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by mkipper 5y ago
In that game, the number said after the clue tells you how many of the words in play are related to the clue. So the word flashbang wouldn't be hinting at a codeword, but four of them. So it could really be anything, e.g. bang, army,
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by mkipper 5y ago
I think the grocery analogy is a bit strained. I've never seen a grocery store review mention how good the non-store-brand potato chips or chocolate bars are. I _do_ see reviews regularly mentioning the quality of produce and meat, whi
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by mkipper 5y ago
Is this data available anywhere? How do I know that non-autopilot Tesla mile per accident rates aren't horrible? Tesla publishes their own data for the safety of autopilot, which I presume is based on their own analysis of accident rec
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by mkipper 5y ago
In the eyes of your bank, the _least_ suspicious thing you can do is show up to your local branch and present your physical card and photo ID. Your bank will be much more cautious for large transactions done through an app, where the only a
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by mkipper 5y ago
In my experience (Canadian public school 20 years ago), schools _try_ to teach the scientific method, but I think the effectiveness is highly dependent on the school and teacher. I did countless science labs throughout school, and they all
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by mkipper 5y ago
If you're a device manufacturer trying to manage common code for a variety of hardware platforms with subtle differences in toolchains / kernels, dealing with all that complexity can be pretty tough. If Rust drivers start popping
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by mkipper 5y ago
Sure, most revolutionary ideas are pushed by younger people and rejected by older people. That doesn't make every idea pushed by younger people revolutionary. And the convenient fact that early adopters of this revolutionary idea will
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by mkipper 5y ago
I don't know about Tirol, but in Banff, the restrictions don't prevent construction of multi-unit buildings specifically for renters. I don't know exactly how ownership of these buildings work, but I think they're owned
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by mkipper 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the term transactions, but it doesn't sound like it's the same as jobs. Jobs are externally visible. You can see them easily (e.g. systemctl list-jobs), and systemd provides an interface for them over D-
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by mkipper 5y ago
Yeah, this is bizarre. What fraction of apps actually use sysexits.h? 0.1%? 0.01%? If an application fails and exits with some >1 error code, it would be insane to assume it's following this convention. Hopefully the command's
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by mkipper 5y ago
Don't forget that it might come bundled with other helpful updates with no way to choose which pieces to pull in. I can't believe people are actually comparing telemetry in Windows to Linux.
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by mkipper 5y ago
This is the most common form of error handling used in the Linux kernel (at least the parts I look at). Although you'd normally have one error label for each allocation in reverse order, so you can jump to the cleanup step for the most
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by mkipper 5y ago
There is (or can be) some overlap between the two. As an example, you may want to create a kernel module that can be configured through the device tree (e.g. binds to an arbitrary SPI/I2C bus, requires hardware-specific config). You ca
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by mkipper 5y ago
Read the Documentation/devicetree directory in the kernel sources and look at how a few drivers implement their documented bindings. This isn't a snarky RTFM comment. The usage model file in the kernel documentation gives good mot
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by mkipper 5y ago
Sure, it's risky. But how risky? Content creators could move to a different platform, but that's also incredibly risky. Unless you're already hugely successful, abandoning YouTube probably isn't a great way to build a fo
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by mkipper 5y ago
The basic argument is that domestic production of integrated circuits isn't economical for American businesses. Having a more flexible supply chain is beneficial to these companies (e.g. when a global pandemic hits), but the required i
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by mkipper 5y ago
There are also people who actually enjoy face-to-face interactions with coworkers/clients and working together in the same physical space. Even with friends and hobbies, for many careers, WFH still means spending most of your day in re
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by mkipper 5y ago
I know almost nothing about this situation, but if I was hired to raise money and did a bad job, I'd expect to be fired. I wouldn't expect to have a blog post written about me.
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by mkipper 5y ago
Those salaries are also: 1. Unprecedented for "average" engineers (i.e. not leading their field) until very recently 2. Offered by extremely profitable big tech companies or less profitable companies with giant pools of funding 3.
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by mkipper 5y ago
You can compile most common Linux kernel targets with clang, but the kernel was historically optimized with GCC in mind, so I believe there are still size and speed impacts from using LLVM. Not to mention plain ol' inertia. The vast ma
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by mkipper 6y ago
Yeah, from my professional experience, "Molex connector" is normally used as a quick way to refer to a specific connector in your project that's made by Molex (assuming you're also using other connectors not made by them
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by mkipper 6y ago
Sure. But is there far more critical COBOL than C out there? The OS kernel for nearly every PC and server on earth is written in C. Almost every electronic device on earth complicated enough to require software is probably running at leas
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by mkipper 6y ago
citation needed I'm sure there's a lot of important things that rely on COBOL, but by most definitions of "critical", I think this is way off the mark.
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by mkipper 6y ago
Dedicated apps for fast food chains are one example. A quick search gave me "Burger King India", "PizzaHut Egypt" and "KFC UAE". Why? I have no idea.
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by mkipper 6y ago
Maybe not. But that doesn't make this news. RH is getting sued for market manipulation. This is the inevitable result from that. RH may very well be guilty in all of this, but not for these margin calls.
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by mkipper 6y ago
They might be referring to the American division. From a quick glance, it seems like there isn't much in common between the two, including the perks you mentioned (e.g. the minimum checking balance only waives the checking account fee,
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by mkipper 6y ago
Maybe she was inspired by Vannevar Bush's Memex concept?
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by mkipper 6y ago
I don't have a ton of PLC experience, but you really don't need much of an education to create basic PLC programs. I wouldn't personally recommend PLCs to anyone who enjoys programming, but I understand the appeal of trying o