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by icepat 3y ago
I'm not expecting anything, I'm just pointing out that handing over personal data to have your personal data deleted may not be the most sound idea.
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by icepat 3y ago
Does not factor out data breaches. And "our business is based on trust" also has the caveat of "for now". What if they're bought out?
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by icepat 3y ago
> Submit personal information for removal from search engines. This sounds very much like trusting a fox to guard the henhouse. When do they then do with the submitted personal information? Why should we trust that they will behave ethic
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by icepat 3y ago
Funny enough, my curent position did not give me a coding interview. Rather they asked difficult technical questions about the technologies I used, and asked me to justify my use of them. I found this was a far better test, because coding o
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by icepat 3y ago
I can easily imagine a situation where life support hardware needs to reboot, and taking too long to do so would be life threatening.
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by icepat 3y ago
Personally, I have a few languages mapped to my keyboard. First language is Icelandic, second is a Cyrillic, the other is Czech. I assume it would work similarly to keyboards with no characters on the keycaps (popular with mech keyboard use
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by icepat 3y ago
Yes, my point exactly.
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by icepat 3y ago
My point more here is that л in typeface means something very different. That character has a specific meaning, the logo is clearly just picking and choosing random symbols to look good. That said, my point about C still stands. It is good
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by icepat 3y ago
And also incorrect, C produces variant of the S sound. With ʌ not even being a Cyrillic character, but one from the IPA symbol set. L is Л or л. That said though, the translation of Cyrillic to Latin is commonly done, and a rather opinionat
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by icepat 3y ago
It would be also good to read Wittgenstein's later thought on this work. He completely reversed course in Philosophical Investigations , and the contrast between early and late Wittgenstein is almost as important as the text itself.
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by icepat 3y ago
> The struggle itself towards the lack of bugs is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Arthur happy My favourite passage from Camus' little known book Software Development is Existentialism
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by icepat 3y ago
Far worse than Redditites. They use the term Snoos for their employees from some leaked email that came out during the Reddit strike.
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by icepat 3y ago
> You don't have to worry about quality control I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, as a large part of software development is QA testing, and validation. Which is a form of quality control.
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by icepat 3y ago
Yes, this does not make much sense to me. I will stick with Java and Perl until I see a viable reason to Go to something else. Maybe someone will create an improved version of C++ (though my skills there are rather Rusty).
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by icepat 3y ago
I don't see what's wrong with embedding a programming language in the browser. It's light weight, and rather simple. As long as this stays in the browser, and is not also used server-side, I don't think there's much
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by icepat 3y ago
There's a lot of "air" in this one. Most of the article is a verbose restatement of the Dunning Kruger effect essentially.
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by icepat 3y ago
> If you rolled back every bitcoin transaction ever made you would end up with people in debt because the transaction fees were paid. This can be said about every bank transaction that charges a fee as well. Not a crypto fan at all (I fi
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by icepat 3y ago
> Still a guide is kinda necessary when tackling it I've always disagreed with this idea that you need a "guide" to read some books. Guided reading inspires a specific reading of the book, which may not always be the rea
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by icepat 3y ago
Chemistry student are also prolific pirates, any chemistry text you could want is typically available on the web in a PDF format. My personal favourite, Wade's Organic Chemistry 8th Edition , is easily findable on Google.
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by icepat 3y ago
Well, negative pH is mathematically impossible, given that pH is the -log of the hydrogen ion concentration. It makes no physical sense to discuss "negative hydrogen ion concentration". If anything, it's mostly a shorthand th
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by icepat 3y ago
Essentially yes, what's a bit more interesting is Lewis Acid theory, as well as acid ionisation reactions. Lewis theory makes a lot of generally non acidic things technically acidic: https://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/gench
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by icepat 3y ago
It's on the back of the $5 note (the arm that is, not Air Farce). I've only ever heard it discussed in positive terms. I have no idea how a single sketch was extrapolated to "not all Canadians are proud of it". Not a ver
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by icepat 3y ago
Not only housing, but also health care. The system is far overcapacity in most urban areas. There's just not enough doctors, care homes, or hospital beds for the entire country. It was a major reason for me expatriating. The housing is
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by icepat 3y ago
Yep, I only swapped my band because it was trashed, and always to the exact same one as before.
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by icepat 3y ago
Oh the Apple watch system is definitely nice ! And I prefer it to having to fiddle around with small pins to shim my watch band off. But that's not so much the issue, the rather odd idea of "hardly anyone changing watch bands bef
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by icepat 3y ago
Yes, a very odd take. I had watches ever since I was a child, and changing the watch band was a regular occurrence. Mostly because I would wear through them.
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by icepat 3y ago
Interesting, but (to me at least) the point of photography will always be the technical process behind it, and capturing a _specific_ aspect of the environment. This will turn out fine generic images, but if you want to capture more, that&#
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by icepat 3y ago
> So what's so very sensitive in payslip if you already providing this kind of information to any recruiter? Domestic violence victims who are trying to avoid being found? People seeing political asylum? Anyone who wants to maintain
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by icepat 3y ago
Yes, crypto is definitely not the solution to this. This was a transient problem, that was resolved within the week. Everyone got paid back. An issue with the EVM overcharging people is irreversible. Those funds would be lost for good. At l
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by icepat 3y ago
This actually lead to a small disaster in Iceland for a weekend: https://nyr.ruv.is/english/2023-04-18-all-mastercard-transac... Icelandic banks pushed some bad code for Mastercard to meet a Paypal standard. This cause

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