mehrdada

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by mehrdada 5y ago
XNU, the Darwin kernel, is not a recursive acronym like GNU. Officially stands for X is Not Unix .
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> In a dynamic language like JS, you'd search for "Graph theory algorithms library" and probably find one with ten million downloads, investigate the maintainer a bit, and use it. Mmm... `leftpad`
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Google also found that interview performance isn't a good predictor of on-the-job performance. People repeat things like this without really understanding statistics and priors and what that assertion really means. Assuming tha
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Is it fundamentally any different from Google charging for clicks that direct traffic to other commercial activity on the internet? You enable some commerce through your platform and take a cut in both cases.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Where did you get this data? All CDC itself says on the website says “Cases of reinfection with COVID-19 have been reported, but remain rare. [1]” and it seems there is an active effort to suppress the effectiveness of natural immunity effe
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Or just call it blaze :)
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I would be less than "definitely sure" about that. I know lots of folks firsthand whose primary motivation were that. This is obviously very country-dependent. If you are in a country with presence of say FAANG offices, sure yo
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Maybe--very much depends on the source and destination country. Fact on the ground is lots of people have ended up choosing that as their path, optimal or not. You can master-out in the middle of a PhD program, which is frowned upon, but
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> They are taking a huge financial opportunity cost to work on uniquely high leverage problems. Maintaining your research group's build system is not what they signed up for. Not necessarily an opportunity cost. Often they are pai
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by mehrdada 5y ago
P.S. and it is optimistic to assume the person’s contributions are highlighted in authorship and not buried in the acknowledgment section.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Core problem is you generally will fail a PhD if all you are is the middle author of lots of papers. Even worse if you are looking for an academic job afterwards.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> you don't get to opt out of democracy because you don't like the tenet that binds everyone to the laws made by our representatives. If you want to change the system, vote for someone who is aligned with your selfish views (
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by mehrdada 5y ago
- how do they get their money out of crypto? ( they have to convert it back to fiat in order to spend it is an incorrect assumption, increasingly so even in the US) They transfer it to someone else/currency exchange location (if not
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Crypto can work quite ok-ish if the internet goes out. You can still post transactions (effectively issue IOUs with some level of assurance the funds existed in the wallet at moment you got disconnected, but no protection against double sp
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Crypto won’t fix political and economic problems but only worsen them. Let me guess... have you mostly experienced life in developed countries with relatively stable financial system, non-fluctuating consumer goods prices? There ar
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by mehrdada 5y ago
"Years behind" only if you cherry-pick a few signature features. The primary feature that has to work, that did not on Windows Phone, was having a decent web browser. Trivializing the importance of what iOS did right is understa
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by mehrdada 5y ago
That was my understanding. Ironically the "emergency escape button" inside the frunk is a dubious regulatory requirement for such a small space but could cause a major problem.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I had the Model S frunk open in front of me while driving. Lucky to be alive. On my last Model S (2018 model year), I was driving up on a bridge and it suddenly opened and blocked my forward visibility, with a trailer on my right. The vehi
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by mehrdada 5y ago
track record of films with too many A-list actors/actresses is terrible
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I used to play this in college in the back of the classroom in DOSBox. I was good enough at it that I would only need to look at the screen on occasion, so the instructor wouldn’t notice, and almost had the key sequences and time to hold i
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Lenovo T32p-20 is also pretty good and not only obtainable (I obtained three just a couple days ago), but currently available at a discount.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
(not the GP) I think you are attacking the strawman here, as your own post admits, by interpreting "corporate" as exclusively "marketing" and not including technical folks in it. I agree with you the decision is also pa
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> In my case, the goal is to let as many people as possible benefit from my labour ... The end consumers got better software as a result That is your prerogative for your own software. FSF's goal, likely shared by the author wh
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> I'm familiar with the FSF's philosophy. Limiting freedom in order to protect it. I don't think that is a good characterization of FSF philosophy. Better characterization is maximizing freedom for the [end-]user, as op
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I'm not hellbent on proving anything, but looking at the thread at large, it seems you are very much. Carry on.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I mean you could opt to stay super safe in a bunker and automatically die after 70 years or so, or go play along with the zombie wearing a helmet. There is a risk to living life to the fullest. Not everyone is you.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Apple Inc. used to be Apple Computer, Inc. You could argue they actually started the trend long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3sg8b5iXO4
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I wonder why they wouldn’t let the iOS version downloadable from M1 Macs. Early on I had a better experience with that app .ipa on my MacBook Air and with a couple shortcut tweaks it would be perfect. It’s sad that they deliberately unchec
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by mehrdada 5y ago
You are correct. I was confused because since the “Messages for iCloud” was introduced, the backup itself won’t include plaintext message data if that feature is enabled (unlike before). However, this is where I stand corrected: it seems t
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by mehrdada 5y ago
iMessage does not have a mechanism to verify the devices associated with the destination account is actually theirs. It is feasible to assume an attacker/Apple/NSA could register an additional device key associated with your iMes

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