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by pitched 4y ago
I would also really love to read a statistics-based approach to all of modern software engineering. Like, does SOLID actually increase bugs? Is Agile more likely to slow things down? Etc. This is the closest I’ve ever found: http:/&#x
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by pitched 4y ago
https://archive.ph/qQWZV
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by pitched 4y ago
What about printing some very tight (a week or two away) expiration dates on the boxes? Ethical issues of wasting medicine aside, might that prevent people from stockpiling or being more free with donating to neighbours with sick kids?
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by pitched 4y ago
I heard that the government decided to limit imports of children’s Tylenol, to better support domestic manufacturing initiatives. There were some delays in bringing production up? If I understand this article right, the government has just
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by pitched 4y ago
Sounds like they’re saying the shortage is driven by panic buying? The ethical issues aside, would increasing the price help with something like this? As a way to make sure more of the small supply is going to people with a real need instea
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by pitched 4y ago
TFA explicitly says that the rise of women is not responsible for the fall of men. I think the point he was trying to make was that, if gender equality was never taken up, the issues facing men today would still be issues facing men today.
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by pitched 4y ago
I got one of these once and deep in the fine-print was a non-compete clause. I understand they have even less bite than an NDA but even so, that’s a bit sneaky… Instead of refusing to sign it, I asked for 20k compensation instead. They refu
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by pitched 4y ago
“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” — Thomas Jefferson I don’t think blissful ignorance is the right way to think of it. I think the news (and social media) today is the same
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Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub for Five Years(blog.gitguardian.com)
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by pitched 4y ago
I’ve been a very early adopter of this tech (Kickstarter backer of Oculus), get zero motion sickness and have a great time working in VR through a virtual desktop. This looks like a few floating screens in front of my face, in a space stati
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by pitched 4y ago
“The vibes are off” is the best way I’ve heard this explained: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123281909/vibecession-vibes-...
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by pitched 4y ago
I can’t push a single key in less than 20ms latency. Those poor interviewees are building Twitter but for bots. Unfortunately, that is probably a relevant skill…
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by pitched 4y ago
It’s helpful to align titles with the rest of the industry so that everyone outside of your small group knows what role you play without a long explanation. Custom or non-standard titles is like mixing code styles in the same file. So much
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by pitched 4y ago
I worked on a belt years ago that use gyros to measure gait and warn against fall risks. This CareAlert product is a really, really good idea. Use the smart home tech in the against them! Reminds me a bit of the people who triangulated wifi
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by pitched 4y ago
Will they be banned from sale in the EU because of the phone charger mandate or did that not actually pass into law? Or is there something about backwards compatibility through USBC that’s bypassing it?
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by pitched 4y ago
I would default to calling all content adult-only, to be safe legally. Then, the moderation burden is deciding which ones are child-safe, which is probably a lower hurdle. But still, to be on the safe side legally, I wouldn’t want to mark a
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by pitched 4y ago
I was under the impression that C strings were inherently very fast because of how incredibly cache-friendly they are. You should not ever have to count all the bytes (memoize that!) but if you do, this is the best format there is for it.
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by pitched 4y ago
There were a few different studies in this article but the first one sounds like an entire night of no sleep. I’m not very observant when missing that much sleep so their conclusion (that we’re mean when we miss a whole night) matches my ow
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by pitched 4y ago
I’ve used this before in embedded code to save rom space by not having to include malloc. The stack _is_ the heap! Just have to be very careful about when you can call another function. The best version of this is where you allocate a block
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by pitched 4y ago
> “If You Want To Run Fast, Run Alone. If You Want To Run Far, Run Together.” With all dichotomies like this, we’re never actually aiming for the extremes of far or fast but somewhere in between. There must be some ants finding new trail
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by pitched 4y ago
Even worse, all three built large companies. Companies being collections of people, that is collectivist. To keep playing Devil’s Advocate, maybe someone like Grigori Perelman (who declined a fields medal) might be a better example?
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by pitched 4y ago
The article was arguing against individualistic innovation through disruption, in favour of a collectivist innovation through collaboration. So Elizabeth Holmes was the perfect example to feed into that argument.
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by pitched 4y ago
I heard that the teams were having trouble communicating with each other and so the ones who pushed the config might not have been the ones looking for hackers. This is why some hospitals still use the old pager systems to contact people in
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by pitched 4y ago
Reminds me of the engineering twist on “glass half full” as “glass is twice as large as it needs to be”. Here’s hoping it wasn’t built too small though.
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by pitched 4y ago
How about scanning for any string with high entropy? Might be easier to get buy-in if we don’t all have to bike-shed over what the prefix is.
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by pitched 4y ago
I find the opposite question more interesting: How much of human behaviour is sentient? Probably very little to none, right? Most of what we do is routine habits that we’ve trained over a long time. I spend most of my day solving abstract
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by pitched 4y ago
How much time would it take to replace those thousand lines? A week (assuming well tested and production-ready is a requirement)? If keeping it costs a couple hours of debugging once a month, the return on that week would take years to turn
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by pitched 4y ago
I have written a matrix multiplication lib once because I had some a priori about the data and could remove half the operations. Everything has a cost (usually in time) and everything comes with trade offs (usually a different set of bugs).
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by pitched 4y ago
Scraping and building their index probably costs way more than querying it. The way that db would scale is very friendly to replication (read your own writes isn’t anywhere near required for example) so the number of queries (times cost per
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by pitched 4y ago
This is the best explanation of proof-of-stake I've seen yet! Thank you! This does sound just like minimum karma limits to me though. Per-community karma though instead of the global kind that Reddit uses.

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