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by praptak 2y ago
It also doesn't help if your customers can neither legally pay you nor account your invoices as costs for the tax purposes.
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by praptak 2y ago
The original application of the sentinel technique makes linear search faster. Looking for 42 in a table of integers? Put 42 after the last element (obviously you need n+1 elements allocated) and your loop does not need to check array bound
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by praptak 2y ago
Countries can do more than just try to block network traffic. No legal presence in our jurisdiction, no business in our country. It's much easier to block local advertisers' money going to such companies.
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by praptak 2y ago
I read some experts (armchair or otherwise) and they seem to agree it's a standard military strategy - create an attack strong enough to force the enemy to reallocate troops from the main attack directions. The details here is that Rus
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by praptak 2y ago
Yeah, I obviously didn't mean printing lentils, more like printing the pattern with the lentils.
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by praptak 2y ago
I wonder if the colourful lentils trick could be bypassed by a 3D printer that recreates the pattern. This seems in range for a state actor. Or maybe even a hobbyist with lots of time.
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by praptak 2y ago
That's why it is good to make general public aware of these techniques. The more people use it the better for the people who really need to use it.
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by praptak 2y ago
I think the government should be held to a higher standard when applying the law than a random Joe Citizen. Governments should be more like "don't be evil" than "intentionally find every underspecified law and stretch it
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by praptak 2y ago
So Lisp, even with macros, is not that bad. Macros add just one mechanism which you have to know in order to understand a piece of Lisp code from first principles. The number of other special mechanisms in Lisp is much lower than in Python
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by praptak 2y ago
Some other awesome stuff by Pratt: Pratt parsing (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066465 ), the "P" in the KMP algorithm.
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by praptak 2y ago
> your source files might not do what they say! The disconnect between what your source file "does" and what it "says" is present in everything above assembly. Change implementation of `foo(...)` and suddenly dozens o
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by praptak 2y ago
I wonder what happens if the damages exceed whatever assets they have in France.
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by praptak 2y ago
> imperative languages allow us to do so This problem has a promising solution, WUFFS, "a memory-safe programming language (and a standard library written in that language) for Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely." HN discu
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by praptak 2y ago
Yes, that was the line where my bullshit detector went to over 9000. "Obviously, my job is to protect the organization, but ‘protect the organization’ takes on different meanings to different people. To me, ‘protect the organization’
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by praptak 2y ago
This is literal enshittification. Way to go, Bezos.
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by praptak 2y ago
This is bad news, because personalisation was a big advantage of spam filters. Everyone's spam filter is tuned differently from others', so spammers had a hard time beating this with automated messages. About the best they could d
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by praptak 2y ago
If you can replace someone and not pay a huge ramp up cost then your DX is already great.
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by praptak 2y ago
I could name some companies where you don't need to be an "innovation hero" to feel like the "innovation hero" from the anecdote and "Please ask next quarter" seems to be the motto :)
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by praptak 2y ago
I'm currently slightly above that band pre-tax and counting the monthly stock vesting but I may be an outlier, so I'd say 5-10k USD sounds reasonable.
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by praptak 2y ago
Not in LCoL countries. I am a developer with 20+ years experience, I'm starting a new job in September and I only interviewed with this company, plus another one who emailed me halfway through the process. The trick is that I'm li
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by praptak 2y ago
Let me quote the quote from Robert Townsend "Up the organization", quoted in turn by DeMarco and Lister in their "Peopleware" (needless to say they quote it to say its pure crap): "If you've inherited (or buil
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by praptak 2y ago
The center of displacement is always below the center of mass, so the iceberg never gets the stability of a rock hanging on a thread (ships can do that with ballast). The only way for an iceberg to achieve stability is "differential&qu
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by praptak 2y ago
Modeling identity doesn't end with synthetic keys though. "Generate own keys" only solves the problem of identity ownership. You now own the identity but it doesn't mean your identities are as they should be. Say a custo
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by praptak 2y ago
The fit/culture/soft skills/ is actually a fall back to "where did you go to college and tell me about how good you are", which was the pre-leetcode standard. It is a downgrade in my opinion.
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by praptak 2y ago
Joel Spolsky, whose influential articles started the Leetcode-style interviewing, agrees we need something better: "But today Spolsky has mixed feelings about his guide — and its impacts on hiring in tech. “So this idea that you’re go
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by praptak 2y ago
I believe Wikipedia has a good overview, in particular "the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that advance the interests and will of citizens" is probably the definition that best matches the one used in
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by praptak 2y ago
ssh -t -A yourhost.com "tmux attach -d"
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by praptak 2y ago
So what's the current non-enshittified phone? Preferably at non-flagship price.
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by praptak 2y ago
Domakha has ~50km range. Here's a report (in Polish) from a FO mission to correct HIMARS fire (sadly the drone was lost but the Russians had to send a fighter jet to shoot it down with a rocket): https://x.com/Aldohartw
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by praptak 2y ago
The crappy 16-bit-legacy memory model of the PC was probably as costly as "the billion dollar mistake" with Java pointer semantics.

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