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by pizza234 5y ago
Hard to know! Composing emails in tabs seemed easy without internal knowledge, but the code turned out to be a trainwreck, to the point that even a funded attempt failed. I doubt it will ever be fixed.
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by pizza234 5y ago
> I'm of the belief that hardware is not truly preserved until you have a fully-accurate emulation of it. This makes sense in principle, but exact emulation is something computationally prohibitive even for a (probably) 386¹. The c
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by pizza234 5y ago
> The only downside I see is that it’s definitely led to the proliferation of commercializing OSS libs by making them slightly worse on purpose and adding a “go pro!” version This is a slightly pessimistic take on open core :) I'm p
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by pizza234 5y ago
> I think often the hard part is establishing just what treating kids like 'young adults' means. This is very true. A couple of actionable principles that pop out of my mind: 1. if a child can physically do a task, they should
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by pizza234 5y ago
Probably, many programmers played videogames when they were little, so there's always an underlying dream of creating one. I dabbled in games development, but I've met the same problem; videogames development is actually much more
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Existing ROMs don't change I think this is not exact, as, if memory serves me well, I had breakages with existing romsets when upgrading MAME. While a romset itself may not change, another one may take the place of the default set
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by pizza234 5y ago
I got a kid who "does the chores". The reason they do it is that they've been educated since very young age (3+) to have responsibilities: cleaning, tidying up, setting/clearing the table and so on. They have their own h
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by pizza234 5y ago
> it constantly updates mame to the latest (you should with your Roms as well) This is not necessarily a feature; actually I consider it an anti-feature, as one is forced to chase the romset versions (either download the full set, which
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by pizza234 5y ago
I have exactly the opposite opinion, for couple of reasons: 1. interviews are black boxes - there's no feedback; getting feedback from a professional interviewer is the best way to understand one's weaknesses 2. dealing with press
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by pizza234 5y ago
You'll find a very good introduction in the comparch book "Write Great Code, Volume 1", chapter 12 ("Input and Output"), which also explains the history of system buses (therefore, you'll find an explanation of
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by pizza234 5y ago
There's no mention of "sudden change" in parent's post. The reference is to "modern age", which is consistent: shift from manual to sedentary job, increase of processed foods, increase of food availability, inc
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by pizza234 5y ago
An inner (standard) join returns a row in the result, when the join finds a match between two tables, and no results when there is not match. A left join always returns at least a row; when there is no match, the part of the result (if sele
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by pizza234 5y ago
> When you think about it, all joins are just a left join Not really; using left joins enforces a specific table order in the query plan. It's possible to optimally use left joins because one can either guess the optimal order (whic
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by pizza234 5y ago
> There seem to be more and more things that are only delivered as snaps. I'm on Ubuntu, and of all the software I use (I count around 20 programs installed not through the Ubuntu apt repositories), fortunately only two are availabl
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by pizza234 5y ago
Can you point to such files in the VSC repository? The `src` directory doesn't contain any.
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by pizza234 5y ago
> VSCode, an app that makes a herculean effort to mitigate the latency and performance problems that Electron apps usually have. Can you point to the parts of the program (source) that implement such optimizations? I'm curious, in p
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Why do developer companies keep thinking they are aocial twitter-facebook-like things? Because open source is significantly social in nature; it's not just an available blob of code. I don't necessarily agree with their dire
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by pizza234 5y ago
I had a push scooter, and they're very dangerous. Wheels are small, board is short, and center of gravity is high. It just takes a small pothole covered with leaves (so, not even winter), and the driver will fly forward (I did). E-scoo
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by pizza234 5y ago
> In the past I had an A-bike[2] I've had an A-bike in the past as well, and while I like the idea in principle, it's essentially a scam, due to the extremely low-quality materials - some components in the transmission are made
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by pizza234 5y ago
Leetcode is probably the best resource (I've tried a few) for programming problems. They're very representative of real-world interviews (medium difficulty will do). I'm confused by your judgment of the price. The Leetcode pr
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by pizza234 5y ago
Sadly, one may need proprietary Nvidia drivers to do... anything. I had three nvidia cards, and at least two of them needed an installation ISO patched with the binary drivers, otherwise, they didn't start at all, or they would crash a
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by pizza234 5y ago
It's both backward and forward :) A lot of programs are dynamically linked; an older O/S may not support some newer librariers, and a newer O/S may not support older ones. While static linking solves this, a hypothetical dist
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by pizza234 5y ago
Ubuntu 20.04 is the first version where BT worked decently for my machines. I don't know if bluez fixes have been backported to 18.04 (but I don't think so), so if you use BT, the upgrade (to 20.04+) may make your devices work bet
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by pizza234 5y ago
This strategy doesn't take into account external programs, which may not be compiled/packaged for newly released Ubuntu versions. If one uses many programs from external sources, and doesn't intend to compile them, it may tak
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by pizza234 5y ago
Engineering is the art of solving problem within constraints ;) Jokes aside, every O/S essentially needs periodic maintenance, in the form of workarounds, that needs to be applied on every major update. That's just how it works -
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by pizza234 5y ago
By "vast majority" I mean that the standard repositories (which optionally includes extra repositories, like the Canonical Partner one) includes hundreds of thousands of programs, and GUIs are provided by the distro (e.g. the form
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by pizza234 5y ago
> For example, Radarr is an extremely popular tool for managing movies Radarr definitely doesn't represent the status of Linux projects packaging; not providing any package is uncommon. The vast majority of open source projects prov
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Unless you're a competitive weightlifter or similar, you're unlikely to see significant enough muscle loss with very significant calorie restriction over the kind of time frames people would stick to very strict diets like th
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by pizza234 5y ago
Nonsense? I take you've never actually measured body fat percentage during diet periods. It is true that caloric deficit always causes muscle; the issue is how much one loses.
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by pizza234 5y ago
They probably refer to this (Company -> Careers): https://www.cityinnovate.com/careers/senior-engineer-remote .

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