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by ascar 5y ago
I think people overestimate the short term impact of C-levels in these giant organizations. Google isn't run like a startup anymore. There is an existing compensation structure at place that pays employees differently based on the loca
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by ascar 5y ago
That is based on the pretty bold assumption that SV salaries are the actual "market rate" while it is much more likely that the true market rate is much lower and SV salaries are inflated. There is enough talent outside of SV that
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by ascar 5y ago
> Teacher assesed grades are antithetical to the purpose of exams. The point of an exam is to assess a students knowledge on the given subject not to rank students against their peers. It's especially unfair when the number of peers
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by ascar 5y ago
When do you have that problem? I see big controls right below the song if I'm in player mode. If I'm searching for more songs while playing the song is on the bottom with a pause/play option and tapping the song returns to pl
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by ascar 5y ago
I use Spotify on Android regularly and can only somewhat relate to what you're describing: when I know the artist, but not the song title and I have to literally search through his discography. But even that is doable in one click (see
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by ascar 5y ago
He's obviously talking from a Russian point of view.
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by ascar 5y ago
Mid 6 figures annual income would be around 500000. The figures depict the digits not the zeros. I would think 500.000 annual income in Cyprus would be extremely high.
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by ascar 5y ago
You surely meant five figures and not ~500,000?
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by ascar 5y ago
If you look at statistics there are more fatal crashes between 4am and 8am than between the 4 hours after. [1] I looked it up, because I would've thought the missing light during night and dawn times and the more sleepy drivers probabl
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by ascar 5y ago
I don't think your tone is warranted and in the spirit of this community. I don't agree with GP's fear of Apple SSO vanishing without a transition period to something else, but the general premise that this form of login is n
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by ascar 5y ago
I'm arguing that bringing up that 0.1% of the population is starving isn't a relevant point in regard to how much population we can actually feed. It was an answer to your original comment. Your answer is derailing the discussion
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by ascar 5y ago
11 people per minute is 5.7 million a year. That's less than 0.1% of the population. The inefficiency losses from production to meal (about 1/3 waste) and the unequal global distribution of food are the important factors not our a
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by ascar 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the difference in rounding is an innate property of how the math behind an FMA instruction works and that guaranteeing the same rounding (which is essentially rounding twice, once after mul and once after add
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by ascar 5y ago
I do agree that the terminology isn't ideal and easily misleading, that's why it's so commonly used incorrectly. And weakening might be more fitting than punishment. > So, linguistically speaking, using the term "nega
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by ascar 5y ago
The thing is punishment is not reinforcing behavior, it is prohibiting behavior. Reinforcing means increasing the likelihood (by adding something liked or by removing something disliked) while punishment refers to reducing the likelihood (b
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by ascar 5y ago
Common mistake: Negative reinforcement is when you take a negative stimulus away to reinforce the desired behavior. What you're describing is positive punishment. Also nicely explained in TBBT: https://youtu.be/gLp_aLMm
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by ascar 5y ago
Hanlon's Razor Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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by ascar 5y ago
My point wasn't to say you should never do byte manipulation in Javascript, but that for these rare edge cases the existing capabilities without a native int are fine and if you would really need the native int rather than some equival
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by ascar 5y ago
This comment [1] should probably also be mentioned here: The productivity claim has been removed from the Japanese report[0]. An erratum at the bottom of the page dated November 8, 2019 says this: "In the announcement dated October 31
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by ascar 5y ago
I just feel if you have bit twiddling, byte munching needs JavaScript shouldn't be the language of choice. Doing that is a rather rare edge case and if you're doing it for performance reasons, working in Javascript is the much big
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by ascar 5y ago
His code snippet had rounding errors on the boundaries towards the next unit. However he notes: > FWIW, all 22 answers posted, including the ones using Apache Commons and Android libraries, had this bug (or a variation of it) at the time
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by ascar 5y ago
But that's not an inherent problem of SMS 2FA. It's just bad implementation.
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by ascar 5y ago
> creating a competing utility company wouldn't make sense competitively in any way, so naturally there's a monopoly So how come there are countries without a natural monopoly and with competing utility providers? Also running
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by ascar 5y ago
There definitely are a lot of people moving into computer science for the money, but there are also many people doing it because they enjoy solving the problems. I would argue the people who deserve the high salaries, the "10x" en
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by ascar 5y ago
Reading this after GP called it reverse engineering makes me feel he should've use different terminology.
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by ascar 5y ago
I always associated these with key logging prevention. What drives me nuts however, is websites/apps that allow me to type my password but not paste it. Like they want to force that a keylogger can grab it? Another favorite of mine are
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by ascar 5y ago
No need to be sarcrastic. He is absolutely right. The seed is all you need in case of the common TOTP algorithm. There is no connection to the device. In fact, in Google Authenticator you can even conveniently export all running TOTP to ano
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by ascar 5y ago
Carrying around your phone is sharing your location with your cellphone provider and thus the government. The stasi analogy doesn't make a lot of sense anymore at that point. Speaking as a fellow German, I would never share that info
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by ascar 5y ago
1x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex X1-based) Prime core @ 2.84GHz, 1x 1MB L2 cache 3x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex A78-based) Performance cores @ 2.4GHz, 3x 512KB L2 cache 4x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz, 4x 128KB L2 cache Vs 2 bi
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by ascar 5y ago
Is there some region lock/localisation happening here? I just see a product category "sidewalk bridges" which basically lists 4th gen Echos, but nothing else?

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