foofie

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by foofie 3y ago
> Basically they've overspecified their datastructures and we're now paying the price I strongly disagree, and I'm perplexed how anyone can describe fundamental traits such as object lifetimes of fundamental infrastructure
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by foofie 3y ago
Money quotes: > From 2021-23, FMS sales averaged $55.9 billion per year, a 21.9 percent increase over the 2020-22 average of $45.8 billion per year. Followed by: > Poland was the single largest FMS customer in fiscal 2023, with over $
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by foofie 3y ago
> The world is feeling so free. A significant portion of these transfers went to Ukraine. Thanks to them, is managing to resist Russia's 3-day invasion for the second years and counting. Given Putin's repeated threat of nuclear
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by foofie 3y ago
> Feels kind of gross to include the nieces observation that he had been stressed as some kind of counterpoint to the statement in the title. You're grossly misrepresenting what the nieces actually said. The article is quite unequiv
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by foofie 3y ago
> You have two options: -highly accomplished and highly experienced engineers were actually too stupid (...) You're making quite clear you are the type of person who is extremely quick to accuse everyone and anyone of being incompet
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by foofie 3y ago
You wrote a wall of text about a link, but you failed to paste a single link. Enough.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Your error in thinking is that you assume that they really wanted to build something better instead of building something new that would propel their careers. How do you explain that some HTTP/2 server implementations handle an or
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) they will just turn around and say your real world data is not valid or that they need peer-reviewed article in Science. This sounds like a bullshit conspiratorial excuse. If you have real world data and you aren't afraid of
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by foofie 3y ago
> Eminent domain is not cheap to use given the fair market value compensation and the almost guaranteed legal fights. I don't understand what point you tried to make. Fair market value is what you expect to pay anyway, and the point
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by foofie 3y ago
> What do you consider a budget phone needs to cost? Spending $300 on a phone is not something anyone anywhere in the world does if they are on a budget. In some corners of the world, $300 is close to a monthly wage. How out of touch can
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by foofie 3y ago
> But I can't help but think of one "technology" that could make a scheme like this MUCH more effective. I think this is one of those things that drive home the point that there are fundamental differences between physics
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by foofie 3y ago
FTA: > They’ll start at $199 for the Moto G 5G and $299 for the Moto G Power 5G. How in the world can a $200 phone possibly be dubbed a "budget phone"? It costs as much as a low end laptop.
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by foofie 3y ago
> If there is one industry that is the most resistant to change, it's the construction industry. There are still people who have been roofing for 50 years and refuse to change a single thing they do and learned 50 years ago. I think
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by foofie 3y ago
> The solution is terrifyingly simple: don't allow existing residents to block new housing developments. If they don't like it, they can move. I think that most jurisdictions already have the legal tools they need to put the pu
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) and they still got it. I don't see the point of your comment. You're presenting an anecdotal case where someone who took some precautions which are known for not being 100% effective against airborne diseases ended up c
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by foofie 3y ago
> Maybe our medical professionals should be wearing PPPS[1] at all times, hmm? I'll bite your fallacy. Scabies are prevented by avoiding direct skin-on-skin contact. Wearing latex gloves is already effective, as is routinely changin
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by foofie 3y ago
Great article. I think it would benefit from a sentence or paragraph on Amdahl's law to help drive the point home about potential performance improvements of serial code, which I would classify synchronization as one type. https:&#x2F
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by foofie 3y ago
> The natural way to define a member variable is (...) No, that's not right at all. Your example is only a declaration of an incomplete type. You cannot do anything with it except.... Define a pointer to the incomplete type, and use
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by foofie 3y ago
> The existence of .h files C or C++ don't specify or require .h files. The languages don't even specify any file extension. What C and C++ specify is the concepts of declaration and definition, and require only one definition
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by foofie 3y ago
I don't think this can escalate more from Russia's side. They already invaded neighbouring countries, and not only are they keeping their war machine running but they are also threatening more countries while shifting their econom
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by foofie 3y ago
I'd hate to find myself fighting a war, but any military engagement that replays Adolf Hitler's brand of imperialistic agenda over Europe in particular and the world in general, whether it focuses on Ukraine or Taiwan, is an extre
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by foofie 3y ago
> This is a bit cynical isn't it (...) No, it's called security. Let's put it this way: there have been FLOSS projects whose maintainers intentionally pushed compromised code to unsuspecting end users. See for example the
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by foofie 3y ago
This sounds like a carbon copy of the project tree layout specified in C++'s pitchfork conventions. https://github.com/vector-of-bool/pitchfork
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by foofie 3y ago
> As other said, he doesn't just want to give 10%, he wants you to give 5%. Another way of framing this is that the co-founder wants OP to just grant him control of the company by switching from the original 50-50 arrangement to a 4
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by foofie 3y ago
Pointing out Elon Musk's claims regarding free speech and the shit show he's been forcing upon Twitter, not to mention his temper tantrum directed at marketing teams for ditching post-Musk Twitter due to fears their ads could show
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by foofie 3y ago
OpenAI clearly rejected Elon Musk's advances and kept him out. Isn't it working already in its current form?
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by foofie 3y ago
> First Sam vs. the board, now Elon vs. everyone Elon Musk is renowned for being an attention seeker and doing these stunts as a proxy to relevance. It's touring Texas borders wearing a hat backwards, it's messing with Ukraine&
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) because the most experienced are needed to fire fight and to keep things running. By that account the most experienced started out as the least experienced who built a mess, accrued more technical debt, and built up their experie
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by foofie 3y ago
> So how did they manage to add 1,998,000 more lines of node in the next 10 years (...) Does LinkedIn have the same features it had a decade ago? Search is far more powerful. It also shifted to add an entirely new social media dimension
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by foofie 3y ago
What do you mean "bad faith"? Can you elaborate?

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