LnxPrgr3

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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
I don't know about that: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
The objection is generally landlords have to show damages to collect compensation from renters. They collect deposits to ensure at least some of the bill gets paid should you damage the place beyond normal wear and tear, but if you leave yo
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Because I'm buying the service of them paying my liability, and also my own damages if I opt for it, if suddenly I crash. They sell the service of protecting you from financial risk. A car insurance policy that costs $400 once but only
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Leases are pretty clear about the non-refundable nature of the deposit/fee/whatever, and it isn't exactly a rare practice.
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
If I have a serious wreck in my car, I win the insurance bet—that is, it may well pay out more than I've paid in. Even crappy health insurance policies have cases where they do the same. Not so with pet deposits in any lease I've
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Non-refundable deposits are. If you really do have a model pet that damages nothing, why does the landlord get to keep your deposit anyway? I can grant, say, compulsory carpet replacement—but even then, what if you live there 10 years and t
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
They could even do this without preventing the machine from squeezing improperly-ordained-by-DRM bags. "If we recognize the bag, and it's recalled, we'll stop you—or at least yell at you. If you use someone else's bag yo
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
The Linux kernel seems to have a centisecond obsession too. Probably from way back when HZ was 100 and your computer woke up once every centiseecond to make sure it still had nothing to do.
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Recent surprise: exponentiation by squaring. Not by name, but by being the correct answer to the question. (This is in the list of 500, by the way.) It's trivial to explain: x^n = x(x^2)^((n-1)/2), if n is odd = (x^2
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
For functional purposes, I consider myself to know something if I could page in the details well enough to implement it in 5 minutes with Wikipedia or less. How this plays in interviews is interesting for just how inconsistent it is. Someti
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Fair enough. But people will decide not caring even slightly about binary size is admirable (move fast and make users buy new phones, I guess) and eventually everything will be huge. Already the number of sub-60MB apps is dwindling and the
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
I did not buy 64GB of flash storage so Facebook could be lazy. I bought 64GB of flash storage to store media that gets noticeably better, to a point, when you throw more bits at it. Things that are smaller than Facebook's iOS app: - Wi
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Did you read the article? People add the structure they think they need to interviews, but are clearly able to troll themselves into worsening their judgments by requiring steps that not only don't help, but actively hurt. And this is
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
Counterexample: I did not apply to, nor interview for, my current gig, and I'm not cheating by working for myself. And I bet almost everyone reading this has worked with at least one person they think shouldn't have survived the i
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by LnxPrgr3 9y ago
When users of code I've written complain that something sucks to use, I don't demand they come up with a better solution. Probably I don't even want to know what they think the answer is—unless they design user interfaces for
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Nothing makes people more interested in freedom of speech than the fear their own ideas will be suppressed. Precious few people are willing to defend both Milo and Anita's right to speak freely. Don't you think that's strange
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I am not an expert, but since no one has answered I'll give what I know and hope somebody corrects me if I'm terribly wrong. Substrate: the thing that's supposed to bind to something normally. SERT: transporter that pulls ser
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I understand the need to defend unpopular speech, but this is such a weird hill to die on when so many other things have unjustified stigmas attached to them. It'd be nice to hear people yelling about how it's supposed to be a fre
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
This is true. Compilers even sometimes act vaguely like JIT—see also speculative devirtualization. If your code really needs runtime profiling information to optimize well, we have profile-guided optimization too. In theory your could still
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
In theory Java can be more optimized than C—machine code generation benefits from knowledge of how the program actually executes. Just let the JIT figure out where you should've used C++ templates instead of dynamic runtime behavior. I
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Sure, but its products help keep those populists alive—or at least give them a fighting chance. I bet everyone in Alabama at the time remembers April 27, 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
The law did grant them powers to run pieces of this scheme that a judge decided they took way too far. And they got to run it for years before a judge stopped it. And AFAIK no one running Macy's went to jail, so the penalty isn't
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/01/macys-shopl... Not killing, but taking of liberty and property through their own extrajudicial system of justice.
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I know exactly zero developers senior enough to have gotten over writing bugs. I know I've written bugs that happened to pass all my tests only to blow up in somebody else's face, sometimes after surviving years of production use.
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
The former stopped working in iOS 9.
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
It's… complicated. On one hand, instantaneous mpg is seriously misleading. To me, accelerating efficiently means maximizing the amount of acceleration I get per unit of fuel—doing that does NOT maximize instantaneous mpg, but ideally f
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Depends: does the first option shrug off failures and keep at it, or become suicidally depressed and die?
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
1080p60 is gradually happening, which is what's making my 2009 laptop suck at YouTube. …that and a depressingly inefficient playback path. (It is not necessary to spin up my fans to play 1080p30, but it is from a Web browser.)
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Browsing the Web from a Raspberry Pi (3) was an interesting experience. Browsing supposedly static content like news sites was often surprisingly painful, yet Google Docs was at least usable—alongside Roll20, which is also not exactly the l
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
That requires that I buy a display that works like that, and still limits the subsets of that setup I can use. Which comes up for me a shocking amount these days :/ In particular it's nice when my computer is useful without a bunc

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