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by femto113 4y ago
It's worse than just handwaving, it's straight up nonsensical. Perhaps it is literally true that only 2% of distinct accounts that log into Docker Hub have this plan, but for the vast majority of people "using Docker Hub&quo
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by femto113 4y ago
Interesting to see so many responses along the lines of "that's not been my experience of the industry". I have a theory though at the source of the difference in perception, and it's not that the companies are differen
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by femto113 4y ago
In the UK they have the term "redundancy" (as in "your position has been made redundant"). Can't see that term catching on in the US but it does cover the use of "laid off" to mean "the company chose
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by femto113 4y ago
Nobody has to put in anything other than confidence. Given enough time the bank already has plenty of assets--the whole point of the feds saying "all deposits will be made whole" is to stop the panic withdrawals and thus obviate
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by femto113 4y ago
I expect the losers in SVB will be the same as for WaMu: bondholders, shareholders, and investors. No reason yet to expect depositors will suffer anything more than inconvenience. And if, like WaMu, the FDIC can rapidly effect a sale to
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by femto113 4y ago
HTM accounting isn't the problem, it's one tool among many and has its uses. SVB's mistake was buying long term paper just as the country was heading into a rising rate environment. This has already put them in a hole they
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by femto113 4y ago
Definitely makes way more sense for a macro pad--you don't hit those keys very frequently so switches are less significant but the key's effect changes often so the screen is useful. Tactility is good, I never liked Apple's
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by femto113 4y ago
Definitely sets off my BS detector. They're under no obligation to publicize this so if they want it to be a secret they could keep it a secret. This means they do want publicity, probably so they can raise money. But there's a
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by femto113 4y ago
Yes I was thinking about this from a customer's perspective. In particular I can't tell if Usage is buying/selling/holding reservations in their account but on their customer's behalf, or if they are just automating
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by femto113 4y ago
Curious what happens to resources and reservations if Usage goes out of business? Three years is actually a pretty long horizon to rely on a startup still being around.
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by femto113 4y ago
It's a tiny amount--I'm guessing I've probably easily logged 20,000 hours of active use in vi by this point, I can't think of any other tool I use regularly that has a better time-of-use/time-of-setup ratio. Compar
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by femto113 4y ago
For a science fiction novel it was pretty huge--selling over 125,000 copies[1] in its first couple years, and is ranked near the top 10 of all time. This list [2] has it in 12th place overall, but a lot of the others on the list have also
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by femto113 4y ago
Setup how? I've used vi/vim daily as my main editor for the past 35 years or so, over that time I doubt I've put more than 20 total hours into its setup. I've been using some evolution of the same .vimrc for decades an
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by femto113 4y ago
This may actually be illegal[1], particularly if it disproportionally aligns with any other sort of protected factor (like age, sex, or national origin). [1] https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-unemployed...
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by femto113 4y ago
Notably these formats are designed to be lossless and very simple to work with programmatically so they were used as the intermediate format in a lot of image processing workflows, even where the inputs and outputs are a more common format
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by femto113 4y ago
If this article doesn't make you sufficiently paranoid may I refer you to my all time favorite Underhanded C Contest, the leaky image redactor from 2008. The winning entry is just brilliant: it's simple, it works perfectly, does
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by femto113 4y ago
This author, and 99% of anybody writing about, and large majority of anybody attempting to do code reviews misses that there are two very distinct and not particularly compatible purposes of code reviews. IMO the only really important one
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by femto113 4y ago
Sorry for the offtopic remarks, but DevDB is relevant to my interests since I've been working on a similar/related and potentially synergistic tech as an on-again/off-again side project for a few years, and would love to chat
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by femto113 4y ago
I have tried moving up the management chain (PM/TPM/Architect/C*). The biggest challenge I found is that generally I was still the most productive engineer available to apply to most problems, so I still spent time writing c
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by femto113 4y ago
It gets only a sliver of attention compared to Los Alamos and Santa Fe, but Española is actually effectively another LANL company town--the lab is the town's biggest employer and a large portion of the lab's workforce lives there,
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by femto113 4y ago
Google gained their monopoly over search when they had only a couple hundred employees, competitors definitely do not need to be very big at all to be a threat to Google technologically. The government interventions that will matter will b
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by femto113 4y ago
It's not at all difficult to imagine many other measurements: minutes driven, type of road driven on, speed at time of crash, whether another vehicle was involved, etc. As a data analyst what I really want though is more granular data
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by femto113 4y ago
You can't just Excel the Tether short because the basic premise is no one knows the truth about them. Tether on the surface is a perfect business: people give them real money in exchange for tokens they mint themselves for free. They
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by femto113 4y ago
Simple drip machines are a marvel--I spend more on a month's supply of beans than I do on the maker, and have been getting about 5 years daily service out of each one. Technology Connections made a great video explaining how stupid&#x
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by femto113 4y ago
Considering the two risks as independent surmises that BTC goes up substantially (in USD terms) via some mechanism other than printing Tether, which AFAICT never happens. If/when BTC does go up you can simply short again at the higher
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by femto113 4y ago
Tether effectively denominates the entirety of all crypto valuations, so going to any exotic length to do a specific "short Tether" trade seems silly. Just shorting BTC/USD will have the same effect.
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by femto113 4y ago
Do you have a brandname/source for the mold removal gel? Big problem in our condo and have tried several things without much success.
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by femto113 4y ago
The entire "gig economy" would be much better named the "scofflaw economy". Far more than technology, a willingness to deliberately ignore laws/rules/regulations/decency is the core competency of AirBNB,
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by femto113 4y ago
It's not even really satire, from an actual menu: Pumpkin Hummus 15 Vegetarian 'Spaghetti & Meatballs' 20 Brownie Batter In A Jar 11 Someone needs to create a test to see if humans can reliably distinguish r
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by femto113 4y ago
In fiat terms, unless you really believe there is over $60BN sitting in a bank account that they just choose not to show for "reasons", Tether is already insolvent. Since most of Binance's non-self-issued reserves are in the

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