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by maccard 7d ago
Disagree. They’re stored _somewhwre_ anyway, and they may as well be versioned. Putting toolchains in perforce is how it works for lots of C++ shops, the setup instructions are “sync and hit build”, whether there’s a toolchain upgrade requi
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by maccard 9d ago
> something that can be done by a moderately skilled person with a moderately well stocked toolbox in an afternoon This is what the OP said, and what I was replying too.
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by maccard 9d ago
I mean, I agree. But it also has some drawbacks. Uber is a perfect example of this - they completed ignored the existing taxi and private hire laws, ate the penalties left right and centre and while they still suck they dragged taxis kickin
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by maccard 9d ago
severity of punishment does not correlate to reoffending rates. We’ve seen this time and time again. Consistency of enforcement does.
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by maccard 9d ago
I really, really don’t want to carry a second clunky device around with me.
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by maccard 9d ago
Isn’t that the case already for most devices? I can pay £80 and have a guy show up in a van and replace the battery in my iPhone in his van in 30 minutes or so.
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by maccard 9d ago
Were they waterproof? I certainly don’t remember my Nokia 3210 being even splash resistant. > I have no idea why we can’t do this now For better worse I think the answer is quite simple - a combo of ease of manufacturing, a long term tre
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by maccard 9d ago
I will say; > will it cost me more to comply, or more to ignore? Is an (unfortunately) American view of things. The vast majority of European businesses I’ve worked with attempt to comply with the _spirit_ of the laws, while my experienc
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by maccard 9d ago
> but every EU member has a clear agency for consumer complaint, and I don't buy it that it is hard for consumers to report violations, The problem is the response is toothless. I reported Amazon for a violation to ICO in February 2
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by maccard 9d ago
I’m a European who has contributed to the kernel (a single, pathetic patch but a patch nonetheless). That means at the very least it’s not 100% created by Linus
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by maccard 16d ago
I’ve written c++ every day for the last 15 years. The problem with modules is they’re the meeting point of a pile of decisions (or lack of). Modules have been talked about for longer than I have been programming and I still don’t know of a
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by maccard 16d ago
> The current contracts are not good enough for anybody who wants them - This is a recurring pattern across large changes to c++. Modules and coroutines both are great examples of this. > but it is good enough that they can start fig
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by maccard 17d ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/blink-chime/dp/B0GKR38RPH There's a solution to this!
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by maccard 17d ago
I don’t think this is anything new. There’s been massive blow ups for as long as we’ve been doing this - NetBSD and OpenBSD was a massive, public falling out as was the gnome 3 release, or the python 3 release.
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by maccard 17d ago
It’s 150 comments of back and forth on a change which doesn’t have a concrete reason, the maintainers aren’t in agreement on what the right approach is wrt the field’s behaviour, and the person who submitted it is bouncing between saying he
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by maccard 18d ago
The cookie pop up is a response to the ePrivacy directive, not GDPR.
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by maccard 18d ago
Man that PR is a complete mess.
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by maccard 18d ago
I’ve posted this before. I was working on a website where we used a single cookie for an auth token, and we logged absolutely _everything_ on the server side (we didn’t sell it FWIW). When it came to publishing the site, we went to legal fo
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by maccard 18d ago
They do come from the ePrivacy directive but; > if you want to store data on the user's browser you do need to get their consent, hence the cookie banner. No - you need consent for storing cookies that are not “strictly necessary”.
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by maccard 19d ago
My work uses “okta verify” for everything which is very helpful, as I can sue my work PC as a trusted device or fall back to a yubikey if not. 100x better than random SMS
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by maccard 21d ago
Yeah, say there's a "major criteria" A, which they don't meet, aren't close to meeting, and have been told they will fail their application on. There's then criteria B, C, D which are a bit more nuanced, and re
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by maccard 21d ago
Your M1 Pro is 5 years old presumably?
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by maccard 21d ago
P values are tricky, and I think you can get a lot out of knowing what they are without being able to compute them and use them reliably. But statisticians not knowing the basics of the Null Hypothesis is absolutely terrifying!
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by maccard 21d ago
What Laptop would you purchase that gives hardware equivalent to a MacBook Pro?
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by maccard 21d ago
40fps is probably 30fps with poor frame pacing. Most displays are 60Hz so there’s no benefit to being any non fraction of that, and you are likely to have issues with pacing if you are at a non standard frame rate.
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by maccard 21d ago
AWS has codecommit.
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by maccard 21d ago
If you asked me for the definition of p value I could give it to you but if you asked me what it meant before this thread I would have said the same thing as you’ve said here.
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by maccard 22d ago
Yeah I maybe should have ignored the Monty hall problem - although I’d guess if you’ve studied enough stats to know what a P value is, and how to measure it, you’ve come up against the Monty hall problem!
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by maccard 22d ago
Fair play to you for answering, but that’s not what a P value is! A p value is the chance of getting a result greater than the result you actually got, _assuming you are testing a hypothesis_. I’m also pretty sure I would fall in the camp
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by maccard 22d ago
> How much do you understand about statistics and p-values? I suspect that it’s far far less than 38% of people who actually understand statistics to this level. I suspect if someone on HN went around and asked their co workers to explai

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