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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   tl;dr This means that any process that runs as the low-privileged user session can simply ask DPAPI for the credentials to unlock the vault, no questions asked and no PIN or fingerprint prompt required and Windows Hello is not even invo
2. 2492.▲
   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   These words ("centralization", "decentralization") have become a cargo-cult phenomenon. People are imbuing them with meaning they don't have, and trying to use them to solve a problem I don't think they really
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   I think W.E. Deming had some very good practical advice that I rarely see actioned. One place I worked, there was an entire volume of Deming's books on a shelf you had to pass to get to the cafeteria. But his advice wasn't being h
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   If you're going to worry about software quality, you need to stop talking about developer productivity, and start talking about business productivity. You can't objectively measure the productivity of a worker in isolation. You ha
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   Say what you will about Gentoo as a concept, it was a lot of fun when I was 17 learning more about software packaging, distributed compilation, and the ins and outs of compile-time optimization, not to mention Linux kernel optimization. And
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   Then it sounds like it's their own fault if their cattle get taken by wolves... if they want to avoid the wolves (that are of ecological interest to the public), they can go get some private land to graze on. Oh but wait, that would ma
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   If conservatives could dump nuclear waste in streams to save a penny, they'd do it. Asking them to think about their impact on the environment, and how it might come back to impact them, is a non-starter.
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   It's almost the year 2024... if there's really no better solutions to keep wolves out of ranchers' properties, maybe this is a business opportunity? And if those solutions existed, maybe ranchers could get a tax break for usi
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   by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

   > we are creating user experiences that vary subjectively based on who is using them and what other digital or physical realities they interact with I don't believe that. When you create a coffee shop, you build it to have a specifi
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    It's ironic that they use pictures of failing bridges, after describing software architecture practices which are never used to build bridges. Yes, let's experiment with this 300 million dollar bridge for a few years, and make sur
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Literally everything about this is disappointing. "Almost" full support, for an "aging" machine, as long as you "don't need raw performance", and "the 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage may be a letdown&q
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Don't you just love clickbait blog articles that make no sense? HN sure does!
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Yeah, no, you're just annoyed people aren't texting, it has nothing to do with literacy. Audible user interfaces are great but they don't remove the need for text.
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Proprietary as in, relates only to itself, not compatible with anything other than itself. It's a monolith with no standards. You have to write custom software to make anything work with it. Nothing just works with k8s out of the box,
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    K8s is the opposite. It's proprietary, insular, not compatible with anything else, tightly coupled, not layered, not backwards compatible, etc. It has network services, logging, auth, etc, but so does literally every other system in th
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    I like the discussion on scheduling. One of the things I've thought recently is that, since there's no one model of how an app or system should work, nor one network architecture, there shouldn't be one scheduler. Instead, I
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    > it's better for consumers and the market if competitors fight to the (metaphorical) death instead I never understand why this is the only other option. If you're in a town and open a coffee shop, and someone else opens a coff
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    I remember being at a bar in the 18th, and asking for "L'Eau". "Quoi?" "L'eau sil vous plait?" ..... long pause ..... I motion to picking up a glass and drinking it ..... "Ahhhh! DE L'eau!&q
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    It's a Hawaiian word, so I would defer to their pronunciation
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    I'm guessing you don't like French...
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    > Really curious how a door like this opens. If it's just a standard blast door, captured hinges with grease. You just pull it open, and a cam pulls it closed tight. If it's a sliding door, you can use bearings, cams and screw
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Reminder that Larry Eillison bought an entire Hawaiian island. Apparently that's normal, after Mormons acquired the land in 1854, later selling it on for sugar production, ranching, and growing pineapples. https://en.wikiped
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    There's at least 4 kinds of C programmers today: - People who work on projects which require low-level access, potentially mixing in assembly code (drivers, OS, etc), porting to different architectures, real-time, high-precision, contr
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    > "Where is her community?" You could ask the same of homeless people, drug addicts, people with mental issues, people from foster care, criminals, the elderly. Some people lose their community, and don't have the tools or
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    Since men make more money than women, does that mean men are smarter than women? Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe statistics isn't the crystal ball it seems.
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    This is a great article. How it ended up on HN I don't know, but can somebody please start submitting more like this, and fewer techno-babble thinkpieces by junior javascript contractors who host their own mail?
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    So would using pigeons to send texts. It's weird, it's not a standard, it's vulnerable to attacks. We have standards that fix the problem that aren't purely security by obscurity.
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    For "professional" stuff, yes, it matters. Cyber criminals follow patterns, starting with very low-effort trolling for new services without much defenses. Bots scan the internet for open services, enumerate them, and try to gain a
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    The 8 hour work day: created for physical laborers, extended to paper-pushers, and forced onto creative workers along with productivity-sapping random meetings. The current white collar worker paradigm is proof that capitalism is inherently
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    by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago

    > spoof sensitive DNS records, resulting in varying consequences from credential theft to full Active Directory domain compromise It sounds insane to me that the security of anything would depend on the validity of a DNS record, but I va