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by ascar 3y ago
> concurrent programming If you're interested in concurrent programming this book won't give you much. The topics focus on the parallelization of a sequential algorithm and go into detail about things like synchronization (lock
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by ascar 3y ago
> I am really interested in parallel, asynchronous, multithreading, coroutine, futures programming so it's what I spend my days thinking about and blogging about it. That's not parallel programming though. Parallell programming
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by ascar 3y ago
Reddit is working fine for me in Germany. Was also browsing it about an hour ago. HN has problems for me tho. Geographically limited CDN/backbone issue?
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by ascar 3y ago
Yes, their user experience is atrocious. The mobile site tries it's best to push you to the app and the app is just... bad. I like to consume text content in public transport. Unfortunately, Reddit is like the worst app possible with b
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by ascar 3y ago
they might be unmonetizable. But they're the people who maintain the communities that bring in the mass of people that are monetizeable.
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by ascar 3y ago
> You can get quite far treating C++ as C with classes I'm teaching a HPC (threading/openmp/mpi) class and that's exactly what we do. We switched from regular C to C++ for classes and some standard library data struct
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by ascar 3y ago
Your comment is ironic considering PayPal does exactly that and is in fact not a bank. They are licensed as a money transmitter.
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by ascar 3y ago
You assume malice. It's not. They're just covering their asses. They earn magnitudes more on the transaction fees of legitimate purchases than they could ever get from stealing money through that scheme. Not even considering that
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by ascar 3y ago
Contrary to popular belief, formal education wasn't useless here. All the foundational knowledge was covered in depth in my mandatory CS undergrad networking class. So this is a neat quick guide to all the stuff CS graduates already ha
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by ascar 3y ago
You're missing the point GP made though. He wants to replace one good card with 4 worse ones. It's not like that rack has 3 or 7 additional slots just unused. They're also already taken by the setup. And in the link you provi
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by ascar 3y ago
> Unlike in gaming in the data center initial cost + performance per watt are the only thing that really matter That's not true from a hardware perspective either. You can't just plug in 4 worse cards in the same rack. The savi
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by ascar 3y ago
> but the timing for an individual single-threaded computation hasn't really improved in the last 15 years The clock speeds haven't really gone up anymore, but computations still got considerably faster. From an i7 2700k (2011)
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by ascar 3y ago
This might ring true for most jobs and especially for anything business related. If you go lower on the library, tooling or infrastructure side things tend to live on much longer, especially if it's simple but necessary functionality.
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by ascar 3y ago
> And most devs hating on Java are using an IDE written mainly in Java (all the JetBrains ones): the irony of that one gives me the giggles. Reminds me of so many devs hating on Ruby and the number of times I heard that Ruby isn't u
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by ascar 3y ago
What exactly are you losing by turning off location history? You can still look up places, get navigation and as far as I am aware literally every other features of Google maps except your timeline.
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by ascar 3y ago
> The time scale for new species adapted to a completely new climate is many millions of years, not a few thousands. On what are you basing this statement? I would argue that entirely depends on the complexity of the species and the time
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by ascar 3y ago
Relocation clauses are very common, often included right from the start in your initial offer and if not these big corps have prepared clauses that they can add upon request/negotiation.
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by ascar 4y ago
I don't really understand what's your problem with that? It has close to zero impact on actual gameplay. Considering it's how this game makes money and it's very effective at that, I highly doubt your wish is becoming a
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by ascar 4y ago
If a company tells you that it must be true. /s Sounds like a salesmen who doesn't understand DMARC himself was trying to sell it by labeling it too complex. From a purely technological point of view DMARC isn't that complic
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by ascar 4y ago
Maybe they do, but I would be surprised seing managed email sending in Hetzner's portfolio as part of shared web hosting. It's just not what that company typically has to offer, that's why I expected they just provide you the
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by ascar 4y ago
> Last year I moved my mail to an old fashioned shared webhosting account at Hetzner. Very happy with it! How exactly is that solving the problem? If anyone does something remotely spammy from that ip, your mails are spam again too. And
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by ascar 4y ago
> Please note that no evidence exists on the page for the controlled gender pay gap. What are you trying to say with this? The controlled gender pay gap is the actual relevant indicator. That women make other life choices than man can h
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by ascar 4y ago
> The pay scales seem to indicate that we are pretty damn far from having a general problem with anti-male prejudice No they don't indicate that at all. Equal pay day is in fact anti-male propaganda. It's the opposite of merito
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by ascar 4y ago
I'm not sure that link is actually helping your point. From the link: > The controlled gender pay gap is $0.99 cents for every $1 men make, which is one cent closer to equal but still not equal. The controlled pay gap tells us what
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by ascar 4y ago
My last dip into alternative distros (~2 years ago) for my dev desktop was quickly over by various problems/missing settings for display, audio and network. Not saying it wouldn't have worked (one was even ubuntu based), but I had
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by ascar 4y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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by ascar 4y ago
How exactly does that not work with browsers and local storage though? It seems like they're just caching stuff in the app and they definitely can do the same in browser storage.
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by ascar 4y ago
Yea similar for me. I run native linux for work, but a windows machine with a Ubuntu vm for private use. I just can't get around certain things only being really available on Windows. Though I have a harder time thinking about macos th
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by ascar 4y ago
HN Guidelines: "If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to &q
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by ascar 4y ago
So "at least" would still have been a more accurate wording.

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