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by edmccard 1mo ago
Do people at conferences buy coffee by SSH'ing into coffee shop servers?
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What's New in Miri(ralfj.de)
3 points by edmccard 9mo ago|0 comments
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by edmccard 10mo ago
> Take Herb Sutter for example, who argues that "memory safety" as defined in this article is an extreme goal and we should instead focus on a more achievable 95% safety I wonder how you figure out when your codebase has reache
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by edmccard 3y ago
A coin deposit is no more a mark of a bad neighborhood than having cart corrals in the parking lot -- like them, it is a way of reducing (or trying to eliminate) the amount of time employees have to spend collecting carts and returning them
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by edmccard 3y ago
>so putting the OST in CD format was a nice easter egg. It wasn't an easter egg; it was how the games accessed and played the in-game music (and digitized speech when that was a new, exciting thing). There would be one huge data tra
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by edmccard 5y ago
>I like money staying local, seeing kids sports teams sponsored by Bob's Ford In theory that sponsorship money could stay local, if the people who saved money by buying cars direct from Ford gave it personally to the local sports te
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by edmccard 8y ago
>It's like finding out my neighbor doesn't lock his front door at night and announcing it on twitter. No, it's like finding out your neighbor sold a bunch of faulty locks to a bunch of other people. There's a differen
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by edmccard 8y ago
> When they are cast to the shadows they can grow, It's a nice poetic conceit to think of good ideas as thriving in the light like flowers while bad ideas flourish in the darkness like mushrooms, but they both thrive on the same thi
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by edmccard 8y ago
>Is it also one of the safest in history in other nations that have not increased their incarceration rates? Yes[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
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by edmccard 8y ago
>We had an XT/286 and I don't recall any expansion card involved... And other people had an XT that they installed an expansion card into -- like the Pfaster-286[1] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=xsMx9D2s6
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by edmccard 8y ago
>Wouldn't that hurt men even more? More than the internal injuries that could be caused by water forcibly entering the vagina? Probably not.
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by edmccard 8y ago
FTA: It is available first today in the July release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, and we will later release it as a standalone component that you can use with any tool that works with the Language Server Protocol.
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by edmccard 8y ago
Yep. And the shark is still a shark, and the horseshoe crab is still a horseshoe crab...
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by edmccard 8y ago
>Every time they write a loan they are forced to provide the customer with a 200-page "book" of all the compliance and regulation surrounding that loan. This must vary by state; I recently took out a small loan from my local ba
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by edmccard 9y ago
>That some genetic features may be dropped or changed if not required anymore without the pressure of a higher death rate / lower reproduction ... darwinism doesn't seem to explain everything If the results of a newly-introduce
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by edmccard 9y ago
>...One of talents greatest contributions is knowing how to let your winners run and cut your losses... >...talent would understand what events are more likely to succeed... If we already know that these things are the result of talen
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by edmccard 9y ago
>where metaphors have been mistaken for new words. Dictionaries have included metaphorical definitions for ... at least 60 years? I have a 1958 Webster's that defines "feather in one's cap" and "hard row to hoe&q
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by edmccard 9y ago
Given the rate of startup failure, and the sheer number of other companies whose "product wasn't there", what reason do we have to believe that hiring a diverse workforce is more relevant than all the other possible reasons f
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by edmccard 9y ago
The formula for constant growth over time, for example, a 2% increase every year, would be starting salary * 1.02 ^ t where t is the number of years. So there is an exponent present, and constant growth is an exponential process.
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Project 2ine (an OS/2 emulator)(patreon.com)
1 points by edmccard 9y ago|0 comments
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by edmccard 9y ago
I think for circularity you'd need a pair of definitions -- "programming: making a program" and "program: the result of programming". In this case, we already know what a program (or a "programmed solution&quot
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by edmccard 9y ago
>It might even explain why so many cultures had rites to male adulthood involving extreme pain. Unless you believe that the rites were created to address the problem of "one day, there will be analgesics with antiandrogen effects, s
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by edmccard 9y ago
>If you classify say 50% of people as AI's and 50% of AI's as people then those AI's passed the Turing test. And if your version of the test is "heads it's an AI, tails it's human" then any AI's th
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by edmccard 9y ago
>If you're locating a chirper by sound, you're not seriously impaired by the lights being out. Even if you're locating it by sound, you probably don't want to stumble around in the dark while you're trying to fin
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by edmccard 9y ago
>This article bugs me because they don't clearly identify the author. There is a Doug Pearson... In the article, the author's name at the top is actually a link to a short bio[1] which seems like it has enough information to id
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by edmccard 9y ago
>You don't agree with the thinking therefore the author is wrong and her experience and opinion isn't worth considering. No, I just don't agree that the author's experience generalizes to other women. >Just be inte
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by edmccard 9y ago
>She describes a culture where her experience is normal. She describes having grown up in a culture where that experience is normal, but that is not necessarily the same culture that she is working in now.
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by edmccard 9y ago
>It's substantive and grounded in personal experience. Yes, but it's the personal experience of someone who has never "had to defend their choice of or fight an uphill battle while selecting engineering as a career choice&
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by edmccard 9y ago
>basically, it re-enforces the idea that men and women are actually so different that you have to be a certain gender just to do something you want to do (gender essentialism) Do you think there's a difference between thinking you h
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by edmccard 9y ago
>they might suspect that a darker skinned person driving with a white person at the back is more likely to be an Uber driver I think in Finland official taxis say "TAKSI" and have a yellow sign on the roof, so maybe they might

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