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by manv1 4y ago
On MacOS Apple doesn't prevent you from, say, shoving a grenade up your butt by turning their protections off. https://news.yahoo.com/surgery-under-sappers-supervision-doc... And it's darwin-based, and there'
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by manv1 4y ago
Maybe the members of these organizations would be willing to take responsibility for the prisoners? /s Seriously, these are non-state actors who were detained for some reason or another. From a political point of view there's no r
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by manv1 4y ago
Yeah, Apple's Music app has been fucked up for years. You can drag songs into some views and not others. If you drag songs into a new playlist they get added then removed and put into "recently added" or the general library w
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by manv1 4y ago
If it's documented it's not a bug, it's behavior. The developer should check for overflow before using the value. If this assembly is compiler generated then it's probably classifiable as a compiler bug.
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by manv1 4y ago
Ask ChatGPT to write a children's story and it'll give you a pretty decent children's story. Ask it to write a story about XYZ and it will give you a story about XYZ. Ask ChatGPT to write a story in a language it doesn't
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by manv1 4y ago
The real problem with these kinds of "benchmarks" is that either the company doesn't have anyone on staff that's calling "bullshit" on it or the marketing people don't care that it's bullshit. Either
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by manv1 4y ago
I'll give you an example of a graph database use case. The police have a ton of data lying around, and the consensus in the industry is that the 80/20 rule applies to criminals as well ie: 20% of the population takes up 80% of the
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by manv1 4y ago
Yes, I'm from the "he by default" generation.
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by manv1 4y ago
A lot of the enterprise requirements he talked about add no actual value to the product; they're just checkboxes on an RFP that are required. Theoretically applying all of those requirements to your product might make your product more
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by manv1 4y ago
"If I could think of all the edge cases myself I would have handled them in my code." - every developer. It's OK for a developer to write validation tests (ie: tests that ensure the -whatever- is working the way it should). B
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by manv1 4y ago
The problem isn't that your engineers are too smart, it's that they aren't smart enough. It reminds me of the church of the subgenius: a church for those who aren't quite smart enough to be genius level and know it. Basi
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by manv1 4y ago
More work is more work.
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by manv1 4y ago
That's a horrible idea. The problem is that people are munging architecture, data flow, and process into one diagram. "Marketplace" isn't part of an architecture. "Commerce" isn't an architecture part. It&
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by manv1 4y ago
It's amazing that the deep state was able to embed someone (Etta Peagues) into the narrative that long ago. They've been around for a long time!
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by manv1 4y ago
Maybe China wants to dip a toe into great power style politics, so it can see what being on the world stage actually entails? After all, China is looking for friends, and what better way to make friends than to prop up a failing regime? Pro
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by manv1 4y ago
Maybe it was just implemented with too much abstraction, which can make things more confusing. Instead of porting it as-is, rebuild it with the actual functionality required and throw away the overly abstracted parts. Oh, and I echo the oth
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by manv1 4y ago
Taking over their DNS isn't going to help if they did things correctly. If they did things right each device is going to be doing cert verification with AWS IOT, and that verification will fail. That's client and server cert valid
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by manv1 4y ago
That's not true, as evidenced by many, many empires, past and present (Spanish, British, Roman, American) that spanned more than a month of travel. What they're trying to say is that the span of control is limited by the ability t
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by manv1 4y ago
Recursion in production code? Say it ain't so...
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by manv1 4y ago
On the web side you need to synchronize the DOM, the visual state (which is mostly related to the DOM), the user's state, and the backend state using a protocol that's stateless. Really, the browser side stuff is the real PITA. It
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by manv1 4y ago
Every year I read Shannon's paper, and every year I realize I have no idea WTF he was talking about.
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by manv1 4y ago
Inventory financing is a severe pain in the ass for small businesses. It makes moving up to the next level incredibly difficult. Math example: You sell something for $20, and it costs you $5. You have free shipping, which costs you $3. Shop
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by manv1 4y ago
Nagle's algorithm is designed to stop packlets. If you're not sending a lot of packlets you shouldn't be using Nagle's algorithm. It's on by default in systems because without it interactive shells get weird, and th
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by manv1 4y ago
Never underestimate the ability of end-users to do the wrong thing. Abstraction doesn't mean you don't have to learn the underlying technology. Most performance problems come from not understanding the underlying technology due to
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by manv1 4y ago
Farming is about sales and marketing. My FIL bought two farms as a hobby, and he essentially has two choices: selling to middlemen for peanuts or going direct-to-consumer. DTC is problematic for obvious reasons - you have to do last-mile de
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by manv1 4y ago
No, phreakers have been around since the Bell system. That's Capt. Crunch etc.
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by manv1 4y ago
bourne shell (now bash) has saved me tons of time. It's ridiculously easy to glue stuff together...like migrating 10k videos from one video CMS to another, with custom fields etc. How do you drive that? bash scripts driving node, curl,
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by manv1 4y ago
Excel gets my vote for one of the top 10 software programs ever. It's crazy how useful it is.
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by manv1 4y ago
Actually, the vaccine was developed relatively quickly. The testing and ramp-up is what took the vast majority of time. You're sort of following the pre operation warp speed statements that the press and "experts" were spouti
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by manv1 4y ago
The "you can't lean out of your window to hand over your paperwork" is an actual problem. I would like to believe that the Tesla UX team did field research before doing their cab design, but it sounds like they might be gradu

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