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by dev_dull 7y ago
Leverage brings people to the table.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community. When we refuse to work on defense technology (E.g., weapons), let’s remember who our rivals are, because they are surely investing
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I believe it's a specific POSIX standard that CLI tools are always in the same order: source -> destination[1] ln, cp, mv, most everything will always follow this pattern. https://www.gnu.org/software/swbis&#x2F
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by dev_dull 7y ago
This is a really interesting peek into the developers mind. Right away I notice I google things differently than the author. I try and hit up phrases that match a question (which is why I probably over index on stack overflow). The author s
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> In this same timeframe, latency on network cards became lower than latency to your drive controller. Reading something out of memory on another machine in the same data center was faster than getting it off of your own disk. Was this
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I’m not really sure who this article is trying to convince. Besides, who thinks it’s the “phones” listening to us? It’s the apps that do the listening. Only recently are iOS and android finally clawing back errant permissions on these apps
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by dev_dull 7y ago
According to the article the flood of exploits has more to do with iMessage and safari attack surface and not necessarily the OS.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Hi Bill from DuckDuckGo. Can you give us a rough ballpark for salary ranges for these positions?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
This comment from the article should tell you a little bit about our problem: > renewables are approaching their limit in California. The state’s electricity grid manager increasingly has to pay neighboring states to take California’s e
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I’ve really come around to nuclear power. I’d like to invite other HN readers to check out the comments of acid urnNSA[1] who describes himself as “Nuclear reactor physicist in Seattle” > Recall that the beauty of nuclear energy is ener
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by dev_dull 7y ago
These technologies aren’t exclusive. You need wind, solar, and nuclear for a carbon-free replacement for our grid. Nat gas is still one of the “cheapest” forms of energy, but you wouldn’t hold that against carbon-free alternatives right?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
And that was the last time our intelligence agencies ever planned a false flag operation in order to sway public opinion and get their way... phew!
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The flip side to that is that json and yaml parsers exist in every language, and would be more than capable of replacing any logic you’d find in a CSV.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Go ahead and give every engineer who comes across your meta-delimited file a little rundown on how it works. "Can you show me how to import it into google sheets?" "I need to email it to someone, can you show me how to change
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by dev_dull 7y ago
We’ve discussed this at length and I’m squarely in the DO NOT camp. The drawbacks of using non-readable meta characters exceeds the benefits: 1. TSV can be read and imported by almost everything. 2. People can add and adjust TSV files from
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Clojure is explicitly designed as a hosted language, which I think was a very good move. I’m not personally a fan of a VM such as JVM. Sure you get some easy benefits, but now you have two things that need tuning. Two things that nee
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by dev_dull 7y ago
You usually only meet jerks when they’re in positions of prestige and very competent (brilliant?). Why? Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fired long ago. You might start to think that there’s some connection, but really i
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Hate to break it to you but the world is already covered in 10 lane highways.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Seattle has this with a physically separated highway. It’s closed in one direction and switches directions around noon. Fun to wait at the entrance with a motorcycle. As soon as it’s open you have 5 miles where it’s physically impossible fo
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Idealized solution: A temporary bypass zone is communicated to the self-driving cars. There’s so many great opportunities like this once the cars are self driving and connected. For example, a ten lane highway without dividers ! 8v2
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by dev_dull 7y ago
A perfect and logical move for an established company. First, get into an unregulated market. Then, attempt to make that market highly regulated, which discourages and prevents new comers from using the same techniques you used (and thus, l
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> In other words, it detects only crashes. We can do much better than this. Assertions and their compiler-inserted friends — sanitizer checks — are another excellent kind of oracle. I'm trying to understand this one. Isn't a
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by dev_dull 7y ago
One of my favorite youtubers is a channel named STS telecom[1]. He uses various tools to repair logic boards on iPhones. It’s incredibly satisfying to watch him hunt down a shorted capacitor the size of the end of a toothpick. Then like mag
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by dev_dull 7y ago
You seem to be knowledgeable. What do we do with the waste?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Nuclear is being funded and built all around the world. There's 50 reactors under construction right now[1]. My original statement was that the aversion to it is political, not economical and certainly not scientific. There is no panac
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Can you explain more about why they don't make sense? My understanding is that they're extremely desirable. They're a drop-in replacement for millions of hydrocarbon plants. They can scale up/down with demand. They produ
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Some industrial processes can’t easily be electrified because they require too much heat. One possible alternative is to get the heat from a next-generation nuclear plant. Glad to see this. I take any future large-scale green energy
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Lord help any industry that attempts “dumping” with today’s president.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
It really isn’t a personal issue. I believe the issue is non-partisan (and no brainer). Or maybe I’m being naive in today’s world in thinking that.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The fact it went on this long is the confusing part to me. Why didn't anybody come and say "Hey! This is weird. Let's stop this" before 2016?

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