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by pebers 9y ago
I've had the second (refused to be driven) from Uber drivers in London before, except couched in silly excuses like "there are roadworks, it's not possible", and to add insult to injury, marking the ride as complete so I
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by pebers 9y ago
AFAIK it's still not decided when/if it will join the main distribution. I've not tried it for a while now but last I saw it was even more opinionated about GOPATH than the existing tooling, and it wasn't at all easy to
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by pebers 9y ago
He didn't say they weren't skilled enough to learn those languages - in fact he explicitly said they likely would know those. There's clearly a ton of evidence showing that Googlers can learn them, but having a short learning
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by pebers 9y ago
Clang has better support for plugins and calling it as a library; that sort of thing was resisted by GCC. Google has a bunch of large-scale tooling based on the Clang frontend which AFAIK wouldn't be possible with GCC.
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by pebers 9y ago
I found Seveneves felt quite different to his other work in that it seemed that the first 2/3 was setup for the last third which was the story he really wanted to tell. Unfortunately I enjoyed the setup much more than the payoff - did
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by pebers 9y ago
From looking at what I think is the Dockerfile for that image ( https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/b1512ead24c6b1... ), that image is complex; it's downloading & building Python in it and ad
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by pebers 9y ago
I guess it's a bit more specific than you meant it, but our standard Python image is ~20MB (alpine + python3, basically); that's still under half of minideb. Does look interesting for things that need glibc compatibility though. T
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by pebers 9y ago
Aka. putting all your eggs in one basket... Banks shouldn't be relying on outdated infrastructure providers to do things they aren't good at. The sensible thing (and indeed more or less what happens now) is for banks to choose a b
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by pebers 9y ago
It didn't have a name, that was just how the shields worked - they opposed motion, so only slow-moving things could pierce them.
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by pebers 9y ago
Actually, there is a built-in ASCII format for them as well. It's a little less flexible than the binary serialisation though. There's a canonical JSON serialisation in v3 as well, although obviously that doesn't solve the OP
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by pebers 9y ago
The mess the banks are in has very little to do with current accounts being a loss leader.
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by pebers 9y ago
Why would we expect to get morally worse individuals? Given that we would not be making any changes in that area (if there even is any area of the genome that corresponds to morality) you'd expect it to be unchanged overall - unless it
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by pebers 9y ago
Yes, actually, having worked in speech synthesis for a while I was surprised to find that's how frequent users generally do use it. Although IIRC 450wpm is still on the high side - I think maybe 2-300wpm was more common, albeit that&#x
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by pebers 9y ago
So, on average, they're in better shape than their owners. https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
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by pebers 9y ago
Presumably it isn't easy to start everything the JVM needs & does in effectively no time. Although to be fair it actually is fairly quick for a "hello world" type program - much of the startup time of Java programs tends
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by pebers 9y ago
jujud is commonly used as a benchmark for the Go compiler / linker due to being probably the biggest open source project. Can't find the actual compile times right now though, only relative figures.
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by pebers 9y ago
I'm not the OP, obviously, but have had similar experiences. At a previous employer my team had a WFH day once a week, on which maybe 10-20% of people would work from home and be roughly as productive as they were in the office, 60% w
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by pebers 9y ago
Interesting, did not know that. He implies (but doesn't say flat-out and it could indeed be a retcon) in the foreword to The Hobbit that it's deliberate: In English the only correct plural of dwarf is dwarfs, and the adjective
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by pebers 9y ago
No. "Dwarves" and "dwarvish" were deliberately introduced by Tolkien as a way of making Middle-Earth language stand apart from English. He mentions it as a deliberate choice in the foreword. It's a mark of the popul
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by pebers 9y ago
I guess the problem is that Apple don't need to do it; lots of people would like them to do it, and maybe they should do it, but it's not hurting their bottom line much so they can just continue as they are. Unless a whole heap
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by pebers 9y ago
The first two are not contradictory, the first refers to communication between the client and server and the second to the browser's communication with a remote server. Maybe that wasn't clear from how I wrote it. On further inves
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by pebers 9y ago
The main security issues I know of so far are: - Neither Selenium nor Webdriver (at least the Python client, but I assume others too) support HTTPS at all. - By default it opens browsers configured to accept any SSL certificate. I can
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by pebers 9y ago
It's not terribly hard using Selenium; you can use one of their Docker images (e.g. selenium/standalone-chrome) and connect to that using Webdriver. Having said that, it has flaws compared to headless Chrome (more moving parts, te
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by pebers 9y ago
Sure, that is a web page describing their product, the Dropbox one is a blog post primarily discussing a somewhat different topic.
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by pebers 9y ago
Data durability - the probably that your data is not lost. FWIW Amazon make a similar claim of 11 9s for data durability on S3: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
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by pebers 9y ago
That's presumably not loading any libraries at all though - the time to being interactive (or just doing something useful) will get worse as more bytecode has to be decompressed and loaded.
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by pebers 9y ago
> Actually, I think this can be very easily done fully client-side, with good accuracy. Even on Android, the voice recognition can run client-side / offline. I'm not sure I'd say it's easy; you will certainly trade of
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by pebers 9y ago
I guess I should expect some bias given the publisher, but despite a good technical write-up of the difference, their conclusions aren't really backed up by the rest of the article and the wording is obviously slanted towards their own
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by pebers 9y ago
That's still solving the problem by working around the language though. And surely it's the job of your build system to automate and hide the codegen process? Admittedly go build & go generate don't do that well, but they
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by pebers 9y ago
If the problem I'm trying to solve is "I want a better webserver", then yes :) That's a little tongue-in-cheek, but I assume is more or less the motivation behind all web servers in use today; otherwise we'd all be

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