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by singron 6y ago
NixOs manages configuration in a really elegant way with modules. Modules are a structured way of combining different sources of configuration. E.g. you might need to configure a list of users on the system. You might manually configure you
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by singron 6y ago
BTW the 6 extension whitelist is for Firefox Preview. The normal firefox app doesn't have a whitelist.
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by singron 6y ago
It usually doesnt get that bad because transitive dependencies don't get added to the path. I.e. you actually need to have a list of 1000 direct dependencies to get 1000 path entries. If for some reason you have a crazy amount of paths
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by singron 6y ago
I haven't used any of these before, but this LibrePCB talk explains why they wanted an alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-h5y6tK34 Horizon docs have this explanation: https://horizon-eda.readthe
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by singron 6y ago
IANAL. I imagine a manufacturer would assume liability for an appliance based on an open source design, assuming the design uses a typical open source license that disclaims liability. I'm not aware of a reason why an open source desig
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by singron 6y ago
How about this reduced thought experiment: The skateboarding teenager sees a nike bonfire and an adidas bonfire. The nike ads associate enhanced skateboarding with throwing money in the nike bonfire. How much money should the teenager throw
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by singron 7y ago
Animation is also a lot harder in 3D. A decent 3D engine will probably need fully featured skeletal animation: blending and interpolation, translate+scale+rotate, inverse kinematics, etc. A 2D sprite-based game might be able to get away wit
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by singron 7y ago
This sparks a lot of questions for me. Obviously some markets are hit really hard by covid, but for any company that was already considering layoffs, now is probably a great time to do them and scapegoat covid. Also for the tech companies,
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New study: Software teams with more women communicate better(getclockwise.com)
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by singron 7y ago
The Referer header will leak what page you were on and you probably already have connections to Google from the same client IP address. Even if you have Referer blocked, the particular font requested could indicate information about what pa
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by singron 7y ago
This is discussed in the video somewhat. Copyright allows parallel invention. E.g. 2 people can copyright the same thing as long as neither one copied the other. In the video, they claim this is usually difficult to prove in court if the fi
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by singron 7y ago
That reminds me of Baumol's Cost Disease[1]. Some industries become more efficient due to advances in technology (e.g. manufacturing and agriculture), but others do not (e.g. healthcare, education). Those other industries become more e
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by singron 7y ago
All kinds of binary data might have a NUL byte. E.g. if you want to write a NUL byte to a file in the shell, you might try something like echo -n $'\0' > nul This doesn't work for the reason stated in the article.
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by singron 7y ago
Google had a "VP of Oil, Gas, and Energy" so it's not like they are building off-the-shelf software that oil and gas companies happen to purchase. Google is making a concerted effort to accommodate those companies specificall
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by singron 7y ago
Taxing externalities is great, and we should totally do that. However, your ordinary political vote as 1 of 300,000,000 Americans is probably less impactful than your job as 1 of 100,000 Googlers. And you still get to vote regardless of you
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by singron 7y ago
Google's SRE book covers some of this (if you aren't cheekily referring to that). E.g. chapters 21 and 22 are "Handling Overload" and "Addressing Cascading Failures". The SRE book also covers mitigation by oper
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by singron 7y ago
Keeping GC off for a long running service might become problematic. Also, the steady state might have few allocations, but startup may produce a lot of garbage that you might want to evict. I've never done this, but you can also turn G
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by singron 7y ago
Last I heard, calling 911 from a mobile phone in CA tends to connect you to California Highway Patrol, who usually forward your call to a more local dispatcher. Some people recommend saving the emergency number for your local police departm
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by singron 7y ago
I found many servers will block you if you first send them email (e.g. greylisting). If you can get them to send you an email first, then everything tends to work from then on.
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by singron 7y ago
Large companies start to look like authoritarian centrally planned economies on the inside. Sometimes the central planning saves effort, but it often means the fittest for the business isn't always what survives. Internal charge backs
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by singron 7y ago
Joel Spolsky has some examples in his talk about excel: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c ). I particularly wish Google sheets had the tables feature.
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by singron 7y ago
Also see the discussion 4 days ago from the same essay published in the nytimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098021
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by singron 7y ago
They probably don't have a way to measure that reliably, and adoption speed might make more sense to their bottom line.
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by singron 7y ago
You can use this to select which pets to put on a platform. For instance, no-kill shelters have to decide which animals they intake since they have finite room. They can save more animals if they pick animals that are likely to be adopted q
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by singron 7y ago
Unfortunately, broadly required courses are often jokes designed to be passed by any warm body, filled with apathetic students, and often taught by someone who knows this. With AP transfer, I only took 5 courses (1 psych, 2 phil, 2 econ). I
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by singron 7y ago
In my experience, the copyleft provisions of the AGPL are misunderstood by just about everyone to be much more viral than they really are. E.g. "if there is some AGPL software on a workstation or server, we might have to release all so
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by singron 7y ago
I always wondered if an employee could make a GPL source request to their employer. Is there any more reading about any of these events or legal theory? I'm having difficulty Googling this.
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by singron 7y ago
I think management is too eager to hire a new role to fix a specific problem. E.g. if your product has bugs, you dont hire new people just to fix bugs. You should get your existing developers to fix bugs. Dedicated bug fixers won't hav
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by singron 7y ago
Isn't this kind of an unreasonable demand? It's not like software isn't ready for anyone one day and ready for everyone the next. Considering just about nobody can give an accurate software development forecast for even objec
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by singron 7y ago
The author makes a good point, but I don't think it's even the main part of the problem. In e.g. notifications cause people to open the app, they are optimizing the wrong objective function. Getting people to open the app isn&#x27

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