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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Did they need to do all the extra work of developing an exploit in order to convince someone that was dangerous? It might be clear in this case for someone who has already seen that really obscure bugs could be practically misused. But
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I wouldn't live in such a shitty, broken, mismanaged shithole. Properly managed places are able to provide good public transit. So you don't want to live somewhere near forests or lakes. Somewhere, where is still some for of
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Literally every other country in the world proves you don’t need them. Please, tell us one country in the world that doesn't need cars. Many, may be less dependent on cars than the U.S. . But no country is independent of cars. Usi
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Japan, many european cities, etc are all comfortable with the provision and use of widespread public transport. And yet, they have many many cars.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I've had one last week, in Germany.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Combine A/B testing with exponential growth of the user-base and you will only measure newcomers. Medium, advanced, and expert user simply won't matter in your test results. Whether that is what you need depends on the situation.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> how those individuals (we prefer the term ‘resources’) interact BCG uses the term ADU - Agile Delivery Units - instead of resources. That sounds directly like a term from the handbook of the ministry of truth.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
And here we have a clear example for the downsides of a monopoly.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Pointer arithmetic pulls C and C++ into the realm of weakly typed languages. Pointer arithmetic is a core part of the language. On the other hand, Haskell's unsafeCoerce or OCaml Obj.magic are usually not considered to be part of the
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I’m pretty sure the apps do a lot more now than they did on windows XT The question is whether that additional work is of any benefit to the user.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Yes, learn about compilers. I am only half joking here.
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> AI can make education almost zero cost in the future. This is still an open question. LLMs will certainly help to improve teaching. But education is more than teaching. And LLMs have at best a mediocre track record of being correct. S
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Because, then you have to integrate your few handwritten queries into the caching layer of your orm.
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Not, if you consider inserts, updates and deletes in addition to selects. Not, if you want to spread the queries over multiple transactions.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Or you could use an IDE that supports refactoring SQL, like Intellij IDEA.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Which kind of schemas are part of yaml? Interestingly although Yaml's spec is longer than XML's spec, it managed to get all sorts of corner cases awefully wrong. https://noyaml.com
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
This list is full of excellent points. I especially agree with this: > 32. don’t confuse a steep learning curve for bad UI. don’t confuse something that > is just similar to what you’re used to for good UI. Don’t confuse the level of
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Because Google wants you to use Google search.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Doing a more modern website enables a lot of things that PDFs cannot do. Animations, interactivity, better automatic parsing, metadata generation, tracking of changes and versions, easier embedding elsewhere, better referencing and cit
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
What would be an alternative? A web page? LaTeX has a steep learning curve, but it is very well understood, it doesn't churn needlessly. That is extremely valuable if you don't want to spend your time learning again and again how
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Emacs brings nothing new to the table with respect to editing model, it's essentially notepad Wow, and here I thought I had seen all derogatives about Emacs ;-) But claiming that it doesn't bring anything new compared to Note
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
No, you could create arbitrarily large FSMs, but there are no infinite finite state machines.
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The free software foundation for example.
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> Today, many companies basically ban GPL-licensed or otherwise copyleft software projects At the same time, there are shining examples of commercially used and developed copyleft software like Linux, Blender, OBS-Studio. I doubt there e
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I've got four BILLY bookshelves that are 24 years old. I've taking them with me the eight times I moved. And they were disassembled multiple times. But I am not sure whether any currently sold BILLY bookshelves would be that durab
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
How do you work with a computer you don't trust?
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Am I? Why would you not expect it to become cheaper overtime? Ride sharing services are amenable to network affects. I.e. they tend to end in monopoly. And monopolies are not known for reducing costs for the customer. If some effective
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Thanks for this cool bit of information.
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Why do you call such systems E-type systems? I am asking because I've been interested in an ontology of software systems for quite some times. Because most advice about software development, architecture, maintenance is stated general
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I don't understand why people think this is a good idea to do at all. Yes it makes updates easier. But each software doing that has to run with the privileges to update itself. Which is in my book a big security downside. Separating ri

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