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by goalieca 3y ago
I lost faith in academia when I saw so many fudge data and copy pasta. This wasn’t even secret, it was quietly acknowledged. I once inherited code that “worked” but operated on uninitialized values and out of bounds data unintentionally. I
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by goalieca 3y ago
There was also fantastically complete and fully featured software that was stable and all bugs were roughly documented and known by users. Today you get a lot of unfinished software with the attitude that we can patch it if it matters. This
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by goalieca 3y ago
It’s not naive at all. Corporate dynamics are widely different in China. In China there is no strong separation between corporations and government.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Meta is run by billionaires acting in their own self interest and it’s obvious when often in conflict with the USA government. TikTok parent company is accountable to the government of China.
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I once E because the cool kids on IRC were telling me all about it.. over 20 years ago! I think that was E16 and quickly checking, it is still supported! This is older than windows XP!
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I'm watching kids fall through the cracks of the public school system here in Canada. There's quite a violence problem with even teachers and staff being seriously injured and powerless to deal with it. But there is also functiona
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The RDRAND instruction usage is configurable https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... edit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/55cb5f43689d7
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by goalieca 3y ago
I'm a very happy podman user. It works really well to run amd64 containers on aarm64 thanks to qemu and it also has great modern features like rootless.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Why doesn’t the EU and other concerned government run a good counter-intelligence campaign going so far as to sanction especially evil governments. Instead they seem to want to control the narrative through positive censorship.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Millennial here: Rational rose and PowerPC. Both leave a stink in my mouth. And how could anyone in Canada forget the Phoenix pay system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
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by goalieca 3y ago
I think conservatives are mad about the hypocrisy. The universities were clearly about censorship until all of a sudden they are defending free speech on this one issue.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> We observed a decrease in COVID-19 disease severity surrogates after the arrival of the Delta variant, coinciding with significantly smaller plaque sizes. The sentence before leads to the claim. Surrogate is the key word here since it’
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But what are the costs because looking back it seems they are well into the negative earnings per share.
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If more activists leave Twitter maybe I’ll join it again. Them leaving is a good thing!
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I’m not an rg wizard by any means, but it is one of the few utilities that I end up using daily for one reason or another.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> It's all a balance, how much time and money you waste engineering the perfect `FROM scratch` container versus getting actual work done using a "fat" image that's good enough I’ve toyed with buildpacks and when the b
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by goalieca 3y ago
Rust is not competing against a stale competitor. C++ has evolved quite significantly. Competition is good and things are improving for everyone. That said, it’s not challenging to write modern c++ without coming across raw pointers or buff
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I used to be more exhausted from 5-6 hours of in person meeting than 5-6 hours of camera off zoom meetings. Sometimes I do things like fold laundry or eat lunch during meetings where I dont need to talk and this gives me time to have an act
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by goalieca 3y ago
I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g
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Netplan has oversimplified things to cater only to the simplest of topologies. The schema seems unable to capture the richness and modularity of actual networking technologies.
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My main issue with double dipping is that people with free time should be mentoring or tackling debt and other such things rather than waiting to be told what to do.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Or is this too simplified? China’s economy is not too strong in fact and they have few allies with strong economies or militaries.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Travel sites already have categories and they often have "escape" plans and everything.
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> run. For instance, if you are building an app that uses OpenAI to book hotels and flights by chatting with a bot, chances are someday either ChatGPT or something by Microsoft or Google will do that and make your puny little business to
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As a middle aged man, I can say sorry.
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Got scales very well with source code but does terrible with binary resources like graphics. The only time I’ve seen got really fail (but still work at slowly as other systems) is when some stubborn tech lead decides to put 3rd party source
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I’m a child of the era. It surprises me Microsoft embraced open source but it also doesn’t surprise me they bought the largest service for it. While git doesn’t have lock-in GitHub actions and the rest totally do.
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So google can inject adware into the kernel itself instead for Android.
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Apple has put a ton of effort into optimizing software to squeeze more out of less ram. They also have operating system level features like compressed ram. The whole implied argument about hardware longevity is because software bloats. A re
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There's new kids being born all the time. Lots of new 1st time customers.

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