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by jcarrano 3y ago
Turns out that "women can work" quickly devolved into "women must work". The curious part is that if you go further back in history, to when most of the population were peasant farmers, it was more the case of "ever
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I used and avow that method. One thing I would like to know, though, is if it's essentially the same method as the "cupric chloride" one. I'm guessing if you reuse the previous etching solution and add fresh HCl and H2O2
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by jcarrano 3y ago
For a more practical approach (though limited to C) you can try the Frama-C suite. It works by annotating C code, instead of having to manually rewrite the code in Coq. One thing that the post does not mention is that things get nasty real
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Generalizing: the technical merits of <whatever> are mostly irrelevant. People use software- or any other tool- to solve actual problems that they have, not because they are prettier technically. For example, I have been using Pipewir
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by jcarrano 3y ago
You are proposing a mechanism for determining the price but not the quantity. And, since the quantity can be arbitrary, then, thought bidding, so can the price (within limits). Furthermore, if the H1B is causing a cost/loss to someone,
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by jcarrano 3y ago
It makes no difference who pays, save for what you propose about free movement between companies. If it is paid by the employee, then companies would probably reimburse at least part of it. If it is paid by the company, it is already factor
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I still can't understand why MS is forced to break up product bundles but Google can make Android with a bunch of Google apps, some of which are very difficult to turn off.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Carbon tax will make it more expensive to do anything that consumes energy, which is every human activity. Land value tax: you move to a cheap place, some time later its value increases and now you have to pay more tax, why? Tax on personal
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Other people, in the same situation as you, channel that frustration re-doing stuff, reinventing wheels and creating busywork for poor souls like you and me.
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It is a statement of how hugely productive their society is, where people can afford to waste time on such stupidities.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The monorepo is where you end up when you have failed to enforce encapsulation and your "modules" do not have stable APIs (or are actually modular). Then, with sub-modules each change will often involve multiple commits to differe
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Exactly what you imagine, and then a bit more.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
It still makes sense to have a well because it is a waste to water the lawn with drinking water.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I came here to say the same. I was bitten by faulty breadboards, now no more. Perfboard is not much more work to assemble and way more reliable.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
While I empathize with him and think it's ridiculous that he has to jump though so many hoops just to get a 3-dat visa, his complains should be addressed towards his own government and the EU who are the ones that should negotiate this
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by jcarrano 3y ago
We are almost there with phones, except the approval is proxied through Apple and Google. The PC holds on but who knows for how longer.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Is it a law of history that those who seemed crazy ended up being right? I remember reading a couple writings by Stallman and it sounded quite outlandish and exaggerate then. Not anymore. See, e.g. https://www.gnu.org/philos
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The key is to know, acknowledge and accept where you are going, and to go boldly and deliberately- or not go at all. Say "this problem looks like making a small program so I'm making a mini-language". However, if you find you
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Someone please explain: if I fork Firefox or Chrome and delete the censorship code, then I publish it online (eg. in github with a download link), then next time I go to France I will get into trouble?
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by jcarrano 3y ago
If 20 years of horsing around with a material that does not work did not end their careers, neither will this.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The only one that makes sense to me is the "suggestion", to clearly indicate that it is OK if the code is not changed or that the change is not that important. For the rest, isn't it obvious when an question is a question or
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by jcarrano 3y ago
First if all, congrats. > Apparently everything online about how operating systems and CPUs work is terrible Then it is time to head for the books. Most of the stuff in the web is not organized and coherent. In particular, the "basi
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by jcarrano 3y ago
The methodology is all wrong, as others pointed out. However image-2023-04-26 is pretty interesting. It has some value.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Android does not count because it's userspace is completely different and in practice it cannot be modified or easily run on different hardware. Same for Chrome OS. SteamOS on the other hand is an actual GNU/Linux distribution tha
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by jcarrano 3y ago
I used to work on a large-ish open source project. When I was bored I used to go bug-picking (not hunting, picking). I'd go and browse the source wherever my intuition told me there was likely a bug and I indeed found a few using with
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Is there a library that can generate SDFs directly from the font's Bezier curves?
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Yes it can- that's the first thing I tried- but it will not iterate forever. The trick is to use indirect recursion: <div id="a"></div> <div id="b"></div> #a, #b { he
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Some questions are asked expecting a particular answer, rather than the truth. "How long is this going to take" is one of those.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Most software out there follows the "Big Ball of Mud" [1] essay almost verbatim. My (anecdotal) rule of thumb is that after around 10 years of this kind of development, the inefficiency grows so big that development stalls. That h
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Try reversing the causality: the companies with a very profitable business can afford to have a mess and still survive.

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