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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
This is great. However, he omitted one I encountered a need for pretty recently and have so far not found a good solution: How do you count the number of bits which have been set in a bitfield of type uint32_t? I couldn't find any x64_
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
TRS-80 Model I???
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
My guess is that OP isn't giving us all the details. Most likely he's engaged in some untoward behavior elsewhere and has ended up on a high risk list. These services are actually really great at reducing fraud for sellers.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
> Now a rich guy with no skills? He can afford to do whatever he wants, his time is worthless as this thought. I came in expecting click bait and was pleasantly surprised. This is brilliant.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
You know what else sucks? McDonalds.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
These days I code primarily in C++, which is what Rust seemingly is designed to replace. It doesn't, as far as I can tell. I optimize directly for the hardware I'm running on, which typically gives me 10-100x performance improveme
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
A bit of time off will do you good. Then consider your skill set and the things you liked and didn't like about your past experiences. Try to find something that lies in the intersection of those things. I would offer that the more cle
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
I haven't tried it but for what I do, I need to be very close to assembly. One microsecond of processing time incurs high costs.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
I stayed away from C++ for about 15 years, while working in higher level languages (C#, Go). I recently came back to it and my productivity is SOOO much higher, along with my code quality. I argue that for certain applications, the ability
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
Pretty ironic seeing as just a few months ago, everyone was ghosting employers, taking counteroffers after accepting, and "quiet quitting". So let's quit pretending employees are holier than employers.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
I loved this magazine. I was actually in one of them (I was 11 at the time). I'm going to have to find that.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
We implemented a web extension specifically to allow this. It basically worked by giving the user a warning that they would be tracked if they proceeded, then gave them a button to proceed anyway. This was a top feature request for our firs
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
We defeated it, when we we had a commercially available product, that is.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
> 5. A 1000x lossless compression algorithm. In 2122 diskspace and bandwidth are no longer constraints on anything. This seems that it would violate a fundamental law of information theory in that a data stream can only be compressed to
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
Coincidentally, this topic just came up for me. I've been experiencing bad eyestrain at work and have had to wear reading glasses on top of my contacts to get through my day. After two years with two different doctors, I went to a new
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
What irks me about this question is that it is almost utterly unrelated to any type of development task, save one: pipelining a repeated math equation in a long loop. And even then, I would bet the time it takes to swap two registers (or ev
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
It's not that curious at all really. The SEC is authorized to pursue criminal cases for securities fraud (among many other things). Furthermore, they can refer criminal cases to the Dept of Justice, which has almost certainly happened.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
>I don't know much about the intricasies of multithreading, so I couldn't tell you if Julia's approach to multithreading is groundbreaking or well designed. What I can tell you, is that in Julia, it is so easy to use multi
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
I once had an investor who I thought was a great fit for both me and the business. We clicked on every level. We shared the same goals, philosophy, way of thinking about things. I loved him. A few days before making his decision, he called
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
This will never happen because the credit ratings for municipalities depend on property taxes.
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
In contrast to the author, I find software development at 50 to be an amazing experience. I am more patient and have the mental flexibility to learn things which were much harder for me 10-20 years ago. That was about the last time I develo
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
What you've described is none other than a Winston Privacy device (no longer available, alas).
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by winstonprivacy 4y ago
Correct. And let's not forget that the company which owns them would also like to see EasyList die in a fire.