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by dpratt 5y ago
You're a little off, currently: P --- CT --- NAT Proxy/Traffic Shaper --- Possible MITM host --- S
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by dpratt 5y ago
Any work, no matter how trivial, is eligible for copyright as long as it is an original artifact with a distinct identity.
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by dpratt 5y ago
And when you have 500,000 copies of something, most of which have been in use for some appreciable fraction of their effective lifetime, it doesn’t have to be “common” to occur to some fraction of them. The post you’re responding to never i
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by dpratt 5y ago
So, should the outside observers who noticed the mass hysteria, death and destruction in Russia, Germany, Cambodia, Myanmar, Romania, Turkey and myriad other examples during the 20th century just have realized that they needed to "reco
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by dpratt 5y ago
FYI, if you're the author of the article, you deserve some recognition. It's extremely well written, concise and detailed. I've sent it out to my entire team as recommended reading.
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by dpratt 5y ago
You’re going to love Kotlin, it really is a fantastic pragmatic language. You’re also likely to discover that while C# the language is amazing, the CLR runtime looks frankly minor league when compared to the JVM.
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by dpratt 5y ago
Granted, it’s a micro benchmark without a lot of context, but wouldn’t the conclusion that the default HashMap implementation is, on average, faster than all the open addressing implementations contradict this conclusion?
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by dpratt 5y ago
As of Java 17, no longer. This option was intended as a migration path for badly behaving code, and as of today it no longer works.
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by dpratt 5y ago
It’s significantly better for battery life, it’s a tiny bit more integrated into the OS, and as a bonus it doesn’t send every aspect of my entire browsing history back to Google.
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by dpratt 5y ago
I'm not particularly bothered by losing access to the kind of 'prized mind' who sees no problem with creating tools to enforce a totalitarian state. I find it logically untenable that a 'prized mind' would not be co
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by dpratt 5y ago
It’s entirely apolitical. I view it as entirely identical to a refusing to hire anyone who had been a chemist at a tobacco company.
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by dpratt 5y ago
While I find what Google and Facebook do personally distasteful, it would be foolish and short-sighted to assume everyone who had worked there was complicit. It’s one thing to be an employee at a giant company that does a multitude of thing
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by dpratt 5y ago
This is not a correct analogy. There are multiple legitimate and moral usages of ammunition. A better comparison would be to ask if I would hire someone who worked for the East German Stasi, or someone who had helped to build the systems us
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by dpratt 5y ago
This is not a political argument. If you willingly participate in the construction and deployment of technological systems that are designed to be used to monitor, suppress and ultimately threaten the physical security of people who are non
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by dpratt 5y ago
I am but one atom in a molecule in a drop in an ocean, but I have pledged to never be involved in the hiring of any person who has had any willing association with any organization responsible for efforts similar to Pegasus, with no excepti
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by dpratt 5y ago
“We don’t have speed limits, but instead a system where different classes of roads have a preset range of overall maximum velocity.” Does a zoning law by any other name smell as sweet?
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by dpratt 5y ago
Harrison Bergeron looks at all of this and wryly smiles.
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by dpratt 5y ago
If I’m understanding this correctly, the statement is “There is a set of provably true assertions that are held in every n-dimensional geometry, except for n=4” If so, that’s fascinating. Has there been any proofs around why a dimensional o
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by dpratt 5y ago
And yet we currently uncritically accept the denouncement and suppression of “misinformation” championed by our various media institutions, all of which either derive a plurality of their income (television) or a significant fraction from p
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by dpratt 5y ago
This is a shockingly concise, accurate and readily digestible by the common person description of what Facebook actually is. If you don’t mind, I’m going to save this for the future.
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by dpratt 5y ago
You’re getting downvotes, which is unfortunate. The only logical conclusion from this is that Apple has (correctly) decided to take a position on this. Unfortunately, by doing so, they’ve invalidated the typical justification for not speaki
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by dpratt 5y ago
I’ve read through the spec, and there’s not really much here that you can’t accommodate with protobuf Service definitions. I do like the provider abstraction on top of push-based messaging services, but that’s just an isomorphism for a prot
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by dpratt 5y ago
This appears to be cutting of their nose to spite their face. We have a team of 50+ engineers that all use Docker for Mac for daily development tasks, but I suspect that will no longer be true in a rather short amount of time. Frankly, I do
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by dpratt 5y ago
I think the point is that the average person who resides in the US is more concerned with Orwellian overreach from the NSA than the CCP surveillance apparatus. The Chinese secret police don’t present a threat to me, whereas the NSA has the
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by dpratt 5y ago
Which, I believe is either owned or majorly maintained by GitLab.
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by dpratt 6y ago
I really hope somebody that utilizes this names their rocket ‘Rocinate’ as well.
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by dpratt 6y ago
I can’t say definitively why you’re being downvoted, but it might be consistent with the very point you’re trying to make.
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by dpratt 6y ago
Considering that your hypothetical solution would violate causality, there’d be quite a bit more than a $300 million gain from it.
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by dpratt 6y ago
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding you, it seems like you’re implying that the JVM, as of today, isn’t the source of a lot of research or innovation. If that’s true, you’re incorrect. There’s a _gigantic_ amount of money, time and people involved
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by dpratt 6y ago
You're probably right about Graal, but there is no way that V8 has significantly more effort put into it than the JVM. At best, they're roughly similar, but I suspect that the JVM has quite a bit more development time and effort p

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