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swerveonem··on The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
That and we have taken massive depreciation hits, which makes is less desirable to sell or trade if you financed a bunch of your purchase.
swerveonem··on The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
Nah, low center of gravity with nimble handling is better. I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day. Sport sedans have swagger too, the only swaggerific SUVs are the Escalade, Cullinan, Urus, Porsche SUVs. But those are out of the price range most of humanity can afford to buy within. I have never had a problem seeing traffic.
swerveonem··on Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
I run a gitlab instance and use issues and milestones.
swerveonem··on The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
What percentage of ships had fires in their coal holds on the day the titanic launched, by your estimation? I'm struggling to understand how rare a persistent coal fire was during that era. Would they in deed be forced to burn the coal, would this also force a high speed? If I'm to believe what LEO has me, speed is an enormous factor in all accidents, one of the most impactful variables, reduce it to 0 and you get the authors point.
swerveonem··on Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Did the offer any moral or ethics explanation? How did they justify this on a human level? That always interests me about this sort of decision, surely they had many meetings on the topic, what would those minutes look like?
swerveonem··on Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?
Being able to solve those problems like "it ain't no thing" is part of being a senior developer.
swerveonem··on Ask HN: Starting a career in security at 40?
You could take a pay cut learn the business at another firm then start your own shop in two years, #win.
swerveonem··on Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
Standing desks might be but adjustable desks are not. Who wants their neck at the same angle all day everyday for years?
swerveonem··on Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful
What king of large system does not have smaller components that are relied upon?
swerveonem··on Qt Design Studio 1.0
Wysiwyg?
swerveonem··on A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
They wouldn't trust the sender they would assign a dev to inspect the referenced file, decision making would start at that point.
swerveonem··on 310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved
You are devious. Then execute a massive spearfishing attack.
swerveonem··on Ask HN: What are some great projects to gain experience in InfoSec?
Check out the Kali distro
swerveonem··on Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture
Will others fork his proof to fill in the gaps? Is there a github for maths proofs?
swerveonem··on Yale study finds twice as many undocumented immigrants as previous estimates
Documents issued by the federal government, mostly a social security number or Visa or green card.
swerveonem··on Stories – Medium clone built with Rails
They have not moved on, rails has matured and now requires less public debate.
swerveonem··on Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
Out of how many open cases total?
swerveonem··on Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital
Often the best batches of resumes come from international staffing companies, they are often faster and more efficient at putting butts in seats than the smaller staffing companies that focus on local talent s.
swerveonem··on GIMP receives a $100K donation
While what you say may be true, it's trivia. If one of those devs who attempt a fix learn a little and make a more significant contribution later in life. Only hindsight is 20/20.
swerveonem··on Rails, still?
If you truly had to rewrite from scratch you did something wrong, the APIs are not vastly different.
swerveonem··on Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset
And you still have to implement your own "verify against actual blockchain node" function yourself before actually trusting any query results.
swerveonem··on HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
Facebook did this or housing companies used the Facebook targeting boolean option to configure ad campaigns in this way?
swerveonem··on The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
Because you get strange stack overflows.
swerveonem··on Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China
Do they protest by not typing? If not, then this is no protest.
swerveonem··on Firms That Bossed Agriculture for a Century Face New Threat: Farmers
What services do the middlemen provide? Are those services truly unneeded or will the farmer have to develop those skills and/or outsource to a different company? It seems like there is an opportunity here when viewed through traditional product distribution eyes but can a farmer ship direct to customer, organize bonds and insurance, navigate the futures markets?
swerveonem··on Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not
Thanks for pointing that out. I laughed too. Shill obviously works for a problem.
swerveonem··on Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not
This removes the cryptography aspects, which is what keeps the system and results verifiable after the fact. Of course the votes can be counted and statistical estimations of accuracy can be used to attempt to detect fraud but that can also be performed AFTER each individual vote is recorded on a blockchain. In fact the only reason not to utilize blockchain technology in election processes is to ensure the results can be manipulated.
swerveonem··on Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not
Excellent point, when you perform that thought experiment you end up with a set of technologies so close to a blockchain it actually makes sense to just use a blockchain.
swerveonem··on 1/0 = 0
If thing is zero don't divide, like the base case in a recursive function. This is the maths version of null pointer exception
swerveonem··on ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
Driver for laptop hardware, battery life are the two most important reasons.
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