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901.
by growse 7y ago
> > is it time, or just a number? > Yes :) > That's the beauty of it: time is just a number (of seconds since 1 January 1970). > > Which scalar data type should your parser use? > Integer, since it's an intege
902.
by growse 7y ago
I'll take "paid parental leave, not being let go on a moment's notice and not being bankrupted by unforeseen medical issues for everybody" over "a bit more cash just for me". It's also worth noting that th
903.
by growse 7y ago
This assumes that no-one has criminally run off with the money, lost it down the back of the sofa etc. It's also not clear under what law their customer funds are not treated as company assets, in which case if they're bankrupt, t
904.
by growse 7y ago
I'm a little rusty on this, so some details may not be correct. My understanding is that UK KYC basically don't specify exactly how to validate an individual's identity, only that the bank should do that ( https:/&#x2F
905.
by growse 7y ago
There's plenty of small business owners who are perfectly capable of managing the risk of losing staff for whatever reason without it sinking the company. Many business run at a big loss when starting up, never mind razor thin margins.
906.
by growse 7y ago
You don't need to have 10,000 people working for you to be able to afford to hire cover for when people going on parental leave. 10 people or 10,000 people, if you can't afford your staff going on parental leave / long term s
907.
by growse 7y ago
The UK is a representative democracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy ).
908.
by growse 7y ago
Instead of framing it as "that project is objectively bad, my one is better", why not say "my project is a fork of this project but with a bit less unsafe " and then see what the community does? Forking isn't provo
909.
by growse 7y ago
> ...But that kind of argument is not really helpful, isn't it? The question is whether some behavior is socially acceptable. License doesn't enter the question. > (BTW, of course I don't support the kind of behavior I
910.
by growse 7y ago
Caveat Emptor.
911.
by growse 7y ago
> End result is that to provide an internet connection, you have to also provide a DNS resolver, full stop Nope. You have to provide the address of a resolver, but that doesn't mean you have to run one yourself. There's nothing
912.
by growse 7y ago
Here in the UK, I have a choice of many different ISPs, all of whom (in theory) compete for my business. Guess what? The big ones are still awful: hijacking DNS, providing horribly congested service and laughable "support". All
913.
by growse 7y ago
This phenomenon is so popular it has its own section on the "DNS Hijacking" wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_... Unless they explicitly say so, your ISP is not spend
914.
by growse 7y ago
> Society is made up of human beings, most of whom are affected by emotions like guilt and empathy. Society works best when we are able to assume good faith from all participants. It breaks down when free riders (those unbound by empathy
915.
by growse 7y ago
> > The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced. > It's a valid criticism if you don't think that "Corporations are supposed to maximize profits" should be
916.
by growse 7y ago
> Big data is about I/O not CPU > I’m a C++ veteran btw and understand the point but big data is about how to process petabytes of I/O not how to consume CPU. I'm not sure this is cut-and-dry. Back when I was working on
917.
by growse 7y ago
So... Don't use it?
918.
by growse 7y ago
> No, no. Compilers don’t write (their own) code, they translate (our) code. No, no. Developers don't write (their own) code, they simply translate the (customer's) specifications.
919.
by growse 7y ago
This isn't accurate. Siemens delivered trains that could tolerate the power fluctuations at the time they were specified . The problem was that the national grid then changed (loosened) the specification of what an acceptable fluctuat
920.
by growse 7y ago
Before HFT, we had enormous spreads and expensive trades on many instruments in many markets. Smaller spreads lower costs for everyone: institutional, retail etc.
921.
by growse 7y ago
> The substance of the complaint is the speed of the auction that discovers the price. The faster price discovery is being done, the fewer traders can participate. The faster the price discovery, the shorter the validity time. This means
922.
by growse 7y ago
In my experience, "RTFM" is often a manifestation of the frustration that the person asking for help hasn't even begun to do the most basic thing to try and help themselves. It's extremely wearing having to deal with peo
923.
by growse 7y ago
> In urban areas, yes. In rural areas- in Greece they're like a stereotype, farmers with pickup trucks. I know at least one person who has a pimped-up one with rollbars (bullbars?) and big lights and so on. Not to mention the farmer
924.
by growse 7y ago
> Unless that code is malware or some Javascript an advertiser has placed on a website. There is no way to stop software from doing its own DoH requests without using browser or OS services to do it, so the controls supplied by the brows
925.
by growse 7y ago
Sure there is. It's just software. All the regular tools work just fine. I've happily been using grep, strace, etc to debug issues in both systemd and 'traditional Unix' systems for years.
926.
by growse 7y ago
> Who else here dislikes Systemd? I do. There is so much hidden magic in terms of configuration that when things go wrong, they really go wrong. One of the things that burnt me initially was that journalctl logs are not persistent. They
927.
by growse 7y ago
> They also couldn't be further from its philosophy. > Systemd: let's break and change how everything works. You need to relearn everything. > OpenBSD: things work largely the way they've worked for decades. Even as
928.
by growse 7y ago
> Systemd is not the OS. Full stop. Do you mean the project, or the unit system? I'd argue an init system is very much a key part of the operating system, as important as the kernel. You can't really do much without one. If you
929.
by growse 7y ago
Thank you for articulating this in ways in which I cannot. A lot of people (though not everyone) have the opportunity to go to university (typically only once in their lifetime), to learn more about the mysteries of the universe, or about c
930.
by growse 7y ago
> And how is that different than getting someone to regurgitate problems thet learned by studying leetCode? It isn't. Which is why the trick is to find a problem that the person hasn't heard of and ask them that. > If you ca

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