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by pja 5y ago
It may seem like something of a click-baity headline that’s guaranteed to lead to some awful article, but I found this to be a thoughtful & interesting piece. Worth reading. (Read for the stats, stay for the author laying into Robin Han
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by pja 6y ago
Yeah: there’s a self-imposed shortage of people capable of passing the tech interview gauntlet would be the more accurate framing.
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by pja 6y ago
Do the active safety measures turn themselves off at the first sign of trouble like the self driving does? Because if so that would constitute a very biased sample! (Hopefully not - these kind of safety measures are fairly well established
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by pja 6y ago
Great. Now do the comparison with vehicles that have equivalent driver populations. Tesla's are not (on average) bring bought by the most dangerous drivers, so comparing them with the average US driver is being deliberately disingenuou
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You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened(lastweekinaws.com)
11 points by pja 6y ago|2 comments
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by pja 6y ago
It’s a mistranslation of melon I think.
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by pja 6y ago
> “The fucking fucker’s fucking fucked” is perfectly grammatical and comprehensible English, if somewhat colloquial. “Come the fuck in, or fuck the fuck off.”
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by pja 6y ago
P.S.: this is why cursing in English is so simple and stunted while in Russian I can have a conversation with someone using nothing but the word “dick” and it would be not only perfectly understandable but also quite expressive. Perhaps y
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by pja 6y ago
I’ve always pronounced it "-tile", not "-teel" & both Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mercantile ) & the OED ( https://www.lexico.com/definition/mercantile )
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by pja 6y ago
Not going to defend the consistency of English for a second but for that particular example: paper isn’t sliced, so it wouldn’t make sense to refer to “a slice of paper”. Obviously the standard usage of a “piece of paper” is pretty arbitrar
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by pja 6y ago
Yes, this is absolutely true. In addition to the above, two virtual conferences I’ve attended in the last year have used Discord as their interface for attendees and speakers & organisers. It’s versatile, has a decent permissions struct
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by pja 6y ago
Speaking as a UK resident, no it’s not. That said, if you’re talking about US tech companies, then the HBCU recruitment issue is a live topic in the discourse right now.
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by pja 6y ago
The Daily Stormer is full-on Neo-Nazi website that has been hell-banned by just about every hosting & websearch company out there. "I appreciate diversity of opinion" - sorry, but you don't let Nazis take up space in your
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by pja 6y ago
It’s a neo-Nazi website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer
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by pja 6y ago
An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Odds on this is a false flag "AsABlackMan" article & everyone responding to it has been had. Lobste.rs pulled it for this
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by pja 6y ago
I guess the point is that of the two main mobile platforms, it’s much easier to pirate Android Apps than iPhone Apps. Desktops are a whole different kettle of fish, which is why profitable companies have (mostly) given up on selling softwar
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by pja 6y ago
EAC supports Linux right now, but games publishers have to choose to turn on that particular feature.
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by pja 6y ago
! Decent cheddar is £7 / kg in the UK & that’s ignoring the cheap stuff.
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by pja 6y ago
The new version makes full use of the GPU on the PS5, visually it's far more impressive. Not having played either I have no idea whether the gameplay differs between the two!
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by pja 6y ago
Oh, I’m sure they’ve thought of it. I simply doubt that they’re able to meaningfully counter it.
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by pja 6y ago
Do you really think it's safe to give an honest negative answer when asked your opinion of the CCCP in China? Personally I doubt it, and I imagine that the average Chinese citizen understands this reality very well indeed as they give
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by pja 6y ago
Because Google has set things be up so that they have no legal responsibility & even if they do it's an enormous legal mountain to climb to a) prove it and b) get any kind of reasonable recompense out of them. Currently they have a
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by pja 6y ago
Nah, they’ll just put the pole somewhere else. This isn’t like central London with thousands of years of archaeology piled up on top of each other.
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by pja 6y ago
IIRC it’s a custom process using wide-bandgap silicon (part of the whole rad-hardening thing) that no-one else needs or wants, so you have to pay the full costs of a fab run for a relatively small number of chips. Hence the cost per chip is
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by pja 6y ago
It is! Not mentioned anywhere in the manpages either & there’s no a priori reason for sscanf() to need to call strlen() on the input string, so most programmers would never expect it to. Pretty sure I would have made this error in the s
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by pja 6y ago
OpenBSD is also doing the same thing. It seems almost universal, unless the libc author has specifically gone out of their way to do something different!
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by pja 6y ago
A lot of libc implementations seem to implement sscanf() this way: As well as the windows libc ones mentioned above, I checked the OpenBSD & glibc implemtations & they worked the same way.
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by pja 6y ago
Yes, it looks that way. On the unix/linux side of things, glibc also implements scanf() by converting to a FILE* object, as does the OpenBSD implementation. It looks like this approach is taken by the majority of sscanf() implementatio
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by pja 6y ago
There are also several with much worse numbers.
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by pja 6y ago
Typical guaranteed Tb written limit for a 500Gb 3-bit cell consumer SSD is only 300Tb. (Eg: Samsung 970evo NVMe: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/c... ) So if you’re writing 30T

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