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by karlding 6y ago
> make sure you know what your assert does, and when it does that, if you have a debug and release build Absolutely. Probably the most common difference I've seen in "Debug" and "Release" builds relying on the
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by karlding 6y ago
I believe you're thinking of Yao's Millionaires' problem [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_proble...
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by karlding 6y ago
It's AWS re:Invent [0], where they typically announce new product offerings. [0] https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
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by karlding 6y ago
You might be interested in BikeshedDB [0]. [0] https://github.com/tbg/bikesheddb
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by karlding 6y ago
> Slack has ~12-13 mil DAUs, right? As of September 2019, Slack reported 12 million DAUs [0]. Of course, that is pre-pandemic, and the only figures that Slack has provided regarding demand in 2020 are these tweets [1] from Slack CEO St
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by karlding 6y ago
Protocol Buffers and Kaitai structs solve different problems, although they both deal with serialized data. With a protobuf, you don't really care about how the data that you're serializing into the binary buffer is represented
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by karlding 6y ago
The Data Center ID has been in Snowflake IDs for a while. It's present in the original version of Snowflake that Twitter open sourced back in 2010 [0]. Looks like it was added in this commit [1] from August 2010. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by karlding 6y ago
Well, this exact use case is mentioned on the pass website [0]. > One approach is to use the multi-line functionality of pass (--multiline or -m in insert), and store the password itself on the first line of the file, and the additional
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by karlding 6y ago
> I was not aware of the blaze clones plz and pants. At BazelCon 2020, Borja Lorente from Twitter gave a talk [0] about how they were migrating away from Pants to Bazel. Seeing as Twitter was heavily involved in the development of Pant
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by karlding 6y ago
It's mentioned in the book Programmer's Guide to MPW: Exploring the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop by Mark Andrews [0]. [0] https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/pdf/Programmers_Guid...
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by karlding 6y ago
There are projects like crev [0] which attempt to get around this by using a web of trust to audit dependencies. Rust has cargo-crev [1] as an implementation. Here's the previous HN discussion [2]. [0] https://github.com&#x2
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by karlding 6y ago
For what it's worth, the consensus on /r/fountainpens and other fountain pen enthusiast sites is that you risk receiving counterfeit Lamy Safari pens when purchasing from Amazon. These fakes often have poor quality nibs and r
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Fragomen, a law firm used by Google, confirms data breach(techcrunch.com)
6 points by karlding 6y ago|0 comments
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by karlding 6y ago
According to Fidelity's website [0] they still do so ( "You'll be asked to enter your username and password using the keypad on your phone." ). I basically assume any financial institution that provides support for the o
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Visualization of stateless UART/SPI exported call sequences (2017)(lowerstrata.net)
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by karlding 6y ago
What about stock refreshers? I believe stock grants make up a pretty big portion of one's total compensation at large tech companies. According to data shared by Google and Facebook employees [0], it seems like stock makes up ~40% of y
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VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack(vmware.com)
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Unit Testing, Redefined(medium.com)
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by karlding 6y ago
There's websites for disposition of company assets when they go under. The Makani auction was advertised on the Silicon Valley Disposition website [0] for a while. [0] https://svdisposition.com/
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by karlding 6y ago
He's been working at Apple [0] ever since December 2018. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144421/apple-designer-...
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by karlding 6y ago
Someone posted a Medium article [0] on the /r/bayarea subreddit where they did some digging into this. Apparently the sensors used by Purple Air rely on a constant that represents the average density of the particles it detects. B
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by karlding 6y ago
This isn't specifically for syntax errors, but Jacob Jackson released TabNine [0] last year, which is an autocompleter trained on files from GitHub [1]. TabNine was acquired by Codota earlier this year [2]. [0] https://www.t
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by karlding 6y ago
The parent is talking about TrueSkill 2 [0], while the trueskill Python library you linked currently only supports the original TrueSkill algorithm [1][2]. TrueSkill 2 takes into account individual scores of players in order to weigh the co
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by karlding 6y ago
Why do employees even have access to tools that allow them to take over accounts? What use case does having this functionality provide? Unless they're saying that there's certain people who have raw DB access...
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by karlding 6y ago
I agree. GUIs are hard! On the other hand, it seems like Open Source has a lack of designers that are willing to contribute. For example, in Tantacrul's critique of MuseScore [0], there's issues highlighted that seem obvious in re
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by karlding 6y ago
I submitted a blog post a few weeks ago about the way they handled game state synchronization in replays [0]. The netplay release is still relatively new, so if there is a blog post in the works, it'll probably be at a later date. [0]
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by karlding 6y ago
The developer (to be pedantic, there's only one full-time developer, Fizzi, the others are volunteers) quit their day job last year to work on Slippi full-time [0], with funding from Patreon. More details are available on the project s
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Fighting Desyncs in Melee Replays(medium.com)
2 points by karlding 6y ago|0 comments
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by karlding 6y ago
I'm curious if there's research into "better" primitives in Programming Languages in order to simplify writing distributed systems, analogous to how concurrency primitives beyond Mutexes, Semaphores, and Condition Variab
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by karlding 6y ago
The original "4 Photographers Shoot the Same Model" [0] series by Jessica Kobeissi that Andrew Huang's series was inspired by was nominated for a Shorty Award [1] in 2019. [0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list

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