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by randomswede 6y ago
And equally important, no one should be able to prove to someone else how they voted (because if they can prove it, coerced[1] voting could be a thing). "Secure voting" is a complicated beast, at the best of times. [1] I am using
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by randomswede 6y ago
Wild guess is that the main document LaTeX file is called "dm.tex", so the resulting PDF would be called "dm.pdf". Making the main file named something more verbose would impact you whenever you try to open it, but in an
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by randomswede 6y ago
As somsone who's currently trying to translate an instruction manual from one language to another, it is... somewhat fragmentary. Yes, you read the text, multiple times (and in multiple languages). But, the focus is not on internalisin
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by randomswede 6y ago
To some extent, coaching something you practice is good for giving you another perspective on what it is you're practicing. In an ideal world, this will elevate your skill level. This does, however, not necessarily mean that everyone i
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by randomswede 6y ago
Potentially. But, as with all things, there's "the way you could do things" and "the way you should do things". Just because you can do manual testing doesn't mean you should avoid automated testing. It MAY be
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by randomswede 6y ago
I have at times in the past made the (somewhat joking) observation that "memory leak" and "unintentional liveness" look very similar from afar, but are really quite different beasts. With a "proper" GC engine,
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by randomswede 6y ago
I would personally probably have talked to the police rather than AirBnB support about that, because it seems like a clear case of extortion.
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by randomswede 6y ago
That is probably to some extent correct. Although this would bite you on a new build, not for anything that is already running in production. My understanding is that that is/was not necessarily the case for leftpad.
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by randomswede 6y ago
It is not (quite) as bad as it sounds. If you have built a module-enabled Go binary yesterday with a specific version of an external dependency, you will get that exact version of the dependency tomorrow when you rebuild (IFF you have versi
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by randomswede 6y ago
Definitely originally. I suspect that a modern emacs has more unix under the hood than it has ITS under the hood. I am not sure if we should care about the differentiation between TECO-Emacs on one hand and Elisp-Emacs on the other.
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Latency is (where I am used to it) a hard physical limit imposed on the upper end by the speed of light. When you have a system that literally spans a planet, there's only so much clever algorithms (and hardware) can do to speed up the
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by randomswede 6y ago
I wrote a "what makes for a good change" doc a while ago, that touches on this. https://github.com/vatine/sressays/blob/master/change-reques...
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The three most difficult things are naming, cache invalidation, off-by-one errors. And latency.
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As an ex-Googler who's done a fair bit of interviewing, my bar for "will I use this coding question" is to look at the problem statement, do a from-fresh implementation in a suitable language, and if it took me more than 7 mi
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Hm, rlonn as in "Algonet"?
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GCL is the thing I was looking forward to never seeing when I left Google. Now, GCL is one of the things I actually miss. Pretty much all other "configure things that are at least moderately complex" are actually bad enough that i
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by randomswede 6y ago
That fact was pretty useful when making the tooling that ensures that xooglers are not on-call in the future. Please don't ask me how I know.