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by jlg23 6y ago
At least here in Morocco a lot of people make up transliterations into the Latin alphabet on the spot and those are read RTL.
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by jlg23 7y ago
If you control the blinking of the led you have established a very low bandwidth communication channel.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> it's worth paying the OEM premium just to make sure they keep delivering the quality and experience I was looking for initially And I am the guy who spent 4 times a few hundred on AKG studio headphones but replaced the ear cups w
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by jlg23 7y ago
"strategically speaking", it is a completely different game: * you can only take pieces from fields occupied by two of the opponent's pieces. * you cannot just move through the board because - you can only move field by field
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by jlg23 7y ago
They are not asking for trained medical staff but basically for neighborhood help in an emergency situation. And it is not really NHS' fault that people tend not to know their neighbors anymore and thus need an app that matches their w
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by jlg23 7y ago
You could have dead code that the compiler cannot recognize as dead and therefore cannot optimize away (basically everything the type system cannot catch). For example, given a function(int x) where, to make sense, x can only be an even num
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by jlg23 7y ago
How is a student not hurt when given an incorrect assessment of their academic abilities?
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by jlg23 7y ago
If these sell, this will be sorted out by 3rd parties in no time....
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by jlg23 7y ago
Death to all fatalists!
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by jlg23 7y ago
It's the litmus test: How much of taught abstractions do you really understand (can you adhere to the underlying coding practice without spelling it out in (costly) code? Do you really understand a runtime environment and can you make
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by jlg23 7y ago
Yes. The given example shows exactly what I would expect in the EXAMPLES section of a man page anyways. If not, it's worth a patch.
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by jlg23 7y ago
The only time I witnessed passengers staying sit was after an announcement that said: "we know by experience that our pilots are much better at flying than at driving, so for your own safety, please keep seated until the 'fasten s
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by jlg23 7y ago
It basically boils down to: what are you more comfortable with? If it is management, go for it. If it is coding, be open about your expectations and go with a company that values your experience while accepting that you're there 9 to 5
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by jlg23 7y ago
IMHO, lots of software development resembles crafting much more than engineering and we have put so much effort into sounding smart that we are now training craftsmen that sound like scientists but are not necessarily good at their craft...
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by jlg23 7y ago
You are dealing with multiple vendors, who all bring their layers of customer support and sales people before you even get an estimate of the required change. Contracts might include processes that must be followed for any modification so n
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by jlg23 7y ago
And you could still get win95(a) below 30 if you cleaned up manually. I remember that my setup was 27 and some (small disk, needed space for linux...)
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by jlg23 7y ago
A few months in prison for not revealing the password can be unpleasant, too.
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by jlg23 7y ago
I also interact with medical doctors all the time: Most of them are typically some combination of: 1. Poorly informed about applicability or claims thereof of CS methods. 2. Trying as hard as they can to push the image of "the human do
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by jlg23 7y ago
> 1) Mammograms are not interpreted in a vacuum. In fact mammograms are usually the first in a long line of tests before a breast cancer or other diagnosis is ultimately made. The paper specifically talks about mammography, it does not c
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by jlg23 7y ago
I've found bishops to be more useful in end games because they can block whole diagonals and thus I will gladly exchange my knights for the opponent's bishops. Knights can be easily outmanoeuvred - it is easy to render a knight us
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by jlg23 7y ago
Yes, but until this is accomplished, military service is a viable options for a lot of people.
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by jlg23 7y ago
True, and a reason to applaud the changelog: it lists a potential breakage just because the is, well, a potential for breakage. Yes, in reality, I'd be amazed to find code that actually breaks.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> So rather than shitting on one of the only "shared jokes" that the people doing that thankless sysadmin job get to enjoy, maybe have a little empathy towards them instead. That's the worst BOFH-comments made by a layer 8
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by jlg23 7y ago
I get the overall sentiment because I am born well-enough-off and I agree that you are basically signing away your health or even life (after all, no regular mechanic will have to fix a car in a shootout). OTOH, lots of people don't ha
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by jlg23 7y ago
OTOH, a security conscious engineer could exploit this to have the business card call home and automatically block communications from the company so one does not waste time with them ;)
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by jlg23 7y ago
Which does it offer that are not covered by ruby, python or CL? I am fluent in a lot of languages and cannot really imagine anything that could motivate me to upgrade my perl5 black belt to perl6 except for a well-paid gig that requires it.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> go look at a hotel in the middle of nothing in the most off-peak season, and it will still tell you that several rooms have been booked in the last few days I live in the middle of nowhere where all mostly empty hotels are listed as at
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by jlg23 7y ago
No, but it was so long in the making that I had discovered alternatives and mastered them. I still write perl5 sometimes but none of perl6 features convinced me to install an interpreter anywhere when I already have ruby or python on the ma
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by jlg23 7y ago
If perl6 had not been the Duke Nukem Forever of programming languages, I'd probably still be coding in Perl, but Ruby just came along and offered a very similaly spirited playground. And then I found lisp and realized that my late perl
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by jlg23 7y ago
In my experience, yes. The rule to follow is to keep it simple and explicit. I have seen web request handlers that used a list method combination to save one line of code per handler for the price of less experienced devs spending 15 minu

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