hermitdev

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by hermitdev 2y ago
Kaspersky is/was a brand-name AV. Look at what happened on their way out after the US ban...
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by hermitdev 2y ago
I work in finance, and this sort of setup is pretty common. Yes, I have a USB headset and camera for calls. My USB keyboard and mouse work just fine. If I plug my phone in, best I can do is charge it (slowly), so I use a wall-plug charger i
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Exactly. There's literally classes of ships that are something "max". e.g. Panamax. Panamax ships are literally built to the absolute limit of what will fit through the locks at the Panama Canal. And yes, sometimes the locks
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by hermitdev 2y ago
"ba" + "na" * severity
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by hermitdev 2y ago
One I always go back to: You can represent a perfect impulse (think electrical signals, a switch from 0 (low voltage) to 1 (high voltage)) mathematically, but it's impossible to physically create.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Microsoft needs to stop letting marketing decide product names. Just look at Xbox: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> Which rich cross-platform GUI frameworks are you talking about? > Win32? Silverlight/Blend? XAML? MAUI? They're all windows only. MAUI is not windows only. I have a MAUI app on my android phone. Cross-platform? yes. Rich?
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> The idea that a private social/sharing/communications platform should be required to carry the messages of the head of government is strongly authoritarian and quite unconstitutional. Except it's neither authoritarian no
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Just wait until the author sees the toasts in MS Teams. I expect his head will explode. Teams has, hands-down in my opinion, _the_ worst usage of toasts that I've seen. It's bad enough I get the OS toast from Teams, that may or ma
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by hermitdev 2y ago
As someone with +20 years in finance (hedge funds/trading) and knows .Net, Java, Python, C++, shell, etc, the first question I'd ask is: where's the data? If I'm being asked to do data analysis, it's because we need
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> It’s time for tech (not just Apple) to be broken up. If only we haven’t defanged the regulatory agencies … I think you mean we should de-FAANG the regulatory agencies.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
AT&T does a lot more than just cell phones. Probably also the largest US ISP behind Comcast, I'd expect. I had AT&T fiber to the home at a previous residence, and that was a great product. Far superior to Comcast.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
My SS card has that text. I got into an argument at the DMV when they asked for it. I relented because I needed my drivers license. Congress could solve this by enacting a simple law. Something to the effect of SSNs shall not be used as a m
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by hermitdev 2y ago
It's really going to come down to which firm you're at and who your manager is. I'm at a smaller shop currently, and it's great. I basically work 8-5 most days, sometimes a little later if processes don't come up cl
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by hermitdev 2y ago
I can't go into too much detail (I currently work at an HFT, but not on the HFT bits), but some of the FPGAs make decisions without even seeing a entire packet coming in on the wire. Latencies are more often measured in nanos than micr
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Are you kidding? It's a Bethesda game, of course it won't fix any bugs. It's 2024 and the exact same sort of issues exist in Skyrim and Fallout 4 (even after the remasters/anniversary editions)! I've run into issues
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by hermitdev 2y ago
It was only ever true for "clr safe" code, or a subset of C#. In particular, since VB.NET didn't/doesn't have unsigned types, not all C# could be expressed in VB.NET, even after decompiling from IL. (Not sure what h
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by hermitdev 2y ago
And yet people will die on a hill defending using X number of spaces instead of a single tab for indentation (where X is some positive integer, usually 2, 3, 4, or 8), with zero regard for the bytes wasted.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
You conveniently left out, additionally, the service members that died during the botch Afghanistan pull out. It was during the dignified return of remains that Biden was seen repeatedly checking his watch.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Except "fact checkers" are just as corrupt and biased as the politicians they supposedly check.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
There is a huge gulf between saving a half a day of work versus _having_ $500 to spend on a tool that would save you that half day of work.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
IMO, every media player since Winamp 2.x has been largely a step _backwards_ in pretty much every metric one could put forth. It was light-weight, using minimal CPU & RAM. It was skinable. It was reliable. It had great plugin support. I
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Probably a lot of it is due to know your customer (KYC) rules. I am not allowed to take your word that you've done your due diligence; I have to do my own. I've spent ~20 years working in and around finance, on the trading sid
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by hermitdev 2y ago
See also: Apple
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by hermitdev 2y ago
At least when Americans say a football field length, it's a precise number: 100 yds. Not so with soccer fields...
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by hermitdev 2y ago
BSE, CHX, MS4X, NSX, PHLX and more? NYSE & NASDAQ aren't the only players in the US equities exchange market. NYSE & NASDAQ are merely the 2 largest players in a very large field. And that's _just_ equities. Get into commo
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> Electricity exchange grid needs to be phased within 60Hz Electric grids also make use of DC interconnects that obliviate the need for that synchronization. The contiguous 48 US states have at least 3 separate grids that are interconnec
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by hermitdev 2y ago
AFAICT from looking at the source for the tz database [0], it's capable of handling UTC offsets at least to a second level, if not fractional seconds. [0] https://github.com/eggert/tz
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by hermitdev 2y ago
You can see it in the screenshots.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Yeah, headline is overly broad by just saying 'AI'. From just the headline itself, it'd be easy to write this off as "duh, this guy's a fool", but the AI in question here is from Meta, itself. And, not only is

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