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by pickdenis 8y ago
If you don't need mobile support, you (not parent, but someone else reading this) should try Unison. I use it and can vouch for its reliability, and if your use case is simple (sync files between N computers with a central server), the
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by pickdenis 8y ago
My understanding is that there's no way around it if you want the best possible optimization. Otherwise you'd have to insert extra runtime checks, right?
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by pickdenis 8y ago
But there's at least a pretense that it (goods purchased with tax money) will be, right? Forget about what actually happens for a moment and consider that the tax-collecting colonists didn't even seem to bother with such a pretens
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by pickdenis 8y ago
When the government buys things with tax money, the things are supposed to be used for the benefit of people who paid the taxes. It doesn't seem like the Company even pretended that this was the case.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
I hope they pawn that monopoly money for the real deal immediately after collection.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Well, not anything I can easily share, but here's a simple-enough example. I was writing code to handle base-pair sequences (ACTG) in a very strange encoding, which naturally lead to tons of edge cases. I carefully wrote my code for ap
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Fuzz testing is probably one of the most underused tactics, at least in my observations. It's easy to write a decently thorough fuzzer that will absolutely crush a wide class of bugs that you have.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Nim's `multisync` macro is another cool approach to this. It allows the function to be called isomorphically regardless of synchronicity, determining the latter using the type system. In the following example, the `writeResponse` proc
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by pickdenis 8y ago
I don't buy that the probability of a new grad being successful is independent of the name of the school from which they received their degree. Sure, maybe the link isn't as strong as it's made out to be by hiring practices b
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by pickdenis 8y ago
A simple scan of the repo's description and the first sentence of the linked article should answer that question. LKL is a library that allows you to do Linux things (read/write linux filesystems) from outside of Linux, essentiall
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by pickdenis 8y ago
What's wrong with using GNU/Linux? Also, they (Apple, MS) don't want your money. They want your freedom, which is virtually priceless. I'm sure a fat monthly fee will suffice, but yeesh.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Because that would be unnecessary. This is only worth it when there are "unusual radiation patterns" (from the wiki article)
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by pickdenis 8y ago
I wrote that part of my comment in error. It wasn't my intention to blast the iPad's software suite as inefficient, but rather draw attention to the fact that the user's DESKTOP computer couldn't handle what the iPad cou
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by pickdenis 8y ago
This argument is disingenuous. I hope people would stop spouting it. There will ALWAYS be an advantage to wired headphones over wireless: reliability and versatility. Bluetooth headphones can be VERY finicky about who they'll connect t
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by pickdenis 8y ago
> Are people really that attached to their old wired headphones? I'm sorry if wanting to spend half as much for better sound offends you, but yes; I much prefer my wired headphones over any bluetooth headphones. Perhaps some $300 bo
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by pickdenis 8y ago
> My desktop would have shit itself. There it is. There is a coordinated ploy by the industry to sell more expensive hardware: shitty software. I find it hard to believe that such simple multitasking (using compute-intensive software + w
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Why do people even use Medium? Doesn't this kind of stuff go against the ethos of being a computer scientist?
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Is this real? I wonder if he's told to announce his position on social media; it almost seems as though his job is literally to let people know that "Google cares about ethics."
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by pickdenis 8y ago
They don't say so but people have calculated estimates and it seems there's hardly any way youtube could be _making_ money. Just google it, there's tons of articles with interesting speculations.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
> why aren't these techniques turning into AGI? What prompted you to even ask this question? Where in the article does it say that "These results are step N on the path to AGI!"? This is research: the researchers found a p
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by pickdenis 8y ago
I think you're making an implicit assumption: your brain's cognitive load is capped singularly. This may not be the case; we may have separate, independent caps for personal decision-making and work-related problem solving. If you
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Nanotechnology must be the answer, then.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
> Google knows the websites I visit thanks to Google Analytics running on most websites Not if you hosts-block the domain from which g-a is served. In fact, that's probably far more impactful (however you want to measure this intang
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Don't be disingenuous, there's a difference between moving to USB-C and removing the damn esc key. In any case, I don't want to get caught up in details. I was just expressing my pity towards people like the author of the lin
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by pickdenis 8y ago
The current state of Apple users is pitiful. Wishing for features that were removed? How can you support a company so much for caring about you so little?
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Ha, that's going to thermal throttle like nobody's business. Just get a proper laptop if you want specs like that.