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by illumen 11y ago
A very interesting humble brag thread. I'm not sure it's imposter syndrome if you think you're doing well when presented with evidence and then believe it. Not by definition anyway. The performance reviews remind me of this l
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by illumen 11y ago
I flagged the story because it's apparently BS, and because it's a pay wall. Is there a better article floating around?
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by illumen 11y ago
The employee retention is much higher than industry standard. Apparently the employees are happy. The market seems to like their performance, since they are getting more business and making more profits. If recruiting costs 10k, and trainin
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by illumen 11y ago
I agree. It's a legitimate concern though. People are bombarded with what is healthy or not. With fad diets and such. Who do you believe? ED: oops... I should learn to read good. It says _avoid_ processed meats. I think it would be cle
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by illumen 11y ago
Coal is terrible, but it's not the only alternative. Nor is coal the cheapest alternative.
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by illumen 11y ago
That link says 2 to 59 grams too. Apparently the range is very high depending on how the extraction works, and all sorts of factors. Cement and steel for example have very different behaviours for emitting co2. Maybe the steel was melted by
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by illumen 11y ago
Yes, PV solar is not so good with waste either. Yes, the costs of removing broken solar panels should go into the costs for a project too. But that has nothing to do with judging weather Nuclear plants are a terrible investment. Last I read
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by illumen 11y ago
You can build small renewable systems with all sorts of different capital costs, and all sorts of power generation abilities. Price ranges from $100 to $9billion. Nuclear projects do not happen for less than $Xbillions (and about half bankr
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by illumen 11y ago
You are correct. It is not carbon free. Nuclear power plants make about 90 - 140 g CO2 per kWh electricity. Uranium extraction, waste management, construction, and decommissioning being the biggest offenders in the whole process.
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by illumen 11y ago
I think it's an even worse investment than that. I don't believe them that the cost of decommissioning is built in. Especially since the financiers who pay during construction aim to sell their equity. Also in the UK, recently had
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by illumen 11y ago
This is in the desert. The nuke is on what was once useful land.
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by illumen 11y ago
Yeah, it's a great way to find smelly bits of code.
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by illumen 11y ago
Indeed. Hearing about how things didn't work out is highly instructional too. In the past LLVM has been almost completely unusable for dynamic languages. Not it seems there are dynamic two implementations using it (at least JavaScriptC
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by illumen 11y ago
Read your writing out aloud. Carefully observing the meter of the verse. You won't become Hemingway. But you will seem quite odd to nearby work mates.
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by illumen 11y ago
tl;dr Complex or simple, lead with point. Because reasons. Intro, support, conclusion -- do it.
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by illumen 11y ago
He should learn how to read better. Seriously. Hire lieutenants that can read really well, and trust them to filter. That aside, sucking up to journalists is a really good way to get their attention. PR win!
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by illumen 11y ago
It's interesting that VW cars have been taken off the road for unintended acceleration. Also that quickcheck was used to find many timing related bugs between software components that VW uses. It was used after the models were taken of
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by illumen 11y ago
With most email accounts being provided by gmail, outlook, and yahoo, I don't see auth via email domain ever happening.
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by illumen 11y ago
Most of python code that takes time has C/asm extensions. It's part of the 'glue code' nature of python. Right tool for the job and all that.
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by illumen 11y ago
Single-dispatch generic functions are easy in python too: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0443/
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by illumen 11y ago
Both browsers take patches. If enterprises need them so much, get some of their vast mountains of money from them to fix the problems.
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by illumen 11y ago
For investing.
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by illumen 11y ago
See what was published just days before the VW scandal in Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7569/full/nature1...
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by illumen 11y ago
Most people, including the authors of systemd would be very surprised if there were no problems with systemd. Here's a couple of fun problems from years past. Docs say NoNewPrivileges as yes "prohibits UID changes of any kind&quot
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by illumen 11y ago
There's clear evidence that many cities throughout Europe have too high air pollution, and that it kills close to what smoking does. Cities have been ordered by the EU to clean up by the end of the year, or face harsh fines. Over 80,00
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by illumen 11y ago
That's very good hint, thanks. There's only been a couple of remote ssh exploits (that I'm aware of) and both of them were stopped by white listing. If you can figure out your address ranges, I think it still makes sense to w
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by illumen 11y ago
Get a range of ip addresses where you will log in from (your DSL address ranges from home for example), and block all other ip addresses on that port. You may want to add some other hosts you control to that whitelist as well as a backup in
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by illumen 11y ago
They implemented shareware.
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by illumen 11y ago
In python it is quite commonly used too.
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by illumen 11y ago
It's a nice development feature to see console.log() output very close to when it happens. But I'd probably be able to live with a 1.0 second delay. I've worked on servers with a bigger delay. It's not as nice as a 0.1 s

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