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by dev_dull 8y ago
Honest question but what do I really gain in this scenario? Now all worker function arguments are N+1. I feel like it’s the waterbed affect and the complexity is simply pushed around elsewhere. It seems like there’s simply a reasonable cogn
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by dev_dull 8y ago
They’ve already started with the current emperor. Basically don’t change anything is what I’m wondering about — just keep counting up.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
I still have a hard time being dogmatic about this. For some simple multithreaded apps I'll use a global "STOP" variable, which I mutate when shutting down. All of the functions check this before attempting to gracefully exit
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Why not just keep counting up forever and use it like Japanese epoch time?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Simple NCSA-style logging webserver. So important! I can't believe this wasn't part of the standard lib.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> Verizon was hired to investigate the 2017 attack, and according to the bank Verizon’s forensics experts concluded that the tools and servers used by the hackers were of Russian origin Wow. One incompetent company leading another inco
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by dev_dull 8y ago
There are plenty of solutions to middlemen. Usually they exist not because of technical limitations but because of other reasons (see car dealerships).
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> We have also applied BOLT to GCC and Clang binaries, and our evaluation shows that BOLT speeds up these binaries by up to 15.3% How is this even possible? Doesn’t this mean that there’s probably just some inefficient or unoptimized c
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> These results suggest that an emperor relied on his military for support. The is obvious to even the laziest Roman history reader. The emperors knew this well, and bankrupted the state to shower donatives on troops. Now you know one
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by dev_dull 8y ago
If you’re a company that can develop a new, effective antibiotic, you’d sell it to everybody and make out like a bandit.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Fortunately most countries don’t/can’t keep track of who the other countries have on their citizenship roster.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
To me this represents more of a risk than a benefit. If you enter on a Venezuelan passport and that government decides it wants something from you, the host country might be obligated to hand you over regardless of your interesting variety
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> The police got a search warrant for the devices, claiming that they contain evidence of “Possession of Cannabis Less Than 20 grams” and “Possession of Drug Paraphernalia”—both of which Montanez already admitted to, which makes it uncl
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> These were obtained by a government hostile to Qatar and passed to the BBC. How long until governments with access to required backdoors just start openly blackmailing citizens of “hostile” countries? Without a doubt it’s already hap
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Yes please! I love my fiber, but being stuck with this interminable box as the first hop is driving me crazy. And performance drops significantly with pass-through mode.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Your anecdote falls into the trap I see often when comparing OSS software vs proprietary. You’ve found a obscure, uncommon use case where OSM works better. However, the opposite needs to be true for adoption. OSM needs to work better for 80
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by dev_dull 8y ago
My understanding was that the water isn't actually contaminated, but that they aren't treating it with something that prevents lead from being released in all of the piping. Can someone comment on this? If that's the case, th
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Can somehow help me understand the advantages of Make over a bash script? Isn’t bash superior in almost every way?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
These drugs seem to rise with the stakes. It really used to not matter very much how you did in high school. Then it became necessary to get a college degree, more competition for less slots. It's unfortunate. Makes me sad for my child
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by dev_dull 8y ago
when I worked in fast food, many employees already worked two jobs at two separate restaurants.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
My friend, you’re barely a few generations removed from a time when a scraped knee could be a bacterial infection and death. This news is fantastic and your life probably isn’t as bad as you make it seem.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> Aedes, Anopheles and Culex are found almost all over the world and are responsible for around 17 per cent of infectious disease transmissions globally." If I understand that correctly, that is a massive number. I really like w
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by dev_dull 8y ago
They used to call these company towns and they turned out pretty awful in the long run. We’ll see if it’s different this time.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
So the US is accused of hiding it, but what does every other country on the planet think?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
As someone above wrote, we’re still in a weird state where the fed has a huge balance of treasuries that it wants to “normalize”, e.g. sell . I think we’re still sailing in strange waters.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
What evidence do you have that it's employers who are powerful holding down wages? Being a small business owner in America sucks. You can barely afford to employ anybody.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Every link on that page just took me back to their same website. Is this some kind of SEO antipattern? It makes it really difficult tracking down the actual parts.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
There’s also, unfortunately, physical limitations such as thrust-to-weight ratios that affect its dogfighting capabilities. AFAIK these can’t be overcome with software updates but better pilot training can improve survivability.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
And do what? Create a new $1T bungled project?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Is it called the Wells Fargo effect now? When you optimize for a number, you'll get that number -- and it will deceive you.

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