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by czinck 7y ago
Supposedly a trick people use on reddit is to downvote all of the other comments on an article when you're making a comment, to give your comment an extra bit of boost, especially early on when there's few upvotes. I would hope th
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by czinck 7y ago
It's a very popular issue with the average voter, >60% approve and 20% are unsure. And it seems to be popular across party/ideological lines. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18&#x2F
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by czinck 7y ago
They won't be locked out, they'll just now have to pay whatever the standard rates for USPS shipping (or whichever carrier they'll use), instead of the artificially low rates mandated by the UPU. Presumably someone (whether i
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by czinck 7y ago
Other than the time Apple and Google (and others) got sued for exactly that[1], some economists believe that the large size of many companies is why wages have been stagnating. Specifically, that they've become big enough that there&#
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by czinck 7y ago
Reading the proposal, it seems like they want to replace it because the ZooKeeper API is causing some issues for them, so even if ZooKeeper has perfect consensus, Kafka itself won't necessarily. From the "Metadata as an Event Log&
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by czinck 7y ago
Of course not, because that's the company's core competency. A better analogy is running a construction company without quarterly software security audits. Because if that list of clients along with contact info gets leaked, that
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by czinck 7y ago
I think it's just sloppy terminology on the authors part, using "clean energy" to refer to wind/solar/whatever new method that has much different pricing characteristics to stuff that was making up a large percentag
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by czinck 7y ago
Slow YouTube load is entirely YouTube/Google's fault >YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chro
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by czinck 7y ago
I went digging because I was confused about that too, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Parmitano#Expedition_36/3... > Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit's filters, causin
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by czinck 8y ago
At least Linux doesn't do that by default anymore (or only down to a certain resolution). So yes, proven very wrong/short sighted.
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by czinck 8y ago
How did you follow "take-home tests suck" with "two day paid projects are great"? Sure you're at least compensated for your time but most employment agreements almost certainly block this (unless you're a contr
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by czinck 8y ago
"Dynamic programming" was intentionally a super-vague but cool sounding term, it wasn't meant to be descriptive (unfortunately). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History
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Here’s what’s going on with Hawaii’s erupting volcano(arstechnica.com)
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by czinck 9y ago
I wish the popup shops were more frequent. 2 or 3 years ago there was a vacant store front on 39(?)th and Madison. Instead of just leaving it like that, the landlord turned it in to a private motorcycle museum. I got to walk by some very go
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by czinck 9y ago
AES and similar algorithms are specifically designed to not do that, because otherwise details of the ciphertext leak details about the plaintext. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis is about explo
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by czinck 9y ago
I think you're mixing 2 things. This is a complete rewrite of an old key-value store (hence the 2 in the name) but comdb2 was always SQL. Comdb2 shares a few things with comdb, but they're really just to make migration easier (the
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by czinck 9y ago
Our (hopefully benevolent) AI overlords will be in control well before the US changes away from first-past-the-post, at least on the whole. The US is too geographically and culturally distinct (for good reasons, not just blue/red state
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by czinck 10y ago
I don't know how much is in total, but the west side was expanded with landfill in the 19th century, and Battery Park City is made entirely of excavated dirt from other construction projects, mainly the Twin Towers.
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by czinck 10y ago
You're right, the linked article says "cost of revenue" was $450m which I assumed was a non-technical term by a writer trying to pad the article out, but the S-1 has it all broken out including that. With everything else it w
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by czinck 10y ago
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Snapchat already has 2 forms of ads (paid filters and sponsored stories), and $400m in revenue on "only" $450m in costs. Saying SMS will replace snapchat is like saying horses will replace airplanes; a
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by czinck 10y ago
I think 90% of developers would rather the compiler just complain there (for any condition in the if). Considering that without the compiler warning/error we have one of the most common sources of hard-to-find bugs, and with the compil
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by czinck 10y ago
I started to type out about how those investments need to eventually end up as a product on the shelf (metaphorically, B2B counts) to keep the supply/demand cycle going, but I don't think that's necessarily true. The money sh
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by czinck 10y ago
Stretching the debt analogy, you can go bankrupt from payday loans (the "just push it out" tech debt) and from getting too big of a mortgage to build/fix up a house (over-engineered tech debt).
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by czinck 10y ago
Bumblebee specifically, https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... is the fix. Pretty sure Steam had the same issue early in their linux release, probably lots of other programs too.
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by czinck 10y ago
On top of that, I don't remember the specific assumptions but my Crypto professor proved that just to increment a counter to 2^256 would take more energy than exists in the observable universe. I think also everyone is pretty sure quan
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by czinck 10y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I'm pretty sure they're saying that because Python is more popular in general (the base rate) it's more popular in AI/ML/whatever circles because of better general support (more t
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by czinck 10y ago
> You're overreacting. While I agree deleting the subreddit is excessive, I think you're downplaying it. Reddit has increasingly censored more and more content that the admins disagreed with (rightly or wrongly). Now they'
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by czinck 10y ago
They really are (or subsidiaries are). Ally Financial (or Ally Bank until a few years ago) started as the part of GM financing their auto loans. I'd bet Ford and Chrysler have similar groups, and foreign automakers as well.
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by czinck 10y ago
That's irrelevant. Obviously asking people who aren't expected to program to program in an interview is silly, we're talking about asking people who would be hired for a programming role to program.
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by czinck 10y ago
C&P is not really more secure than curl as with some javascript you can easily mislead users as to what they're copying. Check https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste and similar PoCs.

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