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by loosescrews 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that even small snippets of licensed code can be problematic. I don't know exactly what the cutoff is, but when I tried Copilot it often suggested to auto complete snippets of code that we
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by loosescrews 4y ago
This is similar to Nagle's algorithm (controllable on Linux with TCPNODELAY).
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by loosescrews 4y ago
I have heard that the 2009 layoffs were limited to recruiting. If these layoffs occur, they may be the company's first engineering layoffs. I find it surprising that they are considering layoffs. There have been a number of articles ab
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by loosescrews 4y ago
As a recruiter, which languages seemed the most valuable to startups?
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by loosescrews 4y ago
So you work at Aerospike?
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by loosescrews 4y ago
Rain is a form of distillation.
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by loosescrews 4y ago
> But the most important thing you get with GraphQL is batching. Doesn't HTTP/2 make this mostly obsolete? One of its big features is request multiplexing. Regarding the auto-generated code bit, are auto-generated GraphQL clien
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by loosescrews 4y ago
While the documentation of many open source Go libraries is definitely lacking, I find that the combination of types and links to readable source in the generated docs more than make up for it. While the documentation for Python libraries i
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by loosescrews 4y ago
The Sony Xperia 10 III with Sailfish meets all of these requirements except eSIM. If you wait ~1yr, the next Sailfish phone should support eSIM. The Sony Xperia 10 III Lite is the first Xperia to support eSIM, so it seems likely that more m
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Rosetta 2 on AWS Graviton2(twitter.com)
2 points by loosescrews 4y ago|0 comments
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by loosescrews 4y ago
I live in an area where strawberries are grown commercially. Strawberries are sold at local farmers markets which were picked earlier that day. I have learned that strawberries are much better if eaten the same day that they are picked. I t
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by loosescrews 4y ago
Linux seems to have much worse memory management for desktop usage than other popular desktop operating systems. I have found that I really need 64GB of RAM to make Chrome run well on Linux, but I can get a similar user experience with as l
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by loosescrews 4y ago
I have had similar experiences with the X1 Extreme. The biggest issue I have had is that the repair process almost always breaks something new. The first one spent so much time getting repaired that I actually bought a second one so that I
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by loosescrews 4y ago
> You can't use authenticator app to enable 2FA Are you sure about that? I don't think this is true. I definitely don't have a phone number linked to my Google Account and I have TOTP enabled as well. They even have the Ad
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by loosescrews 5y ago
I think the piece that you are missing is automation. A large portion of non-STEM jobs (including most farm jobs) can be automated and likely will be automated in the coming decades. If you are college age, you should be planning for a more
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by loosescrews 5y ago
I think the Ryzen 6000 laptop chips are a better comparison. They are also monolithic, contain a powerful GPU, and are manufactured on a more similar node. Ryzen 6000 has a die size of 210mm².
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by loosescrews 5y ago
They are an internet company. This is how internet companies work, generate such high profits, and command such high valuations. Businesses which scale by hiring are much harder to grow and tend to be a lot less profitable. As a result, int
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by loosescrews 5y ago
I wasn't able to find any of those that support PCI-e 3.0. Both the Marvel and Intel controllers discussed in this thread are PCI-e 3.0.
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by loosescrews 5y ago
> The military tends to have a somewhat high percentage of people of color generally. Isn't this due to the U.S. Military being more attractive to poorer people, which are statistically more likely to be of color?
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by loosescrews 5y ago
I have had a lot of trouble with the Marvell AQtion controllers under Linux. They are supposed to work and are plug and play on modern kernels, but I was never able to resolve a bug where the controller stopped working after a few hours. Th
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by loosescrews 5y ago
One example is that they were featured prominently in The Sopranos' opening sequence, but were removed after destruction: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/110820/how-was-th...
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by loosescrews 5y ago
Crash recovery OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice always used to do this much better than Microsoft, but my understanding is that Microsoft has made more of an effort more recently. It is also useful if the program gets unexpectedly closed (fo
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by loosescrews 5y ago
Note that the average price of an iPhone is higher than the average price of a Chromebook.
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by loosescrews 5y ago
How big does a lot generally need to be in order to be split?
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by loosescrews 5y ago
That is only for a few proprietary bits (Android App Support, Predictive text input, MS Exchange support). Now, those features are very useful, but most of the OS is open source and the open source version is usable (without those features)
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by loosescrews 5y ago
Sailfish is great and the only device they have ever dropped support for got 7 years of updates. https://blog.jolla.com/jolla7/
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by loosescrews 5y ago
If you find code reviews are significantly slowing down your process, the problem might be your code review tool. My employer switched from Github to Gerrit and I have for the most part stopped feeling like code reviews are slowing me down.
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by loosescrews 5y ago
Exactly this. People are happy to buy a computer which is specifically intended to run macOS, but refuse to do the same for Linux and then complain when it doesn't work perfectly. Sure, it is super nice to have the option of running it
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The Fraud Supply Chain(bam.kalzumeus.com)
231 points by loosescrews 5y ago|68 comments
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by loosescrews 5y ago
You might enjoy this video: Making Fake Directions & Hiring Someone to Build my IKEA Furniture https://youtu.be/5_FCKzhN_dY?t=334 They make instructions in the style you described that are thoroughly ridiculous and hire

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