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by thu2111 6y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-goog... Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the websi
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Well, that one is pretty egregious but there are other blatantly misleading statements. I don't know what polygon is meant to be, but the author seems to be far more ideologically biased than SimCity ever was. One example: "Scien
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I thought we'd stop using "anti vaxx" as a slur now most of Europe and multiple world leaders have spent the last four months spreading or consuming anti-vaxx propaganda. It's not like that's a fringe position anymo
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I think that page supports the notion that it's fraud. People pay with money for the book because of its claims. The legal dictionary says: FRAUD. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon
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Surely they would. We already learned that members of their own security team don't seem to see any problems with employees abusing privileged access to mandatory Chrome extensions to agitate for unionisation (at Google of all places!!
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Not really exceptional. Lots of these firms sell a dollar for 80 cents so becoming more popular increases their losses. The real question is whether this sort of delivery service is still popular when priced correctly.
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Scoped vars are nice but I never saw anyone claim they're a required part of structured concurrency. They're mostly an optimisation over ThreadLocal.
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No, the physics of that don't work at all. Trains for example cannot handle gradients that cars manage with ease.
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It's not quite like that. Firstly, Java's generics did extend the class file format, quite significantly. Lots of metadata about generics and type variables makes it into the class files which is why you can reflect over them. It
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The most surprising thing about this story is the apparently massive number of people who didn't have cars, relied entirely on public transport and then decided to buy cars? How certain are you of that analysis? Surely that is a rather
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Specifically, the JVM knows there are no pointers into the stack because Java and bytecode cannot express: int a = 1; int *b = &a; Or rather, this construct can occur, but it's always the decision of the JIT compiler t
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Not exactly. That's the programming rule for structured concurrency which is a very simple bit of logic added on to the ExecutorService class. Loom itself is just about making threads super cheap/fast. You can use new cheap thre
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I'm looking forward to Valhalla too, but I think it won't be as impactful as people think. In particular that use case is a poor fit for Valhalla and I don't think Optional will be widely adopted even post-value types. The in
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Well, kind of. In practice despite the faster release schedule quite a few features have been in incubation for years. Most features that people could identify as favorite have been talked about for nearly 5 years now and are still not targ
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Yeah, .NET is an odd choice to praise for backwards compatibility. .NET 1 -> .NET 2 was iirc a total break due to the integration of generics, amongst other things. Source code had to be rewritten. .NET Framework -> .NET Core was anot
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The FT article is paywalled. There's an equivalent story here at Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/deliveroo... You'll have to skip past the typical anti-UK anti-Brexit s
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It's a pricing issue too. Asana may have over-invested relative to what people were really willing to pay for those features. However VC backing makes price-based competition irrelevant, because your competitors pricing isn't real
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Do they go belly up? As far as I can tell bankruptcies of Valley startups stopped decades ago. I can't remember the last company that literally went bankrupt. Failing firms are always bought for undisclosed sums. VCs will not let the
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It is sustainable and there is such a thing as free money. Ultimately all this useless activity traces back to governments and their obsession with GDP. Asana has never made money but it spends money so it counts as economic growth. The mon
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But 53M is not much for a decade of business at that scale. For the size of some of these VC investments they could just put it into the market and get similar returns, I'd think?
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If it's been nearly a decade for a glorified to-do list app and they still aren't profitable, then it is in fact not useful enough to justify the effort invested. That's what market signals mean .
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YouTube was originally Python, not PHP.
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Then I wonder how it has ended in a situation where a factory is apparently ready to go to produce but is waiting for regulatory approval, and the regulators are claiming they're waiting for paperwork to be submitted. That shouldn&#x27
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Hmm. I did a quick scan read over the Politico article, but I'm confused. It doesn't seem to be about contracts and the words "contract" and "alliance" don't appear in it. Did you copy/paste the wrong
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There were also opinion polls done by Western polling firms that showed majority support for joining Russia. And Ukraine responded by cutting off the region's electricity supply, so presumably support for them fell after that.
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Facebook should just not use fact checkers at all. The sites were fine before that and "fact checkers" shoot themselves in the feet so frequently that ever fewer people take them seriously. Most such self-proclaimed checkers are f
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I'm bullish on Intel. Having an engineer at the top will fix all sorts of subtle problems quite quickly. Their manufacturing process for both 10nm and 7nm are now supposedly back on track, and yet they have a large backlog of designs w
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E.g. some other thread that isn't yours getting timesliced onto your core. Or something in the OS interrupt handling code wiping out most of your CPU cache, etc. Bear in mind that by default most Linux distros will a timeslice of 10 m
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Yeah. These "you can't use GC in games" comments always crack me up. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/... "Garbage collection in Unreal Engine 4 is fast and efficien
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There's no tradeoff between using a GC and controlling data layout. CLR already allows value types and JVM is getting support for advanced value types and specialised generics (templates) over them.

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