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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Opposite of free market. Capitalism = private ownership and profit from ownership.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
How useful are patent records for rebuilding technology? I imagine that patent is not a recipe, but description used identify infringements. If goal is only to identify infringements, then I would leave bunch of stuff out of patents. (Later
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
That is what happens when teachers and the school can get sued for any mistake. Avoid all mistakes. (Even if it mean not trying)
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
In the end his son got awarded. And learnt to stand up for him self. Seems double win on his side.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
I would like to present you with Chlamydia. I find it remarkable that chlamydia cells, fully enter host cells and live there stealing of resources. I would call it evolutions “half-assed attempt” at endosymbiosis. (Disclaimer: evolution has
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
There was a point in history where medics were not aware of concept of “normal body human temperature”. Then somebody took a sample of people, and measured their body temp and also asked if they were feeling well. Average among those who fe
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
That’s a given. But by casting an actual vote for “green party”, you are not only electing green party, but you are also sending strong signal to other parties, that there is an active voter who cares for “green” ideas. (Other parties may o
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
I guess if you were not caught, there is no evidence. But I remember you guys investigating tenet media financed by our friendly innocent piece spreading neighbour. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/13/medi
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
I guess you had something specific in mind, I would be interested in your analysis. The main difference that I see , is relative lack of female Trump supporters. Nothing else stands out much.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
So you can own whole percent of something substantial.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Gunports were meant to be used while sailing. (Good documentary: the pirates of caribean) reason according to wikipedia: > Vasa sank because she had very little initial stability—resistance to heeling under the force of wind or waves act
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Tangential value is still value :) I agree in principle, just want to add a bit of nuance. Lets take famous “lines of code” metric. It would be counterproductive to reward it (as proxy of productivity). But it is a good metric to know. For
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
> Goodharts law basically states that false proxies are game-able Exactly (btw. very nice way to put it) > stop wasting time on tracking false proxies Some times a proxy is much cheaper. (Medical anlogy of limited depth: Instead of
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
tl;dr version: - Use not one, but many metrics (article mentioned 600) - Recognize that some metrics you control directly (input metrics) and others you want to but can’t (output metrics). - Constantly refine metrics and your causal model b
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Many of them. Its easy to fake one metric, it harder to consistenly paly around 100 of them. (But then it’s no longer KPIs probably, as one looking at the data needs to recognise that details and nuance are important)
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
I meant abuse scenarios. Laws eventually are use not as intended, but as written. “defense[1]”, “if happy begin something end”, “if”. All of these technically are code (somewhere). Also check out some esoteric language like: https:/&#
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Yup. Jurisdiction is like good manners, there is plenty of those, but it is not some kind of fundamental law of nature.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
US laws is not “other countries” laws. Linus lives in US. … and Finland is on the same side as US anyway, might have similar views. Btw. Did Linux ban all Russian speaking people or Russian citizen or people with Russian IP addresses?
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
You want operate in country X, you must comply with country X laws or be ready to be percecuted. (From notice, to confiscation of servers, to executions; depends on the X and how inconvenient you are)
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Well, here is a story I heard (central Europe). Parents did not want the baby, so they left it at the door step, date of birth was not known, so some was assigned and used in some legal documents. Later, original parents changed their minds
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
By disallowing, we normalise deviance (security wise). Also, there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code. There are myriad of programming languages already, and for trolling or legal attack purposes, one could build interp
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
> Title only says rustls beats the other libraries which is objectively true so don’t see what is misleading here. You are correct. Although, communication has two parts: sending and receiving. Application named “rustFoo”, automatically
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
One needs expected result defined for each of those. I doubt that is feasible.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
I guess we should not take blameless to the extreme. Some feedback must exist. (calm, obective and possibly private) Eventually it is up to the manager or manager’s manager to be aware what is happening and take action if critically needed.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Different kinds of systems? > devs who maintain these systems What is meant by “system” here? Computer application? Hardware?
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Also there is no easy way for management to know if somebody has required level of skill.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
Extreme A: every team member is litterally five years old (born 5 years ago) Extreme B: every collegue is required to read and be able to recite x86, C specifications, postgre manual, and must have IQ 190+. What is obscure or hard to unders
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
> I want solid verification, and a strong pattern to repeat verification no matter what. Everybody has a time budget for test execution time. I doubt that you will wait one year for test suite to finish. It is feasible to test all possib
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
> I don't see how these definitions help me write better tests > What I would like to see instead … If you hire me, I can address those needs.
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by stoperaticless 2y ago
> What's useful here? It is up to the reader to figure out this one.

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