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by B-Con 7y ago
Definitely some bias in reporting. If this happens at a small company no one cares, it's just another day. Also I feel like Google had attracted some idealistic people who are surprised when real life doesn't conform to their expe
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by B-Con 7y ago
If you aren't auditing your dependencies, you don't know security. But we don't do that either, we outsource it. This a reasonable thing to outsource: let someone qualified build their own.
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by B-Con 7y ago
I suspect it could be large, well-paying companies with prescriptive style guides skewing the results. eg, Google standardized on spaces for all their languages I've interacted with, maybe some others did too.
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by B-Con 7y ago
> All that is left to do is get in bed with the ad network to ask them if they have good cookies for this session. What's funny is that this is pretty much what ReCaptcha v3 is. Asking how "authentic" the Google cookie loo
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by B-Con 7y ago
Calling is also archaic. Manually tell them my location and wait to hear a price? I'm on the go, I don't want to deal with that crap.
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by B-Con 7y ago
> But trust also degrades naturally over time. Italian researchers Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone have a model of trust in which it’s observability not success that is the key factor. Under their theory an entity that is silent
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by B-Con 7y ago
It's going to landfills for a reason. This has prompted people to investigate why and then write about it.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Pretty much this. Writing code that can handle both old and new schema is admittedly annoying. But it's safe and forces a thoughtful rollout. Even data mutations can be rolled back. Dual storage writes, snapshots, etc. The goal isn&#x2
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by B-Con 7y ago
I suspected. Couldn't find a resume on her site to confirm it.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Required reading. Have you worked as an SRE? > Item: Rollbacks need to be possible This is the dirty secret to keeping life as an SRE unexciting. If you can't roll it back, re-engineer it with the dev team until you can. When there&
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by B-Con 7y ago
Brings back memories of the Hare Hare Yukai craze.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Don't forget to include whoever reviewed it.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Yep. This is why I don't have a cloud-based digital library. UV offered a way to migrate to other providers, but will the next one? I don't know that they're legally allowed to. What if the other provider doesn't have th
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by B-Con 7y ago
But it reduces information overload! Improved UX! I've made so many mistakes because I couldn't tell something overflowed. The scrollbar doesn't have to be big and ugly but it should still be present. At a minimum give a visu
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by B-Con 7y ago
Wearing earplugs regularly isn't a solution, it's a sound bite and you know it. Just say you think peace doesn't actually matter.
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by B-Con 7y ago
They literally said that cell networks don't allow it without the keep alive. You quoted it and said they were wrong because... you can use a keep alive. I'm confused as to what you're correcting.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Absolutely. I'd pick DST just to avoid this alone.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Completely depends. Different people have different preferences. Different locations have different weather benefits for time of day. When I played golf I played during twilight almost exclusively.
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by B-Con 7y ago
Also stale inventory they want to move.
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by B-Con 7y ago
That's close enough, in big company dynamics being in an unrelated arm can be farther away than some members of the public. Feels like a nit. I didn't imply every skeptic was donning tinfoil, but I saw a couple claims here and els
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by B-Con 7y ago
Edit: Removed my original write-up to double-check something, lost the write-up, retyped a tl;dr version. This is aimed at Enterprise, not individuals looking for a Signal-like messaging platform. "Confidential" e-mail implementat
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by B-Con 7y ago
This is me. I have a track record of making good, rational decisions that I end up regretting because it wasn't what I actually wanted. recently I've been trying to do a better job of checking in on my feelings to ensure present m
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by B-Con 7y ago
I'm confused as to why the takedown is worldwide. Does China threaten the company if they don't apply Chinese IP law apply outside of the country? Since their IP laws are terribly primitive they clash with the rest of the world, s
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by B-Con 7y ago
It is good enough, 2019 doesn't mean we don't reflect user behavior. Not every recommender is a moral agent. Auto-suggest and conspiracy videos aren't the same thing. And technically, yes, there's not such thing as a non
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by B-Con 7y ago
This is the general point though. Community pressure would have produced generics under a different leadership model that wants to check the box. Whether this is the right decision for this specific issue is a different story. But the fact
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by B-Con 7y ago
It's not pedantically incorrect, it's simply incorrect as well as partially misleading. It's an 11% occurrence rate now in a system that was designed to have this kind of feature.
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by B-Con 7y ago
> Twice in the last 20 years - more than any other time in US history combined - The Presidential election went to the candidate that LOST the popular vote; These generations just lack a proper understanding of civics! An untrue claim[0]
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by B-Con 7y ago
And they wonder why there's resistance to phones that are wireless only. Their wireless audio protocol is bad and they should feel bad.
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by B-Con 7y ago
> You can quit. We can quit. > Sometimes I run into a group that I want to be more involved with that organizes on Facebook. When I mention I want to be involved but am not on Facebook, there is usually sympathy and a response that th
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by B-Con 7y ago
Also because they exist. People who would move to CA but don't because of the housing problem can't vote to fix the issue.

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