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by ndriscoll 4y ago
Assuming they tag the browser install, that information could be used to track your location history. e.g. if you move from your home network to a store wifi.
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> how do you deliver a callback from server there? You don't. The callback is on the server before it ever responds to the request. The client sees a synchronous response with a delay of a few extra milliseconds. Here, I slapped thi
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand still; when I was a student I found my classes to move at a tediously slow pace, often going into detail about and even repeating obvious things. Even in university engineering classes (e.g. walking through &q
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
What does effectively mean here? Do you mean to somehow catch the remedial kids up to the advanced kids, or just help everyone move at the pace they're capable of? Having everyone move at the pace of the most advanced is obviously not
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
With i3, I press mod+n, and desktop n appears. What information is missing that an animation would provide? This feels like arguing that when we type, the computer should scribble each letter just as we would with a pen, or when a web page
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
You don't need to fan out writes to feeds. Users subscribe to other users, not tweets. You can attempt to send out the notification to subscribed users, and if it fails, that's fine. You don't need to record notification stat
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
i.e. my laptop could handle the write load. A retired nerd with a real server they put in a data center for bandwidth could easily run that level of traffic on 2022 hardware. For reference my work laptop (8 logical cores, so 4+HT? 32GB RAM)
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
It's certainly a positive signal vs. not having a degree, in that the probability that they understand the topics that a CS degree covers is higher. Of course it's not a guarantee that they understand that content, and people with
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
It's pretty normal for people to take breaks. The last office I worked in had video game consoles that people used during the day, or they'd go on a walk to get coffee. No one cares as long as people are getting their work done. N
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
Why would I use this instead of just using e.g. a postgres jdbc driver? How would I use this? A query compiler library (or service)? How do you do a join? Group by? CTEs? Window functions? Transactions? Bulk inserts/updates? Index an
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> I'm saying it doesn't make sense that the authors and the publishers don't get any money after the book was bought once and then it can be borrowed an infinite number of times. Why not? That's how everything else wo
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> People have been saying this for decades Yep, if you look at the historical trustee reports[1], in 1990 it was projected to run out in 2043. In 2000 it was projected to run out in 2037. The same 2037 estimate was given in 2010. In 2020
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> single glyph variable names due to the unfortunate decision to save paper by denoting the product by juxtaposition. Programmers tend to have this lack of fluency with written math that they completely miss: the concise names are not to
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
When a site wants access to my camera or microphone, the browser detects my consent by asking me. I don't see why listening to clipboard events shouldn't be treated in the same way. Likewise with mouse and keyboard tracking events
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> Don't you hate when news sites add a "- from XYZ" to your clipboard? That shouldn't be possible. I opened a bug with chromium when I first encountered that behavior ~10 years ago since it was an obvious security and
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
Presumably things like California's proposed new math standards documents[1]. In chapter 7 (for 11-13 year olds) there are examples like this: > BLUE Family: 2 adults; 2 children You are a Latinx family with two children under the a
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
> an aside, "variable number" is exactly how things are still done in math and physics. This amuses me greatly. Variable names are usually idiomatic within a field/carry some semantics. e.g. k is angular wavenumber, omega
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by ndriscoll 4y ago
Think of `Numeric<T>` as analogous to `Comparator<T>`. T is the type you're doing stuff with, `Comparator<T>` tells sorting algorithms how to compare two Ts, and `Numeric<T>` tells mathematical algorithms how to