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by teraflop 4y ago
One of the main issues, as I see it, is that the thresholds for obviousness and prior art are woefully lax. If patents were only applied to "expensive R&D that leads to a simple implementation", I think there would be much les
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by teraflop 4y ago
In this case, the money-laundering statute with which Chastain is being charged -- 18 USC 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) -- does require that the transaction was originally "designed in whole or in part" for a purpose that is itself illegal,
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by teraflop 4y ago
Don't really know about Oracle-the-company, but everything I've heard about Oracle-the-database-product suggests that working on it is a nightmare. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
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by teraflop 4y ago
> Like what am I even supposed to do here ? Not meaning to diminish your (quite reasonable) frustration, but is Cloudflare preventing you from transferring your domain somewhere else?
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by teraflop 4y ago
How about the Windows XP "OOBE" (out-of-box experience) music that plays during initial setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXzMBA9VU4
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by teraflop 4y ago
Well, part of the problem is that they deny that my email address is the correct one, even though I still have the PayPal receipt with that address sitting in my archive.
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by teraflop 4y ago
If it makes you feel better, having the transaction ID wouldn't help. I'm in a similar situation except I do have the original PayPal transaction ID, and when I provided it I was told: "Sorry, our system for looking up tran
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by teraflop 4y ago
Ah, I think I get it. So the problem isn't just that these drivers don't specifically support splice() -- it's that they also only support reading/writing with userspace buffers, and set_fs() was just a hack around tha
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by teraflop 4y ago
Even if you don't want to directly support splice() for every possible filesystem or file descriptor, I don't understand why it couldn't be "emulated" in those cases, by having the kernel just pretend it was given a
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by teraflop 4y ago
Spaceteam is sort of an extreme abstraction of this idea.
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by teraflop 4y ago
Discord's developer TOS says that API users must "comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations" and adhere to a privacy policy. It doesn't otherwise put any specific restrictions on what that policy can look l
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by teraflop 4y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, but the last company I worked for had a sizable office in Tokyo, and I was told by someone in the IT department that they were legally required to buy computers with Japanese keyboards for their Japanese em
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by teraflop 4y ago
Not unbelievable at all. I've pointed this out before, and I'll probably have cause to do so again, but Y Combinator has twice funded companies whose entire business model is smuggling: https://techcrunch.com/201
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by teraflop 4y ago
Until about 2/3 of the way through, I was convinced it was a parody.
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by teraflop 4y ago
That is also possible in Prometheus, which is why I made the comparison.
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by teraflop 4y ago
Is it really that different from, say, the way Prometheus supports histogram-based quantiles? https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/ Granted, it looks like Monarch supports a more cleanly-defined sc
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by teraflop 4y ago
The output size is linear, but since each byte of output requires O(n) work to compute, the total time to decode an encoded string is O(n^2). Or to put it another way, the decoding throughput (in bytes per second) is inversely proportio
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by teraflop 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "not transactional". SQLite implements transaction support at the "page" level, and builds all other database operations on top of it, which means anything that touches the bytes of the
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by teraflop 4y ago
Oops, I think my previous comment was inaccurate, and it's too late for me to edit it. It's only decoding that's quadratic, not encoding. Sorry for the confusion. It's not really obvious (IMO) from the wording of the s
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by teraflop 4y ago
The RFC doesn't mention an important drawback of base58, which is that the computational cost of encoding or decoding it is quadratic in the length of the input -- unlike base64, which is linear-time. I assume the performance is acce
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by teraflop 4y ago
I mean, that's a matter of perspective, isn't it? English words like "bang", "chirp" and "snap" are considered to be onomatopoeia, even though their pronunciation has very little objective resemblance
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by teraflop 4y ago
Contrary to popular understanding, the GDPR does not allow you to force a company to delete all data about you. In effect, it lets you revoke your consent for the company to store and process your data. But it also provides for cases wher
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by teraflop 4y ago
It appears that the language uses "return" as a synonym for the SYSCALL x86_64 instruction: https://github.com/wellang/well/blob/main/src/syscall_interp... The example code is equivalent t
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by teraflop 5y ago
This is a great write-up, but I'll quibble with one small part of it: > It’s important to understand, however, that GitHub’s hands are tied in many ways here. If they do not follow the notice and counter notice procedures exactly as
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by teraflop 5y ago
A well-prepared PDF can include metadata about each page, so that reader software will be able to display the "logical" page number in addition to the actual numerical index. E.g. a page in the prologue of a book might show up as
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by teraflop 5y ago
Getting the chip lined up accurately enough might be a bit trickier. With soldering, you can normally rely on the solder's surface tension to pull the pads into alignment.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Aside from being a lot simpler to use, a dedicated "multiply" command could end up being dramatically more efficient. If multiple clients are simultaneously trying to update the same value, then locking allows them to take turns w
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by teraflop 5y ago
I'd say your second bullet point encompasses a number of sub-skills, such as: * Understanding common coding patterns, and inferring design intent from them * Quickly prioritizing "critical" vs. "nice-to-have" compon
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by teraflop 5y ago
This might just mean that you've been overly conditioned to expect bad interview questions that do rely on a "trick". But if so, I'm sure you're far from the only person in that position. Would you be less frustra
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by teraflop 5y ago
If you think disliking Trek, BSG and B5 automatically translates to "hating sci-fi in general", you might want to consider the possibility that you have a slightly narrow view of the genre.

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