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by xenadu02 4y ago
The modern paradigm seems to be "if we can't see it there is no problem". Just hide everything behind a hamburger menu, disclosure triangle, dropdown, or delete the feature entirely! Then the user won't be confused, they
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I think shell interactivity improved because everyone just decided xterm was the way to go, which itself was based on VT-102 with some later VT 200/300/400 bits and new inventions added on. Today it's so common (the default o
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> I was referring to the situation where a null check was deleted because the compiler found UB through static analysis. You can say that but in practice -Onone is fairly close to what you're asking for already. Most people are 100%
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for a year or so with no issues using multiple Mac machines. It's entirely over SAMBA shares. I set the server up to give each user their own unique TM backup disk.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Shouldn't the OS fallback to the cellular system for emergency calls if whatever provider is registered fails to start the call?
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by xenadu02 4y ago
They spent years being 1-2 process nodes ahead of everyone else with excellent execution. Anyone within the organization trying to sound alarm bells would have been silenced or ignored... after all they pulled the rabbit out of the hat so m
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The Windows approach is better from a "perfect system" point of view: in theory an application knows all the code that it is loading and has a grasp on its own memory usage. You still have virtual address space because it is used
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by xenadu02 4y ago
That's why it is just one possibility. I usually only ever see people patting themselves on the back after the Nth time they're finally "proven right" about housing being over-valued. My point is just that you can be rig
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by xenadu02 4y ago
From a business ownership POV that's bad management and bad for the business. Shouldn't the owners optimize by getting rid of such management? FWIW I know the answer: management typically goes unchecked which is a huge problem. Ma
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> I'm going to channel the efficient market hypothesis (I apologize) here and say that people have done that cost comparison and not one of them bought mainframes. Heck, Google ported their entire monorepo to Power but not to z. Nah
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by xenadu02 4y ago
How did so many companies assume the pandemic/lockdown bump was going to be permanent? It seems obvious that people stuck at home spent money on certain goods and services but that at least some of that money was going to go back whenc
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I've made this comment before but you can correctly time a downturn and still end up worse off than people who buy at the height of the market. You lose upside, low interest rates, and continue paying rent (which has zero return). It d
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I don't know why you'd want to deal with the European or UK system. It means your housing payment can fluctuate, possibly dramatically, due to actions entirely outside your control. Mortgages in the US generally don't have a
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The parent comment is making a really good point (in a roundabout way): It is just another variation of "timing the stock market". Even if you're correct you can end up losing so much money on the upside that long-term you lo
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> My advice is, find balance. Find time for yourself, make time for your partner. Unhappy stressed out parents create unhappy stressed out kids. Sometimes you have to be selfish in the short term so you can be a better parent in the long
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I agree and to expand on some of these: 3) Definitely; newborns eat, sleep, and poop. Mostly sleep. Take advantage of this. Sleep when they sleep, run errands, go out to eat, etc. You may develop an unjustified feeling that "I'm a
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by xenadu02 4y ago
A good balance is a tree with about a cache line's worth of values at each node. It degrades to a vector for small N, gets the pre-fetching / branch prediction benefit for medium N, but doesn't require fully contiguous memory
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by xenadu02 4y ago
As if two wrongs somehow make it right! Uncontrolled re-entry of any debris likely to reach the ground without burning up is a bad idea. So is blowing anything up in orbit (creating huge hazards for other spacecraft). These are bad ideas no
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> When we finally understand how the brain actually does it If you dig into how neurons work in the brain you'll discover that a single neuron has the complexity of a large neural network internally and it's behavior is not nea
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The problem is that if FTL travel exists then our existing theories about spacetime are wrong in some way (despite making lots of great predictions) or time paradoxes are possible in which case we have no idea what the consequences could be
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This all comes down to the "Gish Gallop" problem. It is easy to vomit out disinformation and lies. Anyone attempting to poison the well can do so much faster than you can refute their lies with facts and well-reasoned argument. Wh
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Be careful about trusting what people in this thread are saying. If you only spent a few years here to work, live in a "trendy" spot for startup kids, and mostly spend time in SOMA/FiDi/Hayes then your understanding of t
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The so-called "pork" definitely gave everyone an incentive to compromise to a far greater degree.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Resident of SF perspective here. SF has problems. The recent FBI investigation that nabbed Mohammed Nuru and the city's own investigation that nabbed Hui have helped a lot because it has reminded the rats that consequences exist. It&#x
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Western forests burn and regrow regularly... so much so that some species of plants rely on or optimize for the fire cycle. Things like having seeds that only open after a fire, fire-resistant bark, and so on. Unless we pave over the locati
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Like DNA or living organisms: digital data has to be kept "live" to truly be secure, replicating itself somewhat regularly. Attempts to store it statically are cost-prohibitive or fail at much higher rates than claimed. Worse if t
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Article 6 of the US Constitution means that ratified treaties pre-empt state law. It has nothing to do with federal law. See Ware v. Hylton (1796) and McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). Treaties that conflict with federal law are null and void;
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You might try defining what the "ideal" department's data would look like: what categories of data, what columns each record has, what the values are for each, etc. Ideally you'd stamp it with a year and give it a spiffy
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Restitution for a wrongful conviction varies dramatically on a state-by-state basis. In some states you need a ruling of actual innocence by a court, not just vacation of conviction, to get compensation. That high bar can make it impractica
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by xenadu02 4y ago
It is clear the foundation has been corrupted by the professional non-profit class. These are the same kinds of people who staff up a "housing foundation" in San Francisco, burn money for 10-15 years, and never build a single unit

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