throwawayninja

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by throwawayninja 4y ago
> Apple takes QA very seriously and invests in high quality QA engineers Willing to bet this is worth 80% of the value to the task, especially if your QA testers can write enough code to have good instincts about why something might brea
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
From my personal experience: system languages are really, really good at interacting with operating systems. When you have things deployed on a server that machine generally has one task, and it makes sense to optimize as many layers as pos
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
My favorite variant of this is copyright issuance costs double/multiply by some X>1.0 every year after some N years of a flat rate. If your product is actually amazingly profitable you'll have the money to keep the copyright lo
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
And this is why my code is GPLv2 and nothing more, I even remove the auto-upgrade clause the FSF wants everyone using v2 to include.
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
Mozilla has to make statistical assumptions about their users, and statistically any random person's DNS will be set to resolve using their ISP. Mozilla may see this as predatory (ISPs in general are not exactly great companies who car
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
ADA is also very hot in those markets
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
Lame but powerful option: `tail -f /logfile.log | grep -A10 -B10 <interesting thing>`. (prints 10 lines before & after search lines). The most powerful feature I've had in log management is the ability to search for wha
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
https://tnahosting.net/ y'welcome. $25/year = $2.10/mo
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
This kind of energy: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.d7be0b5ebdcc75759cfc0019ff29bb78...
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
JNI => "I write C code & after compilation java can access it as com.package.ClassName" JNA => "I write java code & load libsomething at runtime, asking for FuncName(int, int) which java can then call into nativ
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
Nope, never. I run Arch Linux with projects under nspawn containers, the only AV tool I keep around is ClamAV so when coworkers have USB drives I can slap `clamscan /mnt/auto-sda1` and let them know if it's clean.
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
I love this! computer science is all about abstractions and guarantees, and it's great to have an option for more control. One thought about graceful degradation: would it be easy/possible to build in configuration to "when g
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
If they're escaping, it raises interesting questions about where they might be going / possibly merging? What a strange view of the universe if two particles under pressure could combine and have different attributes (less mass?).
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
The QA team brings something significant that developers (myself) will never have: their machines closely represent the customers machines. They use a well-polished methodology to push the models we ship to their limits and provide relative
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
Important distinction to make, most people just think "more money means interest" but the mechanics of the two financial instruments differ and this is the entire selling point for these ISAs, and the reason why one may be a good
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the UI, but often for high(er) risk operations we in the CS field ask users to fully type the name of something; in this scenario, instead of autocompleting would it have helped to ask the nurse to fully type in t
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by throwawayninja 4y ago
This is the ideal design, along with an office whose job it is to manually move data from the public side to the private side. These offices usually have a server on the public and private side to make it seem like it's an automated tr
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Same; it's excellent, powerful communication.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
They mean "fewer people willing to cross the bid-ask spread to buy a stock than the number of people willing to cross the bid-ask spread to sell a stock"; what matters is who is crossing the line? if it's the buyer side of th
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
"Refusing to heat pizza, please insert water. Error 418: I'm a teapot."
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I imagine the people most burned by that design run / remote into servers.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Elon musk has a new market for his self-driving tech; the EV cruise interceptor! "We're only using consumer-grade cameras folks"
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Few people will argue that freedom is free, shoulder the cost and enjoy liberty. It is absolutely a crummy business tactic however, I find myself spending huge amounts of time to buy directly from source instead of retailers / amazon &
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Yes, the 3 "real OS"es are: Gentoo (high skill cap, high payoff), Arch (medium skill cap, high payoff), and Void (arch minus systemd plus a nicer package manager). Everything else is opinionated / dumbed down enough to be in
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
This is a good thing to keep in mind; I originally figured this was outlandishly unfair, but lined up against other sanctions it makes sense. If sovereign nations can prevent profitable trade (aka ownership & exercising of business rela
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
> Every extra line of code is debt. Sage wisdom, I wish managers took this up a little. They'd improve throughput by 10x or so in a week, and new developers would have shorter lead times. Plus quality would go up, the fastest most c
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Off-topic, flippant, rude trivialization of the fight for equity. Hilarious.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Exceptions can be handled, so in rust an "exception" is a "Result<T,U>". A panic means the program terminates, guaranteed. This allows us to ignore hugely difficult edge cases when interacting with hardware /
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Thank you for working on libraries like this! I expect the community will be supportive, even if the code hasn't been baking very long. That's how great libraries prove themselves, through usage & feedback.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
The disease is called cowardice, it's enabled by default in new generations. The good news is turning it off is easier than ever, just go build stuff!

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