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by mcherm 7y ago
> Just yesterday I made a trivial error crunching some numbers for when a construction site could turn off their dewatering. And how did you catch this error?
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by mcherm 7y ago
No one is claiming that this sort algorithm (or any other) is asymptotically faster than O(n log(n)). It can be mathematically proved that no sort algorithm can improve on this. The object with sort algorithms is to find one with good const
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by mcherm 7y ago
Does anyone know enough to comment on how this jives with the settlement that Microsoft reached with the EU around 2010 over accusations of leveraging their monopoly in operating systems to drive user choice in browsers?
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by mcherm 7y ago
Because the banks charge a fee (well, some of them do). I know that sounds stupid but it's the truth. There is no law against banks charging fees like this, banks like to make money (don't we all!), and (significantly) banks don&#
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by mcherm 7y ago
No. They are negotiating with very few entities: just 2 (Visa and MasterCard) account for most card holders. Throw in Amex, and Discover if you want and you've covered nearly 100%. Merchants don't have a lot of negotiating power,
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by mcherm 7y ago
Could someone please flag this as being from 2018?
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by mcherm 7y ago
If the population drops, towns become abandoned and the post office closes down certain routes. If technology improves, perhaps drones can deliver mail to remote locations with sparse population. Even the example you gave is a little bit we
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by mcherm 7y ago
> I've met certified accountants whose daily job was to take an excel spread sheet, add 1% to every cell with a number, then return to the client. It's not automated but not because it can't be automated. Well, that's
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by mcherm 7y ago
Because IF you are going to be sarcastically dismissive you ought to at least get the details right.
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by mcherm 7y ago
Someone please explain to me why we have built electric cars so that the battery is fixed to the car and gets recharged rather than making the batteries swappable for an instant "recharge". Sure, it moves the cost of wear and tear
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by mcherm 7y ago
The original article is proposing that the existing C and C++ libraries be rewritten in Rust for performance reasons (while continuing to use Python to access the functionality).
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by mcherm 7y ago
> If you have a steroidal inhaler, you’ll need to be evaluated every few months ... [emphasis added] I am reasonably sure this is not true, at least for most people's definition of "few".
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by mcherm 7y ago
Yes, that is accurate. In the US, lab results are nearly always sent to the doctor who prescribed the tests, not to the patient. (And most tests cannot be requested without a doctor's order.) Some doctors are good about sharing the det
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by mcherm 7y ago
So... did you correct the errors and release your updated (useless) report? Or did you slog through 7 levels of management approval to get permission to get rid of it?
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by mcherm 7y ago
All this really shows is that public pressure can affect a company's policy choices.
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by mcherm 7y ago
> They do not ban you for removing some uses of private APIs, but missing others and resubmitting. Maybe not -- maybe you know something about how Apple operates. But clearly they ARE sending responses threatening to do exactly that.
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by mcherm 7y ago
I really liked this essay -- I found it very clearly explained and it pointed out something I ought to have known but somehow had never previously realized. My only complaint is that when I went to go read through the other articles on yo
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by mcherm 7y ago
It IS trivial. Now, I'll admit that there is an enormously complex process required to render modern html and css properly. But there are several engines that do this rendering and are available as open source. So it is easy to render
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by mcherm 7y ago
> Has this not been done? No, this has not been done. > If not, why? Because it would fail. > Or am I wrong in believing it's that simple? Nope... it's that simple. But let's be honest here: we SHOULD use this approa
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by mcherm 7y ago
> Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer is unpossible And why on earth do you believe that this difference in mindset cannot be taught?
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by mcherm 7y ago
> I believe they should follow up on it to sort things out. reply I'm sure you believe that. Do you work at Google in a position to supervise app reviews? Because if you do, then you can help straighten this out. If you don't,
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by mcherm 7y ago
> As far as designing in weaknesses and/or golded keys. Well, it does not add to security, but assuming that the other nation states are already able to break encryption and read what they want, it does not weaken it either for nati
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by mcherm 7y ago
> Grossly inaccurate is the best way of describing the screening time Amazon agrees with you... they contend that the screening doesn't actually take this long. I'm not clear on how a question of fact like this can be in disput
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by mcherm 7y ago
> I hope Gnome is able to take a Newegg approach here and kill the patent. How do you propose paying for that? It is fantastically expensive.
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by mcherm 7y ago
I just recently published a blog post on this topic: https://www.mcherm.com/unique-ids.html Sadly, I am still getting pushback from others at my company who are either not convinced by the math or for whom any such analysis
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by mcherm 7y ago
> The question here is not whether they were contracted to do the pen test, I think everyone agrees they were. The question is whether those who contracted them had the authority to authorize it. No, the question is whether the prosecuto
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by mcherm 7y ago
I think the article's author made two points -- one quite sensible and the other very much subject to the criticism you raise. I thought the useful point was, "In recent decades antitrust law has shifted to consider only the impac
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by mcherm 7y ago
I think it is because the phone companies (in the US) refuse to identify and block such calls.
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by mcherm 7y ago
I got all the way to the end of the article without noticing who the author was, thinking "what a clearly written piece -- I should keep an eye out for this author in the future". Then I realized it was an author I knew.
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by mcherm 7y ago
Not legally. It's kind of like how just because you have a pair of scissors it doesn't mean you are entitled to cut people's hair (without a stylist license). Or how just because you own a scalpel you aren't allowed to p

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