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by xtajv 4y ago
I remember the ol' "LTE is short for Long Term Employment" joke. It took me several months of strictly non-4G-related work to recognize vanity license plates again.
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by xtajv 5y ago
Store timestamps as ISO8601 UTC with the best precision supported by your hardware. Display timestamps however the user wants. Do not roll your own timestamp code. See "Falsehoods programmers believe about time".
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by xtajv 6y ago
> A lot of the time it's easier to confirm that an answer is correct than compute that answer. Is this a "human validation" that P!=NP ? ;)
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by xtajv 6y ago
When I first read this, I had the (snarky! unfiltered!) thought, "Well why dontcha go Google it? That's not exactly a philosophical question." But that got me thinking... what if it was a philosophical question, the kind of
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by xtajv 6y ago
I like to define "art" as "A display of intent". Example: the Voyager record. Any sufficiently-intelligent alien who comes across it is likely to conclude "That object probably wasn't an accident". Compare
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by xtajv 6y ago
tl;dr: To learn about some cryptography fundamentals: * Read Katz & Lindell's Introduction to Modern Cryptography * If you're missing math background, read Timothy Gowers' blog * Supplement: Take Jonathan Katz' and D
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by xtajv 6y ago
> I've always wondered if there would be value in teams establishing an internship or low/mid level position for a technical writer to serve as a team librarian I disagree that this would be a low/mid level position. In fa
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by xtajv 6y ago
(Unless that's what you meant to say to the parent - I apologize if I misread :))
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by xtajv 6y ago
Per the site Guidelines [0]: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by xtajv 7y ago
The title of this submission does not match the title of the article, which is "There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill".
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by xtajv 7y ago
I like this option. It reminds me of a similar issue (which eventually got native AWS support): S3 permissions. Today, there's a "Block Public Access" button which basically says "I solemnly swear that I don't want
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by xtajv 7y ago
Based on [1] it looks like you could gain root within the docker container. From there, you need a bit of luck to get root on the host [2]. [1] https://github.com/karlicoss/cloudmacs/blob/master/asEnvUser
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by xtajv 7y ago
Please do not ask why you're being downvoted. From the site guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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by xtajv 7y ago
Meds + organization to make sure that I'm never "going down a rabbit hole": * Take notes furiously in meetings. Don't try to organize the information as you go. Just get down as much info as you can. Take 10-15 minutes a
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by xtajv 8y ago
> In order to preserve the usefulness of those models and the hundreds of millions in R&D spent to develop them, you have to carefully understand exactly what products and algos will be affected by just deleting a single record. Inde
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by xtajv 8y ago
(Full disclosure: I didn't read the full UN report, but I did read the UN Summary for Policymakers [1]) c0nducktr's claim "By trying to prevent them, we lessen their effects" is backed up by the summary. In particular,
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by xtajv 9y ago
ADHD-er here. I have a 2-sigma attention span in the shitty direction. It's a massive impairment. I've titrated my dose, and I've stayed at 45mg Adderall/day for the past 3-4 years, which is quite high for someone who ha