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by hermitdev 4y ago
Heh. If I had a nickel for every time I shot myself in the foot over the years by dropping a temporary file named "test.py" somewhere... I'd don't know about rich, but I'd probably at least be able to buy myself a c
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by hermitdev 4y ago
If I'd hazard a guess, I'd say the OP is referring to Bose. They tend to get shit on by audiophiles for... Reasons? I don't really know why, I'm not an audiophile. I've personally had 3 different Bose noise cancelin
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> a mainframe environment may be too big of a learning curve Yeah, "curve" might be a little generous here. It's more like a cliff from what limited I remember of my short lived mainframe stint.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
My last project as an intern was to rewrite an old batch processed COBOL app into a simple webform in C#/ASP.Net. The COBOL app was nothing special, really. From what I recall, it was around 65 pages printed. Took me a while to compreh
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I spent nearly a decade working across the street from plant #1 without knowing what it was, it just seemed to be an out of place (for the comparatively tiny building it was on) massive cooling setup. When I needed to think, I'd often
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Asyncio actually plays really nicely with multiprocessing, too. The concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor can handle running tasks in child processes and handles the communication seemlessly for you. I've used it quite a bit. Can easi
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by hermitdev 4y ago
At least if the hang printer is acknowledged in this patent as prior art, but sufficiently different to justify this patent , isn't that basically tacit acknowledgement that hang printer would not be infringing on this patent? Not a
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I also took this approach, and I think it has really helped me understand what I'm doing as opposed to merely transcribing the code. In my case, I chose to use C++ (more specifically, C++20 under GCC 11) with minimal external dependenc
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I'm also dubious on the claim the switch statement is O(n). It might be in a pathological worst case, but you can pretty much bet the compiler is going to transform it into a jump table or other optimized execution (maybe a computed ju
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Surely the entitlements are enforced via code on iOS, right? It cannot be on the honor system.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
At $0.07/MB, your talking over $70K to transfer a TB. Am I missing something here? Because I'd say $70k is quite a bit more than "a couple of dollars" the GP mentions. (No, I dont deal with cloud pricing at all, so I&#x2
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Middle/upper class hold a higher nominal value. Lower class tends to hold a higher debt level to their income, and it tends to be in high interest revolvers such as credit cards which are almost impossible to pay off if all you can aff
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by hermitdev 4y ago
When was the last time the US even produced a new tank hull? Pretty sure they haven't produced a new Abrams hull since the 80s (yes, they've been rebuilt and upgraded a few times, but no new hulls to my knowledge). I'm not ev
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by hermitdev 4y ago
I was a season ticket holder of a club that kept bringing in the older stars. Frankly, it was frustrating as a fan that wanted to see their team do well in the MLS Cup & US Open Cup. I was a ticket holder during one US Open Cup win and
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Wow, that is amazingly absurd. I love it!
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There's other costs: how many times per day to R* devs & testers have to go through the same loading? How many man-hours wasted? How many compute resources wasted? How many upgrades were justified by "I need better hardware to
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by hermitdev 4y ago
I don't know, but I'd except a follow up post from Raymond on this tomorrow. He often does these multipart posts, broken up in rather digestible chunks.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> What do you propose to do when the next customer wants to copy 1.5 million lines? Thankfully, that can't happen :). XLSX has a row limit of 1,048,576 rows. In all seriousness, I don't have an answer for you other than that th
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> he took off his mask He didn't take off his mask, he took off his visor (or rather held it out of the way). The flight crew of an SR-71 wear pressure suits very similar to that of astronauts. The helmets they were are also simila
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by hermitdev 4y ago
But, do they need to prove that he leaked it? Surely the backdoor and exfiltrating the data alone would be enough to put him away from a long time, even if he never shared it with anyone.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
You want a rubbish forecast? Just the other week, I got "no rain in your future" (24hr outlook) . I live in Seattle. It's spring. Of course there was rain.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
IIRC, it took between 18-24 months for the fund to earn it back, with a significantly reduced leveraged rate. AUM never reached 40B while I was still there due to redemptions, though. The following year was a wild ride, for sure.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
As someone that worked at a hedge fund that was leveraged approximately 40:1 in 2008, I never wish to go through that again. 40B USD assets under management down to about 7B USD in a few weeks... Amazingly, we still had jobs at the end of t
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Ugh, that hurts my wrists & hands just looking at it. Have you tried one of the Xbox Elite controllers? I've been using them for a number of years now and they're great. They do take a while to get used to, but they basically
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> Am I doing something wrong? Yes, you just compiled C code as C++. Actually write it as C++ (get rid of the void* mostly) and your program becomes a constant time evaluation: https://godbolt.org/z/5fedo8s5q
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> Banks are backed by the FDIC which in turn is backed by the Fed, you cannot have a bank run anymore. It's not possible. Yes, it is possible. FDIC doesn't insure all deposits. Typically you're capped at X thousands acros
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by hermitdev 4y ago
My old Samsung Galaxy S4 was water proof and had a removable battery. At least, it was waterproof enough to be able to answer a call in the shower, if need be. I never fully submerged the phone, but casual exposure to water was absolutely
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by hermitdev 4y ago
Useful verbosity is fine to me. However, I never wish to see another line of COBOL, thank you very much.
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by hermitdev 4y ago
I worked with Northern Trust tangentially for a few years (I left my role in early 2010s) in a quasi consulting role (it was actually a joint venture where we did the software, they ran it sort of thing). NT was hands down the most painfull
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by hermitdev 4y ago
> Grady Booch dunking on cryptobros is still funny to me. Wait, what? Grady Booch, the UML guy? This, I need to the see.

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