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by singron 7y ago
I used a TI-89 (which has a CAS) on the AP Calculus exam. I maybe used it to double check an answer, but I don't remember it being more useful than a TI-83 on that exam. You can only use calculators on part of the exam. On the calculat
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by singron 7y ago
I've definitely witnessed this, but I think these are two separate phenomena of "interruption". The COI refers to a case where I interrupt because I understand and I don't require additional elaboration. The way I'v
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by singron 7y ago
I found ctypes.sh to be legitimately useful for managing resources in nix-shell. E.g. flock a lock file and set CLOEXEC so that subprocesses don't hold the lock open after the shell exits. E.g. Use memfd_create to create a temp file an
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by singron 7y ago
Cigarette filters are made from cellulose acetate, which you could consider a plastic although it's not a petrochemical (it's the same plastic commonly used in eyeglass frames). However, a used cigarette butt will additionally con
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by singron 7y ago
In the default configuration, the checksum database currently has 657 level-0 tiles. The raw log data associated with each level-0 tile seems to be about 50KB. You could store the entire current checksum database log in about 30 MiB. You co
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by singron 7y ago
Yes. Take a look at their board of directors: https://www.iab.com/our-story/#board-of-directors It's a mix of the major players in the digital advertising industry. Historically the IAB has taken actions that are
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by singron 7y ago
A lot of languages have pleasant multi-line string literals. Also if you have a 1000 line hand-crafted SQL query, it's probably not going to be pleasant in your ORM either.
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by singron 7y ago
> "migration commands based on the git history"... what does that even mean? It actually seems like a really cool idea. E.g. * Commit A: create a schema.sql file "create table t (a INT);" * Commit B: update the schema
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by singron 7y ago
> hardware vendors optimizing Linux for their hardware This makes sense for component vendors that want their customers to use the hardware with their customer's existing OS (Linux). If it's a hardware vendor that also controls
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by singron 7y ago
I couldn't reproduce with 9.1.0 on Arch Linux since it's patched: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk... However the gcc 9.1.0 in nix/nixos is still affected (but not t
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by singron 7y ago
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by singron 7y ago
On my machine I have ~1500 packages. I don't really care if a few are very large, but on the whole, they have to be pretty small. My SSD has limited space and I'd like to use it for things where IO performance is important for the
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by singron 7y ago
I think you mean "requiring all employees to work full time ..."
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by singron 7y ago
Google open source policy. Even if you work on something with your own equipment, on your own time, and it doesn't relate to your work, it probably still relates to something Google does. Therefore Google asserts ownership over all wor
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by singron 7y ago
Check out the diversity report: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/diversity.google/... They show hiring and attrition numbers, but they don't break down every category by tech/non-tech. I'l
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by singron 7y ago
One of the issues with the EC fines is that they leave it up to Google to invent a remedy. Similar to how a child who doesn't want to do a chore might do a bad job in hope that they won't be assigned again, Google can try to engin
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by singron 7y ago
I think America really likes them because the alternative seems like "virtual representation" (i.e. representatives represent everyone, not a local district), which was part of why they rebelled against England. The theory is you
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by singron 7y ago
> people go to significant inefficiencies in order to avoid having to deal with aforementioned rude incompetents This can also make them seem more competent. E.g. if one rude person is an obstruction that everyone else has to work around
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by singron 7y ago
> Almost nobody is rude directly after you hire them ... No, it's more likely the environment or team is dysfunctional and rudeness is a manifestation I think this can be true, but new hires might just behave differently because the
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by singron 7y ago
> I think it's pretty intuitive that Zip Code and DOB are identifiers. It's great that you think that, but basically no company uses that definition. Most company privacy policies don't consider combinations of information
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by singron 7y ago
Sometimes vacation makes it worse because it makes you realize just how much your job makes you unhappy.
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by singron 7y ago
Good point. I got the two flipped in my head, but I think the rest of the comment applies.
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by singron 7y ago
Digital ocean has ~300 employees (circa 2017 according to wikipedia). Google has far more than that working on Cloud. Google Cloud is also largely layered on top of their existing internal infrastructure. Google cloud also has more services
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by singron 7y ago
Just to be perfectly precise, dividends are usually taxed as income, but an increased valuation as a result of a buyback would only be taxed as capital gains when the shares are sold. If there weren't a separate capital gains rate, the
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by singron 7y ago
I decided to change the email address I have registered with facebook after reading this ruling and seeing the long list of advertisers who uploaded customer lists with my email address. However, facebook blocks me from updating my email ad
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by singron 7y ago
Re dynamic IPs: you may often get the same IP again on renewal. You might have more luck if you randomize MAC addresses, but it's certainly possible that they will keep giving the same IP to a given subscriber until they have their own
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by singron 7y ago
I saw a chart a while ago that showed how much of your subscription your cable company forwarded to the content networks. Most channels were cents per month. ESPN was highest by far and was still only 5 dollars iirc. It seems like if your I
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by singron 7y ago
> We investigate a range of potential sources of PII, finding that phone numbers and email addresses added as profile attributes, those provided for security purposes such as two-factor authentication, those provided to the Facebook Mess
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by singron 7y ago
Do you have a source for this? YouTube isn't broken out separately in Alphabet earning reports and the last anyone authoritative talked about YouTube finances this way was several years ago AFAICT.
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by singron 7y ago
> Byteboard evaluators—software engineers with up to 15+ years of experience So evaluators have literally any level of experience? Can we, as a society, please agree to stop using this actually meaningless "up to X or more" lan

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