uasm

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by uasm 7y ago
> "Every decision is a discrimination of an alternative decision." Let's put aside the whole "at-will employment" (which I doubt applies to CEOs) discussion. You can't fire someone for cheating on their part
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by uasm 7y ago
> “We are reducing the likelihood of future errors by removing you” It's discriminatory. I doubt this would be legal.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I believe, but cannot definitively prove that paper ballots cast at poll sites is the most robust against attack" Here's how a Blockchain voting system can work: 1. Person casts vote using a voting machine. 2. Voting ma
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by uasm 7y ago
> "Using a blockchain cannot (ever) tell you if your vote was counted." What. By voting you commit a change to the blockchain. The system should report back your "commit hash". Said hash is public (as is the entire bl
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by uasm 7y ago
> The other posts make it clear without any counter argument from you that government provides a safe and stable addressable market to do business (and literally the currency). How does a government quantify providing "a safe and st
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by uasm 7y ago
> "That's a straw man." No, it isn't. Road tax pays for road maintenance. Municipal tax pays for municipal maintenance. VAT and Income Tax pay for government expenditure. Taxes are collected in exchange for a service.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "The most interesting part (IMHO) of the post addressed Github, a multi-billion dollar acquisition on the backs of the open source contributors whose primary beneficiaries never seemed to give even a small portion of the profits b
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by uasm 7y ago
The blog looks like one giant acid trip.
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by uasm 7y ago
https://youtu.be/YzQZLucY8iw
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by uasm 7y ago
That's inflation for you.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "building web applications for over 20 years" You built a "web application" in 1999? Would love to hear more.
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by uasm 7y ago
> "We're not on PPP or SLIP connections anymore and yet game devs are still writing netcode as though we are." Your average multiplayer today is significantly more complex than Quake. More data needs to pass through, at hi
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by uasm 7y ago
> "I know this is hard to belive for some people but you don't need to be a xenophobe/nastionalist to have voted for "leave". The insults really don't help anyone." You are absolutely right and I wasn&#
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by uasm 7y ago
> "My children will now always have the right to study, work, live and love abroad. That can’t be taken away from them. I am incredibly proud I have given that to them. And now that I have the personal, individual right to do the sa
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by uasm 7y ago
> "The language could make those guarantees if it wanted to" > "Of course by C's nature there are limits" You seem to acknowledge the fact that most of the undefined behaviors in C are essentially born out of
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by uasm 7y ago
> "What has stopped people from creating a standard with no undefined behavior? Is such a thing impossible?" I don't understand the "undefined behavior" bandwagon. 1. We have a perfectly defined list of "und
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by uasm 8y ago
Social engineering + identity theft. "Yeah, I'm from Facebook. Mind showing me your ID? Just need to clear a few things here."
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by uasm 8y ago
> "Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?" It's literally in the first sentence: "The authors of a study that claimed to find a link between typical male brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder
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by uasm 8y ago
Hmm, let's read this one. > "March 28, 2019" > "Fibers: the Most Elegant Windows API" > "The Windows API — a.k.a. Win32 — is notorious for being clunky, ugly, and lacking good taste. Microsoft has done
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by uasm 8y ago
So - soft skills, experience, great attitude and drive. Do we really need a title for that?
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by uasm 8y ago
Have you read tootie's comment at-all? > "You can't say your PM is a jerk, but not the people because the people voted for him (or at least his party)." No, it's not the people. It's some people that vot
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by uasm 8y ago
Seriously? Would you say the American people are "jerks" because Trump was voted into power? That's not how any of this works.
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by uasm 8y ago
Everyone should also get paid more then. Also, if 33% of your job is answering support emails, should we still call it a "Software Engineer" position? How about being very clear about these expectations as-part of the job intervie
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by uasm 8y ago
> "kuusi palaa" Can we get a bit more detail here? Are those variations on pronunciation? How does a native Finn able to infer the correct meaning?
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by uasm 8y ago
That's a strange disclaimer. There should've been a cache there.
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by uasm 8y ago
> "I mean, I'd love a beachfront property in Maui but we can't all have that" The person you're replying to is basically saying: "having a place you can stay in, to keep you alive and going rather than homel
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by uasm 8y ago
The Xi backend is already written in Rust, a relatively low-level language with a somewhat C-like FFI/ABI. The choice to use JSON in time-critical code, when more performant alternatives are available, seems to me like a mistake.
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by uasm 8y ago
> "C is one of extreme cases" I would say it's the other way around. We've had the knowledge and tools to build performant, scalable and highly maintainable systems for a while now. The learning curve is there, but th
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by uasm 8y ago
> "It is often the case that the object construction is more costly than the JSON parsing, and you can't fix that with binary formats." What. typedef struct _some_struct_t { unsigned long some_long; unsig
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by uasm 8y ago
But... how else are the people that have never seen a byte array or had to flip endianness will be able to write plugins for my text editor?

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