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Lote posted:Ah yes. They are finally going to address the biggest issue of our times: Can the US Military come up with an idea so expensive that the Federal Government won't fund it?
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Paradoxish posted:If it even occurs to you that there might be more than one way to write fizzbuzz or, hell, if any solution at all occurs to you in a minute or less then fizzbuzz and that whole class of problems are not for you. They're screening questions designed to quickly rule out candidates for development jobs who literally cannot program. It's pretty much "did you completely lie about your qualifications y/n?" A good programmer can optimize for speed when needed, and for his own time when needed.
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1337JiveTurkey posted:http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/in-recent-test-blockchain-brings-transparency-to-notorious-credit-default-swaps/ "We've invented a new way to help identify potential systemic problems in the economy!" *fires 2,000,000 people*
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cheese posted:Legitimately not sure if this was an onion style parody or a real serious report the entire time I was reading it. They go to crazy town, but they do it in a way that confirms everyone's suspicions about the grandiose and self-indulgent way advertisers and their clients think about their products. So people read it and pass it around, to laugh at the grandiosity and self-indulgence. But people are reading and sharing it, so by pretty much any measure, that makes it a marketing success. So is it an intentional viral campaign? Probably. But the possibility exists that they really are that grandiose and self-indulgent, and all of our suspicions about them are correct. It is Poe's law made real, paid for by corporate America, and available in pdf format.
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StratGoatCom posted:In other things we are far away from... And even if lab-grown meat is a longshot, the cost-benefit analysis of funding more research is still wildly in its favor due to the environmental impact of raising and slaughtering animals. As a taxpayer, I'm perfectly willing to toss a few billion into the pit for a tiny chance of eventual success. Even if it's guaranteed to fail, it's money better spent than what we're sending overseas for Israel's Iron Dome.
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Our corporate yammer is a circle jerk of toxic positivity about whatever dumb new "innovation initiative" upper management has put in place after reading a tech buzzword in a Forbes article. If you ever wondered what happened to those suspiciously cheerful overachieving rich kids with perfect attendance from high school, they are all spending their days on our yammer.
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Mods, please rename the thread "Tech Nightmares: Inexplicably this involves the blockchain". And then rename all of SA "mediocre website with 20mb of javascript".
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PT6A posted:What happens when every car in America is scheduled to charge from midnight to 6, rather than a handful? Does our grid still handle that without problems, over a heatwave or a cold snap where heating/AC is still running overnight? You'd still be fairly boned in a sustained power outage over many days or weeks. Gas generators for emergency situations will probably need to be available on a wider basis than they are today.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1479165032013438977 A 32 bit unsigned integer has a max of 4294967295, so in 21 years we will probably have Y2K43, too.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Peak capitalism is going to be redefined when robots can kill humans with impunity. Alternatively, in the case that the robot programming considers a zero divide to give inf instead of nan, they will just kill all humans.
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At least with "the cloud", you can find actual data to do a cost/benefit analysis and make a reasoned decision. It's an actual thing that can be used. Even if the sales and C-level people are constantly using it in a buzzword nonsense way. Unlike the underpants gnome logic that you usually get when they talk about things like NFTs and "the blockchain" and "machine learning".
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Main Paineframe posted:Never thought I'd see the day Elon Musk deleted a tweet. Sad! Not that I think Musk is complying at all.
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Multi-paned windows are like nature's bingo free space. The miniscule upfront cost pays for itself almost immediately. Even cheapass bodega owners know this. I'd be surprised if there were even single-pane freezer windows on the market.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Cool. And why can't Chevron or Exxon etc just buy a social media platform and purge the information on their crimes.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:https://twitter.com/morebuttertv/status/1529151981792727040
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My legal first name in the country I moved to is my American first and middle name smooshed together, and with no legal middle name (even though legal documents have a place for it), because American passports don't have a separate entry for middle names - they just have a first and last name, and middle names just get shoved into the first name box. Whoever did my paperwork just made a guess from ambiguous information and guessed wrong, and now I have a new legal first name. In the long run it's helpful, because I know any mail addressed to Firstname Middlename is garbage spam mail that someone pulled from some public registry somewhere.
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 They just sold the company for billions more than it was worth. That is A+++ C-suite executiving.I'm beginning to think this Elon Musk guy is not very bright or good at running a business.
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Twitter engineers have had six+ months of warning that they were about to get a poo poo boss and probably fired. That's means, motive, and opportunity to plant some time-delayed bombs in the code and cover it up so that it will look accidental when it goes off. And nobody there has the incentive to find, identify, report, or fix corporate sabotage except Musk himself. If the general attitude is anything other than "gently caress this place, I hope it crashes and burns now", I would be very surprised.
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smoobles posted:The craziest part to me is ALMOST NOBODY uses Twitter. I'd be perfectly happy if somethingawful just disabled embedding tweets. I think they have generally made posting here worse. I don't care what some influencer or celebrity or internet rando tweets.
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Can't wait for the Musk tweet that says he's sure his team will finally crack the "FizzBuzz" issue that everyone has been using so much time on.
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PhazonLink posted:Apparently Madison Square Garden was using face scanning tech to remove lawyers linked to firms/cases that are against MSG and removing them.
