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by remus 3y ago
Same here. In my experience a cover letter is the fastest way to tell if someone actually cares about the role enough to do a little research and understand what is involved.
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by remus 3y ago
Answering as someone who's done a little hiring recently, but for me it's obvious when someone has put some time and effort in to their application via the cover letter. A good application will demonstrate some understanding of wh
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by remus 3y ago
This assumes people are consuming news through official channels which I don't think is true in a lot of cases. For many people, news is whatever pops up in their facebook/instagram/twitter feed, and it's relatively easy
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by remus 3y ago
This sounds like a total minefield. You might get a response in the same format, but I imagine it'd be very easy to break an API user who accidentally depends on performance characteristics (for example).
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by remus 3y ago
> If one day everyone sends an AI to attend a meeting... I think this is the absurd part. I can see an obvious use for some meetings, for example: where lots of people are invited 'just in case'. You could get the AI generated
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by remus 3y ago
I guess the point is not that other companies also have products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's version of Y" is very succinct.
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by remus 3y ago
> The “+” aspect mostly works great but has some weird edge cases when other companies don’t accept them. I wish it was just edge cases! I've bumped into so many services that can't handle "+" in email addresses, some
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by remus 3y ago
Also, if the goal was to guess a password you wouldn't necessarily need it to be really accurate. Just narrowing the search space could get you close enough that a brute force attack could do the rest.
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by remus 3y ago
I don't think primitive is a good description of the go gc. It's definitely got different design constraints (Vs the various java gc, for example), particularly around the philosophy of minimising knobs, but within those constrain
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by remus 3y ago
I love this setup for working with external APIs. Often I'll only want a couple of fields from a response and don't want to build out a huge schema to match the entire response, but it's hard to know in advance which fields w
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by remus 3y ago
> In a product as old as Google docs, they honestly have all the important features that most people actually care about already. You can save. You can track changes. You can set up custom styles. Or embed images. You can edit docs colla
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by remus 3y ago
> If google can't make money with maps, why isn't map taken out of google into a charity/non-profit backed thing. There's OpenStreetMap, and Wikipedia wouldn't mind having a Map I guess. Assuming maps still loses
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by remus 3y ago
In stark contrast, in the UK an annual season ticket for a single train route between 2 stations 20 miles apart , is £1400 or about 1600 euro! Rail travel here is just farcical.
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by remus 3y ago
> As he put it a quarter of century ago (2000): "Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure". > It's Unicode that did fuck up, not developers who are forced to deal with non-sensical things because somewhere a commit
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by remus 3y ago
> In any normal/half-way good designed application, no row should be duplicated within a table... Sure, but there are plenty of poorly designed databases out there!
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by remus 3y ago
Just speculating, but helium molecules are pretty small, so will be able to leak through tiny gaps where the paint/grease would not penetrate.
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by remus 3y ago
That would presumably cost more money which is not a trade off every user would want to make.
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by remus 3y ago
> GPT doing math is like using a 737 to drive around on the ground, or if you had the phone number of a prominent astrophysicist and you call him to do long division for you. I don't think this is a great analogy. if your 737 couldn
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by remus 3y ago
Depends what you mean by bad news really. If it turns out that transferring personal data between the EU and US is fundamentally impossible due to irreconcilable differences in data protection legislation then it'd have huge consequenc
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by remus 3y ago
Copyright is to do with protecting reproduction of works, no? What google has done here is scanning the book and indexed the content, presumably so it makes it easier for users to search books for relevant material. Assuming they don't
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by remus 3y ago
> The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite) This is very speculative. My guess is that changes will be made, but they'll be incremental and
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by remus 3y ago
It'd be a pretty big task, but it would be very cool to see a comparison of where the both computers are spending their time. Clearly the modern machine is slower while still being significantly more powerful so it's doing a lot m
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by remus 3y ago
Interesting stuff. I guess it gets in to what counts as a a brute force, as most of the brute force attacks I've seen (e.g. password cracking) lean pretty heavily on clever maths and statistical hacks to reduce the search space as much
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by remus 3y ago
> Carbon seems to be the go-to material these days. It often seems to fail catastrophically in ways that, for example, steel does not. Carbon fibre composites are also significantly lighter and more rigid than equivalent steel structures
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by remus 3y ago
This seems like a basic pros/cons kinda thing? More safety margin means less chance of your reactor blowing up (pro), but it costs more and takes longer to build (con), so you've got to weigh those up and find a sweet spot.
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by remus 3y ago
> ...an unexpected 1000x increase in volume at a customer brought the DB to its knees. From an outside perspective it seems like the huge increase in volume was more the issue! It sounds like an index helped a lot, but it would also have
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by remus 3y ago
> But this is still the most insane dependency managenent scheme I've ever heard of. Is Google truly so far up their own ass that they make it harder to pull in a third party library than write the code in-house? Why is Google so al
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by remus 3y ago
> It was specifically due to not meeting expected subscriber numbers, prompting a widespread negative reevaluation of Netflix's entire business model. I'd speculate that those expected subscriber numbers may have been inflated
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by remus 3y ago
> It just seems like I’m giving up on security by switching to passkeys, away from randomly generated passwords. This is true for you, but the majority of people reuse poor passwords all over the place and do not have mfa setup. For the
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by remus 3y ago
> Advanced Protection is nice but practically a non starter or very difficult in a lot of situations, e.g if you're travelling and all of your security keys get stolen and your backup security key is half way across the globe, you&#

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