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by setr 5y ago
Personally I prefer fudged dice (I forget the proper term) where expected damage is maintained, but low rolls and high rolls are dampened on repeats, to avoid low-chance sequences of misses/crits. In fact, I’d go further to say it’s fu
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by setr 5y ago
Like a business, the success of open source is generally not solely dependent on the quality of the engineering alone. That is, where success is defined by popularity, # of public contributors/users, etc. Also like a business, you don’
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by setr 5y ago
Unless you have highlighting rules for specific function calls (and share them with your team), I don’t see how it this problem has been solved. Your mutex_lock(&mutex) will be colored exactly the same as any arbitrary foo(&bar), so
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by setr 5y ago
The company I work for writes one (COBOL —> Java, and separately COBOL—> C++ — as well as other translators for MF tooling). It took us a …while… to reach high success rates on new customer source. There are several issues at play: 1.
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by setr 5y ago
I believe he’s getting at the idea of nested levels of corruption, with no visibility into where that corruption happens (because recompilation of the compiler/ML produces a fresh inscrutable binary). I suppose the better term in this
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by setr 5y ago
Wasn’t this also the basic JD of “computers” of old? Manually computing lookup tables for artillery, planet movement, etc
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by setr 5y ago
>pay someone to stand in life for them Recently I learned you can even do this for the DMV... Truly the only place where men are made equal is the porcelain throne.
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by setr 5y ago
It was intentionally negative — Evans is the guy discovering the smaller heatsink; not Sony PR. The full quote is “I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. “As far
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by setr 5y ago
I’m fairly positive 90% of any feature in emacs being unchanged in decades is directly attributable to backwards-compatibility than anything else. With how invasive emac scripts can be, it’s difficult to imagine anything to be changed wit
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by setr 5y ago
Any notion of privacy is eliminated, if you can reasonably expect arbitrary photos to be selected and sent to apple for manual review (where selection could make up really any % of the photos you upload, and presumably you won’t be told whi
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by setr 5y ago
Usually I see this in the form of bonuses, especially ones that will basically always trigger unless you piss someone off (e.g. based on boss’s performance review, where you both know it’s just going be approved unless you really fuck up).
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by setr 5y ago
Remember 3DTV’s? For like 5 years, all TV’s being sold had 3D support. Not because consumers wanted it — it was because the industry believed consumers would want it. Industries don’t turn on a dime.. Market forces don’t correct small issue
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by setr 5y ago
Github’s dev assistant thing tries to fill in the code based on what you’ve written, by regurgitating prior knowledge almost blindly — but as a human I can process that regurgitation, and maybe extract a relevant subset of it for my actual
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by setr 5y ago
It seems to me jail time without verdict is the real problem in this scenario — it’s not clear to me how that’s not “guilty until proven innocent”
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by setr 5y ago
I watch technical sales do this all the time — the project needs a migration from X to Y, so they simply draw a line between the two. And of course, that little line becomes 90% of the project timeline, and everybody’s baffled. That line is
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by setr 5y ago
>Here's a reason to start from scratch: You don't need to dig through the complex, customized setup of someone else and figure it all out. You also don't need to learn unfamiliar software without even knowing what parts a
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by setr 5y ago
> Using someone else's configurations kinda defeats the purpose. No it doesn't. Vim itself is just a set of someone else's configurations. The important thing is that someone else's configurations can eventually becom
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by setr 5y ago
? Excel documents almost always have issues, independent of genomics[0]. I can probably just skim through my emails and find a bunch of problem spreadsheets all over. Fundamentally, the problem is threefold. 1) excel tries to be smart, and
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by setr 5y ago
There’s a reason webarchive exists — the internet forgets things constantly (another solution to the problem are things like ipfs)
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by setr 5y ago
And my point is that it’s not — the starting pieces may differ, and thus the conclusions, but there’s clearly a qualitative difference between the opinion of an expert, and the opinion of a novice. If only that the expert brings far more kn
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by setr 5y ago
Having an opinion is not the same as having a good opinion. There’s a range of quality to the matter
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by setr 5y ago
>Their ads are the worst of all the big social networks, given how anonymous their base is. So they're forced to innovate, which I think is good for everyone The oddity is that their user's aren't that anonymous -- in fact
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by setr 5y ago
The whole point of reddit is that the crowding issue is self-correcting -- you just move to a new sub. I like to envision it as a malthusian catastrophe -- as the population starts reaching capacity limits, people start grumbling more and m
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by setr 5y ago
because events are transpiring now, supposedly based on this, yet the described boat is the same from 50 years ago, 20 years ago, and even 2 years ago.
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by setr 5y ago
>All that’s really being asked of us is to give up all our productive years in service to people with no ethics, to make them richer. People who are more than happy to use you up and toss your corpse on the pile when you die. Is that rea
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by setr 5y ago
IME if you didn’t use the DB -specific features, migration is painful, but not that much so. If you did use the DB specific features, you’re screwed regardless of an ORM. NB: I work for a DB migration firm, specializing in legacy->moder
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by setr 5y ago
How often does one even migrate DB’s? I’ve always seen the advice, but other than an explicit goal of supporting SQLite + Postgres simultaneously, I’ve never actually ending up needing to move. And given that RDBMS’s tend to do have roughly
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by setr 5y ago
The 2nd Amendment is not about defending yourself from burglars -- it's about defending yourself from the government itself. It's essentially the right to revolt. Of course, it'd be a dark day when a sufficiently large portio
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by setr 5y ago
SysAdmins fit this bill, but I know them as having a pretty terrible social position — no one cares about you until something goes wrong, and then they’re pissed at you. Fix it, and go back to your dungeon.
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by setr 5y ago
If you already control their apple account, then you already have access to this information. Your threat model can’t be “the user is already pwned” because then everything is vulnerable, always

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