staycoolboy

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by staycoolboy 6y ago
It appears to be the former because no one addressed my point that people have different viewpoints. In my original post I stated that people would only eyeroll a reference to diversity based on how they view diversity. That's it. I th
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I never dismissed anything. You literally dismissed ME. sigh
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Obviously. That's why I said "I have to draw the line somewhere". I trust my browser and OS more than extensions. Your security posture is probably different than mine.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Good point, I edited my post. Thanks.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Yes, it is. And the high salaries at netflix are for top performers, not someone who did a full stack, once. Like you said, 99% of software developers are NOT the top 1%. ;-) EDIT: I removed some snark after reading Zenbit_UX's reply.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Welcome to the club!
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I recently deleted all of my extension off all three browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). The ad blocking on Firefox is almost as good as Ublock Origin. I found privacy badger to be largely useless. The only thing I miss is lastpass, but
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Bug bounties are very different than auditing. In an audit, there is a contract in place with specific analysis objectives based on agreed-upon criteria. I find it unlikely anyone in the industry would have more experience than Intel about
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
That's an easy one: Python. The function declaration can force significant naming, but only for the caller.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
> they just pay for more auditing and public research. Who is Intel paying to audit their chips?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Sneaky.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
GCC warns of assignment in conditional, even without -Wall or -pendantic. I don't know when it started doing that, but it seems like a sore thumb today, different in 2003 maybe?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
This below my mind when I started using clang-format. There are only two options in all of clang-formats 100+ customization variables: move the star next to the type, or don't touch the star.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I think the days of being stranded on islands are over. But what about oceans and being lost at sea? Would the film "Cast Away" make sense with today's satellite and object detection technology?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
What is the status of snapchat? Does it still exist? Does anyone use it? How do they split time between TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and the other half-dozen platforms?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
How can there be room for so many social media apps? One option is that all of them carve up the social media demographic in such a way that they have enough users to be profitable, but no majority. Another outcome is that teens are fickle,
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I followed it for three pages, then recognized the next 3-5 pages, and then literally started to laugh at the explosion of exotic names and terms as I crossed page 30. I had no idea mathematics was so ginormous. Humbled.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
throughput vs latency. If I want to download a 1GB file, I do a TLS handshake once, and then send huge TCP packets. I can get almost 50MB/s from my AWS S3 bucket on my 1GB fiber, so it takes ~20secons. However, If I split that 1GB up i
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
> How do you choose which narrative to privilege? Do you REALLY find it that hard to figure out? I can't tell if you're being sincere, or just being a troll who is trying to shrug and say nihilistic-sounding things to advance t
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I wasn't sure if that was British humor or accidental.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
That's a lot of named laws!
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
There's a reason why Apple hired hundreds of chip designers away from Portland's Intel site and set up a chip designer center in Portland.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Transmeta was never a viable solution: it was a pet project billed as a disrupter on the basis of it being a dynamic architecture. Do I need to explain the mountain of issues with their primary objectives or do you want to google that?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
That is amazing. There are so many good links in the peer comments. I worked at STMicro, then briefly at Arm, then at IAR. I never once encountered Ada. Two separate worlds!
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
RISC-V is in danger of imploding from its near-infinite flexibility. It is driven largely by academics who lack a pragmatic drive in areas of time-to-market, and it is being explored by companies for profit motives only. NXP, NVIDIA, Wester
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
No. Is that where Ada is used?
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
When did Ada become popular in the embedded RTOS space? First I've heard of it and I've been working in the space for two decades.
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
nullptr isn't "null", it's a null POINTER. In languages with a NULL type, and variable can be a NULL. E.g., in python you can say "x = null; x = 1;" in C++ you cannot say "int i = nullptr".
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
But GDP isn't a natural resource, it is an artificial number extracted from insanely complex valuation of fiat currency, debt, policy, and subjective worth, all of which are subject to geopolitics and whims. I completely agree that nat
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Yes, it has null, but when you parse it with, say, Boost::property_tree, null is 0, which is not true null because there is no true null in C++. Language limitation. Cool link, btw. For all the years I've been using JSON I never visite

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