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by gary_0 2y ago
The dual-network cards are Visa/Mastercard "debit" cards, which look like a credit card but sometimes don't work like one. I never had a problem with my dual-network card when physically visiting the States, but for what
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by gary_0 2y ago
There's a debit card system in Canada called Interac that should be free, but depending on the bank and account type, the bank will give you a very limited number of transactions per month (like 10 or 20). After that, every time you us
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by gary_0 2y ago
A related discussion from 2019 that came to mind: To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21309024 )
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by gary_0 2y ago
This reminds me of back when e-mail clients would store your outgoing e-mails in the "outbox" waiting for the next time you dialed in. Nowadays networked software (and much of society) can't handle days of latency, only milli
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by gary_0 2y ago
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any other cases of registrars taking down domains for serving malware? Is this a common practice?
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by gary_0 2y ago
Let's flip it around. Personally, I wouldn't submit changes with a bunch of English in it to a project that was primarily Chinese. I would feel like a jerk doing that. Instead I would make a best effort to translate everything int
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by gary_0 2y ago
That's what I've read, about $150-200k: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/11/robotaxi-economics.html
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by gary_0 2y ago
I dunno, I look back on the <table>-based layout days with fondness, probably because I was young and the Web was nothing but rolling green fields and endless potential. I didn't see the limitations, only the opportunities for in
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by gary_0 2y ago
Go back in time 20 years and tell someone that the most popular personal computer taxes every transaction that runs on it for 30% and has absolute control over what software runs on it including banning any programs it doesn't like, an
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by gary_0 2y ago
Speaking of 1996, a while back I was digging through an old box of junk, and I found a high school newspaper with an article I wrote about Microsoft buying a bunch of Apple stock (this was back when Apple was floundering and antitrust regul
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by gary_0 2y ago
Ah, I see. Still, it seems like it would be a useful idea to have an IP bit for "minimize buffering and drop instead, packet is time-sensitive", and that seems safe since the user is requesting fewer resources, not more.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Just to be contrary, I find things on the page updating as I scroll to be distracting. I consider that kind of thing to be like a modern <blink> tag. On sites I read frequently, I nuke those elements with uBlock Origin. I guess I&#x27
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by gary_0 2y ago
Way back when, we used to call ASCII like ":)" smilies , didn't we? I'm so old I don't even remember clearly. x_x So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...
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by gary_0 2y ago
Nowadays I see in-flight EOL normalization as Considered Harmful; instead I ensure that routines dealing with text buffers treat both CRLF and LF as the same. This has Just Worked without any issues in the software I've written with th
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by gary_0 2y ago
I wonder if the DiffServ[0] bits in IPv6 could be another way to prevent bufferbloat from affecting real-time datagrams? Or are they like IPv4's ToS[1] bits, which I think were never implemented widely (or properly) enough for any soft
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by gary_0 2y ago
(2021)
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by gary_0 2y ago
Fenestrae delenda est.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I was wondering that too, and if there actually were any projects working towards rotating space habitats. > However, there are no current practical outer space applications of artificial gravity for humans due to concerns about the size
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by gary_0 2y ago
Licensing BS is why Open Source really became a thing , starting back in the bad old 90's when Steve Ballmer could kill with a stare. "Surprise! We're going to start billing you based on how many keyboard keys your business
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by gary_0 2y ago
> actively averse to adoption The Linux community has the weirdest gatekeeping. "We're not going to let you do that because it reminds us of proprietary software." When the Start menu is nothing but advertisements and user
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by gary_0 2y ago
Setting foot on the moon, splitting the atom and transmuting elements, curing incurable diseases like genetic blindness and spinal atrophy... > doubling human lifespans This is partly a statistical effect of greatly reducing infant morta
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by gary_0 2y ago
GPS wouldn't work if relativity was wrong. Radio wouldn't work if our theory of electromagnetism was wrong. Satellites wouldn't stay in orbit if Newton was wrong. Modern medicine wouldn't work if our understanding of bio
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by gary_0 2y ago
To write 50,000 LOC in 8 active work hours, you'd need to input a line of code every 576 milliseconds. But I was just checking the math for fun, not trying to disprove your main point. You could argue that if human thought was not need
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by gary_0 2y ago
> You could write 50,000 lines of code in a day if typing was the only bottleneck. I'm not sure about that: 60wpm ÷ 6 words per LOC = 10 LOC per minute 60 mins × 8 hours × 10 LOC = 4800 LOC per day
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by gary_0 2y ago
For sqrt() on x86_64 and gcc/clang, yes. But functions like fmod() are generally more instructions. And as for trig functions like sin(), AFAIK most compilers will always use a function call, because the x86 trig instructions don'
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by gary_0 2y ago
And the primary benefit of doing that is so the compiler can inline math functions like sqrt() as a tiny number of instructions (on modern CPUs) instead of having to call the standard C function, which is much slower.
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by gary_0 2y ago
The interesting thing about RISC-V is that there are like 10 billion RISC-V microcontrollers out there that otherwise would have been ARM. So ARM has been moving into the PC/server space while RISC-V pushes in from behind, at the oppos
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by gary_0 2y ago
> The tragedy of Jon Stewart was not that nobody listened to him but that everybody did. Listened to what underlying ethos, though? Stewart himself is still quick to assert that he's only a comedian. He points out the problems and c
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by gary_0 2y ago
In fact that's largely the point of the article if you read more than the first few paragraphs.

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