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by em500 3y ago
I think there are main reasons why computer code often have verbose names for functions and variables is that there is a great variance (1) in the application domain of code and (2) the knowledge and background of people who might read and
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by em500 3y ago
FAANGs can get literally over a million job applications per year. Any procedure that filters that down to roughly the number of people that they plan to hire (a few 10k) is also going to filter out some excellent candidates, no way around
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by em500 3y ago
I wonder if there is any mainstream program with a more convoluted configuration scheme than bash? Just when think you understand the various invocations of .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc in login/non-login/interactive/non-
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by em500 3y ago
Yeah, this sounds like textbook price discrimination via market segmentation to me. Producers do this to capture more of the consumer surplus value (willingness of some consumers to pay more than others). The alternative is to offer a singl
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by em500 3y ago
I guess it was a carry over from the original Macintosh OS all the way back from 1984. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_1
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by em500 3y ago
I think what you're missing is that sample sizes for statistical significance do not depend on the population size. The big caveat is that the sample is random and representative , which you can't really verify beyond doubt. Bu
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by em500 3y ago
One way to moderate this is to remove them from your phone and just access them from a PC end of day. There is no value from 24/7 instant access to Reddit or HN (or the majority of network connected apps if you think about it), as oppo
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by em500 3y ago
Xenix was an officially licensed Unix for the 16-bit 8086. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
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by em500 3y ago
As far as I understand from the article, the parent had some approvals/restrictions in place, but the kid circumvented by changing the password? The article is rather vague in describing what actually happened exactly.
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by em500 3y ago
Yet every EU country has either the same or lower fertility rate than in the US.
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by em500 3y ago
Moreover, today's kids, including your own if you have them, like different things than you did. Most kids growing up with Breath of the Wild are not going to be impressed by Ocarina of Time. Most likely, you have pretty different pref
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by em500 3y ago
Yup. Unlike revenue, profits can turn negative, in which case % changes become nonsensical.
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by em500 4y ago
ICE bans apply to sales of new cars. It will take another 20 years or so after a ban before most of the existing stock of ICE is actually replaced.
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by em500 4y ago
A somewhat unique desideratum of video game music that distinguish them from film scores (especially with the limited storage in the 1980s and 90s) is that short pieces need to be played in a loop for hours and hours on end without the play
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by em500 4y ago
Here´s some research and commentary on this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c4daDbQD398BmW5k5/on-car-sea...
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by em500 4y ago
Here's the minimum expense breakdown for DFW from MIT which the article is based on: https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/19100 (totaling $32,371 for a 1 adult 0 child household, for which they use a zero-bedroom apa
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by em500 4y ago
The listed numbers are 5k to 7k per month in take home pay for singles . Calling that "poverty line" sounds like peak HN.
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by em500 4y ago
Which in itself is largely based on expenses given by https://livingwage.mit.edu and adding some fixed percentages for discretionary spending plus savings. The methodology for the expense calculation is described here: https:&#
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by em500 4y ago
7k take home per month for a single with no dependents is poverty wage in SF?
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by em500 4y ago
It seems everyone is skipping the text and going directly to the table and complaining that they're too low. These are post-tax incomes for a single individual with no kids .
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by em500 4y ago
These are post-tax income numbers for a single individual with no kids.
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by em500 4y ago
I never found youtube particularly addictive. I'm guessing that's because (1) I don't have the app installed on my phone and (2) out of habit I only use it in a webbrowser in a new Incognito/Private tab, so the default r
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by em500 4y ago
My current personal home laptop is a Chromebook with 4Gb Ram and a Core m3-8100Y. For daily browser usage I barely notice any performance difference with the work issued 16GB i7 laptop. So how about let people decide for themselves what t
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by em500 4y ago
> how in the world is pressing a button on an electrical bicycle any different from pressing a button on a scooter? I don't know about the US, but in Europe, light regulation only apply to electric bikes that provide pedal assistan
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by em500 4y ago
Sure, but an ex-FAANGer probably has a better shot at actually getting hired at another FAANG (when the job market improves) than someone who's only worked at no-name shops or local governments.
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by em500 4y ago
“Moving down” can be more difficult than it looks. Anecdotally, employers can be reluctant to hire “overqualified” people (indicated by a high previous salary), because they believe these people will jump ship at the earliest higher paying
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by em500 4y ago
Maybe you should direct your ire at Apple, which has 40 times the revenue of Bloomberg and has been actually shipping curl in their operating systems for 20 years without contributing a dime: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog&#x2
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by em500 4y ago
Pretty much every decade could be called tough. Post-WW II in the US we had: - 1950s: Civil Rights, Korean war, dawn of the Cold War - 1960s: Vietnam war, more Cold War - 1970s: stagflation (high unemployment + high inflation), Watergate, e
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by em500 4y ago
It was true. This was mostly because Windows XP had several open ports by default, and before SP2 (released in 2004) did not have a firewall. So when a vulnerable service in the default install was found behind a default-open port it would
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by em500 4y ago
Maybe beef is bad largely due to their sheer volume (c.f. China's per capita emission is much lower than North America or Europe, but their aggregate impact is still enormous due to their large population). There was this eye opening o

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