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by reshlo 2y ago
> damage to roads scales quadratically with weight It’s much worse, it actually scales quartically with weight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
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by reshlo 2y ago
> The git rerere functionality is a bit of a hidden feature. The name stands for “reuse recorded resolution” and, as the name implies, it allows you to ask Git to remember how you’ve resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees
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by reshlo 2y ago
> In your browser's settings you can configure a list of languages (country-specific if desired) which get send with every request. Customising this list at all makes your browser fingerprint thousands of times less common than it w
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by reshlo 2y ago
> a device that the creator of clearly has no interest in allowing others to use outside of their walled garden This doesn’t seem accurate. > In macOS 12.1, Apple has added the ability to directly boot a raw image directly instead of
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by reshlo 2y ago
> The workplace equivalent is you publishing a whistle blowing article against a team in your company because they'd not accept a pull request you worked very hard on. The workplace equivalent is your CEO making a public statement t
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by reshlo 2y ago
I agree. Everyone here seems to be criticising Marcan for not being professional, but it’s very difficult to remain professional when the people you’re working with gloat in public that they intend to completely sabotage your work product
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by reshlo 2y ago
> So you already know the particular area of the larger topic of mathematics that you need to look for So did the author of the paper. The paper’s title itself mentions the area under a curve. It would not have been difficult to find inf
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by reshlo 2y ago
It’s a way of saying “following the letter of a poorly drafted law while being aware of, and not following, its intended spirit”. Just because the law accidentally technically allows you to do something doesn’t mean you should, or that it s
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by reshlo 2y ago
Calculus textbooks existed in 1994. It just took me 30 seconds to find “area under a curve” in the index of the one I own, and another 30 seconds to find the section on numerical integration, which describes the trapezoidal approximation.
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by reshlo 2y ago
A leader who is democratically elected, and then violates or exploits loopholes in the law to give themselves powers that they are not supposed to have, is engaging in a self-coup. The US Constitution grants Congress, not the executive bran
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by reshlo 2y ago
Interview problems are never representative of the work that software developers do.
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by reshlo 2y ago
When you do layoffs, all the employees who didn’t get laid off this time will start wondering if they’ll be next, and they’ll look for a new job. The best employees are the ones who’ll find it easiest to get another job, and they’ll leave.
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by reshlo 2y ago
There’s also that law allowing the Australian government to compel any tech employee in Australia to covertly insert a backdoor into the encrypted communication systems that their employer builds, which feels very similar. > The founder
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by reshlo 2y ago
And if you weren’t already convinced, along comes the article to drive that point home… > “I think the genesis of this movement has been Jonathan Haidt, author of the book The Anxious Generation, and he even admits some of the research i
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by reshlo 2y ago
That’s a good point, I didn’t think about that.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> So an entire 28 minutes of time never eexisted in Iceland even thought today they are on UTC year round Those two facts aren’t connected. At the time that those 28 minutes were skipped, Iceland was using the equivalent of UTC-01:00.
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by reshlo 2y ago
`CUME_DIST() OVER (ORDER BY column)` https://modern-sql.com/caniuse/cume_dist
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by reshlo 2y ago
It’s a commonly used term. https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/comparing-s...
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by reshlo 2y ago
Forking JS packages and maintaining those forks is sometimes technically easy, but it is usually not institutionally easy. Your bosses who actually decide whether you have permission to create and maintain the fork have no regard for your
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by reshlo 2y ago
It’s often a bad idea to make that assumption.
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by reshlo 2y ago
If password reset emails shouldn’t be sent to unauthenticated users, how would users reset their passwords?
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by reshlo 2y ago
A&W tried to make a 1/3 pound burger to compete with the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but it failed because people thought it was smaller, because 3 is smaller than 4. https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06&#x2
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by reshlo 2y ago
Nintendo Switch Bigger OLED
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by reshlo 2y ago
The fact that offense is taken doesn’t mean anyone is making a moral judgement of the speaker. Something unintentionally offensive is still offensive. If you want to maintain the moral high ground when you criticise people for policing othe
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by reshlo 2y ago
> For example: git master branch. We had a HUGE kerfuffle over that, to the point where even GitHub now gives git init examples that create and rename the master branch to "main". This was a pointless exercise that served no us
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by reshlo 2y ago
It’s not enough to take in more in taxes than they spend in subsidies. If they’re spending that resident’s taxes on paying subsidies, there’s none left for paying for the other public services that the taxes are also supposed to pay for.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> Timer Coalescing attempts to enforce some order on all this chaos. While on battery power, Mavericks will routinely scan all upcoming timers that apps have set and then apply a gentle nudge to line up any timers that will fire close to
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by reshlo 2y ago
> I'm sure apple will argue that nothing they sell should be considered computing devices. “What’s a computer?”
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by reshlo 2y ago
I don’t have a strong opinion on this particular example, but it’s quite surprising to me just how many people such as yourself are proudly making variations of an argument that boils down to “I have a right to be rude and I’m gonna use it
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by reshlo 2y ago
How would it be profitable for the government to provide insurance if it’s not profitable for a private insurer? My impression is that private insurance premiums are a lot higher than the portion of local taxes that could be allocated to

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