kmoser

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811.
by kmoser 3y ago
People don't exercise their rights when a) they are not informed of them, and b) they're under duress. What's more bewildering is why juries (who are not facing jail time themselves) don't find defendants innocent in ev
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by kmoser 3y ago
That's clever, but I am not a fan: Booleans are implementation dependent; making the assumption that Boolean 'true' evaluates to 1, or even a number greater than what Boolean 'false' evaluates to, is not a good idea
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by kmoser 3y ago
My appliance repair guy, who repairs appliances all day and has seen it all, told me to hold on to my (relatively old) appliances as long as possible because they are more easily repaired than the newer ones. Sure, it's his job to fix
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by kmoser 3y ago
Are you factoring in the more frequent repair costs incurred when the "smart" features fail and incapacitate the whole device?
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by kmoser 3y ago
My parents have a clothes drier from the 1970s and a fridge from the 1990s. They have needed repairs, but they were infrequent and not so costly as to necessitate buying a new unit. My A/C is only four years old and the maintenance guy
816.
by kmoser 3y ago
Ironic that the WSJ is saying that greed actually isn't good, while 37 years ago, Wall Street's (the movie) Gordon Gekko was saying the opposite.
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by kmoser 3y ago
Why does it matter to you if they can do it from memory, if they can find the answer easily from ChatGPT? It's like asking "how can I tell if somebody knows the exact definition of a word without having to look it up?" If it&
818.
by kmoser 3y ago
Instead of asking the candidate to solve coding challenges, ask them to create a coding challenge. The interviewer can then use ChatGPT to see if the coding challenge the candidate wrote was already known to ChatGPT or if it was indeed cr
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by kmoser 3y ago
If the interview is for a position in which the candidate will be tasked with solving problems that ChatGPT is able to help with significantly, then they have just proven they are capable of doing the job. (If you have time to do this work
820.
by kmoser 3y ago
.lan might be easily misspelled as .Ian (or .1an), and the three letters look like a "normal" TLD. If anything, .local might be a better choice.
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by kmoser 3y ago
Would tap-and-hold be the closest equivalent?
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by kmoser 3y ago
The simpler solution is to just eat your pasta with a spoon, which will allow you to scoop up more sauce per mouthful. But if you want to over-engineer it, you could write software to create the optimal pasta shape which would maximize surf
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by kmoser 3y ago
I knew somebody who did this in NYC in the 1980s. The "funniest" poster he found failed to mention whether the animal was a cat or dog, and sadly you couldn't tell what it was from the terrible sketch.
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by kmoser 3y ago
It's not just a matter of reliability: mainframes allow tighter coupling between different parts of your application, thus faster performance, since everything is (or can be) essentially on the same hardware that is optimized for data
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by kmoser 3y ago
Maybe I'm just paranoid but if you configure your DMARC records to receive reports via email, doesn't that open the door for malicious actors to send bogus reports, if for no other reason than just for the lulz? I realize that the
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by kmoser 3y ago
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. One doesn't get a free pass to make fun of, say, pedestrians just because they're less energy efficient than bicyclists. Nobody is suggesting that humorous comments are an "attack".
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by kmoser 3y ago
This still puts the burden on the consumer of having to verify that their credit file is accurate, not to mention the even bigger burden of trying to correct it.
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by kmoser 3y ago
There's a reasonable chance "You should dress up as Santa for the children" is intended as a positive suggestion. There's very little chance "I suppose it saves on tyres" is anything but a snide remark, since n
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by kmoser 3y ago
I've seen bells for skaters made with a metal or plastic ring you can pass through your finger. They'd probably work just as well for a unicyclist. (In related news, Firefox's built-in spellcheck doesn't include "un
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by kmoser 3y ago
> what motivations does one have to ride a unicycle instead of a bicycle? I can only think of reduced storage space being a practical benefit. You're assuming a practical benefit but maybe people do it for fun, the challenge, or sim
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by kmoser 3y ago
Nothing in the rules seem to indicate that you're not allowed to reassemble the shredded notes, or that you're not allowed to either use them as currency or request replacement for your "damaged" currency. However, I am
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by kmoser 3y ago
> with software there is this notion of something being "optimal" but with music there is no optimal. Even the highest level artists are not satisfied with their work. The music is always above you. The same holds for software
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by kmoser 3y ago
FirebaseError: Quota exceeded
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by kmoser 3y ago
Even if you have no trouble remembering a seven digit code, there's nothing to stop a malicious actor who determines that code from entering your apartment. At least with physical keys you have absolute control over who has those keys,
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by kmoser 3y ago
In the 1980s I worked as a programmer at a large institution which shall remain nameless that had a database of people who had applied for one of said institution's services. One entry in the database stood out because it had a first n
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by kmoser 3y ago
You'll have to settle for Moon Unitė.
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by kmoser 3y ago
> Then that's the problem, that people don't remember the right-of-way. In these cases, I simply wait for them, trying to signal to them with my hand or my horn, as it is their right-of-way. So now you're advocating for wh
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by kmoser 3y ago
> Not sure I agree with the "go ahead", it should never be ambiguous who's turn it is. Legally it may not be ambiguous but in reality some drivers don't remember they have the right-of-way and you have to remind them,
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by kmoser 3y ago
If a company or individual unrelated to you (e.g. not your employer and not a relative) either gives you a car for free, or sells it to you for $1, with no expectation of anything in return (i.e. not a trade or barter), the only tax obligat
840.
by kmoser 3y ago
Even VW's physical buttons don't guarantee an intuitive UI. I tried to set the clock on a Jetta and had to look it up online. At first I went through the infotainment system's screen, which had settings for just about everyth

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