kmoser

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by kmoser 2y ago
For various definitions of "leave". I had a similar experience: left it open a while, came back, never got to the #1 spot.
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by kmoser 2y ago
LLMs don't actually "understand" anything. They're just better at parsing and manipulating language.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> A liquid is an incompressible fluid. But can't most fluids be compressed, even if just a bit?
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by kmoser 2y ago
I think you mean "twenty-aughts" (to differentiate them from the nineteen-aughts, 1900-1909).
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by kmoser 2y ago
Asking the SQL engine to explain the query doesn't mean the abstraction is broken or imperfect. It simply means the developer wants to understand how their query is being understood and, hopefully, optimized. This is essential when deb
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by kmoser 2y ago
Abstractions themselves aren't a problem; they are in fact a necessity if you want to move anywhere beyond simple bit-twiddling. (Heck, even the idea of software itself is an abstraction over hard-wired instructions.) The real problem
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Yes, there are footguns. But as a developer, you have the power to keep it clean and not shoot the footguns, so I’m still ok with the language. With all due respect to your expertise, the whole idea of a footgun is that it tends to go
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by kmoser 2y ago
> you mean like hackernews? i have been active here for years without it leading to any kind of notable connection. Do you read the threads about who's hiring, and post on the threads asking for who's looking for work? > so
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by kmoser 2y ago
Is toast an open-face sandwich, or is an open-faced sandwich toast?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Try websites (I would say "social media" but that has a negative stigma) where people in your field congregate. You don't have to do it to the point of exhaustion; just dip you feet in the stream once in a while to gauge the
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by kmoser 2y ago
My question was whether law enforcement typically requests the same data from private carriers that it does from USPS, not whether they open your mail.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Microsoft says it’s also letting File Explorer natively compress files to 7-zip and TAR; currently, the right-click context menu has a “Compress to ZIP file” option, but ZIP is thought to be a bit antiquated in terms of how much compre
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by kmoser 2y ago
Ok, but what about private carriers like FedEx, UPS, etc.? Is using them an effective end-run for the paranoid? Asking for a friend.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Even with an unlimited budget and unlimited time, the difference between good and bad engineering is that a bad engineer won't know where to apply their talents to ensure things won't go wrong in the future. While every discipline
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by kmoser 2y ago
Assuming you trust that device to not be malicious. It's turtles all the way down.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Deploy as infrequently as possible. Urge extreme caution about deployments. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes”. Deploying infrequently doesn't necessarily sabotage things if it results in well-written a
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by kmoser 2y ago
That was the problem. I typed "Leveraging cloud based infrastructure" which apparently wasn't bullshitty enough.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I typed something in the box and...nothing happened. What am I missing? I tried with both Chrome and Firefox (latest versions).
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by kmoser 2y ago
Punishment should fit the crime, not be tailored to suit lawyers who knew very well (or should have) that they might have to join Clearview's list of creditors, and might never see a dime.
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by kmoser 2y ago
They purposely tailor items to the country they're in, and even add entirely new items. For example, the fries in Country X might be cooked with different ingredients or in a different manner, in an attempt to satisfy consumers in that
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by kmoser 2y ago
Yes, but in a high-stress environment, your ability to process words--especially those not in your native language--goes down the tubes quickly. Even if you were to tune out sounds to the same degree that you tune out words, at least the
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by kmoser 2y ago
At least chimes are language-agnostic. Verbal warnings like "pull up" are only good if you have a reasonable grasp of English.
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by kmoser 2y ago
It's hard to solve the problem of false positives when the decision to sound an alarm is reliant on a single sensor that may start to become detached (e.g. glue/tape failure). If you think the solution is multiple sensors, well, w
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by kmoser 2y ago
My thoughts exactly: by bringing two of the five fingers together you achieve a more interesting effect of overall asymmetry among the fingers, and yet because the two joined fingers are each flanked by a "detached" finger, it cre
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Just opt out of staying on top of email and similar things. People who do that go to the bottom of my "would hire again" list. I like working with people who communicate in a timely manner. Nothing wrong with replying, "
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by kmoser 2y ago
Your question raises the important point that communication involves constant negotiation of different attributes (time, medium of preference, tone, etc.). Those who are good at it will read the room, and sometimes make exceptions so they d
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by kmoser 2y ago
You could make the same argument for any tool that does not provide high security. In fact security is layered, and no single tool should be relied upon to be your one security tool. You said as much yourself: "I see this as a last lin
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by kmoser 2y ago
Depends on the application. I've written accounting software that makes use of it, along with heavy use of floor() and ceil(), including in SQL.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Different topic, but this could be solved if somebody wrote an IDE that understood all the relationships between your HTML and CSS and let you manipulate it visually, rather than having to manually cross-reference symbols.
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by kmoser 2y ago
This ad also implies pop-ups served by the OS and related apps have something to do with your CPU, which isn't the case at all. So even if you decide Windows is for you, your pop-up experience will have nothing to do with which CPU you

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