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by floating-io 2y ago
You'd also have to ask when NULL came into common use in C (to which I do not know the answer). AFAIK NULL was not considered to be standard until C89. As far as I'm aware, all C compilers implement it as a #define in a standard
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by floating-io 2y ago
I was unclear; I bundle them per-module; each module has an asset route with attached middleware. So for a users module, there will be users/assets or some such route, to which various static-related middleware gets attached. The link
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by floating-io 2y ago
I tend to keep statics consolidated and slap middleware on those routes to handle expiration headers and whatnot. Versioning is handled where links are generated; an href="{{ linkfor( asset ) }}" style resulting in generated urls
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by floating-io 2y ago
Random developer here: in my code, yes they are common. I tend to write modules so that I can route to them from wherever, reuse them, and move them around as I please. Relative links help greatly with such things. Besides that, they are
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by floating-io 2y ago
I had to read that title several times to make sure that it wasn't the alcohol causing it to register as "Slime Mold." Why someone would want to simulate a slime mold is something I don't understand, but more power to ya
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by floating-io 2y ago
"Professional" is doing what they're paying you for, end of story. Most employers have less than zero interest in paying coders to document in my experience. If they want documentation to exist, they hire a technical writer.
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by floating-io 2y ago
A business should know approximately when it will run out of money. Ethically, they should have warned their customers that their financial situation was poor and thus they might close. They should have done that months ago... Maybe they
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by floating-io 2y ago
The catch is that even in-person interviews are no panacea. I agree that it's worth the time to filter -- I wasn't really responding to that bit -- but from what I've seen, you have to be a very good interviewer not to get
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by floating-io 2y ago
The counter argument is that firing too slowly can be a serious drag on morale. Leaving your team to carry dead weight can really suck for the team. Ask me how I know... :)
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by floating-io 2y ago
"Vendor problems" is a red herring, IMO; you can have those in the cloud, too. It's been my experience that those who can build good, reliable, high-quality systems, can do so either in the cloud or on-prem, generally with eq
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by floating-io 2y ago
ESP32 is generally not a good choice for infrequently-charged battery powered devices IMO, unless they have massive batteries. Power consumption always goes up with the sophistication of the communication stack, both hardware and software,
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by floating-io 2y ago
Right about the time that magic 8-balls are touted as being able to reliably provide us with every solution we need...
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by floating-io 2y ago
Not just an issue for documentation, but also for marketing materials. I can't count the number of times I've looked into some app that was referenced vaguely in a comment somewhere, only to have to dig for half an hour on that t
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by floating-io 2y ago
Why would they do it during the off state? If they know the voltage and can measure the current that they're driving it with -- or vice versa -- they can use Ohm's law to calculate the resistance. They'd probably have to do
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by floating-io 2y ago
It's too late for this former user of Apple's productivity software. Killing Aperture and nerfing the iWork suite destroyed any willingness I could have ever had to go back. I like their OS, but it would be a hard sell for me to
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by floating-io 2y ago
Or just ask Costco to slap a "Contains Milk" sticker on it?
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by floating-io 2y ago
The question I keep asking is: why? They give these patents to random people, and 5 or 10% of the proceeds if they win the suits. What do they get out of it? If they were legit, then I don't see the need to assign the patents they o
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by floating-io 2y ago
You're ignoring that this is a fixed-price contract. It will never be over-budget from NASA's perspective. Also, for a project like HLS, you don't fail until you stop trying (or get someone killed, but SpaceX has been pretty
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by floating-io 2y ago
Planes are expensive due to the difficulty of certifying them and maintaining the right to sell them under various regulations, not because they're using physical switches.
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by floating-io 2y ago
It's not actually about how the ballot is interpreted by downstream hardware and software. That's a different issue. It's about the ability for the voter to determine that their own part of the process -- the recording of th
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by floating-io 2y ago
It starts with being able to tell that the information was encoded correctly when I submitted it. Tell me this: what is the advantage of a barcode, over a scantron-esque system where I can see which item I chose because a dot is filled in?
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by floating-io 2y ago
In my locale there is a header on the physical ballot that contains a bunch of barcodes, presumably to make your votes machine readable. It then prints the votes in text below. I absolutely hate that fact. I am a human, I cannot read ba
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by floating-io 2y ago
I love my InstantPot, but never use it for rice. The few times I've tried, I haven't liked the results. Boiled/steamed on the stove ftw. :) Now soups, veggies, artichokes, enchiladas, ... For those things, the instant pot
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by floating-io 2y ago
I learned how to cook rice properly from my Mom. Pot, 2x water, boil then turn to low, add rice, 18 minutes, done. My only gripe is that I'm still trying to find a good rice pot with the little steam vent in the lid. The rice cookers
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by floating-io 2y ago
Whatever works and you can find enough developers for. The language (or the rest of the stack even) is rarely a barrier to success. What matters are a good idea, good motivation, and decent availability of competence. JMHO.
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by floating-io 2y ago
They might be an outlier in terms of current profit metrics, but they are still the market leader in the CPU space, and not by a small margin. I would consider it foolish to disregard the metrics of a company that holds in the neighborhood
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by floating-io 2y ago
Doing poorly does not make them a bad indicator of overall industry health. And they've had bad stretches before. I myself am wondering, but I wouldn't count them out just yet.
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by floating-io 2y ago
More like a knee jerk reaction IMO. Intel is having a bad time, but they're not dead yet, and may well be a better, more reliable long term market indicator. All this means is that the Dow is currently chasing hype. JMHO (not an exper
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by floating-io 2y ago
That doesn't account for OpEx, though, such as power...
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by floating-io 2y ago
That is the perfect high-level overview of my previous job. I'm semi-retired now... (edit: I forgot to note that the "let's not" part was always overridden by "You're wrong, this will fix it. Do it!" by

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