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by p-squared 5y ago
On a day-to-day basis, weight measurement changes are dominated by changes in retained water. This will certainly correlate with daily food choices, but does not really reflect meaningful changes in body composition. Average your measuremen
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by p-squared 6y ago
Maybe Rust makes newtypes _easy_, but certainly C supports similar idioms by way of wrapping data in a unique struct.
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by p-squared 7y ago
> Three points define a plane; it's guaranteed not to wobble. This gets repeated a lot. I think if you stop to consider the common case of non-planar ground, you will see that this mathematical factoid isn't actually super-re
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by p-squared 7y ago
> Netflix has been using anti-consumer dark patterns for years. Examples? "Trailers in your face on the main menu" is not a "dark pattern": there is no element of deception involved. It's simply a user experience
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by p-squared 8y ago
The key phrase is "who are not fully aware of their responsibility". The commenter is not wrong in identifying a subset of the candidate pool which has a high risk of inadequate experience for this kind of work.
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by p-squared 8y ago
The term "subsidy" implies that the state is actively paying out cash to Foxconn. If I'm correct that these are actually tax breaks, then the state is merely claiming less tax revenue from Foxconn than state law would otherw
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by p-squared 8y ago
My recollection from earlier stories covering this deal is that "subsidy" actually means "tax break". If that's correct, then the tone of this story is very misleading.
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by p-squared 8y ago
"Hardened SHA-1 hash" is a confusing way to characterize git's current hash behavior. There is no change in the hash--it continues to be SHA-1. The change is in git's business logic: it will detect hash inputs that look
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by p-squared 9y ago
Yeah, it's extremely unlikely that a high-speed serial phy would even expose a primitive word size any smaller than 32 bits. Byte-by-byte decoding is extraordinarily difficult at these data rates.
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by p-squared 10y ago
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by p-squared 10y ago
> They have 18k classes because they came up with a rather clever way of allowing many separate developers to all work on different features of the same app, without stepping on each others toes. What makes you believe this is "clev
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by p-squared 12y ago
Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JTAG debuggers, o-scopes, and whatever else gets the job done.
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by p-squared 12y ago
Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JTAG debuggers, o-scopes, and whatever else gets the job done.
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by p-squared 12y ago
Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JTAG debuggers, o-scopes, and whatever else gets the job done.