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by bfung 4y ago
Way more interesting than any computer articles ;)
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by bfung 4y ago
Not explicitly listed, but obviously hard, by definition, in (theoretical) CS: NP-Hard and NP-Complete problems. Ex: * knapsack (fit the most “boxes” into min number of containers, sometimes 4D+ “boxes”) * traveling salesman
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by bfung 4y ago
I had to be that troll: (But the tech seems good, good work!) search: abortion Results Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among thei
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by bfung 4y ago
this grug read article, but author grug big brain, article too long. If article was smaller with less complexity, easier for regular grug to read and remember. </grug>
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by bfung 4y ago
How is it Decentralized Finance when regulation is created by a central body? (Can’t have multiple orgs defining regulations, they’ll just come up with different rules!). DAOs are actually centralized bodies… “pay up and join the rule makin
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by bfung 4y ago
That’s if, in 12 months, people forget about this crash and has faith that btc/crypto is worth something. Once bitten, twice shy? We’ll see.
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by bfung 4y ago
I fought inflation in SimCB and my economy produced 442549 Started with 0.25% and when the random events happened, adjusted rate really fast to get inflation to no more than 1% for ~6ticks
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by bfung 4y ago
Even so, the bright side is that the applicant’s expectation of the low end has been set. Without this broad range, someone new to the industry, like a college grad, has no idea what the low range is. This at least prevents those people fro
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by bfung 4y ago
> Many real world systems are "nearly trustless"… > But in the 99%+ of times you're in the happy path, economic transactions occur based on autonomous rules encoded in software. In the happy path, people just “trust” th
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by bfung 4y ago
I originally thought this was a joke… because normal “offline” cash that I can spend… isn’t on the blockchain… wait… LOL. If I claim the bitcoin, I no longer have the paper? And if I have the paper, I don’t have the bitcoin? It’s more like
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by bfung 4y ago
Welcome to the beginning of a thinking human’s real life, not the extension of college dorm and class assignments! > How do I fix this? Is this burnout or depression? Probably a little bit of both. The bright side is that you’ve taken so
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by bfung 4y ago
Agree. To be clear, things are NOT devolving; we hear about injustice that wouldn’t used to make it to the news and we humans have new information processing challenges to handle. In the radio / TV age, there were only a few channels a
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by bfung 4y ago
“Bias for action” is a nice catch phrase and not bad to get people out of paralysis. The other successful thing to add onto it, is to tell people what you’re going to do (ex, a high level 3 step plan, not more than 5), then do it. If there
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by bfung 4y ago
Agreed. As a hiring manager, I’ve also explicitly, purposely come up with coding questions that reflect normal work: call APIs & issues, sync data issues, model data for usable systems. The hires, then, focus on the right customer probl
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by bfung 4y ago
You’re correct, I don’t know they haven’t tried to mitigate the risks. But post also points to being lonely of sorts and a sense of dispair. As your last paragraph describes, if OP pair programs, does some mentoring, etc, why would they fe
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by bfung 4y ago
For the record, I didn’t downvote you, and whomever did should at least say something, as the comments aren’t unreasonable. Debatable, yes, but not unreasonable. Anyways, the study omits Tesla chargers which has far more usage than non-Tesl
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by bfung 4y ago
“They tested the functionality of 657 charging connectors at all 181 public charging stations in the Bay area, Tesla chargers excluded.” Tesla chargers excluded. I didn’t look up the numbers, but gonna guess most EVs gonna be Tesla. That ch
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by bfung 4y ago
OP realizes they do a lot of work, and OP realizes they’re single point of failure/authority at the company. But what steps have OP taken to start decentralizing to mitigate those risks? Someone with the management sense would’ve alrea
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by bfung 4y ago
Thx, last paragraph is the best explanation! The website ( https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F ) nor App Store description gave such a clear, 1 sentence description as you just did. If the project and o
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by bfung 4y ago
Not intending to be dismissive, but what’s the use case of KDE Connect for iOS (and indirectly Apple users)? On one hand, as an iOS user and also owning iPads and MacBooks, I already get all the notifications across all my devices. I do als
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by bfung 4y ago
Comes down to the culture and ideology of the country. Is the culture thinking being a X is race based or is it based on a way of life, or both? At least back in the 80s and 90s, my US education and history books say that America is the mel
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by bfung 4y ago
The idea and explanation is great and sounds like it can work. To use the general startup cliche of “execution over ideas”, show me the code/demo ;) Would love to see this work (having toiled away for 20years writing FE/BE/DN
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by bfung 4y ago
Is PoS actually decentralized?
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by bfung 4y ago
100% agree > I'm not sure Matter is going to solve this because it doesn't do away with this business model. Zigbee and Zwave Matter, Zigbee, Zwave… https://xkcd.com/927/
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by bfung 5y ago
> Most middle and upper management can't do it. They fail. Yep, your post is 100% correct :) That’s the reality we live in.
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by bfung 5y ago
> With the new remote world, senior leadership struggles to stay in touch with the general feeling of workers. I’d say that is more of a sign of poor management chain management, communication, and people management. Senior mgmt can stay
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by bfung 5y ago
> More tech is no longer necessarily better. Welcome to the next phase of a technologists career. Why do we build so many things if no one’s going to use it. Or if no one knows how to use it? ^^^ coding for the sake of code, for the “flo
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by bfung 5y ago
https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
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by bfung 5y ago
Title on HN doesn’t match the article’s original title, which is VERY different: Fed-up managers declare WFH is over, as 77% say they’d fire you or cut your pay for not coming back to the office Nothing about middle managers becoming
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by bfung 5y ago
> they are ethical, or altruistic, but certainly can't claim they are financially responsible. The definition of financial responsibility should be clarified. I’d argue that making as much money as possible while ignoring morals or

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