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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're in for a wild ride. C++ takes forever to learn (basically, it never ends) and people have VERY different senses of what "clean" C++ code is like. And for that matter, even the same person might write in different sty
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You don't have to "think" whether it "changes anything". You just have to observe that yes, in fact these problems did not occur on such a scale before cryptocurrencies came along, and given their obvious role in th
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> There's no putting it back in the bottle Sure there is, make Bitcoin illegal. (Edit: Okay, I obviously meant cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin...) > and we'd still want it anyway. "We" might not span as many peo
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I was 100% serious. Your understanding is already correct. I'm not sure what else you're hoping to read; there's nothing for me to add. What you're saying is exactly the case. You can find lots of stories if you Google,
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The problem was nowhere nearly as widespread with those technologies.
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Yeah. It doesn't.
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> the government doesn't get to tell free men what they may or may not do because someone else committed a crime What world you live in?! In the one I know, the government absolutely does tell and has told people what they may or ma
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Is "the idea that people don't lose liberty because others abuse it" too difficult to fathom as a possibility? Considering the billions(?) of dollars of damage that it has inflicted so far and the sheer number of lives
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Sure, nuclear weapons and crypto currency are the exact same thing and pose identical risks to the world. > Governments voluntarily agreeing to reduce their weapons is also the same as forcibly forbidding people from using a useful
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Ah yes, the notorious bitcoin that stole this data and extorted people. Curse this troublesome software that has gained sentience wreaks havoc on the world. I suppose you're also against NPT? Or do nukes gain sentience in your wor
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Is "the harms are visibly outweighing the benefits" too difficult to fathom as a possibility?
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My point wasn't really to make an either-or argument, but if you really want me to: consider that if you agree cryptocurrencies are enabling these events, then removing cryptocurrencies would remove these events as bases for any other
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
More like yet another example of Bitcoin inflicting massive damage with techies being completely blind to its gigantic role. Edit: Judging from the responses, "blind to" may have been overly charitable.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
For Windows folks: where does Uniscribe fall in here? Is it not even used anymore? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/uniscrib...
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> you can get 3-5% back on anything with the right card. That's around $4k/year if you spend $100k How in the world would a tpical person spend that much? That's over $8000/month with credit cards ! Also... aren&#x27
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> If you're getting 5% back, then the item was almost certainly marked up more than 5%. How though? The 5% back is not a rebate coming from the merchant, it's coming from the card issuer. Don't they (generally -- barring s
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
CLI refers to interacting with a program by typing commands. Commands need not come from a terminal (a terminal need not even exist). They might be just passed in from a different program. TUI refers to interacting with a program via the te
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
3 mistakes in... >2 years? I feel like it's really hard to tell if the problem is really the person at that point. Have you had others perform the same job for a similar duration to see if they avoid the same mistakes?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Reminds me of when I accidentally deleted a virtual hard disk I had a few years ago, because I'd copied it earlier and I thought I still had the other copy left. Only afterward did I remember I'd done the exact same thing to the o
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
If by batching you mean aggregated (as opposed to delayed), it seems like a matter of time before more merchants start providing L3 data...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
We have Java 15 now?? Java 9 came out literally 3 years ago...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ah okay. Note that GLR isn't exactly modern (1974). However, I would also remove "modern" as a requirement here... what really matters is how good the algorithm is, not how old it is. "Modern" algorithms easily end
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
What is GRR? Did you mean GLR?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Did not know, that's great, thanks! Seems this is a relatively recent feature?
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IMHO (from having addressed such CI issues personally on teams that otherwise wouldn't bother) it's likely due to other factors, like a lack of interest, being scared of breaking the build, not being terribly comfortable touching
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Some tools (like linters) might need to look at the actual changes that occurred for various reasons, such as to avoid doing redundant work on unmodified files. To do that, you need all the merge bases... which can present a kind of a chick
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh definitely. I'd even go farther and say once January 1 comes, if I'd chosen B earlier, I'd be happy I hadn't chosen A—I'd already waited a while, so an extra day would seem like nothing. But if the choice was fir
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Ainslie’s research showed that a substantial number of subjects reported that they would prefer $50 immediately rather than $100 in six months I'd probably choose the same thing, but is this because they really prefer the $50 toda
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Just don't try to apply anything you learn here to GitHub Actions images because the environments are kind of wild and broken across OSes and your scripts will not be triggered the way you would otherwise expect them to...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Excused or not, I'm merely explaining why this isn't surprising.

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