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by superjan 5y ago
What I did not like about them was you could either buy a google book (only readable via a google app) or as a free but bitmapped Pdf, so bloated that it used to crash my iPad. I did not mind paying, but would like to get some more flexible
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by superjan 5y ago
As a programmer, the takeaway for me is that the exceptional treatment of this database request should be logged somewhere. Here, the EXPLAIN response would have been a good place.
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by superjan 5y ago
I would also fear retribution by colleagues: one bad actor that does not keep his end of the bargain is bad for business for the rest.
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by superjan 5y ago
This was discussed in the comments on a preprint of a related paper by the same authors. http://disq.us/p/2akcsb2
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by superjan 5y ago
this story is also told in this great radiolab episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/galap...
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Why Covid-19 patients become critically ill(amsterdamumc.org)
45 points by superjan 5y ago|13 comments
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by superjan 5y ago
I mean accidental in the sense that the developer was not acting in bad faith. I don’t mean to defend Apple, it just annoys me that this is advertised as an iPhone hack.
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by superjan 5y ago
The article is about apple failing to detect a huge number of apps that accidentally contained malware. I would not call this an iPhone hack though.
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by superjan 5y ago
The “if (debug) log” example in the article is likely compiled to an always taken conditional jump past the logging call. And therefore not quite free. Nitpicking of course, I love such in-depth articles.
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by superjan 5y ago
This was a good argument in the past, because there were very few ios exploits and apple was proactive in hunting them down, to prevent jailbreaking. Not sure if it is a valid argument today.
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by superjan 5y ago
The tweet is not advocating print debugging per se, but about understanding the code by modifying it. This is how I approach any foreign/old code all the time, I can recommend it. If you have a theory about how it works, edit it, and s
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by superjan 5y ago
Why would I spend an hour on buiding a diagram to generate code if I can type the same code in five minutes? I can read both. This is from real world experience with Rational tools.
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by superjan 5y ago
Yes this was so annoying... We optimized software for multi core, but the laptop builders label their products as 10th gen i7.... which says little about it’s performance. GPU labels are easier to decode by comparison.
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by superjan 6y ago
One problem is that there is a single process for all. Certain types of journalism and research should be able to ask for pre-approval of videos without risking a ban. The AI can still deal with the bulk of those requests.
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by superjan 6y ago
Yeah, today’s browsers remind me of flash and acrobat: they add features faster than they can fix security bugs. And those features are default on for everyone to exploit. Yeah, I know the comparison is a hyperbole.
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by superjan 6y ago
What is your motivation of putting it on github? Have you considered selling it to google?
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by superjan 6y ago
I heard that argument before, but we don’t know what the layers in between look like. The higher you are, the more growth you can claim responsibility for, and demand a piece of the pie accordingly.
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by superjan 6y ago
Windows machines have the habit of waking from sleep after 3 hours, to do whatever and then fail to go back to sleep when they are done. I only use hibernate for that reason, on an Ssd resume is fast enough.
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by superjan 6y ago
“Choose a job you love, and you will not have to work a day in your life” - Confucius
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by superjan 6y ago
I think the reason the behavior is still there because it is not used. There is no gain in changing the standard, and the compiler warning could draw criticism. Why waste your time solving a non problem?
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When shoes were fit with X-rays (2018)(daily.jstor.org)
2 points by superjan 6y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 6y ago
For an example closer to home, the JPEG family of image compression formats all have a byte stuffing algorithm to avoid JPEG markers from occurring in the compressed stream.
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by superjan 6y ago
Hi, how do you know? It is of personal interest to me as I don’t use FB but do use WhatsApp. It may also reduce the piling of downvoters.
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by superjan 6y ago
This site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.
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by superjan 6y ago
I think the most convincing argument is that Bitcoin is an enabler for crime. Governments have a responsibility here.
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by superjan 6y ago
Thanks!
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by superjan 6y ago
What I wonder about: how is such a rescue contract negotiated? There is likely willingness to pay, but it is difficult to judge what a reasonable price is, and it may not even be clear who is culpable in advance. Do they have contracts in a
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by superjan 6y ago
I honestly don’t see why a paper form is necessarily wrong. Paper records have worked for ages. You can make people e-sign something, but would a 70 year old understand that he did something equivalent to signing? Prefilling would have been
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by superjan 6y ago
Who designed this critical piece of infrastructure with a single point of failure?
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by superjan 6y ago
We write a data intensive desktop app, and when you are close to disk full, we reduce functionality so you can’t make the problem worse, or lose work because of the disk full situation. The thing is that we know that more than half of that

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