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by vxNsr 4y ago
I don’t quite understand how this works. They say it’s a new protocol but it’s still using a browser which would imply it’s layered on top of UDP or TCP. Building a new protocol today is kinda like inventing a new engine that doesn’t requir
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Many of the issues that seem like doom and gloom will be solved, through human ingenuity and perseverance. Getting all bent out of shape and depressed is not the answer as the truth is that all those things aren’t nearly as bad as many are
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by vxNsr 4y ago
It sounds like he only applied and went through the interview process for jobs that already passed his “high moral standard”
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by vxNsr 4y ago
tbf I dropped out of a CE degree (and college) because I couldn't pass discrete math so I might not be the best logic programmer... I doubt I could pass leetcode interviews, I mostly work on the fringes of software dev.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
I understood it to mean don’t print “5” but keep computing as if 5 were in it.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
I’ve used copilot to turn an rfc into code. It wasn’t perfect the code did need to be changed a bit but it was surprisingly close. And I ended only rewriting 4-5 lines that were totally wrong and 3-4 just for clarity. Out of like 40 lines o
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This needs a (2020) tag. It’s super old but still an interesting anecdote about “blitz scaling” gone wrong. I found a few of these myself, was able to order a free sandwich that normally cost $16 as long as I ordered something else.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
I hear, so assume I didn't graduate primary school, where would you suggest I start to avoid needing to google random blog posts on the spot?
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This blog post by Joel is a wealth of knowledge that does a great job of presciently explaining the last 15 years of Microsoft. He even offers a great reason for why IE stagnated for years: MS was afraid of the web and felt sabotage was the
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This form of gatekeeping doesn’t make a lot of sense. DNS isn’t simple to understand, many very knowledgeable people still make mistakes with it. Expecting everyone to have a perfect understanding of DNS before they buy a domain is as unrea
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Wow now that’s interesting I didn’t fully understand what he meant by pseudo code, but this makes it especially interesting!
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Fascinating story. Especially interesting how he still felt compelled to make Microsoft’s apps work without any input from them. If it was important for them you’d think they'd agree to let him have access to the actual source code to
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by vxNsr 4y ago
A lot of this stuff dies on the industrial engineer’s desk where it can’t be made viable at scale.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
My understanding is these are usually made by interns as a fun project that has a low impact and can be scuttled without consequence if the code becomes difficult to maintain. There are a bunch of these types of Easter eggs that no longer w
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Do you have a physical prototype? I’m curious how you got an entire desk surface to support wireless charging under an active screen, apple famously gave up on doing wireless charging and they didn’t have to contend with a LED screen to cha
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This is why imo powershell (when done right) is more powerful than bash (no matter how correctly it’s done). Powershell cmdlet names are descriptive and generally make sense as do the parameter names, additionally the guidelines for how to
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Love stories like this, few people can claim to have truly forgotten more than us novices will ever know but he surely can.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
cause of accident was bird strike, the plane was already mere feet from the ground when the engine failed.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
> it's done by a brand that has a reasonable reputation for reliability and for standing behind their products This is simply not true. Asus like acer is a brand I tell people to avoid when shopping for a new laptop. They have a h
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This I’m not as clear on and it for sure differs between companies. But most if not all small businesses are not self-insured. They use a larger insurance company like BCBS who pays out, and the company and employees split the cost of the p
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by vxNsr 4y ago
> If I moved to the US right now, I would (as I understand it) probably have a lot of difficulty getting any insurance company to cover me given my pre-existing conditions. That’s not how it works here. Insurance companies cannot refus
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Yea this was a surprise.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Many people pay well over $100/yr to Amazon they expect a certain amount of support. Google by contrast doesn’t have nearly as many paying customers, and thus doesn’t feel the need to support them.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Also consider that the yubikey is only the 2nd factor, the user still needs to enter the password. Obviously password resets are possible but might be a bit more of tip off to the user.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Or how about if google sees you log into a computer associated with a library IP address more than once it offers to help you set this up. With some sort of special dialog that specifically targets people in this situation. And it periodica
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Consider this very popular hn link: http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary it gets posted once a year at least and strongly recommends looking up words you already know.
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Your website is horrifically mangled on my iPhone 12 Pro iOS v15.5 https://i.imgur.com/hXriy52.gif
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by vxNsr 4y ago
The fact that google so blatantly creates a better version of android that’s reserved for pixel kinda shows how bad the android ecosystem is. It used to be that people really wanted stock android, now because google spends so many resources
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by vxNsr 4y ago
This could be useful in places where you need to deliver something to someone who trusts you, but corp policies get in the way. I’m talking not maliciously. There a cases where you’re admin but still can’t quite run something, or download a
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by vxNsr 4y ago
Isn't london famous for its rainfall? kinda feel like solar wouldn't really work so well there.

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