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by zik 2y ago
Samsung is already known for its culture of over-work. This is just getting more and more extreme.
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by zik 3y ago
France and Germany's laws don't mandate a 9-5 life. Germany's isn't actually even a law at all - it's a self-regulated model which encourages agreements between employers and employees. France's is an actual la
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by zik 3y ago
Yes, there are some undocumented instructions [1]. They say it's a transistor-for-transistor replica so it should be 100% compatible with them. [1] https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2021/6502-illegal-opcodes
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by zik 3y ago
"Last no more than 30 days" with currently available degradable plastics just means it breaks down into microplastics really quickly and pollutes the environment with them.
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by zik 3y ago
PLA pretty much just breaks down into microplastics unless it's decomposed in an industrial composting facility.
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by zik 3y ago
Whether or not it's more secure is moot as far as Apple's concerned. For them it's about control of the market, not device security.
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by zik 3y ago
To be fair I have no idea how large an American penny is - it's not a very precise indication of size for anyone who's not American.
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by zik 3y ago
It makes it possible to bypass middlemen, it doesn't make it mandatory. Patreon provides a few services to artists - hosting and distributing materials, providing secure areas etc. - so it does have some value. It's not just a pur
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by zik 3y ago
Crypto was meant to make it possible to bypass banks, not get rid of middlemen like Patreon.
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by zik 3y ago
A one in eighteen chance of error isn't really good enough to convict someone on in the absence of other evidence. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/myth-fingerpri... [2] https://www.sci
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by zik 3y ago
The whole field of forensics is looking a lot like junk science. I remember when fingerprints were exposed as bogus. Now it seems every other type of forensics turns out to be faulty when it has the slightest scrutiny. Even forensic DNA tes
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by zik 3y ago
Maybe it's referring to "code smell"?
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by zik 3y ago
Coming from Australia the way London house sales work seems like such a complete disaster. It seems like you can make your buy contingent on selling your old house, which creates chains of buys and sells which fail the instant anyone pulls
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by zik 3y ago
The "rules of the road" in the US are completely slanted towards cars and against all other road users. That makes complying with them inconvenient and dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists to the advantage of cars. For example v
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by zik 3y ago
On the internet nobody knows you're a dog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
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by zik 3y ago
To be fair Courtney Barnett's from Melbourne (Australia) where we do still have good alternative and rock radio.
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by zik 3y ago
That's a really nice bit of work. I'm impressed at the number of really cool small C compilers out there now.
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by zik 3y ago
I was interested to check how various languages compare in complexity to ALGOL 68. As a rough proxy for complexity let's look at the number of pages in their language specifications (excluding glossaries, examples, libraries, etc.): *
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by zik 3y ago
I don't think this comment really contributes to the discussion. It comes across as Rust advocacy without having any tangible points to make. First paragraph: "I don't like it". Second paragraph: snide comment. Third par
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by zik 3y ago
That kind of behaviour leads to a lot of valuable people abandoning workplaces because they can't stand the abusive atmosphere. In the end all that's left are the shouty arseholes and that doesn't do anyone any favors.
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by zik 3y ago
Anything with a GC is an immediate killer for small embedded projects. Anything STM32 sized or less is going to struggle with GC due to lack of memory. But in the intervening years the average embedded device has got larger and more powerfu
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by zik 3y ago
I think it's not as small as you think. I have a macbook but mostly use Linux and an android phone. I think a lot of people just get what they want to use at the time and that means touching a variety of ecosystems.
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by zik 3y ago
It's easy to write C or C++ code which works with both gcc and clang. Generally if there's a problem it's a standards compliance issue in your code so it's good to know and fix. MSVC is a bit more quirky... At times its
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by zik 3y ago
The numbers Tether produces don't really make sense. They're widely assumed to be massively fraudulent - although we can't prove this without being able to audit them. And of course their keep pushing back on attempts to do s
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by zik 3y ago
Even investments are bought and sold day to day, otherwise stock brokers would all go bankrupt.
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by zik 3y ago
That change was made in many other cryptocurrencies and they did scale just fine. At the time there were a lot of claims that it couldn't be made to work, but history shows that it did work just fine. The bitcoin developers really monu
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by zik 3y ago
> apple's unique level of control allows it to produce a superior product with more consistency Honestly, this reads more like marketing spin to cover anti-competitive behaviour than a forum post.
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by zik 3y ago
> Everyone gets a vote on what bitcoin is As long as you work for Blockstream Inc. If not you have effectively no say.
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by zik 3y ago
You don't really need to do much explicit memory handling in modern C++ - smart pointers feel similar to garbage collected languages like Java or Go, with the occasional extra '*' I guess. Comparing language tooling to Rust i
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by zik 3y ago
Check this diagram and tell me it's simpler than an engine and transmission. https://automotorpad.com/toyota/83449-funcionamiento-sistema... It's essentially an engine, a transmission, another transmission (p

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