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by teddyh 2y ago
< http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t... >
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Government is incentivized and rewarded for finding and punishing violent drug cartels and child abusers. When those become hard to find, the government punishes minor offenses, since it is easy to paint these as hardened criminals, and no
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by teddyh 2y ago
There is Zeeker < https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zeeker/ >, but there seems to be no new versions recently, and I cannot find a link to the browser add-on on their web site, so they m
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by teddyh 2y ago
The author seems to constantly conflate “not failing the interview” with “having the program produce correct output according to the rules”. But it was an inverview, not a logic puzzle.
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Arguably, the interface of Asteroids was copied from the video game Spacewar! (1962).
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Is this summary AI generated?
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by teddyh 2y ago
“ When you’re working on a really, really good team with great programmers, everybody else’s code, frankly, is bug-infested garbage, and nobody else knows how to ship on time. ” — Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome : &l
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by teddyh 2y ago
Check out Google’s Disavow Links Tool.
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My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase(old.reddit.com)
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Writing code with fewer bugs is a function of experience. But, the reason is not entirely what you would think it is. Sure, a lot of it is anticipating problems previously experienced, and writing code that handles problems, or entire cla
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by teddyh 2y ago
IIRC, the original ASCII standard had ↑ and ← but later changed them to ^ and _, respectively.
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I think I remember that; It was a talk by somebody from nVidia, as I recall.
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by teddyh 2y ago
IIUC, the word “anarchy”, when being used as a synonym for “chaos”, is a simple political slur; like calling some country a “Socialist Regime” in the context of state overreach. It implies a negative but does not state it, in hope of cre
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by teddyh 2y ago
Your rhetoric hinges on a wilful conflation of the two meanings of the word “disruption”. Also, who says I approve of bypassing labor laws, banking regulations, or copyright?
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Anarchy does not mean mob rule. Allowing protests to censor anyone from talking opens up a huge security hole: anyone can then organize a “protest” to censor anyone.
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Allowing protests to escalate to disruptions is equivalent to allowing protests to censor anyone they don’t like.
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Seems there is a conflict brewing. TFA says: > As such, if a peaceful protest were to take place during the talk in question, we will not take action, provided the protest is indeed peaceful and does not disrupt the proceedings. Howev
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by teddyh 2y ago
The chances of some specific person having absolutely zero luck is infinitesimally small. But many people believe themselves having no luck. Because pessimists are very common.
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Considering how many things of questionable veracity are said about systemd in general, and Lennart in particular, I would like a link to that issue before I take your characterization at face value.
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You are mostly correct, but the “Luck” factor has a hidden variable in it: The ability to see and notice when you are lucky, often called “optimism”. If you are pessimistic, you will not notice when a lucky break happens, and the oppor
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by teddyh 2y ago
No, but the absolute riveted fascination with the fact that historical things actually exist (as clearly exhibited by the featured article) is, in my experience, uniquely American. Most of the people in the rest of the world are surround
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by teddyh 2y ago
> and f’s and s’s were interchanged Could these be instances of the long s, “ſ”, easily confused with an f?
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A “Teapot trial” is not actually that farfetched: < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teapot_Dome_scand... >
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by teddyh 2y ago
> Has this solution been audited? Only insofar as everybody that I’ve asked over the years has failed to find anything wrong with it. But no formal verification has been done. > In particular, is it safe to replay attacks by actor
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You can reboot your full-disk-encryption server while you sleep. Obligatory plug: < https://www.recompile.se/mandos > Disclosure: I am a co-author of Mandos.
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It is always fascinating when Americans re-discover that old things actually exist. But, as they say, an American thinks that 100 years is a long time while a European thinks that 100 miles is a long way.
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See also: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752746 >
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Missing these: • The Linux Software Map: < https://lsm.qqx.org/ > • Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) < http://freshcode.club/ >
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Note: Quotation marks are not suitable for marking emphasis. < https://old.reddit.com/r/suspiciousquotes/ >
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No, IIRC, on a Connection Machine, a light blinks when the corresponding CPU is active. A LED which is on or off means the CPU is idle. I am personally quite convinced that they chose to do it this way because the way you describe it –

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