tomerv

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by tomerv 5y ago
Such regions of memory are usually marked as uncachable (UC) or write-through (WT) or sometimes write-combine (WC). These specify what type of caching is allowed, and if you somehow configure an incorrect caching type you're going to h
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by tomerv 5y ago
Both cases are meaningless debt. The interesting information is total amount owed by the government minus total amount owed to the government. If I take a loan from the bank for $1000, but also have $1000 in a bank account in another bank,
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by tomerv 5y ago
Election rigging is a renewable resource. At the start, you can tilt the results a bit in your favor. As you gain power you also gain more influence and popularity, and then you can build deeper structures of corruption, which enable furthe
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by tomerv 5y ago
I lost you at the second paragraph. Crypto researches generally agree today that the NSA actually chose strong contents for DES (I assume that's what you meant by DEC?). They invented differential cryptanalysis a decade before anyone e
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by tomerv 5y ago
I think you're overly-critical. The CSS immediately gives the look & feel of using Windows 7. Maybe the gradients are not completely spot-on, but the other 95% of elements are great.
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by tomerv 5y ago
I'm really glad that Mozilla is developing Rust. Even though I'm not using it (and haven't even learned it), it looks like a net positive for the world of software development. This is exactly the kind of thing that a nonprof
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by tomerv 5y ago
That's my experience as well. I'm on DDG for a few months now, and I often resort to using Google when DDG doesn't give me the results I want.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Eventually - when the field is mature enough - it might be tested like you would test any new hire. At first you keep a close eye on it/them, and eventually you trust them to do the job.
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by tomerv 5y ago
> If anything, fracking helped the environment Maybe fracking helped reduce emissions for now, but it remains to be seen whether it helped the environment. It could take decades to learn about all the negative impacts it has.
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by tomerv 5y ago
I'm failing to see the connection between your comment and the article. What is the overreach here? We don't know the details because it was discussed behind closed doors, but allegedly "when he confronted a supervisor for ca
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by tomerv 5y ago
That's like a carpenter who has never learned how to use a circular saw. Sure, you can work your way around it with all the other tools you have, but why would you? Just put 1 hour into studying it, and have a new tool under your belt.
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by tomerv 5y ago
It's not an effective detterent becsuse the kid holding the weapon doesn't understand the consequences. Edit: if you give a child the keys to your car and they hit someone with it, who is at fault?
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by tomerv 5y ago
That sounds like a serious crime by the gang leaders, and less so by the hired kids.
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by tomerv 5y ago
The GP complained about shell quoting.
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by tomerv 5y ago
The tech lead is not the one being interviewed here. Presumably, they are already respected in their workplace, and admitting that they learned something from the candidate's full answer should be seen as a positive by their manager. T
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by tomerv 5y ago
Can't really comment on whether that was the correct way to handle the situation, given that passing the interview was the goal. However, I would have a hard time giving an incorrect answer on purpose. I also consider an interview as a
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by tomerv 5y ago
I feel that this was covered by the article (there's a second part) with the conclusion that this cannot be the main factor of the obesity epidemic. Margarine consumption was much higher in the 1970s than today, but obesity today is mu
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by tomerv 5y ago
This is the best option in my opinion. You can also "optimize" by doing the forced merge only for branches that have 2+ commits. That way, if most of your branches have a single commit you won't have many useless merges. The
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by tomerv 5y ago
Right, but this is about civil engineering. I suppose that field also had tinkerers at some point, but today we expect civil engineers to have a diploma and license. Maybe software engineering will go that way too in the future, after the I
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by tomerv 5y ago
The article mentions this (but it is easily missed): while current chips are 64 bits, in practice the memory addressing is only 48 bits, with plans to extend it to 57 bits for server products [1]. Taking this into account, there's a cl
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by tomerv 5y ago
I never understood this line of reasoning. If you're changing a line of code you should at least look at the whole function that contains it, and update the comments according to the change. > given they don't have to change th
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by tomerv 5y ago
Is genocide really an honest term in this context?
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by tomerv 5y ago
It took me several tries to understand this comment. In the first pass it looks like the result of some kind of Markov chain text generator.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Coordination problems are a major issue for urban renewal. In Israel we have a methodology loosely translated as evacuation-construction, Where the city coordinates the rebuilding of a whole row of buildings. The apartment owners get new ap
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by tomerv 5y ago
Short answer: Yes, it's useful sometimes. Longer answer: I always enjoyed these types of questions, and I sometimes solve them in my free time, e.g. Google's Codejam. So when I interviewed I didn't need to prepare specificall
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by tomerv 5y ago
This article is about planar graphs, which aren't really related to knowledge graphs.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Speaking of python, how do you pronounce "import"? I pronounce it as IM-port. According to the rule that makes it a noun, but shouldn't it be a verb? I wonder if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Interesting to note that the removal of selective availability enabled the creation of Geocaching ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#History ).
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by tomerv 5y ago
What you're describing doesn't sound like micromanagement, it just sounds like a manager who's fussy about all the little details. Some people really care about the small details, but there's a way of doing that correctl
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by tomerv 5y ago
So many people here didn't fully comprehend your comment...

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