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Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius(theatlantic.com)
10 points by astatine 4y ago|1 comments
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by astatine 4y ago
EVs = Tesla is probably the biggest misunderstanding many people have. EVs are about the energy source for propulsion and not about the smarts (real or claimed). A car with10 year old features powered by electricity is a perfectly usable ve
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by astatine 4y ago
Been a while, but an example would be the ability to work with rawsockets. You can't use this in most higher-than-C languages as this was not, perhaps wisely, considered useful for most people and hence there is no mechanism provided.
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by astatine 4y ago
An additional aspect of C that I really appreciate is that if something can be conceptually realized, it can be implemented in C. This is not the case with many other languages where you are often constrained by them - either accidentally o
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by astatine 4y ago
It's been decades since I heard of Harvard Graphics. Was part of my toolkit with WordStar, Lotus 123, FoxPro and NC. MS C6.0, MASM, CodeWarrior, an editor called Brief on the dev side. Good times.
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by astatine 4y ago
I think you have are ahead of a lot of, possibly most, others who are similarly graduating in that you are aware of what your strengths are (or not). Learning or completing those gaps, whether real or perceived, is far easier than realizing
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by astatine 4y ago
A colleague of mine had set up an audio alarm which would go off every time a build failed. It made everyone a lot more cautious when they checked in their code.
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by astatine 4y ago
Mixing plastics with asphalt has been tried for roads in India for many years now. There is one stretch near where I live which was done 10+ years ago. There is an official policy on trying this, as a pilot, for any agency that wishes to u
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Booking.com, Google Encashing on Goodwill of MakeMyTrip: Indian Court(medianama.com)
2 points by astatine 4y ago|0 comments
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by astatine 5y ago
Creative use of CSS, with some excellent story telling skills!
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ComiCSS(alvaromontoro.com)
91 points by astatine 5y ago|11 comments
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by astatine 5y ago
Looks very interesting. Any chance that it can be made to work with Remarkable?
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by astatine 5y ago
I would go further- I haven't used a single app which required me to use Google's payment method. Every app allows a direct external IAP.
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by astatine 5y ago
I have seen this happen (and in a few cases the cause for this to happen as well). All code (or releases, for that matter) are not created equal. There are some teams which are working on something which is more critical to the business of
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by astatine 5y ago
On a site I used to run, there was no content which needed protection. So, it was not much of a pain except that there would be a lot of bot- filled contact forms. Slowly the problem became severe enough that bandwidth fees started becoming
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by astatine 5y ago
Has all the makings of a great move. This should hopefully, let founders focus on the business instead of devoting all efforts towards securing an exit for the investors as the fund nears its cycle end. Particularly, if an investment is ma
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by astatine 5y ago
We had an office virtual get-together and we got prepaid vouchers to everyone on a popular food delivery app. Everyone could order whatever they wished to, from their favorite restaurants. This accounts very easily for varying dietary needs
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by astatine 5y ago
Thanks! I had no idea about any of this. Very informative.
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by astatine 5y ago
With this, the must have product in 2025 will be shields along walls and windows to keep the signals within :-)
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by astatine 5y ago
Serendipity, or luck if you prefer, seems to play such a big role in these things.
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by astatine 5y ago
What usually happens is that the app on the phone (whether a legit one or a sneaky one) sends a message to a shortcode. The message has the sender ID when collected by the server. That's how the app can be informed of the phone number.
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by astatine 5y ago
The phone doesn't know what it's number is. Hence the SMS. The number is associated with the device and SIM entirely on the network.
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The power of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes(dailyuknews.com)
1 points by astatine 5y ago|0 comments
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by astatine 5y ago
Changing the feeding pattern of cows enmasse will clearly have no side effects. None at all /s Anyone remember the mad-cow disease and the causes?
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by astatine 5y ago
I don't get the angst around this. The happy feeling of getting exactly the same salary as earlier while spending much less wasn't exactly going to last. Companies have to pay lip-service to handling employees well and they manage
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by astatine 5y ago
Just before COVID hit, there was an interesting thing going on in BLR Airport. You could order a meal (on Swiggy) from a restaurant near the airport and get it delivered to a gate number. No beverages, due to the security gates it had to p
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by astatine 5y ago
Kinda similar, we could use LPT1 on DOS as a file and write to it or even just do a "copy" on the command line ( remember "copy CON LPT1" ?). This was pretty much the default way to print, with applications sending ESC
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by astatine 5y ago
Gives hope. Though, I do wonder if there is a timeout. Is a decade, or two, enough to conclude that you are not going to finish it and move it to an archive lot? And, when is it OK to decide that you are never going to get to some books and
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by astatine 5y ago
The 3.8B numbers is really meaningless, in isolation. This is the problem of plenty - 10K numbers with a very specific profile might be a lot more valuable. The real worry would be the info on the relationships between the numbers (which nu
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by astatine 5y ago
Did anyone get the feeling that this was a "MVP" style launch? It looked more engineering oriented with its very firmly functional-only everything. Or maybe, Virgin Galactic pushed so far towards the other end that this pales in

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