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Comment · 3 months ago
I think it's mostly misapplied. The best example of Dunning-Kruger is an intelligent, competent, Ph.D. in physics thinking 9/11 was faked because "jet fuel can't melt steel", not realizing that steel loses significant tensile strength as it heats up without necessarily melting, which I think most engineers would be aware of. His great knowledge in one area blinds him to his woeful lack of knowledge in another.
Comment · 1 year ago
crickets
Comment · 1 year ago
Depends on the game, but usually turning up the FOV to much higher than most defaults will help a lot. But screen size, etc. will have an impact as well.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://slate.com/technology/2011/07/netflix-streaming-is-ki...

> It’s convenient, it’s not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.

Welp, netflix (and others) are 3 for 3 on eroding those advantages.

Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure that it makes sense to compare NATS to gRPC. Maybe the thinking is because gRPC supports bi-directional streaming? The integrations are wildly different, though.
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't realize it was time to drag this old chestnut out of storage. Nothing like dusting off a decades long flame war. I'm sure everyone will come to an agreement this time.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Is this why facebook is down?
Comment · 6 years ago
The big concern I have here is that the address resolution seems similar to DNS... Which is very bad, IMHO. Are they taking necessary steps to mitigate ddos and Man in the middle attacks? If they're not, they're seeing themselves up for major disaster.
Comment · 6 years ago
There's already a PR to fix this, looks like there's a missing space after one of the minus signs.
Comment · 7 years ago
From the slack post:

> In other words, if you’re one of the approximately 99% who joined Slack after March 2015 or changed your password since then, this announcement does not apply to you.

Hackers compromising plaintext password would seem to apply to everyone using Slack, whether their account was compromised or not??

Comment · 8 years ago
And in the cryptocurrency space, we need way more than 7 decimal places.
Comment · 8 years ago
Works on my machine
Comment · 8 years ago
This seems like it has potential for being the core of an interesting interview question. Maybe something along the lines of "You are hired as the Chief Shunter (lol) of a new rail company and the CEO, to cut costs, has stated that only half of all cars will have toilets. What instructions will you give the shunters? What complications could arise? What is the optimal solution and how would it impact UX?" etc. etc.
Comment · 8 years ago
Couldn't the microplastics just come from the plastic bottles the water is bottled in?

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