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  • Brits don't actually use spices in their food so they probably couldn't think of any.

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  • So is Facebook and Instagram

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  • "In about two weeks"

  • Would it be possible to shut down the internet, and how could that be done?

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  • Technically it's a bunch of LANs that are connected to each other

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • I know how it must sound but it wasn't like that when I graduated around 2002. 80% of my classmates were self-sufficient and had gained experience and self-esteem through various demanding group projects and their thesis work. Many of them already had more value to offer than the tired self-educated colleagues they met on their first job.

    When you have developed and simulated your own ad-hoc wireless routing protocol, implemented distributed two-phase commit algorithms and built your own compiler, you don't need to ask your colleague fifty times how to use React state. You google it and figure it out. You're trained to always learn new things and be comfortable with it.

  • What are dumb reasons that Google will ban you for?

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    • Developing an Android app that doesn't pass review

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • My experience as a senior dev who is often involved in the recruitment process (admittedly in Sweden and not Silicon Valley) is that there are hundreds of people applying but they all lack sufficient skill. We still have a severe shortage of people who can actually do the job without requiring so much hand holding that they have a negative impact on productivity. There seems to have been a surge in "quick-fix" educations that are a couple of months long, and the new iPad kids are already behind when they start the education because they don't understand how a computer works. They have no interest in the craft and don't enjoy it, they just want to check off a detailed todo list and get a fat pay check. We need people who can think, extrapolate from unclear requirements, and ask smart follow-up questions.

    The demand is still there, the supply isn't. Half of these applicants couldn't even implement FizzBuzz.

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  • Why does everyone assume that programmers can just go and fix stuff they don't like without getting shot down in performance reviews for lack of focus or for overstepping their authority.

    We have a prioritized list of work items coming in from the PO and that's what we work on. There's generally no room for creativity. Supporting larger files in Notepad in particular would increase maintenance costs due to requiring much more complex memory management, and it would label you as not being a team player for increasing complexity for everyone. It wouldn't pass code review.

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  • One of the best features of notepad was that it starts quickly. That feature is now gone. :(

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    What use a smart card reader?

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  • You can store a private/public key pair on a smart card and use it for digitally signing or encrypting things like email, or just for authenticating to your PC. Some banks also support authentication by client certificate; web browsers can access your smart card for authenticating to web sites.

  • Good evening.

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  • Fun fact: if a woman eats only hamburgers through her entire pregnancy, then she will have created a human being out of hamburgers.

  • [DinosAndComics] Rough

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  • By classical logic, an implication P -> Q is considered true whenever the left hand side is false. So for example "if the sun is made of cheese then my pants are green" is a true statement because the sun is not made of cheese.

    So if we assume that this can be rephrased as "if you love me and I am beautiful then you will still love me if I become ugly" then the statement is true.

  • For those who like sci-fi, how have real life LLMs changed how you view robots and AI in science fiction?

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  • In sci-fi, AI devices (like self-driving cars or ships, or androids) seem like an integrated unit where any controls or sensors they have are like human limbs and senses. The AI "wills" the engine to start. I always imagined AI would be like a single organism where neurons are connected directly to the body.

    Given the development of LLM:s and how they are used, it now seems more likely that AI will be an additional "smart layer" on top of the dumb machinery, and actions are performed by emitting tokens/commands ("raise arm 35 degrees") that are sent to API:s. The interaction will be indirect in the way that we control the TV with the remote.

  • The Epidemic Of Gamers Forcing Themselves To Play/Like a Game.

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  • Probably just dumb kids who don't understand how to play but heard friends in school talk about it. Or people like me who are caught up in life and even though I want to play I never really have the time that the games require.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • These arguments would apply the same to Google's approach. My argument is that Google appears to have another agenda.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • If they only cared about thwarting malware they could have just relied on code signing via public certificate authorities, like with binaries on Windows.

  • Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know

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  • I find that hard to believe. There are several US websites that have blocked the EU entirely because they don't want to spend resources on following EU regulations. If what you say is true it would be more beneficial for them to just not do anything. Getting fewer EU visitors is better than getting none at all.

  • Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know

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  • To do business in the EU, surely they still must follow EU regulations even if they're seated in another country. Just like with the cookie warnings that the entire world has had to adapt to.

  • Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know

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  • Aren't VPN:s subject to exactly the same laws as ISP:s? My ISP only records precisely as much as the law requires and throws it away as soon as permitted.