Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
I worked in a partially Clojure shop for a while. I found the Ruby on Rails developers to be more professional, overall. The Rails devs certainly did not have the habit of trying to compose together 75% of a framework anew for each project.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Parler asked people for their SSNs, and Cambridge Analytica wasn't a household byword for invasion of privacy when people were clicking on quizzes. So, it's worth considering that people might indeed happily sign up for a rogue no
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by Kalium 6y ago
Quite. That said, migrating to new protocols and systems is rather challenging. So we get retrofits like DNS over HTTP, and Oblivious DNS over HTTP. Historically, radicalism in the form of whole-protocol-suite replacements has often seen li
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by Kalium 6y ago
Some of the fingerprints are easily gotten around by fudging the binaries a bit. Others, like snort rules, look at things like network traffic that might not always be so easily disguised.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Just because it happens to work doesn't make it a good idea. An oft-unheard voice of wisdom and sane engineering practices speaks. Hark, ye mortals.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Really? I've found the exact opposite - teams that used an RDBMS had to throw away their customer data under GDPR, because even though they had an entry in their database saying that the customer had agreed, they couldn't tel
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by Kalium 6y ago
There is no system that both allows communication between multiple parties and is infinitely resilient to a sufficiently determined, large, and well-funded group of people with guns. What we can do with design and architecture is make each
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right. Corporate surveillance can, should, and must be resisted. It is perhaps worth considering carefully if exposing most people to surveillance they are not equipped to defend against from lots of entities (such
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by Kalium 6y ago
As another HN user put it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349426 > Administering devices with network settings is convenient, but rapidly vanishing because there's no technical difference between you adminis
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by Kalium 6y ago
It was definitely an interesting proof of concept that needed some refinement. The core idea was functional services against nicely organized data streams on a flat network. Which is a really cool approach that works quite well for a lot of
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by Kalium 6y ago
This particular org did its level best to think of Kafka as the regular database for queries.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I agree in abstract, but in practice it's quite difficult to set up a successful democratic architecture board. You need teams or departments that all have architects, and an engineering organization where both managers and engineers a
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by Kalium 6y ago
As recently as last year, I worked for a company where the Chief Architect, in his infinite wisdom, had decided that a database was a silly legacy thing. The future looked like Kafka streams, with each service being a function against Kafka
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think you've nailed the core of it. Managing traffic over your network and the devices on your network are very similar tasks that aim to accomplish very similar things. However, they are not equivalent tasks. Relying on traffic mana
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by Kalium 6y ago
As a preface, I am about to describe something I personally view as absolutely horrific . Please, dear reader, in no way interpret these comments as approving. Privacy is a luxury. It's something rich people buy and poor people can&#x
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by Kalium 6y ago
Yeah, one of the major issues with running an affiliate program is that there's a real risk that they wind up finding ways to claim your regular customers as theirs. You don't gain anything from such transactions, but they do. The
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by Kalium 6y ago
Have you ever had to do technical support for someone who changed settings they didn't understand? Or maybe someone who decided to "clean up" a bunch of system files that they thought were wasting space? In my experience, pro
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by Kalium 6y ago
What's your experience with corporate internal processes been? Mine has been that they often exhibit an extreme disinterest in the judgment of external parties that are not part of the internal process. Whether or not the external grou
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by Kalium 6y ago
I'm saying that people who blame recent migrants for decades of urban planning policy are possessed of the rare and wonderful opportunity to reassess how they apportion blame.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I've never understood why I, a transplant who needed a place to live, was blamed for high rents and not my landlords, real estate millionaires who vote against new development. It's always psychologically easier to blame outs
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by Kalium 6y ago
> The ones that are invariants should be enforced in the DB, and the ones that aren't should generally be in in-db documentation. Sqlite in particular lacks the ability to attach the metadata usually used for that purpose, but does
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by Kalium 6y ago
Understanding a file format means knowing the significance of a given bit. Not just that X has value 13, but that 13 means something and might influence the significance of Y or Z. Having a table with columns A, B, and C doesn't say a
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by Kalium 6y ago
Using a database is a partial answer at best. File formats don't just dictate the structure of data, they carry semantic info. Using sqlite gives you structure without semantics.
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by Kalium 6y ago
In a world where bot herders try to blend in with the crowd, and historically lots of them aren't great at it, you have to be careful about your choices. It's very easy to look like a bot by accident, and odds are pretty good that
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by Kalium 6y ago
The more affluent depend on their social position to gain membership in their community in a way that some others do not. Taking a vow of poverty means you reject that, and you probably don't have a position in a web of mutual obligati
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by Kalium 6y ago
For a lot of people, they want to run a service and not have to spend a significant amount of time and energy investing in anti-abuse. In general anti-abuse work is not nearly as useful as product work, a day off, or a variety of other thin
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by Kalium 6y ago
OKCupid moved to being swipe-based several years ago.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Personally, I've been struck by the overwhelming majority of women who match and don't actually send that first message. Matches last at most 48 hours - message or lose them.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I maybe looked at the compatibility score if it's there (e.g. OKCupid), read through the profiles, and if there was enough to grab my interest I'd write a message that at least makes some reference to what's mentioned in
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Can someone explain the seeming asymmetry between men's and women's experiences in online dating? The key factor is that dating app userbases are often 80% to 90% men. Couple this with the inequality others point to, and you

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