JamesLeonis

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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
There was a recent blowout of a door, and now several problems were found in subsequent MAX planes. This is part of a larger saga with faults found in MAX planes that have caused some crashes, and the longstanding quality issues with Boeing
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> Don't quite understand ray tracing enough to understanding exactly why it is faster. Is it because rasterisation starts from the camera but ray tracing starts from the light source? so you can amortise more calculations if you sta
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I'm discounting a security company with several recent high-profile security incidents . As somebody that implemented Okta for a bank, for both customers and internal personnel, I am very concerned. EDIT: Before you defend Okta, t
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> And then these same inquisitive young people are going to click enough links on htmx.org that they stumble across hyperscript and it's gonna be like that moment in Dusk till Dawn where the vampires come out I laughed at this, then
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I've used KeePass (and its derivatives) for over a decade. It works across all my devices and I sync it with Syncthing. Currently I'm using KeePassXC with my YubiKey as an added authentication layer.
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
This argument is known as God of the Gaps [0] and it has serious logical and theo logical flaws. > Detractors argue that this perspective is problematic as it seems to rely on gaps in human understanding and ignorance to make its case
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
The whole thing reads like the Nicene Creed from Roman Catholicism [0]; a series of statements of belief. If you put 1-5 (Agree/Disagree) below each paragraph, it could also be a personality test. [0]: https://www.usccb.org&
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Here's Epic's Enshittification Journey as a platform. Let it be known that it didn't have to be this way. Epic (Mega)Games was a mild-mannered game development company that sold a popular engine used in many AAA games. Act I;
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
My first job out of college was a small defense contractor that underwent ISO 9001 Certification for Agile process. I was a junior engineer who didn't know any better, so I look back bemused over all the really silly things that org di
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I have a couple of Yubikeys and I can hopefully answer some questions. 1. The Yubikey specific OTP was turned on by default on both of my keys. The particular default is a Yubikey protocol. An alternative OTP is the Challenge-Response HMAC
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
To add to this, Japan is increasingly viewed as a harbinger for much of the Western world. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34486824
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
How could you forget the greatest effort of them all: The Third Party Partner ?! * How would we install all these toolbars? * How would we change them in flight based on characteristics we can get from elevated permissions during install t
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> It’s just not your typical consumer. My only disagreement. I think many people don't know they want something better because they've never used something better. The video in the link describes how the users do short texts
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> Why does anyone care? ... I don't get it. Because I'm tired of watching infrastructure I've relied on for a decade+ go up in flames. I'm tired of constantly migrating services because investors need their 25 basis p
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
The United States already did this as well in 2010, and the spying extended into the home. > Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley, Pa., said they first found out about the alleged spying last November after their son Blake was accuse
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> Windows only has a "monopoly" on PC gaming Microsoft poured money into game tools since the 90s, published a large library of in-house games themselves, litigated and demolished it's competition (both Apple and Linux),
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
You better understand the value proposition of game engines than you think. Spin your view a little: NPM is your web development engine . Somebody had to write all of that code that undergirds NPM as an engine as well as the particular l
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Lets look at this another way: If a security researcher notified you about a security flaw that was trivial to exploit, including showing you how to reproduce it, would you tut-tut them about computer crime? Here's another question: Yo
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
The author points out real risks when running your own domain. When you host your own domain, you must treat that and its registrar as a risk vector like your inbox, including 2FA, locking domain transfer, auto-renew, backup email accounts,
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I'm on both sides of this fence. I'm currently typing from a wired keyboard connected to my daily driver laptop. In my living room I have a full media PC where a wireless mouse and keyboard make more sense sitting on the couch. Th
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Or set the compiler flag +blimpy if you're building it from source. I would still recommend tpope's vim-pagliacci plugin for the RECL. EDIT: Read-Eval-Clown-Loop
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. And here I thought I didn't need to tap th
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Save all of your code. Yes, even those weird goofy projects. It's fun to go back and read it all again. I still have code I've written in high school and university, including a game that a friend and I implemented almost entirely
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
You are correct. The Wikipedia page has a diagram explaining the process [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_(anatomy)#/media/File...
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
That thousand acres is next to a medium-sized town (Lahaina) that is the major hub of all the western island's resorts and the major road into and out of the touristy northwestern part of the island.
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
The title of chapter 12 is "Bring Back The Door"
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Unfortunately no, but I guarantee it's one of the mangled beige boxes at the bottom of this photo [0] stuffed behind the drivers side seat and a keyboard in the passenger side. [0]: https://drive.google.com/file/d&
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
A long time ago I put a full desktop tower in my car to run as a headless music player. It was as impractical and terrible as you can possibly imagine, and I loved every second of it. I can easily imagine a Framework repurposed as a headles
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Clojure has changed my whole career, and many of Rich's talks directly inspired my thinking about large systems. I hope retirement gives Rich the best Hammock Time!
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The dithered reds are especially interesting, looking at the side-by-side examples at the bottom.

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