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Re:London Street Trees on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:02PM (#37424804)
Minor correction, but you probably mean Blackrock-type firms. Blackwater was a private military company.
Re:The Coach in the Operating Room (2011) on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:09PM (#25531923)
I wonder how coaching can be applied to software engineering. As a developer, I undergo code reviews and participate in design discussions, but there isn't a lot of oversight or feedback given on the actual development process.
Re:Utah Data Center on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:00PM (#23353316)
For a broader view on this topic, I recommend "A Prehistory of the Cloud"
What is the long term growth strategy for worker cooperatives? How do you scale them?
Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:01PM (#18971210)
If you've never found anything with it, why do you keep doing it (see: the definition of insanity)?
While there is some amount of speculation, it represents a small portion of the entire financial space. If you sincerely hold this view, you should take a closer look at the purpose of financial instruments and markets.
Looks like there's still a lot of work left on that front. I was trying to get some context for the 15000 miles number.
What is the average number of miles per accident for humans? Is it less than 15000? If yes, this is still good.
I think the idea about skipping 3 is that the applicant is choosing to apply to a particular company. That's implicitly saying that they're willing to work on that company's code. I don't know how valid this is nowadays with the common practice of throwing applications at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:30PM (#18471315)
I believe it means something like:

Given the definition of metre and the definition of second, the kilogram is whatever value that makes the Planck constant h precisely 6.62607015×10−34 kg m^2 s^(-1).

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Re:B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:09PM (#17923200)
Really excited to see the Ethics Elective being a requirement for the major. Would prefer even more than one course, to be honest, but it's a good start. I feel like the ethics of AI isn't getting enough attention and by the time it does it might be too late.
Re:Introduction to A* (1997) on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:11PM (#17777639)
The link you provided leads to Page Not Found
Re:What's the size of that vector, anyway? on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:09AM (#16941322)
Output is:

  vector<int> v{3} size() 1
  vector<string> v{3} size() 3
  vector<int> v{0} size() 1
  terminate called after throwing an instance of 
  'std::logic_error'
    what():  basic_string::_M_construct null not valid
  Aborted (core dumped)
Can anyone explain why there's a logic error?
Re:Notice of Shutdown on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:01PM (#16477843)
The Free Law Project (https://free.law/) is the only thing remotely similar I can think of.
easier to just write stuxnet
Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:27PM (#16054002)
How do we convince courts/LEOs that ip address != identity?
bad time to be finding bugs in High Sierra
Re:Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:16AM (#15643063)
Manhattan isn't what it was 40 years ago. It's a lot cleaner now.
Re:Planets in Google Maps on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:00AM (#15490206)
kerbal space program
Re:No Comments on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:54PM (#15468799)
Almost as bad as the responses one can expect from job applications.