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by bsder 1y ago
> i think Itanium is worthy of discussion in this era too Itanium was a massive technical failure but a massiver business success. Intel spent a gigabuck and drove every single non-x86 competitor out of the server business with the exc
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by bsder 1y ago
And are often complete fiction. See: In Search of Excellence
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by bsder 1y ago
> Are the current owners of the mineral rights the same people that dug the mines? Almost certainly not. > Owning mineral rights doesn't create liability for existing mines. I was under the impression that it generally does. How
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by bsder 1y ago
In Pennsylvania, it's a sop to industry because they magically could find the owners of the mineral rights when fracking became profitable. Those mines still have owners, and they can be found by the state if they really, really want t
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by bsder 1y ago
Oooh. Nice. I forgot about the Smalltalk / ObjC / Swift usage of keywords for messages.
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by bsder 1y ago
> When there are 3-4 parameters it is too much trouble to write the names. Sorry, I don't agree. First, code is read far more often than written. The few seconds it takes to type out the arguments are paid again and again each time
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by bsder 1y ago
> You're not going to find me on a university campus or in a research lab because I'm at a FAANG trying to pay my mortgage. Make sure you are demonstrating it to the people on your team so that when they leave and go somewhere
908.
by bsder 1y ago
Or perhaps you did invite them, they just couldn't make it and you don't want to rub their nose in how good a time you all had when they may already be feeling disappointed about not being able to attend? Especially in the direct
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by bsder 1y ago
The issue isn't cheating--the issue is that cheaters can come back cheaply. Consequently, human moderation of cheating doesn't really work. Given how intrusive these anti-cheats are, identity verification and login would be less
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by bsder 1y ago
"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were easy."
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by bsder 1y ago
> The quote does say that Altium does it out of the box though? Sure, if you're routing 8+ layer boards with blind vias and PCIx16 and DDR5 buses every day, go buy an Allegro or Expedition licence for 6 figures. It's absolute
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by bsder 1y ago
> someone could write the next Harry Potter and it will be lost in a sea of one million mediocre works that roughly similar. To be fair, the first Harry Potter is a kinda average British boarding school story. Rowling is barely an adequ
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by bsder 1y ago
Presumably the issue is that "went swimming in the Amazon" suddenly puts a ton of rare, difficult to identify diseases on the table. Leptospirosis is known to be both prevalent in tropical areas and to be difficult to positive
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by bsder 1y ago
I'll be honest, for me, SO feels sclerotic . Any question that is more than a couple of years old and applies to something under active development risks having the "bubbled up" answer being actively incorrect. Maybe this is
915.
by bsder 2y ago
The issue is that atan wasn't implemented for a comptime float. A "comptime f32" is different from an "f32"
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by bsder 2y ago
Ziggit is a Zig Discourse that is pretty good: https://ziggit.dev/ It's almost as fast as the Discord and much friendlier to searching and context. I make a point of avoiding the Discord simply because I want my questi
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by bsder 2y ago
The people receiving stuff from Amazon were supposed to report and pay the sales tax. If you or I aided and abetted widespread tax evasion, we would get our asses handed to us in court.
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by bsder 2y ago
So, basically, people don't seem to value security (Deno) very much but value speed (Bun) quite a lot. That is pretty much the standard problem across programming.
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by bsder 2y ago
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." LLMs are not artificial intelligence but artificial stupidity . LLMs will happily hallucinate. LLMs will happily tell you t
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by bsder 2y ago
tl;dr -- "I'd go protest, but it's so annoooooying . I might drop my latte!" FFS: getting out of the Apple ecosystem is the easy part. Avoiding the Windows ecosystem, for me, has been much harder. Generally, there is
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by bsder 2y ago
It also overlooks the fact that what Amazon was doing was outright illegal for years and they never got handed their ass on a platter. For years, Amazon enabled everybody to bypass sales tax which gave Amazon a 4-8% advantage on books over
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by bsder 2y ago
TIL: In worst case, "20 UTF-8 bytes" == "1 Hindi character" Going to have to remember that.
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by bsder 2y ago
> Does anyone have any effective strategies for moving along the end of this administration aside from law suits that fits a substantialy smaller budget and doesn’t create possible legal risk? Sign on to help fix gerrymandering in your s
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by bsder 2y ago
Sure, the smaller plant gets pulled into the larger plant's inertia. However, DC-AC converters don't have an inherent inertia. They can follow almost any frequency and phase within reason. Certainly a DC-AC converter should be a
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by bsder 2y ago
> Never use UUIDs as your primary keys. This seems like terrible advice. For the vast, vast, vast majority of people, if you don't have an obvious primary key, choosing UUIDv7 is going to be an absolute no-brainer choice that causes
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by bsder 2y ago
And, even moreso for the short term. If the scientist in question doesn't get found out for 30 years but then becomes a pariah, it doesn't matter. They displaced a better scientist for their entire career . There is no retroact
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by bsder 2y ago
> Harder mostly, See the frequency is set by huge rotating masses in the form of generators I'm not saying you're wrong, but this isn't obviously correct to me. Since solar going to a grid is completely dependent upon el
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by bsder 2y ago
>It's one reason it's a good idea to always have some cash at home. Most places are so dependent upon electricity that they can't even take cash during a blackout. And they don't even have the mechanical machines t
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by bsder 2y ago
Data will always outlive the program that originally produced it. This is why you should almost always use text formats.
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by bsder 2y ago
> Whatever other factors may exist, college is now at or past the 60% women threshold, so of course men are quitting college. We can expect — to such a degree of certainty, given historical U.S. data that we could place a safe bet on a m

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