rot13xor

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by rot13xor 3y ago
Real life money for gold is sanctioned by Jagex if done through bonds. Bonds are about 3x more expensive than the black market but bonds can't get you banned because Jagex gets a cut.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Communication overhead, like edges in a graph, scales quadratically. The computing analogy is going from 1 core to 8 core CPU gives far less than 8x performance if your task is not parallelizable. The solution is compartmentalization and cl
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by rot13xor 4y ago
I always wondered why x86 has LEA when its functionality can be replicated by ADD. It has to do with LEA and ADD being able to run in parallel because LEA uses a separate ALU in the address calculation part of the chip, not the main ALU.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
You could have a "stolen content" pure HTML/CSS banner that gets removed by Javascript. Only proxy site visitors will see the banner because the proxy deleted the Javascript.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
I had to reboot my Windows PC at least once every few days back in the XP and Vista era. BSODs were common especially while gaming. I think moving GPU drivers out of the kernel into userspace made a big difference as GPU driver crashes are
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by rot13xor 4y ago
It's counterintuitive but Tesla shareholders might want Twitter to fold quickly so Elon can fully focus on Tesla again.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Being smart in one field doesn't translate to being smart in another field. For example, Steve Jobs making medical decisions, doctors making investment decisions, bankers making tech decisions.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Some optimizations might only apply to certain inputs that are used by benchmarking software. Or the driver makes unfavorable power tradeoffs to maximize performance when a benchmark is running. For example, if the driver knows a benchmark
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by rot13xor 4y ago
"Write once, run for 20 years" is a strong value proposition. I dabbled in web dev and it's rare for third party libraries and services to go a year without breaking interface changes. Meanwhile a program written for Windows
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by rot13xor 4y ago
I think the bigger problem with Coinbase is how they rescinded job offers. Management either didn't know a layoff was coming a few weeks ahead of time or it didn't get communicated to recruiters.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
I'm curious what would happen if Twitter stock price goes above Musk's offer price of $54.20 during this legal battle.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Money lets you put weight on the scale to tip it in your favor, but it doesn't let you fully control the outcome. Especially because in this case Musk screwed over other rich people.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
It's a good view to have. HR stands for human resources. The company views you the same way as a EC2 instance. They make layoff decisions the same way they spin down servers if their AWS bill gets too high.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
He probably didn't think he'd get caught or ego.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
I'd even say you need a degree of sociopathy to reach upper management. I can't imagine being responsible for 1000 other people and keep them working in sync. At some point those people become a faceless resource in a spreadsheet.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
In California the top marginal tax rate can be over 50%. 37% federal tax, 12% state tax, 3.8% net investment tax.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Regarding chrome, browsers are basically operating systems nowadays. A standards compliant HTML5 parser is at the bare minimum millions of lines of code. Same for the renderer and Javascript engine.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
The biggest weakness of C++ (and C) is non-localized behavior of bugs due to undefined behavior. Once you have undefined behavior, you can no longer reason about your program in a logically consistent way. A language like Python or Java has
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by rot13xor 4y ago
And if you didn't pay taxes on your illegal income the feds get you for tax evasion too, like how they got Al Capone.
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by rot13xor 4y ago
Parity is cheap to calculate in hardware but much more expensive to do purely in software. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25707130/what-is-the-pur...
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by rot13xor 4y ago
2 months of studying every 2 years for job switch is 8.3% overhead. Do leetcode jobs pay 8.3% more after-tax than non-leetcode jobs?
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by rot13xor 4y ago
The crypto believers told me US dollar would enter hyperinflation very soon and Bitcoin will be the only viable currency because it has a finite supply.
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by rot13xor 5y ago
I'd expect Costco would require receipts for returns, even for online purchases, like most stores. Then the store would only refund the amount after discounts. But perhaps Costco is more trusting of their customers because they have to
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by rot13xor 5y ago
Cell carriers can detect video streams by bandwidth and traffic patterns even with encryption. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/172212/how-do-m...
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by rot13xor 5y ago
I assume you could buy the stuff from the company's bankruptcy auction or when it gets auctioned off by the Feds like in the case of Martin Shkreli's exclusive Wu Tang album.
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by rot13xor 5y ago
Microsoft once had to release a binary patch for Office to fix a security vulnerability in an addon where the source code was lost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720923
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by rot13xor 5y ago
Some work machines have all external ports glued shut and the mouse/keyboard are non-removable to prevent data exfiltration. Though you shouldn't be logging into personal accounts on those machines anyway.
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by rot13xor 5y ago
Eventually all stores are going to require a membership or deposit before letting you enter, like Costco.
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by rot13xor 5y ago
Latches or a ring oscillator to generate true randomness. There could also be bugs in the design that cause metastability.
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by rot13xor 5y ago
C is almost context-free with the exception of typedef. A custom parser helps with error diagnostics, e.g. missed semicolon or a "." swapped with "->". https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/11/2

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