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omegalulw··on Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
How do we even know that the universe has fundamental particles?
omegalulw··on Give up GitHub: The time has come
Do you have any evidence for this?
omegalulw··on Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
> a branch isn't a named sequence of commits, it's just a label that points to a single commit.

True, but in the past majority of cases parent commits in the branch (commits from leaf to the last ancestor that has only one child) would be semantically very related so this understanding is not that bad (so long as you remember a branch is a commit for git operations).

omegalulw··on Tell HN: Worst AWS service and support team experience
Where can I read more on this? As I understand it, Internet protocols can route globally so a few routers going down is not Armageddon.
omegalulw··on FTC Sues Walmart for Facilitating Money Transfer Fraud
How does that manual pass even make it to employees hands?
omegalulw··on Wear leveling in SSDs considered harmful
Would you trust a paper that reported results based off of experiments involving "sufficiently-narrow soldering tip and a sufficiently-steady hand"?
omegalulw··on Wasting time in tech interviews
You are assuming that the same person can't do both.
omegalulw··on Ask HN: What tone to use in code review suggestions?
Another method: prepend "nit: " to comments that improve the code but are not calling for changing the main logic. As a reviewer, you are simply acknowledging that this is a nitpick :)
omegalulw··on Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
Lmao how were you that confident in your original comment which basically claimed git signatures are only as secure as SHA-1.
omegalulw··on Oh Shit, Git
What GUI tools did you have in mind? git CLI is spectacularly good, GUIs tend to just make things slow and get in your way. With CLI you will also get the same experience on every platform, and even when you SSH.
omegalulw··on What Copilot means for open source
You are just wasting time. You should upskill yourself to the point you can write code with bare vim. Beyond that, use an IDE with good features to save time, that's what IDEs are for.
omegalulw··on What Copilot means for open source
There are much simpler solutions than that. Simply invest or reuse plagiarism models and tag output snippets to source repositories. You can either exclude this code or let the users know it's licenced code.
omegalulw··on GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
> I can certainly see the argument that DL output is transformative in nature.

It's a thin line. Depending on how the model is trained and what size it is, it is not unreasonable to expect that it will have the ability to remember training data.

omegalulw··on GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
Holy **. This is exactly the kind of use case ML code generation should NOT be used for. If you don't even understand a language you will probably not be able to debug subtle bugs that are introduced, especially in something like bash. Please don't do this for anything that touches prod.
omegalulw··on Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
I find that the simplest way to understand P => Q is to express it as (!P or Q).
omegalulw··on Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets
And these systems exist because sellers do fraud too, merchants that don't ship after taking payment, etc. With irreversible payments through crypto you are just pushing all the risk on customers. That will never fly.
omegalulw··on Ethereum mining is going away, and miners are not happy
24x7 heavy use decreases lifespan. It's not just the chip that's stress it's everything else on the PCB as well, fans,etc.
omegalulw··on Why Rust is a great choice for startups
I would love to hear that argument for Haskell for web dev.
omegalulw··on Making Code Faster
They probably meant num * num > x * x
omegalulw··on GPU-accelerated video decoding
I'm confused as well. Idk why the author is comparing RGB32 to YUV.
omegalulw··on Beautiful Soup
You have other social media for that. Low effort posts do not invite meaningful discussion and add moderation load.
omegalulw··on Google will not let me pay an invoice they sent me
Did support not help? If the account was critical why not spend $1?
omegalulw··on Ask HN: Why is vertical video so popular?
There's no natural reason to have evolved with eyes stacked on top... bears don't fall from the sky.
omegalulw··on Restarting my career after motherhood
> As a hiring manager, As long as someone can think about technology in the right way I’m happy to hire them and let them grow into a new tool chain. The thinking right part is the rare piece, the knowing XYZ tool of 2022 that’s an improvement on XYZ’ of 2012 doesn’t concern e.

Fantastic attitude.

omegalulw··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
Its not cheating but it's absolutely unethical. OP is right that they should have disclosed that they had seen the problem before. It only is that the right thing to do but also good interviewers can tell when you genuinely thought about a problem vs just regurgitated the solution.
omegalulw··on Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence
> And with tools like Confluence, there's a good chance that if you control the application, you can intercept login requests and steal credentials.

I thought Atlassian products were well trusted. Is that not the case?

omegalulw··on My students cheated... a lot
As a benefit to society? Not laudable IMO. But it does take hard work to swindle people into your crypto - that's the perspective I read OPs comment in.
omegalulw··on Code quality only matters in context (2019)
> A better metric for deciding where you should focus the most effort on code quality is not frequency of modification, it is frequency of appearance in the runtime call-graph.

On th flip side, a lot of code that isn't common in the main codepath often exists to fix edge case bugs that people have lost context on. In my experience, this code is a landmine with an unknown blast radius, only touch it with a 10-foot pole and only when you absolutely must.

omegalulw··on How do video games stay in sync?
Another key requirement that must be considered is packet ordering. With games you care about the latest state and thus discarding older out of order packets is a better strategy than waiting for packets to serialize them like TCP would do.
omegalulw··on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
How do you deal with cases where results must be ordered by some field and the data changes between page 1 request and page 2 request?
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