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They probably need to account for parents allowing kids to use their account, so account age can be a factor but not an automatic pass.

Something I recently found out about ARM Cortex M0s, they are small enough and cheap enough that they get used in USB cables to handle protocol negotiation between devices. Given t…

For non 3d graphics people AABB -> Axis Aligned Bounding Box.

Using the data provided, memory safety issues (use-after-free, memory-leak, buffer-overflow, null-deref) account for 67% of their bugs. If we include refcount It is just over 80%.

>receptionist answering phones and scanning paper records in They were also converting paper records to digital. Asking the data entry person where the data is or how to find paper…

On Android, Gmail reports as being under 200 MB. So I agree, they probably include way to much for portability.

> Even "hacker", which started out meaning only breaking into computer systems No. The Etymology of Hacker in the technical scene started at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club in the l…

> I didn’t feel confident enough to evaluate what the agent was doing So don't. It is vibe coding, not math class. As long as it looks like it works then all good.

It is kind of like how modern art doesn't mean modern today. It means that time period where people called art "modern". Novel meant new as in "novel science results". It was used …

>"Open Source" is nebulous No it isn't it is well defined. The only people who find it "nebulous" are people who want the benefits without upholding the obligations. https://openso…

>My pet theory is that the younger generation never realized Publisher existed For most it didn't. The non 365 Office came in 3 tiers Student, business, and enterprise. Publisher o…

Fiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias.

Because good code checks pre conditions and returns early if they are not met.

So? At 10M revenue what are the chances they don't have an accountant who does their taxes and already has all the relevant info? Asking their accountant to crank out one extra for…

Would that work for LLMs though? They hypothetically trained on news papers from the second half of the data so they have knowledge of "future" events.

Unreal engine uses SDL, so more than 1% of games.

You don't necessarily "need" it but what feature of Win11 or OSX is worth the making all existing software inoperable? Can't say I have seen one outside of gets security updates.

I go with "You are responsible for the algorithms, it is responsible for the code micro optimizations". The compiler can't optimize you out of an SQL N+1 situation, that is on me t…

Never. There has never been a time when it was OK to use a phone in class. What happened is A) Some kids do take their phone out and play with them and either get caught or not B) …

The table of data at the end of the article has 7 lines, only one has data for both DBs. What was the point of setting up the comparison if there is no comparison made?

Annoying drone buzzing when it works, 80lb bricks from heaven when it doesn't. Not really looking forward to that future.

>Building 1,000 bridges will make the cost of the next incremental bridge cheaper due to a zillion factors, even if Bridge #1 is built from sticks (we'll learn standards, stable, f…

Given that Cargo is written in Rust, you would think there would be at least one battle tested solver that could be used. Perhaps it was harder to extract and make generic than wri…

Story doesn't make sense. > the final exam where somehow people got their hands on the hardest question of the exam. They got the question but not the answer so they had to work it…