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by smadge 6mo ago
I found it interesting that the bettors who threatened the journalist accused him of being motivated to manipulate the market. The journalist was motivated to report honestly, the bettors were the one trying to manipulate the market by chan
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by smadge 6mo ago
The prequel “Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State” makes the claim that highly scrutinized go codebases had just as many message passing bugs (using go channels) as shared memory bugs. But then this article claims the Erlang community ha
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by smadge 7mo ago
At another BigCo I am familiar with any external communications must go through a special review to make sure no secrets are being leaked, or exposes the company to legal or PR issues (for example the OP).
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by smadge 7mo ago
It raises an interesting point. Code review is as much about educating the author of the code as much as ensuring the quality of the code. Why invest time providing feedback to a brick wall? LLMs aren’t going to “learn” from your feedback.
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by smadge 7mo ago
It is a classic cooperation problem. Perhaps not prisoners dilemma. Perhaps not at individual scale. Probably tragedy of the commons. Cooperation is not consuming fossil fuels. Defection is consuming fossil fuels. If you cooperate and other
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by smadge 7mo ago
The Russia reference doesn’t seem forced since the explanation for increased abandonments is attempts to skirt sanctions against Russian.
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by smadge 10mo ago
I think a lot of web services talk about reliability in terms of uptime (e.g. down for less than 5 minutes a year) but in reality operate on failure ratios (less than 0.001% of request to our service fail).
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by smadge 11mo ago
One might even say that hyperlinks are the engine of application state.
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by smadge 1y ago
Can you share more about education in the USSR? My impression is that for all its faults, education is one area where the USSR excelled, with very high standards and outcomes.
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by smadge 1y ago
The distinction in the article really is between calling malloc for every added node in your data structure (“pointer”) or using the pre-allocated memory in the next element of an array (“index”).
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by smadge 1y ago
Treatment plant is optional.
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by smadge 1y ago
California has the opportunity to be a beacon in North America for environmental and climate action e.g. by expanding solar production, finishing the CAHSR, and other projects like expanding and electrifying mass transit and commuter rail n
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by smadge 1y ago
A telnet terminal isn’t a terminal by this logic because the text isn’t rendered on the server. A telnet server sends data to your device and your device renders it.
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by smadge 1y ago
I believe you are interpreting “business need” as “commercial need” when I think it’s more like “what is your business here?” Purely anecdotal, but when I visited Moffett Federal Airfield to visit the aviation history museum there I asked t
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by smadge 1y ago
It’s like the symbiotic relationship between humans and livestock.
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by smadge 1y ago
What knowledge are you trying to impart with this fact? Do CSB recommendations inform policy? Do CSB recommendations get implemented? Do CSB recommendations when implemented increase safety?
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by smadge 1y ago
3 republicans are quoted in the article defending the proposal. Is there a better argument that the article didn’t quote?
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by smadge 1y ago
Maybe the target audience doesn’t need to be reminded, but benzene is really toxic and dangerous and it’s odd the article doesn’t mention that.
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by smadge 1y ago
I have experience with token bucket and leaky bucket (or at least a variation where a request leaves the bucket when the server is done processing it) to prevent overload of backend servers. I switched from token bucket to leaky bucket. Tok
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by smadge 1y ago
What percentage of tax filers have a single W-2, maybe a 1099, and take the standard deduction? If I had to guess, 80%.
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by smadge 1y ago
I am curious what other factors were at play in those battles. It seems like first, Libya had no air support as western allies grounded Libya’s Air Force, second Libya did not have the logistics necessary to deploy their tanks so far from h
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by smadge 1y ago
Is that really the wrong decision for a technologically advanced and industrialized nation like Australia, though? If you can logistically afford to field an M1 Abrams you are going to win against an opponent who can’t field a similar tank,
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by smadge 1y ago
> CL Googler identified.
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by smadge 1y ago
One letter increments wouldn’t work because each commit has to leave the program correct. For example committing the first f of a for loop would leave the code with a syntax error. But you often should break up changes into as small as poss
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by smadge 1y ago
The light is already by necessity hooked up to the wheel for power and adding a switch and wires to the brakes adds another point of failure making the system less reliable, makes installation more difficult because you have to wire up to t
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by smadge 1y ago
That would be more difficult, expensive, and unreliable. The light is powered by the rotation of the wheel so it already has a reliable braking signal.
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by smadge 1y ago
*factorial function
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by smadge 1y ago
Yeah, I have the Busch & Müller Toplight [1]. "The Toplight Line Brake Plus senses when the bike slows under braking and glows brighter. It does this by monitoring the AC frequency from the hub. During braking, the AC frequency slo
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by smadge 1y ago
It reminds me of a satirical post called “Evolution of a Haskell Programmer” in which a nice simple implementation of the Fibonacci function becomes more and more convoluted, abstract, and academic [1]. [1] https://people.willame
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by smadge 1y ago
If you have a hub generator system, they sell rear lights with controllers which detect changes in the frequency of the wheel rotation and start pulsing when you decelerate.

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