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by blincoln 3y ago
FWIW, I think JavaScript is an awful language as well, just for different reasons than I dislike VBA. VBA in my experience has too many quirks that can't be wrapped in a less-quirky general purpose function. For example, I was just wor
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by blincoln 3y ago
Counterpoint: VBA is an awful language, other than its access to/control of Excel, Word, etc. It's full of bizarre quirks, like <i>control characters in code</i> that are localized.[1][2] Want your code to run on
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by blincoln 3y ago
I've been on both sides of that kind of situation, and IMO when an IT department gets that calcified, it's a sign that their days (or the company's days) are numbered. Either the non-IT staff will get fed up and replace IT, o
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by blincoln 3y ago
From what I've seen secondhand, a bug bounty programme can actually increase the overhead vs. an email address, because now someone has to log in and deal with each ticket instead of ignoring emails that don't seem interesting. Th
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by blincoln 3y ago
Yeah, I'm honestly surprised the organization is able to email anyone else. Even 8-10 years ago, I would have expected the major providers to drop email sent from a host without some or all of those elements configured.
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by blincoln 3y ago
FWIW, it was pretty common in Vancouver, BC when I lived there in the late 90s.
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Yeah, I'd really love to see some commentary from someone with experience in the medical device industry about whether there's anything novel in the patent. It was originally filed in 2008, but that was thirty years after Minolta
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by blincoln 3y ago
> A simple fix for that is something like only accepting pointers that point to a lower position and never to a higher one, to prevent stack overflows and buffer overflows for the parsed label arrays. Wouldn't the simpler fix be to
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by blincoln 3y ago
> That looks like the type with nickel flakes to me I agree. It's a night and day difference versus the magnetochromic viewing film. The monochrome film doesn't reset itself after the field is removed,[1] and the contrast is no
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by blincoln 3y ago
> Western employers don't deliberately reward people who job-hop I don't know of any employers who would admit to deliberately rewarding job-hopping outside the company[1], but I suspect that's out of concern for potential
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by blincoln 3y ago
The journal article is much more interesting than the Guardian article, IMO. Thank you for sharing the link.
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The Sounder is a heavy rail train on rails that are shared with other trains (e.g. freight). It runs about 7 times per day in one direction and about 10 times per day in the other. There's no reason to run additional trains on that lin
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by blincoln 3y ago
I like your "tell me about a time when" approach,[1] and I've used it successfully in the past, but I've never seen a good way to formalize it. Have you ever been able to delegate that responsibility to a team of other p
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by blincoln 3y ago
This. Once you've spent enough time on the other side of the hiring process and/or in a leadership role, the reasons behind aspects that seem annoying and trivial as a job candidate become clear. Any interesting technical position
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by blincoln 3y ago
If they're roughly the same size and in the same order as the round lights today, people with poor visual acuity would still see more or less what they see currently.
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by blincoln 3y ago
Maybe stating the obvious, but virtually everyone with one or more home loans should be itemizing their deductions to include that and their state sales or income tax. The standard deduction is very generous for non-homeowners (IMO), but it
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by blincoln 3y ago
Thank you for the link. Having seen it, I'm surprised he didn't lose his job before now. This is a great lesson in "know your audience". I'm dislike political cartoons, but IMO one of the key factors is to make the
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by blincoln 3y ago
Microsoft updated Office 365 earlier this year so that all the Office apps also load an Edge-based version of Electron, because letting their developers build UI elements as if they were web page content is more efficient for Microsoft. The
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by blincoln 3y ago
In the late 90s, I took a geology course at Seattle Central, and the teacher told us the reason Alki Point has such a nice flat area all along the beach is because that area used to be the tide flats, but during an ancient earthquake, that
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by blincoln 3y ago
There are strong arguments on both sides, IMO. I especially agree with the potential for EU members to send the feed directly to their intelligence agencies' exploit development divisions. The biggest gap I see in the open letter is th
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by blincoln 3y ago
It is not a horrible assumption for the vast majority of developers. Even if the business they're supporting is doing something genuinely new (and IMO that's rare), most of the software written for that business is almost certainl
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by blincoln 3y ago
Yes, as I was reading their various descriptions of the device, I started to think "wait, is this just a whole-house surge protector?" ...and sure enough, they come right out and state "The EMP Shield is one of the World’s fa
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by blincoln 3y ago
I'm surprised plate-to-VIN information is publicly available for Washington state, at least. The DOL here will let you renew tabs online[1] using just the plate number and last four digits of the associated VIN.[2] I'm sure there
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by blincoln 3y ago
> I still don't understand how Roland Emmerich [...] somehow managed to fail to get people into theater seats for 13th Floor. There were a lot of "are you living in a simulation?" film and television episodes that came o
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Around 2011-2014, a coworker told me about a fellow online who was claiming that he'd solved all the world's health problems by narrowing the cause down to peoples' bodies having an acidic pH level instead of alkaline. The hi
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by blincoln 3y ago
Nature managed to bootstrap human intelligence even though nature is not even a conscious entity, let alone a conscious entity that can describe loss functions and datasets. That seems to me like pretty solid evidence that those things are
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> It wasn't written for "executives". When writing about real-world topics (especially where the goal is to educate or change opinions), it's usually a good idea to summarize the overall piece at the beginning, regard
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> If one is serious about business, why would you not take, cash, cheque, credit and debit cards, contactless, NFT phone, and bitcoin? Even if some of those are suboptimal, a sale is a sale. For some businesses, the overall cost of accep
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by blincoln 3y ago
> a requirement that (a) binaries be freely redistributable, and (b) binaries must authenticate against a blockchain and not against private servers If the software runs on general-purpose hardware, it would be trivial to modify it to by
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As the article mentions, this system is unusual, in that it has three Earth-sized planets in its habitable zone.

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