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by cowl 5y ago
But you are forgetting where to print. The classic "Hello World" program requires you to Print to a terminal not to a file. The fact that the terminal and a file can be used interchangeably in *nix system is not the responsibility
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by cowl 5y ago
>Why has nobody done this? What am I missing? The answer is in your proposal: >- Charge 1 cent per search, or as much as is necessary 90% of people do potentially hundreds of searches everyday. Especially non expert users that practic
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by cowl 5y ago
This is a symtom of seeing everything with the OOP and state glasses. let's have do_stuff=square and some_state=2. What does square(2) imply?
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by cowl 5y ago
Yes that is my interpretation of it. The whole point being that any data stored in US can not be guaranteed to respect GDPR because the US government can request access to that data and the EU citizens don't have a recourse to that. a
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by cowl 5y ago
Now this is just being negative about nothing. Gmail can not be used without the user knowing like analytics or linking to google fonts can. If you don't want gmail is as simple as not using it. Other sites can not call gmail for you i
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by cowl 5y ago
a randomised unique ID and username/password are not personal data if they can't be used to identify a person. IF you associate that uniqueID or username with something that can identify the user (like IP/ Personal name etc)
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by cowl 5y ago
Mainly because we are talking about NOx and other Health related emmissions that have local effects not CO2 that have global effects. Yes it sucks about the countries where they end up but it's the responability of the local government
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by cowl 5y ago
>> in a way that covers all edge cases That is simply not possible. No-one can think of all edge cases.
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by cowl 5y ago
How would the browser be able to enforce what the Actual server does with the data? This would work only for those binary track everything/don't track anything scenarios. Those are rare cases. What the the majority of us want and
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by cowl 5y ago
>> Typically, the real evaluation is the market Last years experience tell us that the perception on Media is the driving factor not the market. No-one is waiting for market effects to be visible. They are just reacting to anything th
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by cowl 5y ago
There is very clear distinction on something being illegal and something being not defined by law. AirBnB case, at least from what I know on most of countries, the law did not forbid this type activity and yes leaving your house for a coup
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by cowl 5y ago
This is such an absurd view. If they did illegal things they would not be able to operate in EU. While some expectations of what is considered acceptable or not have changed in Europe in meanwhile, it doesn't mean they were illegal in
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by cowl 5y ago
What's up with these titles? Does noone know how to Convey an idea anymore? My first reaction on reading the title was: "who would want to buy an appartment in a mall". Ofcourse when you read it you understand that NO, Malls
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by cowl 5y ago
If you have not worked on any topological sorting for the past 15 years you will not remember how to do it under the pressure of time. in a new language etc. you will need some time to remember the correct algorithm, how to adapt the data s
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by cowl 5y ago
The situation you describe is not what you face in leetcode. The key here is "a problem space not seen before". Bugs in production by definition are problems in a domain on which you are currently working and are familiar with. S
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by cowl 5y ago
Every discipline needs to evolve and Crafting is how you evolve it. The fact that the software industry evolves too fast is because the domain it's applied to is very large and thus we are constantly finding out problems that need craf
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by cowl 5y ago
I can't speak for Rome because I have not been in churches there but for the rest of Italy, 99% of churches are Free Entry and the few very famous touristic attractions have a single fee no matter who you are. Maybe you are confusing p
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by cowl 5y ago
> that to get decent money you have to transition to management This is the main Problem. Technical excellence is not valued and rewarded enough. The best Engineers get promoted to Mediocre managers because that's the only way to m
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by cowl 5y ago
That is not necessarily true. the first tells me we are starting with 1 apple and adding another one. the second tells me that we are starting with Adding? Adding what? We never start with an action without having a object/subject in m
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by cowl 5y ago
> then the changes are no longer truly independent. But the author of the code is telling you that they are independent. The author may be proved wrong if some future change accidentally triggers dependence but we as humans can have kno
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by cowl 5y ago
The Turtle That carries the Globe is peeing it to the space duh...
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by cowl 5y ago
Maybe you are confusing what lingua franca means. Yes the literature used Latin but at that period only a tiny fraction of people could read or write. There where many more languages that we even have today spoken by the general populace.
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by cowl 5y ago
> Job satisfaction? Probably worse. The very fact we are talking about this shows a great progress. 100 years ago, you had a job -> you were satisfied. > Access to healthcare? Better for the median person, not sure about the poores
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by cowl 5y ago
> Waterfall is useless because nobody ever follows it. I agree that it’s sort of the “default” mode, but show me a project that didn’t go back and change something from a previous step. The issue is not if they change something from a pr
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by cowl 5y ago
nothing excet economics. And I'm not talking only about the huge cost of having 1 charging point for each parking space, but I doubt current utitlity pole lines can handle the power needed to charge every car so every city must invest
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by cowl 5y ago
By every measurable metric, Humanity has gotten better. Longer lifespan, lower child mortality, better education, easier access to basic life neccessities and goods, (ironic to say at this time but yes even) better health, etc etc etc. We
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by cowl 5y ago
These patents will be enforced only by AI courts and any potential settlement needs to be in "energy points"
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by cowl 5y ago
UK statstics show a 20 factor reduction in hospitalisation rates for vaccinated people vs non vaccinated. However what is not considered in all these statistics is the non-symtomatic cases. If hospitalisation rate is 20 times lower it means
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by cowl 5y ago
It's easy to blame this on imperfect technology but I'm not so sure. Couple of months back when all tech companies started their holier than though publicity campaigns with token actions we faced the same issue. "Blacklist&qu
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by cowl 5y ago
Since we can't possibly know anything about these universes for all intents and purposes we can say that they don't exist. This QED is more than acceptable.

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