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by hermitdev 4y ago
I was reading these comments while simultaneously trying to get some work done. I was taking a screenshot of some settings to show to a coworker for verification and immediately noticed something was off about the screenshot. It looked noth
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They're OK with the risk of their child being kidnapped. I don't know any parent that would be OK with their child actually being kidnapped.
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> "substantial risk of danger" Such vague and objective measures shouldn't be in law. I started to drive around Montana's unposted "reasonable and prudent" speed limit came back and was later deemed unconsti
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I agree. Words matter and have specific meanings. I'm tired of words being subverted for other purposes. Like "chemical free". So, you're telling me it contains...nothing? Or organic foods which has absolutely nothing to
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To the author: the initial for loop is not equivalent to a do/while loop. The condition of the for loop is executed before the loop runs. e.g. the loop body will never run if *count == 0.
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The false alarms you get from the heat detectors are exceedingly annoying to. My last apartment, I had heat detectors as well as carbon monoxide detectors. I could not use the oven in my kitchen without setting off the heat detector in the
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> Why does it have to be so tribal? I think it's just a symptom of "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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As a racing fan, Dick Trickle [0] (retired NASCAR driver) is also a fun name. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle
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> California has laws in place to recoup those losses. Except this was done across state lines. There's a term for that: interstate commerce. The federal government has the sole power to regulate interstate commerce. California sho
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> 1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit. The "danger" with a 1099 isn't that you don't get social security credit, it's that there's no withholding
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I'm not familiar with the case, but assuming what you've outlined above is accurate, I have no doubt a jury would convict. Negligence actually sounds like too nice of a word for that train wreck of events.
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Personally, I took exception to the following from TFA: > Python is a dynamically typed language. By definition, you don’t know the real types of variables at runtime. This is a feature. In "you don’t know the real types of variable
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That subreddit is supposed to be for advice? Here, I've been using it solely for entertainment (I only lurk)...
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Writing C or C++ completely without undefined behavior is a daunting task. Signed integer over/underflow in particular is so easy to get wrong. Doing it manually is a recipe for disaster. In C++, one can leverage "safe" or &q
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I've worked with such niche enterprise software before. It only pigeon-holes you if you let it. One I worked with was, at the time, a VB6 based application for trading bank debt built on a combination of SQL Server/Access (SQL Ser
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> Their biggest asset is $3 billion in "funds held for customers", which, if they show that on their balance sheet, is not the property of the customer. It's money they owe their customers. They're acting as a bank. I
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Yes! Was going to suggest much the same: crank up the warnings and treat them as errors!
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> What isn’t fine, is that they’re stored in the Windows Registry, apparently? If you update these, either using setx %var% value, or the GUI… you have to restart your shell - i.e. you type exit, the window/tab goes away, and you o
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In general, in template heavy libraries, what kills performance in debug builds is lack of inlining with optimizations turned off. And templates traditionally need to be inlinable by having their full definition in a header, so one can&#x27
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Would it be any different if they were tracking his car? Does tracking an object owned by a person somehow make it any better? What's next, Musk's TV viewing habits? Browsing history? These are just things and not the person, so i
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by hermitdev 4y ago
I'm from the US, so please forgive my ignorance of UK law in this regard, but is this case special at all because the target of the insult was knighted (or whatever the correct term is)? Would it have been the same result if the target
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> Plainly, this document is the response to my complaint that my ability to make money from my art (poetry, music, etc) through Patreon supporters was improperly removed, similar to the closure of my Stripe account. I'm not sure how
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> "Software Defects Considered Harmful Unless Fixing Them Requires Pulling Resources Away From Delivering New Features" "Software Defects Considered Harmful Unless Fixing Them Enables Charging Customers For An Update&quot
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Confirmed for me. Where's the metatest that tests Acid3?
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The animated step by step is new to me, but any DB worth using is going to include tools that explain the execution of any query you give to the DB. It's known as a "Query Plan". And, despite the name, is not limited to queri
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For bonus points: how about properly handling UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM), too? The way this code is written if the files contain a BOM, you're going to pass the BOM right into the destination file. Fine for the first file, not so fin
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by hermitdev 5y ago
> What's the best way to rapidly move around without having to count lines? Don't? Just turn on line numbers with `set nu`. Add it to your `.vimrc` for a default. In a pinch where you need to copy/paste graphically in you
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I think the landscape has shifted since the US rules were last changed in 2007. It was awful for pretty much everything that needed to be timezone aware and not just show some local time to a user. Dates & times were not yet even part o
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The call the burgers sliders for a reason. They slide in, they slide out. Most people don't handle the grease very well. Some people swear by them, others curse them as never again until their next time out drinking all night. I don&#
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I'm well aware. I chose the example to somewhat mirror what happens at the native posix level with addresses. It's the same structure, but can only be built in specific ways. Probably should have actual stated something to take ef

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