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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Not really - at least in my days in that industry, the bulk of telco equipment was running C/C++ or Java code. This included Ericsson gear. Ericsson and one or two other telco companies were definitely using it in production, but it wa
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I think the blog post is guilty of the same thing we're all sometimes guilty of when discussing something we like, but few other people seem to appreciate. It's this "no, it's great, you just don't understand it&quo
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
You're misreading the answers. In sample A, 45% are in favor of reintroducing National Service and (38% oppose it). In sample B, the phrasing is reversed, meaning that 34% are in favor (and 48% oppose it). So, the difference is 11 perc
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
> Optional memory safety isn't. Optional memory safety is, when you can opt an entire project into a "strict" mode, and this becomes trivially verifiable by others. I imagine that's the goal here. Optional security is
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Yeah, YouTube is absolutely dominated by paid product placement, especially for stuff like power tools. That said, YouTube reviews at least tend to be real in the sense that at least the reviewer is actually using and demonstrating the prod
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
> Google search has become worthless for me. I use bing instead because of how horrible google results are. Although Bing is generally OK at dealing with general queries, it's far, far worse at surfacing niche content, no? My non-co
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It's not even that: the quoted language doesn't even blame the library - it appears to blame increased load. "As a result of increased demand, it mixed up device ID" - no, it mixed up IDs as a result of some sort of a co
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
A lot of dietary science is shaky, and I think we should accept that different people respond to various psychoactive substances differently. I don't have any reason to question the author's conclusions, nor doubt that others migh
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Well, the money doesn't go up in smoke. They end up paying it to their staff, suppliers, and so on. If the project doesn't pan out, it's actually just voluntary redistribution of wealth and the society is better off than if S
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Similarly to many other open-source design apps, KiCad has a fairly horrid UX and lacks some enterprise features (especially around collaboration on larger projects), but it's definitely being used for complex projects at a good number
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It lets the company control the narrative, without the distraction of fifty tech bloggers test-driving it and posting divergent opinions or findings. Instead, the conversation is anchored to what the company claims about the product. It&#x2
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Maybe? First, a lot of simple assault arrests are for objectionable but ultimately trivial stuff - people getting into drunken brawls, spitting on each other, and so on. A series of burglaries targeting a local small business can be far mor
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Solving different crimes. The ones you might get a promotion or some other gratification out of. If you're in a city with 1,000+ home burglaries a year, nobody cares that you clear one and arrest some meth head. But, solve some grues
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
This is the usual argument people make - that having children is harder and less affordable than before - but the highest fertility rates are pretty consistently recorded in impoverished and conflict-torn countries, where raising a child re
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
But we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty...
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Sundar was pretty close to optimal. For internal consumption, it was an inspiring story of an engineer who rose through the ranks to the top, an affirmation of an engineering-centric culture. A foreign-born immigrant to boot. And for extern
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I don't think it scales linearly anywhere. A significant part of the workforce is just there to provide services to the workforce itself. You have full-time engineers just maintaining tools for performance management, or for booking co
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Having briefly interacted with the founders of Google a couple of times, I'm pretty sure it's by design. I think that at some point, they recognized that Google must turn into a big, boring company that communicates in platitudes.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
> That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what people are willing to do for screen real estate. Very, very few people. I would be surprised if it's more than a fraction of a percent of the home computing market. In fa
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Yeah, that one was always a bit weird because it's essentially a lie: no, you know more. You're not telling me and that's fine, but come on.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
The basic legal principle is that you sue whoever has the most money. Suing a random blogger who used ChatGPT doesn't accomplish much. Suing ChatGPT under a novel legal theory might.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Presumably in the sense of setting ground rules - "don't use it for school assignments". No different from saying "you're supposed to do the homework yourself, not pay somebody else to do it for you".
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
They have to live somewhere. In much of the PNW, you basically have three landscapes: established cities, clear-cut farmland, and dense coniferous forests. City expansion starts with rural residences in the woods. If you want to get to the
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I think there are two reasons for these "inexplicable" pricing differences. One is that different insurance companies specialize in different things. For example, if you want to offer the best rates to good drivers, you might actu
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Although Wikipedia admins are generally pretty diligent about vanity articles about firms or individuals, anecdotally, I think people have a lot more luck astroturfing within legitimate articles. There are so many niche articles about some
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Accreditation doesn't mean that the school is prestigious or selective, or that the degrees are useful. You have no shortage of silly and easy degrees you can pay for at accredited schools, and I don't think they should give you s
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Then they would have worse-performing chips and the market wouldn't care about the security benefits. Cloud providers may grumble, but they aren't the most important market anyway.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
A lion's share of H-1Bs go to big tech companies where people make $250k a year or more. And where total comp of $400k+ is common for senior roles, with no regard for visa status. Yes, it alters market dynamics and the whole reason it&
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Then it's a race to the bottom with titles. You're no longer a software engineer, you're a "computer technician". H-1B is probably one of the most gamed and abused visa categories, perhaps next to marriage-related s
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
> There should be no cap for people who have received higher education degrees in the US. Then you're effectively creating a loophole. There would be a proliferation of private schools that accept anyone willing to pay enough $$$ an

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