dev_slash_null

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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
How did you get started in R&D? I've always wanted to get into "exploratory" software development.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
You also have to consider what happens if a 60mph belt breaks/halts while people are on it.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
> How exactly is education a privilege? At least in the US, everyone has access to public education. The article is literally about life in North Korea...
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Let me clarify what I'm claiming here. In many counties, users have their OS/Browser settings set to English only , when they actually also speak other languages (or in certain countries, exclusively other languages). There'
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Unfortunately, thats just not true. Accept-Lanuage is set to English most of the time, even for people in non-enlish speaking counties. It's not that they cannot use English, it's that experiments show that users are more likely
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Except, in non English speaking counties, the vast majority of people do not change the Accept-Language header (through various browser/OS mechanisms), and receive default results. But then experiments show that they are more likely
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
You can add a "hl=en" parameter to the URL, and most Google sites should respect it.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Just in case you haven't seen the postmortem of the Cloudflare outage which also was caused by a regex based DoS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Except I've been able to do medium complexity tasks in various Autodesk products(Inventor, 3ds Max) within minutes of opening the program for the first time, without looking at any documentation. While I struggle to do even simple task
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
You still have to trust your assembler and linker in that case.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Are you trying to claim that locking your door at night, and carrying a firearm daily, both result in the same amount of risk of life threatening downsides? Because I would very much disagree with that statement.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
Locking your door at night is extremely unlikely to have any life threatening downsides. I suppose you could concoct a scenario where you live with someone with an altered mental status and the locked door prevents them from escaping during
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
As someone who knows only the very basics of CPU architecture, this was extremely informative, thank you. It's given me lots to read up on.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
"When pigs fly" is an idiom to describe something that is very unlikely or rare. To paraphrase, you can force a square peg into a round hole if you push hard enough, but it will probably lead to instability in unpredictable places
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
I use a Nuc clone to run Home Assistant, and AI event detection for my camera network (assisted by a Coral accelerator). So I think it legitimately qualifies for those buzzwords.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
How much of that food was grown with help from weather satellites, and GPS satellites, among other things?
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
"worth his salt" is common, at least.
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by dev_slash_null 3y ago
> Teslas do phone home a lot for other stuff, but for better or worse, so do most other modern-day cars. And the Tesla UI is pretty zealous about asking for your permission for all the things. How many other cars send your private videos