by apaprocki 9mo ago
To be fair, I would not expect a model to output perfectly formatted C++. I’d let it output whatever it wants and then run it through clang-format, similar to a human. Even the best humans that have the formatting rules in their head will m
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by apaprocki 9mo ago
My anecdata feeling from all the Tesla owners I know is that they stole customers wanting affordable, repairable, etc. from Japanese manufacturers and they stole customers who were luxury car buyers (Ford, GM, etc. weren’t even competitors)
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by apaprocki 9mo ago
Funny you mention that. I did open a joint Chase account back when I was getting married and first order of business was paying for all the wedding expenses. We went to QR, Mexico for a weekend getaway prior to the madness and because I log
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by apaprocki 9mo ago
> Furthermore, the 19-year-old bug case study is a refcounting error It always surprised me how the top-of-the line analyzers, whether commercial or OSS, never really implemented C-style reference count checking. Maybe someone out there
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by apaprocki 9mo ago
I had thousands of dollars of charges I didn’t make (but billed electronically via Apple as if my card was attached to someone else’s iCloud account) appear, exceeding my limit and locking my entire family out of the shared Apple subscripti
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Whether you like it or not, we are in an echo chamber. We will all benefit more rapidly once we figure out how to explain to an everyday Joe Blow why this technology is necessary in their daily life to get them hyped to upgrade their cracke
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Dual-layer DVDs didn’t come out until later. Long movies on single-layer (or those whose producers were too lazy to optimize compression or use dual-layer) DVD had to be flipped mid-movie as well.
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Similarly, I explained to someone how to systematically solve it like this, but then when I suggested they now apply it in a new game, I chose all the same color for the code and watched them second guess themselves until all guesses were e
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by apaprocki 1y ago
AWS offers all the regions I’d care about, but I do concede many-exit scenarios are not what I was referring to. I’ve been more than satisfied with my personal use, but have never required that feature.
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Yes if you need many-exit, DIY is going to be more painful. I’ll disagree about the trust point, though. It’s about relationships. I want as few corporate relationships as possible. If I already deal with Amazon and AWS and I can get this a
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Anecdata, 10k+ Eng department, it’s all GSuite. Office365 exists as well for external interop but I’ve never seen anyone reach for it due to preference since it existed.
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Worth mentioning a $5 cloud instance and installing Algo VPN on it gets you the same thing without having to trust a 3rd party VPN provider (only a generic VM provider such as AWS). It’s always worth minimizing companies you deal with if yo
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by apaprocki 1y ago
It’s hilarious to me that I find this thread. I read the comment you’re replying to before I saw who wrote it. I exclusively read HN on iOS using https://hackerweb.app/ in dark mode precisely because I found it to be the mo
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by apaprocki 1y ago
I would use this site all the time for genealogy purposes. It’s hard to unravel how the datasets are shared, because many things here are from Google’s scanning, but IMO there are lots of things that do not appear anywhere else.
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by apaprocki 1y ago
I do not think you should ever feel that way. If any English-speaking listener has an issue with another speaking the dialect of English they were raised with, the listener has an issue with themselves they need to work through. As an Ameri
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by apaprocki 1y ago
My experience with a large multi-thousand Eng department where the majority are in the US or UK: US-based or influenced employees will write usually with American English spellings and continue to do so even if based in the UK. UK-based or
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Both register windows and the delay slot exist on SPARC processors, which you’re much more likely to run into in a data center (running open-source software). Itanium was the really odd one — it not only used register windows but could offl
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Yes, and our database, ComDb2, was open-sourced. It still powers the company today. And yes, we use TCP/IP :) And yes, we still have one of the largest private networks in the world. https://github.com/bloomberg/co
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by apaprocki 1y ago
Ah, porting to HP Superdome servers. It’s like being handed a brochure describing the intricate details of the iceberg the ship you just boarded is about to hit in a few days. A fellow traveler, ahoy!
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by apaprocki 2y ago
The Windows epoch is January 1st, 1601. The rationale is: "The Gregorian calendar operates on a 400-year cycle, and 1601 is the first year of the cycle that was active at the time Windows NT was being designed. In other words, it was c
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by apaprocki 2y ago
The Bloomberg Terminal is rendered using Chromium and has been for many years. You don’t need to wait for new browser engines to use the existing ones, but you do need resources to contribute, maintain, bugfix, etc. because there is no suc
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by apaprocki 2y ago
> In England during the sixteenth century it was common practice to make leases for a term of three lives or a period of 99 years. It is presumed to be upon the theory that the lease should last thru three generations as it has been comm
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by apaprocki 3y ago
<checks terminal> "current draft is 12.2m with 116851 t DWT" and last reported speed was 6.7kt. Good estimation! :)
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by apaprocki 3y ago
We're in broad agreement. The only unknown is that of timing. Russia will not win. The collective "West" is helping very deeply, and part of the problem has been getting everyone closer to the conflict to realize there are no
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by apaprocki 3y ago
It's not about lies to the people -- I didn't say it was about their control on society through media. I agree with you that the people are not the ones that are going to overthrow the government. I'm merely observing that th
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by apaprocki 3y ago
> or entered with the purpose of making a definitive end of it at the original border. There is a current argument that the tactic is absolutely necessary because the Russian structure absolutely relies on every level from the bottom to
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by apaprocki 3y ago
I read that to mean generally supporting self-determination and helping give a voice to the "underdog", when oppressed. If a movement is not oppressed, it's generally harder to justify why their desires can not be expressed
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by apaprocki 3y ago
It feels wrong and an anti-pattern to copy-paste a 98% subjectively correct answer as your own, just to sprinkle the 2% (again, subjectively) that it was missing to be the Answer. Why can’t we highlight specific content and create a discuss
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by apaprocki 3y ago
So a logical question would be: Did the Al Jazeera English account simply use a translation tool and publish without a native speaker listening/reading? If two professional translators said it couldn’t be interpreted that way, they eit
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by apaprocki 3y ago
Maybe I’m in the minority, but if you’re ever not going to display the actual date, put the exact date/time in a nice, readable tooltip, or otherwise surface a way to see/copy it on right-click. I feel like some of this could be h

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