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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
"The only possible purpose of making laws like this"... Is for pay transparency. And in the vast, overwhelming percentage of the time, an employer knows precisely what they're planning to pay for a role, with extremely little
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
One of the trends on Hacker News right now is the assumption that SQLite fixes everything. It's the Flex Tape of the software world. There is zero reason a process would have more than tiny slowdowns with even millions of files in a fo
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Eh, this is [literally any company on the planet]. Marketing is to sell a product, not to provide a comprehensive case for competitors.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Using the "eugenics" angle to argue against people who want a sustainable world (while parroting the agenda of Elon "let's all move to Mars" Musk who believes he is such a superior being he needs to grace the world
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
The leading story about the HMS Birkenhead is fascinating, though looking up further info finds that of the 193 saved "the survivors comprised 113 soldiers (all ranks), 6 Royal Marines, 54 seamen (all ranks), 7 women, 13 children and
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
If Twitter fell like every other social media, it would have barely been worth $20B when Musk closed the deal. Add the mass destruction Musk has wrought, coupled with the fact that the debt holders have been trying to offload the debt at a
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
The Apple Watch oximeter functionality -- basically a pretty silly gimmick -- is explicitly marketed as “not intended for medical use” and “only designed for general fitness and wellness purposes.” The problems that optical oximeters have w
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
No, he's claiming the journalists "coordinated" a campaign to share external links to the jet tracker. Some of them admit that they did (not "coordinated" -- alternate sites of this public data has been very widely
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
How is that statement not completely true?
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Game community subs, especially for FPS games, often ban posts about cheaters, bugs or things like the submission. Not because they're conspiring with the maker, nefariously hiding negative info, but because if they don't the sub
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
These are all international companies. Ford of Canada builds in Canada. GM of Canada builds in Canada. Honda US builds in the US. It's incredibly provincial to think of multinational companies so simply.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
>Astounding to me that this is what the leadership at twitter wanted If they didn't accept and try to finalize his offer, they could have been successfully sued by shareholders: You don't turn down a premium offer unless you th
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Millions of people are monsters. Millions of people are sociopaths. People who use the term "woke" as a pejorative universally are stupid, terrible people, or they're manipulating stupid, terrible people. This is an absolute
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
I have never seen anyone praise or laud the benefits of scroll behavior overrides. It seems to universally be a negative if not hated, and always distracts from the content. Always. And it required extra work to yield this negative behavior
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
SGEMM / DGEMM using AMX2 (the first M1 has AMX2. The A14 has AMX1) is approximately 100% faster than the same running with NEON, which is already a specialized vector math system.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Because game vendors think they can double dip. As mentioned in another post, all of the Firaxis games worked brilliantly on GFN, but despite the fact that it's my own copy that I'm playing, in my own Steam account, Firaxis deci
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
How is this obvious business stupidity? Domains go into a redemption period because they expire . Having a card or paypal on file is meaningless if you don't have auto-renew. People lie. People lie all the time , and always spin the
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
The document you link uses unknown as a synonym for null. If you inserted the result of such a comparison into a table, the value inserted would be NULL.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
I can see how that might be the case for a very new driver, but for anyone who has driven for any period, "throttle control and steering" is completely autonomous and requires negligible consideration. Instead my focus is entirely
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
It's literally being used as a place where people embark on their trip. It is a major source port for people boarding Alaskan cruises. The "loophole" is that you started somewhere else -- clearly the cruise should have star
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
I live on a 100+ acre rural property just outside a large city. Surrounded by mansions and massive estates, and with a world renowned walking trail literally just down the street. There are many things I like. There are many things I don&#x
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Sony isn't an American company. Sony, like Nintendo, has an American subsidiary. The headquarters and bulk of the company is in Japan.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
You can patent anything ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US6368227B1/en ) and the barrier to having it granted is incredibly low. The patent office works on the premise of granting the patent and letting the lawy
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
It is pretty astonishing reading the rhetoric on HN, overwhelmingly from web developers who basically want a single target. They are quite literally the anathema of the web spirit, but it's basically IE v2.0 -- during the IE 3 / 4
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
> In reality it costs the bad guys $299 to bypass this limitation They also had to get verified as a mid-sized or greater corporation (Apple does use real verification partners), and further Apple can pull the rug on the certificate in a
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
It is always unethical to decide that punitive fines are okay because you can afford them. It is a profound sense of personal entitlement.
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
No, it isn't scary. These are just additional options. Personally I prefer Geforce Now which lets me use my own Steam catalog versus buying specifically for a niche service, but people make their own choices. Often the loudest fear mon
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
> I don’t think they misunderstood anything The code could have made the type-specific sort macros. They could have literally written the code blocks in the actual sort function. Instead they decided to make it separate functions and mar
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
> This is what generics are for in most languages. That goes exactly opposite of this optimization, and is just entirely orthogonal. > It's also super disappointing that in 2022 we're still manually marking 10- line functi
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
Dislikes, as a visible measure, were widely bombed by Internet trolls and ignorant cretins. The (vast) majority of people don't engage with those tools, so a small, coordinated minority can easily have a massively outsized influence. I

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