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by dave4420 3y ago
What’s the problem with Apple including another app as part of iOS?
482.
by dave4420 3y ago
I dunno. Which one pays better? Which one will you learn more at? Which one will you have more fun at? Which one has the better commute? Etc.
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by dave4420 3y ago
> priced at £200 per 100g Blimey.
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by dave4420 3y ago
I don’t care what colour the bike shed is.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Less than a fifth of a penny per spam message. This will not act as a deterrent.
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by dave4420 3y ago
The established part of the business had an appalling half year and couldn’t continue to fund the not-yet-profitable digital part of the business. If you work for a startup you know there’s always a possibility that the money will run out,
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by dave4420 3y ago
What do they know of C++ who only C++ know?
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by dave4420 3y ago
I used to work for a non tech company of around three or four hundred people that nonetheless had about twenty software engineers. I say “used to” because engineering got cut by 80% last quarter.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Do they actually say anywhere what they allege Cloudflare has done wrong? (Yes yes, “securities violation”; what specifically?)
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by dave4420 3y ago
I would think that if we made interest non tax deductible (i.e. make it so that interest cannot be paid out of pre tax income) then this hole in regulation would be eliminated. Is there a reason why this isn’t so? (I get that there are othe
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by dave4420 3y ago
I don’t understand. Are they 1000x brighter because we can pump 1000x more current through them, or because they’re 1000x more efficient. If the former, then… not useful for phones?
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by dave4420 3y ago
Scala isn’t dead. I’m job hunting right now, and seeing plenty of Scala jobs. Not as many as Node+TS+React, but what do you expect?
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by dave4420 3y ago
You can probably target by “believes in several conspiracy theories”.
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by dave4420 3y ago
In the current American system, most voters only research the top two candidates, if that. (i.e. they don’t vote in the primaries.) Alaska seems to have got voters to consider the top four, that seems like an approach worth rolling out more
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by dave4420 3y ago
There are the people who read all his columns, and then there are the drive-by readers who only ever see the link when it’s about Musk. Pretty sure most of the time I see his column linked here, it’s about Musk.
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by dave4420 3y ago
A full time employee? So bloated! You can get by with a part-timer working half the week.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Careful with that analogy. Russia has been talking about using nukes as part of their attempted conquest of Ukraine. I agree with your general point though. (I guess that’s another reason to not want more countries to get nukes: they might
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by dave4420 3y ago
Randomising the matchups is a terrible idea, because candidates will claim that the matchups have been fixed, and you won’t be able to refute that in a way that convinces most people. > Likewise, everyone else will thoroughly research th
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by dave4420 3y ago
If they can recruit enough servers into their botnet, they sure, why not?
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by dave4420 3y ago
How would you seed the candidates? If you have a random draw instead… people will claim it was rigged to give their preferred candidate a harder run to the final. Most importantly, you can allocate voters to individual matchups… but you can
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by dave4420 3y ago
Ah, gotcha :-)
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by dave4420 3y ago
Sorry, what 5500 year cycle are you talking about?
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by dave4420 3y ago
Link should be https://avc.com/2024/01/what-will-happen-in-2024/ ?
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by dave4420 3y ago
> 3. A year is more precisely 365.2422 days. Well. That depends how you measure it. You get a different answer depending on whether you’re measuring the mean tropical year, or spring equinox to spring equinox, or winter solstice to winte
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by dave4420 3y ago
When working remotely, I find myself working on my laptop while travelling to/from meetups. When working on site, I find myself working on my laptop during my commute when my train in is delayed. There’s free Wi-Fi on trains these days
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by dave4420 3y ago
Yes. Are you going to tell me that the option for British English has been there all along, and I just couldn’t find it?
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by dave4420 3y ago
I wish they’d use AI to translate the English language sentences into different dialects of English. It’s hard enough learning German without having to do it via American English. Just going automatically down the route of “cut costs” spea
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by dave4420 3y ago
My memory is that it segfaulted, but this was months ago, so who knows?
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by dave4420 3y ago
It says Ethernet over HTTP, but it looks like it’s only useful for one shot request/response over TCP protocols, like HTTP 1.0. What am I missing?
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by dave4420 3y ago
I’m horrified that this sort of thing is necessary to efficiently query a modern database. (SQL Server in this case.) It feels like something the query planner should be able to do itself.

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