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by dtech 4y ago
Fiat money is backed by a government and the need to pay taxes in it if you want to do business in that market.
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by dtech 4y ago
Gold is a useful material for some use-cases, and people want it because it's pretty. Even if its intrinsic value is overshadowed by store-of-value value, BTC has nothing on that front.
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by dtech 4y ago
Be aware, the first entry on the linked site is an April fool's joke
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by dtech 4y ago
It's semantically similar but not syntactic sugar, since it is not translated to Optional or wrapper types, so it also doesn't incur the overhead of Optional. I actually like the language support more, as it flows a lot better tha
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by dtech 4y ago
If this question is in good faith, for example Kotlin differentiates between the nullable T? and the non-nullable T. An if x != null check automatically casts T? to T. You can't call a method on T?, preventing null pointer exceptions.
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by dtech 4y ago
Bitcoin only has value to transfer or store money as long as it has value. See problems with that circular logic? If faith in BTC is lost, all its value is also permanently lost. It's even worse since a lot of crypto price is driven du
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by dtech 4y ago
It's a bit dismissive to just focus on scaling as a cloud advantage. You also have lower maintenance, easier redundancy, lower chance of outages, easier backup and more such non-functionals. A 200GB DB costs about $50/month on AWS
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by dtech 4y ago
Excel actually opens HTML tables
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by dtech 4y ago
Not my experience in NL, having worked 4x9 at 3 companies for the past years, only some minor pushback easily set aside. Might be different at Booking or fintech companies.
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by dtech 4y ago
Yes, but it was still was trained on a large dataset for the purpose of drawing. It's not an AGI that just happened to be asked to draw bicycles. Maybe a better comparison would be a trained artist, who likely wouldn't make such e
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by dtech 4y ago
The response to "The Beginners Guide" seems to be linked to how much of a "creator" you are. It did not vibe with me at all, but a friend who is a musician on the side loved it.
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by dtech 4y ago
Multiple reports over the years indicate that it's not just a single bad bet that got Intel into this, but a corporate culture where engineers have less and less influence and MBAs more and more, leading to worse and worse tech. Simil
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by dtech 4y ago
This is from memory. Humans wouldn't make this (serious level) of mistakes if they had an enormous data-set of bicycles to draw from.
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by dtech 4y ago
It would be incredibly stupid to take the bet, as it's way more likely that the sequence was not produced by a fair die than that it was (i.e. the dice is rigged in the example) Just because it's impossible to know for certain, do
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by dtech 4y ago
They are not, these are the instructions from the reproduction > Tap a sequence of 10 dice rolls. Make it look as random as possible; another person should not be able to tell if you made it up or if it was from real dice rolls. And this
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by dtech 4y ago
Not particularly popular, especially nowadays. "Snert", a thick pea soup with pork, is a classic winter dish though.
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by dtech 4y ago
It seems to me like Python needs to get Typescript's capabilities (if Python wants to go further this way of course). It solves all these problems very well, and has no problem with 2 and most of the author's objections.
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by dtech 4y ago
Not blocking anything is infeasible due to abuse, requiring registration is effectively blocking anonymous editing access for everyone. If you want anonymous editing, providing it to some is strictly better than providing it to none. Your a
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by dtech 5y ago
It makes a lot of sense. People returning to your pricing page are more likely to have decided to buy from you, so they're likely less price sensitive. I've seen it myself. Not in $10 increments every refresh though, that's m
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by dtech 5y ago
This kind of thing sounds smart, but in practice it's terrible to work with higher ups who randomly do this kind of micromanaging and attach immense consequences to it. Story I heard from a friend was of a CEO who asked a janitor if he
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by dtech 5y ago
40 hours in 4 days - 4x10 - is unusual, but 4x9 for 90% part-time is common.
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by dtech 5y ago
The author of the book once made a Turing machine in Excel [1], which was called out by Microsoft when they made the Excel formula language Turing complete [2]. [1] https://www.felienne.com/archives/2974 [2] https:&#x
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by dtech 5y ago
Because public voting is the status quo, so 3 & 4 are identical in what they would (not) change in the procedures. 3 is just an additional statement of support. If you support public voting (3) you also support 4 over 1/2.
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by dtech 5y ago
They use ranked choice voting so this shouldn't matter, as far as I understand RCV eliminates the lowest option one-by-one, passing the votes to the next option on each ballot as if the eliminated option never existed. The discussion s
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by dtech 5y ago
Starcraft is the exception rather than the rule. If you take a random sample of 20 year old games I'd wager that in the vast majority of samples none of them will have received updates in the last 15 years.
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by dtech 5y ago
> Would you say that browser innovation has slowed down? For a long time it was, everyone was stuck on HTML4 while W3C was playing with XHTML. That only really changed when browser vendors came together and collectively decided to ignore
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by dtech 5y ago
The point is notifying the active community here and discussing the reason(s) and impact of the outage, or in GH's case their regularity I guess
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by dtech 5y ago
Reference equality being the default instead of something you very explicitly have to ask for is a flaw.
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by dtech 5y ago
Just because something is a well known-flaw doesn't make it a glaring flaw. There's a reason newer JVM languages like Kotlin use == as an alias for equals instead of reference equality.
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by dtech 5y ago
If you use anything off the shelf like Keycloak, you're 1 CVE away from being automatically breached too, which is very similar to the situation you'd be in from Okta etc. being breached.

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