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by dangero 4y ago
I run a game studio and we often hire people that worked in other industries before. In fact most of our staff have no prior professional games experience. When I see people fail to transition its because they aren’t willing to put in the w
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by dangero 4y ago
Modern compilers have flags that add memory and stack canaries does that count?
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by dangero 4y ago
Yes, but like others have said, I never thought it was worth it. I like to focus on moving forward. I have a friend who worked for a large law firm and he told me that even they wrote off some unpaid bills or negotiated discounts. I was sho
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by dangero 4y ago
Glad they actually paid. I've had similar situations where I'm still waiting for the money 5 years later (I know it's never coming)
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by dangero 4y ago
When I was in college I realized that they hadn't disabled net send with wildcards on the CS computer network. We all had individual logins. One day I walk into my lab class and see that a poor soul forgot to logout of his session. I&#
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by dangero 4y ago
Yeah in the end when you recognize that they just try to be middlemen, you realize you're better off finding a remote personal assistant that remembers prior context.
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by dangero 4y ago
I had an absolutely horrendous experience with Magic a few years back. I wanted them to find out how much all my competitors charged hourly so I asked them to call and ask but was very clear “you cannot say you’re calling on my behalf. Do n
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by dangero 4y ago
Yes! Right click on the exe file and change the startup options to do a full reboot into DOS. Definitely needed for the games that were hard coded to use the first MB of RAM
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by dangero 4y ago
Exactly, and it's buried deep in a menu that I didn't know existed
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by dangero 4y ago
To further increase the security of your master password, LastPass utilizes a stronger-than-typical implementation of 100,100 iterations of the Password-Based Key Derivation Function (PBKDF2), a password-strengthening algorithm that makes
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by dangero 4y ago
This is beautiful
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by dangero 4y ago
why would you want to participate in an internet that is incapable of excluding evildoers?
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by dangero 4y ago
Maybe it’s technologically difficult from a standards perspective, but it works well for humans. If the computer smears an extra second into my day, I won’t notice.
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by dangero 4y ago
Google does "leap smearing" which seems like the best human solution to this problem: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-... standardizing leap smearing algos and constants could
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by dangero 4y ago
At any moment they can see the order book size in btc and the prices so if they buy btc with USDT they can safely hold the Bitcoin provided they are monitoring the order book. If a big sell order comes in or someone tries to cancel a buy or
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by dangero 4y ago
1. They can see an order match for a limit order and preempt it with a better offer before pushing it through by a micro-fraction of a penny 2. They can run trading bots on all major exchanges to keep USDT pegged —- while not foolproof it w
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by dangero 4y ago
I have a theory of why Tether is able to dodge risk. If they are owned by Bitfinex can they not front-run the Bitfinex order book to guarantee their stops will hit their target? They know the bitfinex order depth for every asset so they can
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by dangero 4y ago
Coinbase supports USDT https://www.coinbase.com/how-to-buy/tether
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by dangero 4y ago
> Should only rich people be allowed to afford anything? How else do you recommend dispersing items of extreme scarcity where everybody can't have it?
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by dangero 4y ago
It definitely brings value to people who have money to buy marked up tickets and exposes the inefficiency of ticket pricing algorithms.
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by dangero 4y ago
You should check out Apple App Attest —- this just isn’t true any more for mobile. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/valida...
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by dangero 4y ago
"the statute of limitations runs from the date the litigant obtains actual knowledge of the facts"
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by dangero 4y ago
yes this was my assumption
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by dangero 4y ago
I have been wanting to build a POC of a vpn product where you buy a kit with two little boxes that are plug n play: One you plug into the network in the location you are supposed to be, and the other you bring with you on your travels and p
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by dangero 4y ago
You can run a thousand nodes virtually from a single pc
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by dangero 4y ago
It will most likely render differently on different hardware since gpu float math is nondeterministic across different environments
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by dangero 4y ago
similar work using Stable Diffusion in a Photoshop plugin: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
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by dangero 4y ago
You can just create a singleton that never gets destroyed to handle things like this.
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by dangero 4y ago
For most businesses a little down time here and there is a calculated risk versus more complex infrastructure. You can’t assume all the cloud architects are idiots — they have to report their task list and cost of infrastructure to someone
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by dangero 5y ago
Anyone know how this list was created or how often it gets updated?

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