orclev

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by orclev 9y ago
Previous studies like these have generally shown that young attractive females make considerably more than male employees with a similar level of education and experience, but as you go up in age the trend reverses with older or less attrac
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by orclev 9y ago
> Doing so in a way that produces sufficient energy to sustain the fusion reaction without creating an uncontrolled reaction ("boom") is the trick that always seems to be 30 years away. Uh, no, not really, a run away fusion rea
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by orclev 9y ago
Or this awesome issue on any of the newer MacBook Pro laptops, if you plug or unplug any USB devices while the system is either going into or recovering from sleep mode (I.E. after you've closed the lid, but before you see the login sc
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by orclev 9y ago
Yeah, I can see that. Basically you've got two options, go the Haskell way and have zero runtime reflection support and full type erasure, or go the C# way and have full reflection support and no type erasure. Java it's just painf
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by orclev 9y ago
That's not what organic means. Technically organic can mean derived from something that is/was living, but it can also mean anything that contains hydrocarbons. Similarly inorganic can mean either something not contained within an
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by orclev 9y ago
In most places in order to qualify as "organic" they're only allowed to use a certain subset of pesticides (generally ones derived from natural sources such as bugs or other plants). They aren't pesticide free, and there
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by orclev 9y ago
* No * Don't Care * Uh... maybe? There is some merit in having a localized indicator of approximately where in a given day cycle a particular location is, E.G. if I call someone on the other side of the planet knowing they're loca
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by orclev 9y ago
Both you and madez are correct, although I still agree with the principle behind the original statement. IME (and the AMD and ARM equivalents) are a gaping security hole in all modern processors and that should terrify everyone who cares ab
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by orclev 9y ago
Which is half true. All of them are vulnerable to Spectre. So far as I've heard only Intel (and maybe ARM) are vulnerable to Meltdown, because Meltdown exploits the lack of security checks on speculative execution that only Intel imple
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by orclev 9y ago
I just lift my legs a little which completely blocks them from reclining because at that point my knees are pressed into the seat when it's fully upright. They literally can't recline because there's no room to do so. Airline
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by orclev 9y ago
Obviously there's the question of how foolproof you want the system to be, but at a minimum there should be some system that monitors and confirms it's receiving at least a heartbeat signal from the camera and that the camera is r
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by orclev 9y ago
Malicious intent must be assumed. The body cameras exist in order to be a deterrent to malicious police behaviors and as such any system which puts the officers in charge of the functioning of the cameras, and which does not heavily dis
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by orclev 9y ago
Cyclists shouldn't be on the road in the first place. They're a non-powered vehicle and as such are pedestrians same as someone on a skateboard. They either need to be on sidewalks, or have their own separate paths (that are physi
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by orclev 9y ago
This is such a clear and obvious solution I'm surprised this is even a story.
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by orclev 9y ago
Not really, I mean, your opponent is the one controlling the size of the thing you're trying to intercept and they're not going to be trying to make things easier on you. The only viable option given that is to go for area saturat
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by orclev 9y ago
It also has that snarky little footnote saying that a "TTL" isn't the same thing as an expiration time next to the entry claiming vault doesn't support secret expiration.
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by orclev 9y ago
Not just that, source code should really be viewed as a toxic byproduct, the more of it you generate, the more you're going to be paying in maintaining and managing it. The best code you can write, is the code that meets your current n
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by orclev 9y ago
I think what you're missing is that GraphQL isn't SQL, but rather a SQL-ish query language that supports a limited subset of what SQL does. Additionally, GraphQL lets the server define the schema that's being exposed to t
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by orclev 9y ago
I think Gepsens argument was that your not achieving the same pattern, rather your achieving a subset of the pattern where several important considerations in dealing with a distributed system have been ignored and/or are unsupported.
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by orclev 9y ago
That's at least partially the fault of that particular language getting cute with their naming and not considering the impact that has a on trying to disambiguate things without having to introduce further context. Ruby isn't the
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by orclev 9y ago
Well, it's kind of a mix of NIH and this weird cargo-cultish idea that every API needs some kind of wrapper around it. In the past if anyone wanted to use basically any library it was a major battle to get permission to do so, so a lot
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by orclev 9y ago
My current job is mostly about eliminating code. We've got a massive code base that suffered severely from "not invented here" syndrome where nearly everything was implemented as a custom wrapper around some other library to
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by orclev 9y ago
Well, mostly disinterested in that it's really just a more precise measurement. The "breakthrough" in this case is a ridiculously precise measurement, which is very impressive, and is a huge step forward for particle physics
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by orclev 9y ago
alternate TL;DR: Science was done, no new data was generated that couldn't have been predicted from existing laws, existing mysteries remain. Basically this is the "boring" science, not the exciting "hmm, that's odd
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by orclev 9y ago
C is incredibly permissive with regard to its types which are themselves very anemic. With the exception of the numeric primitives, C really only has a single type, the pointer, everything else is just syntactic sugar for various forms of p
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by orclev 9y ago
> I definitely had much more null pointer exceptions on java than typing errors on Python Null pointers are a type error. The fact that several nominally "statically" typed languages don't differentiate between nullable an
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by orclev 9y ago
More or less your first point, the rate of growth is so low, that over short term it's effectively zero sum. Something else to consider is that in your example of "for free" wealth creation you're not actually getting an
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by orclev 9y ago
That also implies that demand for other products has fallen, so that's just wealth redistribution (because you're taking a larger share of their wallet).
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by orclev 9y ago
It isn't a question of actual dollars in circulation, you can always print more after all, it's a question of total economic value. All goods in circulation in the U.S. have a finite value, and it definitely is a zero sum game. Yo
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by orclev 9y ago
I find an interesting parallel with hill-climbing and local optima. In your example, the reason everyone isn't a millionaire is mostly to do with the fact that that's a very noisy problem space, there are far far too many random v

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