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by ascar 5y ago
I personally like to compare it to building houses. Programming is laying the bricks, the cables, etc. Basically doing the actual building. Software engineering as in other engineering disciplines is more concerned with making sure everythi
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by ascar 5y ago
You can't really compare Japan to all of Europe. There are major differences in Europe on all of your points. As a German that lived 6 months between Osaka and Kyoto I mostly agree on the last one, but cleanliness and public transport
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by ascar 5y ago
> Like here in Stockholm even 60m2 is getting very pricy (~350-450k USD). Isn't that still really cheap compared to NY or Silicon Valley? Rising housing prices has more to do with pressure to move to a select few cities rather than
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by ascar 5y ago
It all depends on the specific topic. If I just want to store my data in binary tree structure without the possibility of deletes and just with an insertion-order requirement, then the tree is automatically balanced and using an array like
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by ascar 5y ago
A binary tree is just a tree data structure where each node has at most two children. And that's dead simple and every programmer should be able to implement that when aksed. Note that it doesn't even have the search (i.e. sorted)
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by ascar 5y ago
Why would you think in sets of ten, when there should actually just be one pattern in 15? Then it just becomes a challenge to arrange your code to work on these blocks of 15. We could probably code 16 versions of the block of 15 code that r
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by ascar 5y ago
Can you post a video of someone pronouncing that? I have a hard time imaging how sock and talk can rhyme.
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by ascar 5y ago
I think he meant the mentioned O'Reilly link isn't a 5 minute read.
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by ascar 5y ago
Have you ever tried walking a considerable distance? It takes a lot of time, energy and at least water supply. A 10km hike is considered hard and takes 4 to 5 hours with reasonable fitness, if the terrain is friendly (somewhat pathed ways a
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by ascar 5y ago
Not to mention helis have limited range and altitude. They might have trouble reaching the destination from a friendly heliport and might be shot down by the Taliban. The logistics of such a mission are hard as evident by Operation Eagle Cl
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by ascar 5y ago
As I get it from reading around Wikipedia they actually had something very similar to Google Earth before Google Earth/Maps happened. So I don't think it's fair to bring this in connection with patent trolls. However, Google
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by ascar 5y ago
Well, that's because scanning for WiFi networks and Bluetooth devices nearby effectively reveals your location. It might still make sense to split these permissions, but it should be clear that you're giving up your location.
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by ascar 5y ago
That line of reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense to me. One of my family members is also very hesitant to get the vaccine and gets all kind of anti-vaccine propaganda through various groups and channels. She takes that content as &qu
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by ascar 5y ago
Haven't all large domesticated pets (i.e. those that can't be kept in a cage) been used for practical purposes for hundreds of years before they became mere pets in modern times? Like cats were used for pest control and dogs for a
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by ascar 5y ago
I would recommend reading Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind". It's really enlightening about the early days of human kind and even gives a new perspective for recent/current developments.
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by ascar 5y ago
What my favorite Asian delivery restaurant did is launch their own webshop and tell their regular customers to please order there. They are still on the big aggregator, but at least I order through their own webshop. However, as many others
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by ascar 5y ago
My dad told me that when he studied construction engineering in the late 70s at TU Munich one of their assignments was to calculate if the Isar nuclear reactors are built strong enough to hold off a Mach 2.2 impact of a Phantom II. If I rec
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by ascar 5y ago
I have the feeling your response just highlights the misconceptions from another angle. From my personal experience living abroad, we westerners highly overestimate the consumption of our entertainment (movies/shows/music/gam
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by ascar 5y ago
Quoting the article from yesterday: > An F.A.A. spokesperson confirmed that Virgin Galactic “deviated from its Air Traffic Control clearance” and that an “investigation is ongoing.” So I don't know where that whole narrative of the
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by ascar 5y ago
SEPA is more relaxed than you might think. N26 has a nice explanation [1]: > ...[A]ll standard SEPA transfers should arrive within a maximum of 2 working days. Keep in mind that if a transfer is made just before a weekend or holiday, the
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by ascar 5y ago
Does (or did) the US have laws that protect a certain amount of savings? I would assume since the 100k are guaranteed by law that the state does not further step in on losses above that. When there is no law like that in place the situation
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by ascar 5y ago
They also say YouTube pays the most after clearly showing it pays the worst. Seems to be bad writing. The article just has too many blatant logical flaws in it to be considered trustworthy.
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by ascar 5y ago
In Bavaria we have most bike lanes as part of the sidewalk. They are clearly indicated and separated from the pedestrian zone by a 2-3cm drop. Eliminates most problems with cars. However, often the problem with the doors for side parking c
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by ascar 5y ago
> This is transparent to the person coersing the password from the user as the duress password will grant authentication and drop to the user's shell. I would assume the user shouldn't understand that he was given a duress pa
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by ascar 5y ago
Isn't that easily solved by only including the friends you had before the windfall? I certainly know who I would pick for my best men and that's the same people that I would consider in a situation like that.
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by ascar 5y ago
You might be inclined to think it's "the left" who is downvoting you, so I wanna clarify why at least I did. I am a European and mostly neutral on American politics. I downvoted because your comment reeks of a them vs us fall
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Dropbox/Zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation(lowe.github.io)
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by ascar 5y ago
I think most of this comes down to bad education on how to choose a secure password and not an innate inability. And for the most part we software engineers are at fault for advocating and enforcing mostly useless policies for more than two
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by ascar 5y ago
If you assume the password to be only based on the 200 most common words you already have 30.5 bits of entropy to brute force or 1.6 billion guesses and you're assuming your attacker knows you're using this password strategy. The
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by ascar 5y ago
> Chances of an average human being being able to come up with a password with enough entropy to be called as secure is pretty low. https://xkcd.com/936/ So you think the chance of human beings to come up with 4 ran

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