Legogris

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   by Legogris 7y ago

   > The biggest challenge to software development is not the "How can I avoid silly mistakes?" but rather "How do I capture this extremely complicated real world semantics in code?" and languages can't really solve
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   The reason that's not going to work is how diverse and specific skillsets there are, and how fast the progression is (at least so far) in what's in demand. Imagine the resources needed to maintain tests that should work for low-le
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   > So you hard-scramble 4-5 hours to finish a take home assignment to apply to just one place (!), and then you send it in and get a meaningless rejection note. Sometimes you don't get anything at all. Do you mean you've gotten
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   So let's say you travel at the speed of light towards that event. When you arrive, 26,000 years later, would you then say the event happened 26,000 or 52,000 years ago? If the former, have you just travelled 26,000 years into the past,
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   Privacy? With a FOSS (or even just third-party) app, the service operator has less fine-grained tracking and behavioral data for you as a user. The UI can also be designed with the user's best interest in mind, as an alternative to the
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   Thank you for this! I eventually gave up trying to get X11 apps stable in Docker, I will see if I get it working with yours. I run Nix and it's a decent experience, but a clear benefit with containerizing user space apps is sandboxing.
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   Not to mention that all providers of Mobile Bank ID (which, as you mentioned, is by far the most widely supported one) are private companies, mostly banks, which have no duty to take you on as a customer. If you for whatever reason can&#x27
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   I agree most of these are obvious noise, maybe useful for CTF contests where these scenarios actually happen and you want a dictionary..? This one surprised me, though: https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/whois/
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   by Legogris 7y ago

   All else aside, I realized that if you add hosting and assume dogfooding, GitLab's product is a platform made for building, configuring and running the platform you're building, maintaining and configuring... It feels Hofstadteria
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    I've formed a firm opinion that nation states with borders restricting people's movements and economical freedom based geographical citizenship is a leftover 20th century concept that we need to move overcome. Grew up in Europe an
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Here's a great podcast episode with folks from the Open Money Initiative talking about the reality in Venezuela: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-bitcoin-reality-che... IIRC from listening, there are indee
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    > Lets all hate together? I'm not sure why you assume negativity here? I have been a happy owner and user of several Apple products throughout the years and I think that from a business perspective they have been really nailing down
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    > Isn't this just launched, with the feature set nowhere near the idea of securing payments? Windows Hello: 2016. FaceID: 2017. And yes, Windows Hello could be used for payments before FaceID: https://blogs.windows.com&#x
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Predecessors: 1. Windows Hello 2. Steam 3. Really..? How is Safari more innovative than Tor Browser? You can't argue that Safari was more privacy-respecting than Mozilla pre-Tor. 4. Windows Phones (I had one, it was more capa
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    The very first line: > This is Part 1 of a series. I am not claiming to be an expert by any means, this is just an effort for me to internalize things I’ve learnt.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    This might be the nerdiest article I've seen. Also a great illustration why CoinJoin is not a complete transaction privacy solution for Bitcoin.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Yeah, I totally get you. Basically on Signal, you have the same issue as on WhatsApp; phone number required, unique per account, you can ever only have one device at a time (desktop apps are not first-grade clients but sync to phone), and a
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    I am in a pretty similar position to you. Have you taken a look at Keybase as an alternative for IM and replacement of Slack-for-sharing-with-yourself? Advantages over Signal: * Doesn't rely on phone number for auth or id * No
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    It doesn't, but many people have conscious or unconscious biases in that direction.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Personally I abhor the trend of needing to create a complete personal story out of every experience. I am not interested in several paragraphs of where the author happens to be in life, how their morning went and all their personal relation
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    10+ years ago I also found great joy in Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby ( https://poignant.guide/ )
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    http://learnyouahaskell.com is a fun and accessible intro to Haskell that's a great complement to denser material
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    That's actually not how IKEA works at all. Sure, they may not own all the factories but you won't find (parts of) any of their products under other brand names.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    FWIW, Ikea manufactures their own bulbs.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Could you elaborate on what you mean by "there is also, of course, Gödel"? Isn't the statement "This statement is false" non-falsifiable?
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    Thanks for your work! FWIW, since recently (can't tell you which version, but maybe a week or two back), my editor has become real unresponsive (2-5 seconds delay when I switch from Insert mode) and if I type before it switches, keystr
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    I have a specific counterexample: softtabs and tabstop. vim uses tabs by default I have to be conscious of when to use tabs vs spaces. With some configuration to detect it by file type, this (for me significant) overhead is removed.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    What I think on that issue has nothing to do with my argument that "People should be allowed to modify their property, including what runs on their computer" is orthogonal to whether it's morally justified to run any kind of
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    I do not see that as a legit moral justification. Not saying I do think it's morally wrong, just that these are beside the point.
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    by Legogris 7y ago

    That people should not be forbidden to modify what's running on their computer does not morally justify any code you may be running on your computer. Try to separate ethics and morality from rights.