rmilk

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by rmilk 1y ago
I’m going to give a HARD disagree with this type of hand waving for a bug in pow(). First, how was a change allowed in such a fundamental function without significant justification and validation. It’s exponentiation. That’s like saying you
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by rmilk 3y ago
Precisely. I have been told I have a knack for reading other people’s code. Turns out it was years of reverse engineering as a hobby in my youth that gave me the skills to sit down and understand someone else’s code very quickly. A hobby th
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by rmilk 3y ago
Exactly true. Was a teenage software hacker, reverse engineered many games mostly because I was a bored teenager with free time and many games I legitimately bought. Mostly it was to cheat a little, like tweaking player stats or number of l
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by rmilk 3y ago
Have recently started seeing “Xitter” as a reference to the site. Possibly because it can be pronounced like a crude slang for a restroom, or just to make sure everyone realizes “Twitter” isn’t going away.
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by rmilk 3y ago
This sounds interesting! The main reason I moved to perl instead of sed or AWK is for better control. Shell scripts don’t differentiate between variables and data (anyone else still having nightmares from trying to escape quotes and meta c
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by rmilk 3y ago
Apple tried. Recall the huge IP licensing battle from a year or two ago where Apple challenged Qualcomm on base price for royalties and what was considered FRAND given some of the patents were incorporated into the communication protocol st
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by rmilk 3y ago
Or adding a middle name of “A” because some databases can’t handle that a person might not have a middle name or middle initial.
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by rmilk 3y ago
I use strips from lightdims.com also available from Amazon and other places. Comes in a sheet of precut circles and squares in different sizes so you can stick it over just the LED. Seems to have better sticking power than painters tape. Th
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by rmilk 3y ago
Seconded. My daily walk to Starbucks is my time to meditate on my coding issue of the day, free from distractions of emails, office visitors, and meetings. Many coders I’ve met say a change of scenery can help you solve a problem you were s
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by rmilk 4y ago
Managing that risk is what the customer CFOs were supposed to do. Your average retiree or semi wealthy person knows the FDIC limits and manages their portfolio around them. This is not a new risk for businesses in any industry and financia
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by rmilk 4y ago
At the same time, these startups all had a CFO whose job was to manage that financial risk. What if they had a late payment from customers or a supply chain delay, or were simply locked out of their accounts due to a cyber event or unavaila
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by rmilk 4y ago
But isn’t your CFO planning for financial risk? Do you have hazard insurance on your leased offices, what happens if one of your key employees is unavailable, a large customer is late on payment, you get hit by supply chain issues, etc. You
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by rmilk 4y ago
Exactly this point. Every single offering brochure on those business checking accounts notes the FDIC limit. If they’re interest checking accounts, they are money market backed and clearly state no guaranteed return rate or even guarantee o
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by rmilk 4y ago
I get what you’re saying, but how many well-intentioned startups have imploded and ran out of money the day before payday due to some unlikely risk? Lots (I was in 1-2 of them). Should we also try to salvage them? “Well-reputed bank” is not
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by rmilk 4y ago
Exactly. Even a business checking account with interest is backed partly/fully by money market funds. Those ALL come with offering sheets clearly spelling out returns aren’t guaranteed AND you could lose capital. It’s simply poor money
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by rmilk 4y ago
Exactly. I got a letter from my last startup Thu at 11pm telling us they had no cash for payroll tomorrow and we were all laid off. Poor planning along with super-lean cash flow broke my employer. This is no different. For example, how many
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by rmilk 4y ago
There is a risk question that companies are responsible for that I see is glossed over. No, you shouldn’t have to spread your business accounts to limit them to 250k. But you must know it’s not insured above this, just like a money market a
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by rmilk 4y ago
Exactly. If you’re forced to use SVB because of your founders, you don’t have a recourse on the bank. But there is also a risk question that companies are responsible for that I see is glossed over. No, you shouldn’t have to spread your bus
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by rmilk 4y ago
Also the major players can lobby legislation to add burdens to new players that they already have in place themselves. This locks out new players unless they can invest upfront, while allowing the existing players to use what they already h
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by rmilk 4y ago
So absolutely true. I work in an “operational facing” engineering group. We are engineering but process data (daily/monthly data processing for factory and customer requests). Having a composable process using the Unix philosophy makes
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by rmilk 4y ago
I refer to it as cloverleaf when I’m doing phone support for family and friends. Seems to convey the idea to them pretty clearly.
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by rmilk 4y ago
Agreed. This is why we insist on campaign finance limits and public lists of donors. See new article just today from the UK where someone wanted to donate $300k to a US election, and did so by funneling it through a lobbying group to obfusc
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by rmilk 4y ago
The key point being made is that corporations give both an opaque knowledge of their funding and also a multiplier effect of that funding in a way that a wealthy individual cannot. You saw this immediately with astroturfing on candidates an
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by rmilk 4y ago
Same thing happened when EMV was first rolled out. There was replay attack fraud, but the cardholder was blamed for it. But once you get enough complaints, it forces insurance and gov oversight into action as you describe. Article from Bria
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Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit(pcgamer.com)
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by rmilk 4y ago
Those punctuation marks make sense and came from old-old school notations for typewritten manuscripts. I remember them from my Strunck and White /Elements of Style/ book from English 1A (sorta-old-timer here). Microsoft Office ap
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by rmilk 4y ago
But that’s the point of parallel. The use case is for when you have N processors and a 10Gb NIC. Each job is CPU bound or concurrent license bound, or some jobs may take longer than others. Parallel allows you to run X jobs simultaneously t
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by rmilk 4y ago
The technique I found works well is to edit the file in vim and use the !G (process lines 1-N in shell) (or use emacs in a similar way). Gives you infinite undo and redo until you get the commands right. Then you can view the history and ma
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by rmilk 5y ago
Same darn thing with Outlook. They added mentions, and now anytime you type @something it goes looking for that person. Examples of how this goes wrong: @10pm or when I type to send to a colleague in a language that has @var type syntax. Re
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by rmilk 6y ago
I found BluRay-R double or quad sided is truly affordable and gives up to 50-100 GB per disc. Cost is < $2 per disc for 50 GB. Put on the important stuff - photos, docs, notes and skip the overall system backups except once in a while. I

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