DoofusOfDeath

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   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   > A usability professional would have caught that immediately - and would have been way cheaper. To be fair, lots of risk-mitigation investments are cheaper in hindsight, once you know the risk actually got realized.
2. 62.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   > Citi learned the hard way Do we have evidence that they actually learned anything from this?
3. 63.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   > So the only means to have a situation where you don't risk bigco for a single department is not making it a department. Make it a Ltd. in a holding or something. I was thinking that as well. Can anyone explain why this isn't
4. 64.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   When sleeping, do obese people generally do more mouth-breathing? (IIRC, obesity is a major risk factor for sleep apnea.) If so, it might take some legwork to untangle those two factors (mouth breathing vs other obesity issues) to explain c
5. 65.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   You make an excellent counterpoint. I think your comment also exposes an ambiguity in the phrase " support the status quo." One meaning is to affirm the status quo as generally acceptable. Another meaning is to (implicitly) decid
6. 66.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   Anyone know AMD's plans for remote work? I'd love to apply for some of their positions, but I'm strongly tied to my local community in New England.
7. 67.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   Can you expand on this a little? I sometimes hear of keyboard aficionados having strong preferences for various "colors" of Cherry key switches. And I see high-end keyboards advertised with having particular choices of Cherry swit
8. 68.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   I would think that being "gay" doesn't 100% prevent someone from fathering / mothering children.
9. 69.▲
   by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

   I'm delighted at the multiple ways one can parse the headline!
10. 70.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Sure, best wishes. A quick parting thought: one feature of HN (with which I strongly disagree) is that downvotes require no accompanying explanation or justification. I've sometimes been pretty vexed when my perfectly good comments go
11. 71.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    I wonder if you'd benefit from starting a new HN account, and try to not reveal anything that would let people connect it to your real identity? BTW, I'm a guy, and I'm trying to be friendly, and I can assure you I'm not
12. 72.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Nice sentiment, but I'd liken it so a 26.2 mile sprint.
13. 73.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Thanks for the context! You saved me from foolishly wandering into crowd-with-pitchforks mode.
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > The short of it is that the title has arisen as a result of a form of professional jealousy, primarily with medical professionals. Everyone wants to stand out and mark their social class even in supposedly "classless" societi
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Thanks for reporting this. It's the first evidence I've heard of someone (Google?) abusing their power with LLVM in order to protect Google's products. Mind sharing a link to your submission's discussion thread(s)?
16. 76.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    I hope nobody at Harvard reads about this. They'd respond by developing their own strain of metastatic brain goiter.
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    I have serious reservations about headlines like this, but perhaps I'm being pedantic without realizing. My concern is that a particular mathematical function can be expressed in many different ways using Python and using C++. And prac
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing! I'm curious about the exact dividing line between PII and non-PII. So if you know, could you clarify a detail? Your phrasing was: "If the hashed password *is used as* a lookup key, that makes it a unique identi
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Can you elaborate? I'm interested in what you're saying, but after some quick Googling I still don't understand the significance of "Londonderry".
20. 80.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Ugh, this is so frustrating. I'd love to solve this mystery, but I can't easily set up an environment for it right now. Best of luck. I hope you'll post an update if you ever get to the bottom of it.
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Interesting. I just took a look at the line of gdb code that's crashing on you. I'm only slightly familiar with gdb's internals, but I can imagine a bunch of different sources for this bug: - gdb has a misconception about whi
22. 82.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > Hell, in my main project I've been unable to use any version of gdb & lldb for something like two months as both segfault a couple seconds after reaching a breakpoint for some reason. It's a shitshow. I'm really surp
23. 83.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > Expressing "horror" every time data is mentioned in connection with health data is a very one-sided reflex. Good call. It was a mistake for me to post such a once-sided comment.
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > and TONS of platforms wanted to warehouse this data. My coworker and I were there looking for exactly those sorts of things, and it was great to see so much. As I read your comment, I had a growing expectation that you were about to ex
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > So, I buy tons of IP from companies and individuals willing to sell them - the more generic, the better. I then troll around looking for companies that make products that might fit some of the patents I just bought. That fits my unders
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    Apologies if this is too tangential, but does anyone know where I can find a good explanation of why patent "trolling" is seen as worse than any other kind of IP enforcement? TL;DR: My (perhaps wrong) view is that people are misdi
27. 87.▲
    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > But why does it have to be an either or? In mixed onsite / remote teams, the remote employees can be seriously disadvantaged regarding access to information, participation in decision-making, etc. Some of the comments above mentio
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    The specific clip I had in mind can be found in "Overlord" (English dub), season 3, episode 9, 20m25s - 20m50s ([0] and [1]). [0] https://www.hulu.com/watch/1657b4d2-49dd-450d-9a0f-aa2e1d45d... (requires subs
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    > So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it. I love the phrasing. It instantly made me imagine those words being spoken by Lord Demiurge [0] (as voiced by Jeff J
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    by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

    I didn't notice anything in the article about the author trying to get help from Apple. Is that just known to be so pointless that it's not worth mention?