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manquer
3y ago
> Loving flaws like buffer overflows looks more like a Stockholm syndrome to me: Only if you are the developer (victim ) it is fun to work with buffer overflows if you are the security researcher (law enforcement) or a hacker (kidnapper
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manquer
3y ago
Wouldn’t that be excluded because i is already removed ?
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manquer
3y ago
you pay for more than hardware. $325k in hardware also needs people with expertise to run it, those aren’t cheap. Maintaining reputation also means keeping your IP of blacklists and continuously monitoring the major ones . Spending time deb
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manquer
3y ago
Quest pro is $1,500 (albeit 8 months old ) Yes, Apple is priced quite premium but that is also their strength Apple can price at this level and still command enough sales , Meta or any other company cannot . Even at the same price point (Ho
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manquer
3y ago
RTO may not mean return to the Bay Area ? Considering the high CoL people have already moved other places and this is a reflection of that ?
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manquer
3y ago
Sex bot implies sex in some form, that I don’t think is primary value of a such system even if it all available. The ability to form a connection and understand your needs perfectly and respond to that a companion is the real value Sex gets
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manquer
3y ago
> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right? Sure you can, you could release a product which is tad slower but much cheaper than flagship. Typically some cores are binned in the higher end ch
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manquer
3y ago
You would still target the same time you want , just the way you are achieving will be achieve it differently . just giving more points for finishing in day 1 or 2 could have also solved the problem I think
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manquer
3y ago
Everyone wants to see the finish line in a race ? Better slow half way in where no one is watching and finish in style ?
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manquer
3y ago
You don’t know what is going to be second or any other place , every one is going to be doing same thing . You would only know what the current leader board looks like . Remember rally is raced against the clock not against other cars. If y
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manquer
3y ago
If teams don't play to win, and collaborate instead of compete every sport will be boring while maximizing "points" but loosing viewership. This is why all teams don't always play for a draw and only go for victory only
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manquer
3y ago
why drive like maniacs only to slow down at the end ? might as well drive slower throughout the stage ? and be most aggressive on day 3 ?
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manquer
3y ago
All this to support older browsers and get rid of all JavaScript where you can . Plenty of sites aspire to be JS free for a variety of reasons it is worthy goal
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manquer
3y ago
Surely at the scale of Wikipedia that wouldn’t be a factor ? considering the dominance of few browsers (chrome , safari on iOS) will most users notice any difference? The first one (with that UA) to the site with a new build will have they
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manquer
3y ago
You should be able to detect user agent and determine capability and send the poly-fills for backward compatibility ?
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manquer
3y ago
Not decisions by judges[1]!, filings by lawyers can be pretty proforma, in a ton of places they literally just fill your details and "generate" a filing. Not every filing is generate-able for sure, however there are already tools
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manquer
3y ago
Everyone is talking about ChatGPT , but is it not possible to train a model with only actual court documents and keep “temp” low and get accuracy levels as high or better than humans? Most legal (all formal really) documents are very predic
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manquer
3y ago
Self-driving won't make a difference to this structure though ? The pitch Tesla (if you believe them) keeps making is we could rent out our cars when we don't use it to the rental networks. We still own the car ( and the liability
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manquer
3y ago
Just a ride sharing app cannot reach the scale and revenue to justify the investments they have attracted. It is not realistic to raise $25+ Billion[1] just to be a pure SaaS startup. Both Uber and Lyft[2] run rental businesses already, the
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manquer
3y ago
It doesn't stop with one, the problem is not someone cut across, the problem is someone always keeps squeezing in the gap. Every time you open a gap, a new car cuts across. How can you maintain any gap in that context ?
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manquer
3y ago
It is not about efficiency or trying not to be slow. I am not bothered how many people cut in line or "cheat".[1] Someone will always keep cutting into the space. It is impossible to maintain 3 second to the car ahead. First one
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manquer
3y ago
The point being they could eliminate the human drivers and take the whole revenue instead of sharing it. From ridesharing company PoV right now they are only taking 30%-50% of the revenue, and they have gaps in meeting demand due to resourc
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manquer
3y ago
Interestingly Saudi Arabia has been super wasteful of their water too. They have all but drained their aquifers that takes thousands of years to replenish in a bid to become self sufficient in their food supplies. Now they are taking some c
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manquer
3y ago
Invest in upstream/ downstream businesses or in capital heavy projects, You could acquire also grow inorganically. R&D in the accounting sense is very different from research as we think. Yes there is diminishing returns for spen
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manquer
3y ago
It is not hypothetical, some of us do have to worry about "others". I( so do many here) have to take a decision for all my teams whether to approve this or not. It can be become a long-term handicap to developers learning, or also
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manquer
3y ago
Returning the money directly to the shareholder as dividend or buyback is an indication that management cannot find better use for the money, or unwilling to take the risk. Berkshire Hathway never declares dividend or does buybacks either.
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manquer
3y ago
The charge of Lack of innovation is more that they returning money to shareholders instead of funding more r&d (organic/acquisition) not how (dividends/buybacks )
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manquer
3y ago
He is 85! I would hope to be that disciplined about what what I can spend time on at that age He was curious enough to spend some time on it and was worried it would sink more of his time with all the sub problems it is presented and asks s
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manquer
3y ago
Knuth probably found that funny , he is a huge fan of Munroe’s comic
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manquer
3y ago
Anyone else perhaps , Knuth is extreme stickler for zero mistakes in his work, including typos or something trivial. He didn’t even trust the typesetting system of his day and developed TeX You think he would be able to achieve anything giv
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