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by hamstergene 4y ago
The author has oversimplified complex world into something simple, as simple as possible, and wrong. It costs almost nothing for a music service to add a niche album. That’s why they do it: if you type a search query in a foreign language i
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by hamstergene 4y ago
On mobile devices it is more serious than just bad craftsmanship & hurt pride, bad code is short battery life. Think mobile game that could last 8 hours instead of 2 of it wasn’t doing unnecessary linear searches on timer in JavaScript.
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by hamstergene 4y ago
I once found code that used vector instead of list, and the author had a benchmark exactly like this to defend it. Except that, the benchmark was storing ints but our production code stored std::function closures. Changing the benchmark to
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by hamstergene 4y ago
For starters, US dollar was taken off gold standard in 1971, which unlocks printing money and the corresponding inflation and unnatural wealth reallocation. There many theories in other comments that essentially boil down to “it was no one’
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by hamstergene 4y ago
I like this kind of syntax because it is a lot like how my ad-hoc print/log statements have been printing structured data all along. For a generic data language, SDLang has some oddly specific features: distinction between 32-bit and 6
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by hamstergene 4y ago
Piracy is a protest. 95% of those shows are worthless fillers that would have never been watched by the viewers if the full selection was available. Most of those future "originals" shouldn't be happening in the first place.
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by hamstergene 4y ago
They host but don’t control content via e.g. editorial policy, ideology or private interests. To push a movie to Disney+ one needs their agreement to take it. YouTube allows anyone to post anything (aside from infringing or illegal).
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by hamstergene 5y ago
From the practical standpoint, it actually makes more sense to bet on tails, because it may be a symptom of unfair coin :) If the coin is fair the choice is unimportant, if unfair you win.
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Electronic music is also full of remixes, for example: Artist: Moby Title: Simple Love (B-Motion Remix) The actual artist is B-Motion and any kind of browser/catalog must group this track with other B-Motion music, or in worst case bo
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Was every 17 years old who attended anything with KGB written on it, really dubbed a dirtbag in the 70-80s? Even knowing there were 100 years of Red Scare this sounds a lot like like a neurotic leap conclusion, I can't imagine KGB&#x27
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Security is not just about not getting hurt, it's also about probability of being hurt, and leverage to bring the bad guys to justice. Theoretically, anyone can get shot at a grocery store, but that doesn't mean we're all liv
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by hamstergene 5y ago
SEO will respond by creating 100% robot-operated communities that upvote their blogs, essentially shifting the burden onto Reddit/HN/Twitter staff, which will surely fall just like Google's did. It looks so obvious to me yet
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by hamstergene 5y ago
After 2011 protests, even before Crimea and this war, I already gave up talking politics with my parents because of unfair difference in amount of exposure: you spend maybe 30 minutes per week dismantling the nonsense in their heads, then t
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by hamstergene 5y ago
I've just had to install several different VPNs until I've found one that offers a Russian endpoint, in order to get account statements from Russian banks. Which I need to comply with IRS regulation to disclose my foreign accounts
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by hamstergene 5y ago
I have been using Dell P2415Q (24" 180ppi) for a few years side-by-side with a Retina MacBook, and the difference is visible: I can see pixels on 180ppi text if I lean forward, but not on the 220ppi. Not a deal breaker, of course, but
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by hamstergene 5y ago
As soon as I opened the article I pressed Cmd+F and searched for "dataclasses". This article was correct and addressed a very real need in Python programming—for year 2016. By now it is obsolete and today's standard library m
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by hamstergene 5y ago
That's a completely effortless translation. I am pretty sure that "мне по хрену" is a parody on "мне по плечу" (literally "fits my shoulder" but means "doable to me / within my powers"). Rus
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Good reviews also barely mean anything these days. The worst item I have ever bought online, which damaged itself on opening for 100% of buyers, had ~4.1 rating. At this point, it is fair to say getting less than 4 stars means the seller wa
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by hamstergene 5y ago
There are many countries where not paying for overtime >=2x is illegal, and nothing like that is happening
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Has there been any credible study of compile-time cost of constexpr vs. template metaprogramming? I am assuming template metaprogramming is so bad because even elementary data structures have to employ ton of helper types that have to be ma
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Because of unstable security crap your company's IT installs on them? You can't seriously blame Apple for problems that only happen on your work laptops.
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by hamstergene 5y ago
macOS has grey menu bar where the notch is, that stays unused 100% of the time.
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by hamstergene 5y ago
I am highly concerned with all the comments in the thread, that say, "it has only affected a tiny minority". Life-threatening liver damage to a tiny minority likely means non-life threatening liver damage to everyone else. Just be
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by hamstergene 5y ago
All these extinction woes boil down to irrational fear that one day the wildlife will disappear from the planet. Evolution itself works through extinctions. Number of extinct species are billions and billions. Species do not disappear leavi
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by hamstergene 5y ago
How do you allow government to enforce one thing (block illegal drug sales) while simultaneously preventing it from enforcing another (censorship)?
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by hamstergene 5y ago
There is a feature in English to call the same thing different words depending on one's moral judgement towards them. Shooting a person dead is a "kill" if a homeowner has defended himself from a burglar, but a "murder&q
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Accountability by definition requires proper accounting practices. There should be level-headed discussions, legal actions, and punishment proportional to the wrongdoing. Taking damage from public outrage is being lynched, coerced, blackmai
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Is there? Have the actual black people, with opinions representative of black population in general, suggested to eliminate master-slave metaphor from use, or are you just assuming it for them? The article is literally asking to stop doing
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Bankruptcy metaphor is applicable too: when enough debt accumulates, all the capable engineers start leaving the team, and newly hired once never stay for long. The project will either get scraped as unsuccessful, or rewritten/replaced
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Agile taught me about refactoring but in reality I get less opportunity to refactor bad code than I've had under Waterfall-type process. My understanding of our evolution into Agile has always been like: 1. Big Ball of Mud: work withou

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