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I've been using it for a few years on Gentoo. There were challenges with Python 2 years ago, but over the past year it's stabilized and I can even do img2video which is the most difficult lo…

Especially if it's there to conform to an interface. You can comment out the variable name and leave the type.

An unused parameter should be commented out.

"shall" recommendations are statically analyzed, "will" are not.

Stack "allocations" are basically free.

In hard real-time software, you have a performance budget otherwise the missile fails. It might be more maintainable to have leaks instead of elaborate destruction routines, because then you only ha…

How has the Section 174 elimination of 5-year amortization for domestic SWE salaries impacted decisionmaking on whether to hire overseas? Since overseas workers are still subject to 15-year amortizati…

Federal contractors are required to track the percentage of self-identified disabled employees for reporting to the government. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/sectio…

Having a smaller install size makes me more likely to buy the game if I have a large library. Game size is a problem in every new triple A release.

The term is "open matte" and is the ideal way of watching movies on folding phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte …

If this is a common issue in industry why don't game devs make a user visible slider to control dedup? I have friends who play one or two games and want them to load fast. Others have dozens and …

> And sending a big pull request the day before the merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care is not a winning strategy. I wish I could say this. But unfortunately delaying you…

Part of the reason Arial is so dominant is because it's proportioned the same as Helvetica, meaning it can be swapped in to avoid licensing fees without affecting document layout.

If I know one thing from Space Station 13 it's how abusable the Three Laws are in practice.

Because it was insider traded on Polymarket many hours before it was publicly announced.

Various reasons, like embargoes on information, stuff we didn't want to wait for review on before shipping, or features that don't make sense for upstream like `hipcc` which is an `nvcc` wra…

I know my company (AMD) maintains an llvm fork for ROCm. YMMV.

LLVM has very high quality standards in my experience. Much higher than I've ever had even at work. It might be a challenge to get this upstreamed. LLVM is also very modular which makes it easy t…

You still have to pay the tax in the first place to go bankrupt.

Yes, if only because of the broad patent grant. 3.1.6 is also concerning since it can be read as indemnification? > Prevent any person from exercising his/her/their right to seek an effec…

Yes, but the same insurance company will screw with your coverage depending on your employer. My mom's plan randomly denied my medications all the time as a student. My current job's plan al…

> Healthcare costs, and hence health insurance premiums, are the same with or without an employer intermediary. If you read the fine print of a health "insurance" plan at a large company,…

> It is basically forcing them to dilute more, which is better for them on average because the shares expire worthless so often anyway. Well no, because VCs might not give you money to buy chunks…

There are plenty of licences to achieve this that'll make your code unusable. CC-BY-NC allows you to ban commercial use. There is also the Hippocratic licence[2] which allows you to choose from a…

Yes, you do get the money back, that's the point of the paper. This is better for many founders that otherwise wouldn't cash out at all. VCs will be forced to cover your unrealized capital g…

Can I still remove the headrest and use it to break glass?

The paper spots that this pseudo-wealth tax would be better for more founders. > Moving from current realization-based to accrual-based taxation would reduce founder ownership at exit by 25% on a…