slippy

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by slippy 1y ago
Did anyone else solve the puzzle after finding a bug in today's puzzle where on step 13 the circle you were trying to match didn't change, but should have? Oh, nevermind, it appears others noticed this bug, too!
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by slippy 1y ago
Cleaning up of feature flags was something that I excelled at failing to do. If you are the one cleaning them up, then you sir deserve a raise. Don't question it. It's a service.
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by slippy 1y ago
Now if your site was named wafflehurricanetracker.org it would have probably survived trademark issues. The scraping issues would have been better if they were anonymized - it wouldn't necessarily be obvious that it was Waffle House (T
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by slippy 1y ago
It's also worth noting that in systems that get as large as Google's that you end up with commits landing around the clock. It gets so that it's impossible to test everything for an individual commit, so you have a 2nd kind o
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by slippy 1y ago
Have you tried Luau - Roblox's open source compiled Lua with Types? Someone made a debugger for it that plugs into Visual Studio Code. https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/ https://github.com/sss
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by slippy 1y ago
You realize that you just gave hacker news gave enough details to commit some satellite controlling backdoor into their system... It's not like some of us aren't going to be like: "Yeah, let's get 'em!" Not me.
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by slippy 2y ago
"At first, the senior director didn't outright tell me I couldn't stay in the old domain, but made it very clear it was in my best interest to move to the new domain, where there wasn't a staff+ engineer." Do you th
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by slippy 2y ago
If a whale got hit, would the whale be able to file for damages?
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by slippy 2y ago
I read through a whole page, wondering when we are getting to legal stuff, before I went back and re-read the title. "Contact" not "Contract"....
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by slippy 2y ago
I am a native speaker and got the gist and saw the paradox, and found the phrasing a bit tortured by the triple negative. Thank you for explaining that this was a colloquialism. Now I have to go look up the etymology... And upon further ins
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by slippy 2y ago
Hmm. Why only 2? Why not 3 points? Can you find an interesting curve produced by a constant product of distances from N points? Maybe even in higher dimensions, for 1 point, you have a sphere. What is the shape for 2 points? Is it more like
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by slippy 2y ago
How many other domains were knocked off by this AI reporting? Seems to me that if you make claims that have business repercussions, you need to be suable for fraud and face civil and possible criminal complaints.
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by slippy 2y ago
Legit question: By _removing the MIT license_ from the distribution and replacing it with the AGPL, how are you not violating the copyright and subject to a lawsuit? The MIT license has just 2 conditions. They are pretty easy to read, and t
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by slippy 2y ago
I donated a kidney to my father 10 years ago. It took about 4 weeks of recovery before I could get on a plane to fly home. Even 10 years later, I have not recovered to the same energy level I had before the surgery - something about the ori
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by slippy 2y ago
Alas, it's a nuclear option. People are going to stay or leave based on random criteria. Your company is going to be left with various deficits and it will take a long while to sort out the hiring mess. This feels more like it's a
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by slippy 2y ago
The simple answer to this: Tax the #### out of the greenhouse gas emitting energy sources. If we as a planet need to be using better sources of power so that our planet literally doesn't melt our food sources, and then us, then our gov
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by slippy 2y ago
The classic time space tradeoff question: If I run Antithesis for X time, say 4 hours, do you take periodic snapshot / deltas of state so that I don't have to re-run the capture for O(4 hours) again, from scratch just to go back 5
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by slippy 2y ago
Didn't this exist conceptually anyway as the C shell (csh) where the scripting language was "closer to" C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell It seems like you are on your way to making the C++ shell.
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by slippy 2y ago
Funny. It worked just fine when I was in college, back in 1997. You could use VNC to share either direction, or X11 to share one-way. Also SSH/SFTP, and SMB all worked. There were SFTP servers on Windows for free - you could download t
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by slippy 2y ago
They were lucky the forum still *existed* or the ban logic was still in place after 10 years... So many sites like MySpace have gone defunct or others have changed their systems, etc, etc.
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by slippy 2y ago
That's all well and good, but I don't endeavor to write good code; I endeavor to write great code!
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by slippy 10y ago
Historical footnote: The teams of people weren't killed with VizAct. They just moved around a bit. Some of them went to PowerPoint, and others went to Windows. PowerPoint 97 gained an animation engine with effects, and Windows ME and X