brianpgordon

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Technically we don't know for sure what the punishment was for. Especially given that he's said much worse things in the past without resigning, it's possible that these resignations were forced because of some yet worse comm
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Direct link to the document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
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> Scholars have proposed various theories about the carvings' meaning. Svetlana Savchenko, a researcher at the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum, suggested that the decoration tells the creation myth those who carved it believed in. Other
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Ah, right, I was misremembering how FIFOs work. You can't even write to it until a reader opens it. I was thinking that you could just dump data on it and the operating system would buffer it until someone came along to read it.
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How does the process know that you're reading the pipe? Does it just, like, write a hundred copies of the desired output with EOFs in between so that it can be read multiple times?
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Or Uber claiming to be a "technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces?" :)
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"What you do?" You mean like breaking a customer's domain name for the next year if EasyDNS thinks they brought a DoS attack "on their heels?"
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More critical in the case of Tesla, where there are cameras mounted behind the windshield (on the rear-view mirror). This is one of the typical talking points in the LIDAR vs optical debate, because the rain makes it difficult to see with p
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If they want to have one single blade move back and forth, that's cool, but this seems like a bafflingly complex way to do it. What's wrong with a normal linear actuator? It's powered by a regular electric motor (something ri
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> This conflict means that, no matter how well intentioned, policy makers will be feel compelled to devalue their own currencies. It's a race to the bottom, but without a bottom. Alternatives, especially private alternatives readily
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I thought the article did a decent job of explaining exactly what the problem is in this case and communicating the scale of the risk. Your comment, on the other hand, sounds like a kneejerk dismissal entirely based on the headline not agre
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So Rich's talk about Datomic's architecture is taking place at Oracle ? I love the radical openness. There's something cheeky about going to your competitor's office and inviting their engineers to learn about how your
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I have a few parallel objections: 1. It's not like it would be difficult to track all of the little chunks of time worked and add them all up. Everything is automated anyway, and nobody is filing time cards. 2. In the end, the wall clo
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Many people have multiple jobs (even full-time jobs) and receive multiple W2s in the mail every year. I'm not an expert in employment law but I haven't seen evidence that the current multi-job system isn't workable here. You
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
In the talk he glosses over what he sees as serious flaws in Erlang distribution. I did some digging and it turns out that he elaborated on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/bronlx/discover
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> history has agreed I'm not sure where you get that idea. A 2018 poll of political scientists ranked him dead last, and a 2018 poll of presidential scholars ranked him third-to-last: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Reductio ad absurdum is similar to whataboutism, but it's not the same. Whataboutism is more like an abrupt detour off into a different issue to try to confuse the conversation or transform the topic of discussion into a referendum o
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There's lots of discussion on the accountability question from the last Bloomberg expose of Apple's subcontracting practices- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133586
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I believe that's more of a font support thing than a browser thing. I'm pretty sure I've seen Firefox render e.g. "male shrug" correctly on MacOS but they're two separate symbols with the default sans-serif fon
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Ooh, you may be the perfect person to ask a question that I've been wondering about. Is .NET Core on Linux viable yet for serious use? I've done some tinkering with it and gotten a project working on MacOS but I did the developmen
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I share your high regard for C# and the .NET libraries but not your disdain for Java. Java the programming language is pretty ugly but the JVM is robust and there are other languages which compile down to Java bytecode. In your "scrapp
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I don't see the contradiction. A mall offers the walkability of an urban center but provides plenty of free parking. Additionally, there's no space "wasted" by residential and office buildings like there is in a city. Wh
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Same here. I thought the article was going to talk about vendor lock-in and the inability to access old chat messages if their client removes their access, or if their client stops paying Slack, or if Slack stops existing. The hard turn int
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https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/91kw4d/just_call_th...
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I'm just guessing here but, given that Box doesn't use end-to-end encryption, I bet that their "grant access" button is meant for their support agents, and that [some subset of] their backend engineers could access your
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The rates don't seem extraordinarily high to me. What would you consider reasonable? It's not trivial to get an apples-to-apples comparison since loan rates are usually given as an APR, not a flat fee. Also, don't confuse the
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This is indeed just business as usual on the web, but I'm not sure that should be an acceptable excuse. Clickbait or not, the article isn't wrong to describe in vivid terms how huge companies traffic in very private personal data
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> I suppose if he wanted to donate to a diversity campaign, he'd donate to one directly. This interpretation of his comment is... generous. I agree that there's a legitimate point around wanting your donation to go specifically
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I would suggest that Mozilla has enough money already- they just don't spend it on Firefox. Donating only validates their current budget and gives them a mandate to keep building their sprawling portfolio of side projects. There was so
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Ironic- https://i.imgur.com/jBMKcN5.png

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