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silence_kit posted:IDK, many engineers who really enjoy their work have this proclivity and management often has to rein them in and make them focus. This isn’t really unique to data scientists. Underpants gnome business logic is all the rage, if you just replace the "collect underpants" step with "collect data and do machine learning".
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I was able to play fine on PS4 during an internet outage that lasted more than a day. It just said that it was unable to connect to the Playstation Network and it was starting in offline mode. Which was fine, because I was playing offline mode anyway since I'm not about to pay for Playstation+.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:is an ai chatbot a person now
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Vegetable posted:In New York 73,000 households were registered as homeless in Spring 1920, compared to 70,000 now. You calculate the proportions.
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shoeberto posted:Managers have to make recommendations for cuts, it's not as wild as you might think. I was just having a conversation this week with a coworker who knew of big orgs where there is a mandated distribution of negative performance reviews in order to avoid having managers sing praises of all their direct reports, thereby always pushing for raises/promotions while also shielding them from being laid off. Apparently google is literally doing that, too. But when it comes to employee surveys, they make it clear that 10 means good, eight and nine are average, and anything seven or below is poor. They literally have green, yellow, red color-coding. And whenever there is a poor score for something, management implements "initiatives" that inevitably make things more difficult for employees. And would you look at that? Nothing but over-eight averages in all categories. It must be a very happy workforce.
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I think the lesson to learn in all this is that if you're a computer toucher and you're the type that would want to do corporate sabotage to retaliate for being fired, the best method to do it is to bury some dead man's switches deep inside the system that you keep from going off only while you're still employed.
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Motronic posted:Because it's partial ownership of the company. Surely you see the difference between that and ownership of an unregulated token that has no intrinsic value or even wide adoption/acceptance.
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Motronic posted:There is no arguing with a "position" like this, so best of luck in your future endeavors. Which I assume is digging a bunker or something.
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Boba Pearl posted:If you have over 250k, then you can go to a bank with a private banker, and you shop around. You normally get a free meal out of it and they'll explain to you why you'd want to do business with them, but most private bankers won't really look at you unless you have at least a million. Keep repeating until you have so many $250k accounts that you have trouble keeping track of them in your head. At that point, consider actually investing in something rather than keeping all of your assets in cash. I think you have enough savings that you can put a bit of it at some calculated risk.
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Main Paineframe posted:He figured that since Bitcoin is also a way to waste tremendous amounts of money on something completely useless, militaries could do the same thing by buying Bitcoin miners instead of bombs, and showing their supremacy by hashrate measurements instead of impressive explosions, thereby ushering in a sort of world peace where wars were bloodless affairs fought by competing for the highest mining rate instead of blowing poo poo up. We learn by the end that it is better to make bombs and actually blow each other up than to try to sanitize war.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I asked Bard “is it difficult to shoot a bird with a hammer?” and it says 
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Shrecknet posted:JUMWY TIM
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Charlz Guybon posted:What does this mean?
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PhazonLink posted:milkshake recipe sucks.
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We're about to spend the equivalent of around $60,000 on a solar roof, and one of the primary reasons we chose the company we did is because it was the only one who actually read our description that a) we prefer communication by email, and b) we are not going to agree to a home visit before we have a preliminary price estimate range. We had two companies come out before we made these demands, and they basically took a walk around the house and glanced at the roof, and then gave prices that were stupid high ($130,000+). I don't need to rearrange my day to wait at home for you to come by and then talk to you for a half hour to finally hear your outrageous price. Look at the roof on googlemaps, and send your best estimate by email. I am getting five or six calls a day from the companies that aren't bothering to read our very basic requirements.
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His Divine Shadow posted:60,000 for a solar roof? Are those normal prices wherever you are or is this a really huge setup for producing surplus power for the grid?  , from what we can tell. It's for a fully integrated solar roof (the kind where the roof is the panels, not solar panels on top of a normal roof), and we're completing replacing the existing roof because it's 80 years old. It's about 100 m2 of roof with a 50o pitch, and the price includes new underlayment and dismantling and disposing the existing roof (super heavy clay tile). €8000 also sounds very cheap, if you're talking about a whole roof, and not just a few panels plopped on top of an existing roof. Though 50kWh per day is a lot of panels, and the price still sounds very cheap. When I was still living in the States, I had to get new roof shingles after a hailstorm, and just that without any kind of carpentry needed was around $10000, if I remember right (insurance paid it, so I didn't care much).
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His Divine Shadow posted:Right I thought solar panels on top of a roof and not a whole new roof. We need a new roof, anyway, and the cost of a new normal roof plus a solar installation on top is about the same as an integrated solar roof. The kinds with them on top also have a higher incidence of leaking, because the sealing around the mounting points tends not to be as durable as the roof itself, assuming they are even sealed properly in the first place. Plus, we think the integrated roof looks nicer, and there is a 20 year guarantee on it. I doubt we will stay in the same house that long, so I think the better aesthetics will pay off in the resale value of the house when we sell. quote:Those old tiles if they are anywhere remotely usable they can probably be sold since there are in my experience always people looking for old clay tiles for their old houses. Even if you would have to give them away it's less stuff to dispose of.
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Barrel Cactaur posted:And worse, soon the SEO blog-post in front of the recipes could become infinitely long.
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