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by kijin 2y ago
On the other hand, mediocre success with no VC investment is a solid recipe for a lifestyle business. It's a very important qualification!
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by kijin 2y ago
Settling down with a mediocre product that sustains your company should probably count as success. The vast majority of startups fail, after all. You might have failed to produce a unicorn, but at least you've got a decent workhorse.
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by kijin 2y ago
Well, it's called short selling. If there's enough fluctuation in the price of carbon credits, Shell could make a profit even if they are required to buy them back to balance the books. It was probably not a good idea to treat the
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by kijin 2y ago
Given enough time, a shell midden becomes limestone. Children of a future civilization might not find out anything about our culture or language, but they are definitely going to know that we loved oysters. Meanwhile, their scientists will
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by kijin 2y ago
Resizing also helps reduce costs. The latest phones can generate ridiculously large images with 200+ megapixels. You really don't want to dump that kind of behemoth in your S3 bucket and serve it as somebody's profile pic. Videos
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by kijin 2y ago
If I remember correctly, the A340 is the only airliner that was produced in significant numbers but was never involved in a fatal accident. There was a major crash in Canada a while ago, but even then, nobody died. Take that, Boeing.
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by kijin 2y ago
Yep. I'm a heavy user of CJK languages and I don't give a damn about the slightly increased plaintext storage. Give me UTF-8 any day, every day. Legacy two-byte encodings can't represent all of the historical glyphs anyway, s
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by kijin 3y ago
I think it depends a lot on which tradition of philosophy one is first exposed to. Most STEM people will find Anglo-American analytic philosophy (where Dennett firmly belonged) much easier to approach than continental philosophy or the clas
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by kijin 3y ago
You can certainly code faster when you have higher confidence and lower inhibitions. Stop worrying about correctness in edge cases, security, or long-term maintainability!
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by kijin 3y ago
The very existence of 521-bit ECDSA is a footgun just waiting to go off. To any programmer who is accustomed to thinking in binary but hasn't heard the full story about why it ended up being such an odd number, 521 is virtually indisti
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by kijin 3y ago
How would you measure complexity and level of saturation? If you take a git repo and spit out a meaningful number for those, that could be a pretty useful technology in its own right, regardless of its integration into a standalone platform
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by kijin 3y ago
> Null routing is the MVP here: this IP is being attacked, so drop traffic to it as soon as possible. Oh, this poor guy is being DDoS'd, so we're going to make sure that their service remains denied. Null-routing the target IP
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by kijin 3y ago
It seems most package managers were built with the assumption that you will stick to a single, officially sanctioned version of the language runtime and core libraries. Which is a reasonable assumption to make, for example, if the language
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by kijin 3y ago
Depends on how the Line is powered. A single long-distance line to a distant nuclear facility powering the whole thing? Or dozens of independent solar farms in the surrounding desert, each powering a nearly section of the Line, with both lo
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by kijin 3y ago
Every human-readable programming language must be compiled into some sort of bytecode (opcode in PHP) and/or machine language in order to work. The question is whether a human ever needs to be aware of that step. In PHP, you generally
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by kijin 3y ago
I'm taking the "no build step" thing to the extreme in one of my projects. PHP has libraries for compiling SCSS and minifying JS, and filemtime() is very fast. So if you wire them together in just the right way, you can edit
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by kijin 3y ago
Yeah, it might not be funny, but the tautology draws attention to the fact that there is no privileged frame of reference. In other words, the only thing we can say without qualification is that a second is just a second in the same frame o
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by kijin 3y ago
You're missing the joke. It's still one second per second, only that everyone's second looks different.
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by kijin 3y ago
A true visionary must plan for job security for millennia to come. Next on the todo list: code up a Kwisatz Haderach to do your all your data modeling work while you slack off. On a more serious note, Galactic Time probably won't be us
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by kijin 3y ago
There is no independent frame of reference by which we can tell whose time is slower. From the spacecraft's frame of reference, Earth's time is slower. From Earth's frame of reference, the spacecraft's time is slower. Bo
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by kijin 3y ago
Is it any different when you receive a zip file by email? It could very well have been crafted to exploit a backdoor in your compression program.
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by kijin 3y ago
Not only that, but it's hard to buy small flash drives. The smallest I can find in retail stores around me are in the 16-32GB range, which feels like a total waste when all I need is a few hundred MB (i.e. just beyond the email attachm
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by kijin 3y ago
This is what worries me more. It's easy to point a finger at a specific Bad Guy® and shout "He did it!" It's much harder to face the reality that any maintainer of any open-source project can slowly burn out to a point w
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by kijin 3y ago
Yes, the usual advice is optimized for buildings that stay upright. But this [1] happens, too, surprisingly often with reinforced concrete buildings. A table turned sideways isn't going to stop the fridge that's hurtling toward yo
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by kijin 3y ago
That's exactly how the shindo scale is reported in Japan. They assign a number to every major city on a map, just like temperatures in a weather forecast. For example, January's big quake was 7 in Ishikawa, but only 2-3 in the Tok
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by kijin 3y ago
Any data on survivability of occupants of upper floors in cases where the bottom floor is destroyed and the rest of the building settles on top of the rubble instead of pancaking? This is exactly what happened with some apartment blocks in
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by kijin 3y ago
> Metropolis chose the name MANIAC in the hope of stopping the rash of silly acronyms for machine names [1] Looks like even MANIAC was deliberately restrained to make it sound less maniac than the names of computers that came before it.
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by kijin 3y ago
Most non-git projects have git mirrors these days, even if they're not official. If upstream only releases tarballs, you can still untar them and create a commit for each version so you can easily compare them and merge any additional
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by kijin 3y ago
> Git wont help you prevent anything Of course. Nothing does. > All it may help with is figuring out, after the fact (of finding the compromise) when it was added. Exactly. And that's what I'm trying to say. Ease of detectio
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by kijin 3y ago
> Distributed cloned repos are not a single source of truth. That's the point. No person should be trusted to be a single source of truth. If there are multiple sources of truth and they don't agree, it's a red flag. A hig

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