mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Security breaches are bad for business, so IT can impose draconian measures to prevent them. Right now we're bad at measuring the cost to business of IT making developers work harder. Maybe eventually they'll be an insurance poli
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Child labor was allowed back then too, which solved both child obesity AND weeds
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
The social expectation for speakers to tolerate these kinds of questions should be fought. Anyone putting together a lecture and invite a speaker should set the right kinds of expectations - even if it means cutting off the mic
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Snake oil. This is not really explaining components of models as much as it's characterizing sensitivity to certain types of inputs, with humans labeling those types. It doesn't scale and it doesn't explain
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
The best explanation I've heard is that OSS is free as in puppy, not free as in beer
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Computational physics. We have a lot of atom based engineering to work out this decade.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
If Texas wanted to leave they could easily. This specific provision was in the treaty to bring Texas into the USA
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Do you really need to fix ALL the gcc rust issues ? The Linux kernel could disallow rust features that are known not to work in gcc
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Any school thats dumb enough to do this is going to have drones hacked and pointed at students or teachers
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Pay lots of money to spend more of your life dying
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
This is a weak argument, since it ignores the productivity gains in all the industries that necessitated more accountants. Accountants don't only do each other's taxes, so more productivity in accountants is an indicator for a mor
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Software does easily what we can with great difficulty or not at all, just as we can do easily what software does with great difficulty or not at all. Replace software in the above with "a car", "a horse", or " a sc
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Masters degree programs are in part designed to subsidize undergraduate degrees, where (bewilderingly) many universities operate at a loss
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
I assume you're talking about living in the USA. The economy is certainly more difficult than it was 50 years ago but there are still plenty of reasons to participate. Ask anyone (like myself) who immigrated here from a country where
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
What exactly does "transparently" mean in this context. I've seen that term used in a dozen different ways within software engineering
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
Anecdotally I've only ever heard it discussed in the company of software developers
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
It's not an issue at least for me, the only problem I've had as an aphant is descriptive writing of scenery.
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
Shouldn't this mean that women have fewer of these chemicals due to losing blood regularly on their cycle?
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
Cupping
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
What a giant waste of human intelligence and engineering effort.
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
Embrace the pain. If you try to let a tool help you too much with conflicts you may end up regretting it.
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
There's a non-zero component of luck, as with any investment. But other classes of investments typically lead to knock-on effects that improve prosperity for others. Its unclear to me how making even an informed bet on a piece of pla
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
I don't agree with the last point, it's somewhat culturally charged. In many cultures a marriage that isn't intended to be permanent is normal.
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
If you're simply beyond help - here are some nuclear options: - Download what you want to read and go somewhere without internet. - Deactivate your twitter/reddit/youtube when you start reading, reactivate it when you're
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
The key advantage of fortran is that it doesn't allow pointer aliasing, which allows the compiler to vectorize more. Couple that with the typical fortran use cases and compiler vendors competing on performance by vectorizing more and
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
OP, it's perfect don't change a thing
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate, at a large company like Microsoft, it's healthier when products are allowed to fail. Otherwise, new projects will get vetoed because of maintenance risk
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
Even better if you could pick where 2% or so of your taxes go to
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
The delay makes me think you should use the German word for thrust
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by mkoubaa 5y ago
The only reliable technology humans invented that could cause a step change in someone's mentality is religion. But it's not a perfect technology and there isn't really a free market

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