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by q-big 5y ago
> If you're TSMC, who are you going to favour - the large single customer who's guaranteeing order size over a period of time, or several smaller customers? This depends on your business strategy: having a single or few custome
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> Your web server parses HTTP headers with a hash table? Might very well be exploitable. That is why you shouldn't use hash tables in code that might (even potentially) become a target for DoS attacks.
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> The worst part is that there is already another word for cryptocurrency. Blockchain. There do exist cryptocurrencies that are not based on a blockchain. For example, Iota is based on a tangle, which the creators of Iota claim is better
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Man Moves Blocks Without Machinery, His Own Stone Henge(youtube.com)
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Eaxctly. Consider this: if the providers of these suicide hotline numbers actually cared about this stuff, they would provide an as pseudonymous as possible way to contact them that makes it as impossible as possible (in a mathematical&#x2F
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> The teacher is the client. The client is the one who will better estimate what is necessary or not. If you work in a consulting company, it is "good practice" to "convince" the client that he needs a lot more featu
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Not if you score low on the "authoritarian" psychometric trait. ;-)
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> Would it be a good idea to hire someone with 20 years experience in Python+Go+JavaScript+Perl+PHP for a C++ role? I my experience, when working in a programming job, your programming skills rather degrade quite fast if you are not ac
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by q-big 5y ago
> Startups have already done both things Startups intend to do both things. ;-)
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> If a startup can build nuclear fission reactors or supersonic jets It still has to be proven that this can be done by a startup.
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> It's mildly understandable that Intel didn't want to implement (1) on the E cores (though it would arguably have been better to just dual-issue them, like AMD did for 256-bit vectors on the original Zens). But there's no
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> Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design. The car producer could save even more money if t
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by q-big 5y ago
> I once complained about malloc happily allocating memory that the physical memory system couldn't satisfy (never let your hand write a check your ass can't cash?) but the more experienced programmer asked me if I'd hear
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by q-big 5y ago
"proprietary" is the opposite of "free" (as in freedom), not of "free" (as in free beer).
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You can sell education.
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> Billions and billions spent on making movies as polished as possible, yet "I thought the book was better" is what we always hear. The reason: the movie is often the worse copy of the book. Very often, movies get made of succe
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> Sadly, it is quite common for those companies to have rather diverse and relaxed ethical guidelines around crunch and overtime. Rather: Hiring based on passion is a way to get away with demanding a lot of overtime or crunch time. :-(
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The problem is that this kind of idealism is often what kindles the passion for various programmings topics in quite some people.
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> 1. Dodged a bullet (booo on any company that would reject someone with this level of passion). Considering what he writes on https://docs.codeamigo.dev/blog/why-codeamigo , I would assume that he has a somewhat di
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Unluckily, you cannot insure yourself against the immense risk of alimony payments if a divorce should happen.
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Update for Apple: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts-update
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I simply do believe that the central reason is that there is a lot of (also psychological) pressure to give lower time estimates than what is realistic.
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> State of the art NLP AI models actually have trouble figuring out text posts with explicit racism and hate speech [...] Consider me a skeptic. Perhaps the reason why detecting rascism or hate speech is so hard for an AI is that what is
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archive.is: https://archive.md/ZB8NM
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> The remarkable thing is that the new machines in emulation mode are usually comparable to or faster than the older machines. The central reason is that most programmers make no use of the immense capabilities that modern processors pr
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> It still seems likely that they stole stuff. (Illegal) Copying is not theft > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
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> it's refreshing to see a game author happy about his game being gutted, and put online to play. The game author is typically not the copyright holder.
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> If the scientific method is so perfect why does it fail when used by imperfect operators The scientific method is not perfect, but the best method that we currently have.
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> Could someone tell me as a layperson, how finding these numbers is helping humanity? When people give such an argument, they usually mean "I am not interested in this topic" and use "why is this helping humanity" a
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by q-big 5y ago
"Capitalism" means that the customer decides which company gets the money by his buying decisions. So, it says about capitalism that few customers actually care about safety when they do their buying decisions (the market then del

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