CodesInChaos

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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Yes, accounting/tax related stuff is still annoying. But there are a few more advantages: * Employee share options are taxed when they sell the shares, not when issuing the option (regardless of strike price) nor when exercising it. *
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
I really hope "EU Inc." will reduce the pain in that area.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
They can't be as bad as KfW, right?
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
1. You can move those folders to other locations. I used to do that in the Windows XP days. 2. They are required because applications can ask Windows "what is the 'music' folder" and get back the path. Most of those appl
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
The patent office applies a much lower "non-obviousness" threshold than how a technical person would interpret that word.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
It's closer to a trojan horse talking to its C&C server than a typical RPC scenario. In particular it's the server telling the client to execute arbitrary code in response to a request from the client.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Businesses know no shame, if applying for a trivial patent is useful, they will of course do so. The real problem is patents which are trivial and/broad being granted.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Unfortunately there are many patents that simply combine an old thing with a new thing in the obvious way. Since the new thing is new, the combination is "novel".
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Even if you only consider the language itself, semantics, especially the type system, are more important than syntax.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
You could argue that Musk spent 44 billions buying that.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
When you spend many billions buying GPUs, you want to maximize utilization, and not turn them off during the night.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Assuming you're on a filesystem that supports reflinks (Btrfs, XFS), `--clone` is an interesting option as well. Though assuming you create a volume backup before starting migration, hardlinks don't really have downsides and will
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
> Then throw out the crappily built product, with years of tech debt and cruft, and rebuild it leanly Which products have they rebuilt? I mostly hear about them selling the existing product at a higher price while reducing the size of th
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
You could also phrase it as "Bending Spoons is where dying products go".
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
That's what they meant by "in boat displaces its weight in water". While it's in the boat, the amount of water it displaces weighs as much as the bowling ball. While it's in the water, it displaces the volume of the
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
A couple of games that might not quite meed the definition, but fit the aesthetic or themes: Tron 2.0, Prey (2017), Ghostwire: Tokyo
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
A dip increases the speed (decreasing travel time), but also the distance to travel (increasing travel time). Which of those effects dominates depends on the shape of the dip. The hill decreases speed and increases distance, so it's al
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
I believe most major versions of postgres only change metadata, so the downtime only scales with the size of the schema (usually small) and not the size of the data.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
I'm sure if somebody hired him for a pentest it'd cost more per vulnerability found.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
> but the fact that there are three waves in the attack shows the level of coordination and pre-planning that was involved in making it happen. That's a strange interpretation. If it was planned well, why weren't all affected a
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I assume it's only fast for large databases when running on a filesystem that supports copy-on-write? In particular, I assume it won't benefit from CoW on a tmpfs?
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
The pgtestdb readme claims 20ms setup, while OP claims 100ms. Where does that difference come from? A different postgres setup (in memory vs disk)?
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I feel the template approach has a kind of awkward performance level. As the article points out, 100ms of overhead is still a lot if you incur it for each test. But once you re-use the database, it doesn't matter much if creating it ta
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
The article even allows you to toggle the notation used.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
There is the ePrivacy directive as well, which mentions cookies (as a representative example), and I think it requires user consent in cases where GDPR doesn't.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
EU should simply outlaw tracking for advertisement purposes. Let's return to context based ads.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Advertisement.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
One of the more annoying parts of my physics study was getting used to the new matrix multiplication notation they came up with every semester.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
All real numbers are real, but some real numbers are more real than others.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Two of six screenshots show the app. So the rejection fits the rules and is easy to understand. I often agree with complaints that Apple's rejections are unclear or problematic, but this isn't one of those cases. And I'm kind

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