Manfred

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by Manfred 4y ago
Not all security measures are logical or affective. They are compulsory though.
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by Manfred 5y ago
Reading guide: DeFi: Decentralized Finance DOA: decentralized autonomous organization; an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent
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by Manfred 5y ago
Developers are pretty sloppy with maintaining references to object in my experience. It generally only becomes a problem when you need to clean up and that usually at time of IPO when there are petabytes of data in S3.
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by Manfred 5y ago
You write down a set of pretty good guidelines and then let it go to court when a manufacturer is found lacking. Court decides. Update guidelines, repeat.
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by Manfred 5y ago
> In the long term, these companies fails. In my experience this feedback loop is too slow to force management to make a policy change. At some point I the future they will be chest deep in maintenance cost. At that point they are just g
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by Manfred 6y ago
For situations with low bandwidth. Communication in space or far outside of civilization.
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by Manfred 6y ago
Software update and other features already expose your IP address to Apple. This solution doesn't add another company, so that's a win.
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by Manfred 6y ago
Do you mean they only got 80% of what they ordered in 2019 for 2020?
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by Manfred 6y ago
When I feel that way, I know I need a long vacation.
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by Manfred 6y ago
I always find it kind of endearing when you find out about a product for the first time when they close down.
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by Manfred 6y ago
I suspect that they only focused on particular versions of Chrome during development because it's a proof of concept.
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by Manfred 6y ago
Yes, lots of stolen credit cards and automated account creation in Steam. I understand that the publishers had to ban the accounts by hand to invalidate the keys.
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by Manfred 7y ago
ERP is basically a centralized hosted version of a lot of spreadsheets. So no, because Excel doesn’t facilitate cooperation very well.
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by Manfred 7y ago
Feeding production data into two different paths to compare them is obviously valuable. Does anyone have any good reasons why this has to happen in online code and can't happen against database replicas in offline mode? I always feel t
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by Manfred 7y ago
Unfortunately it's very common for companies to set up their CI without any form of caching. I think it's mostly because developers are under time pressure from their managers. In some cases it's because CI is set up by junio
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by Manfred 7y ago
> As it turned out, electric bicycle riders ended up slightly edging out pedal bike cyclists in terms of total exercise each week. There was no correction for selection bias so you can’t make any assumptions. For example; it’s likely tha
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by Manfred 7y ago
Which doesn’t really work when you have screaming children (or adults) in the car.
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by Manfred 7y ago
> The desktop computer hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years. It’s still built on windows, folders and mouse input. But we have changed. We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use. The wheel
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by Manfred 7y ago
In the absence of a government that makes clear laws concerning hate speech it’s up to the platforms to find a good balance. From the YouTube blog post: > We’ve been taking a close look at our approach towards hateful content in consulta
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by Manfred 7y ago
In the Netherlands everyone is required to have healthcare by law. It's less likely that people with mental illnesses end up on the street. For people who do end up on the street or addicted there are safe places to use drugs, recovery
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by Manfred 8y ago
Right, I was expecting an account of an actual blacksmith. I'm pretty sure priorities in the 17th century were not the same as they are now and people had a totally different perspective on work.
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by Manfred 8y ago
Yes, because a heatwave is defined as a period of high temperature relative to the normal.
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by Manfred 8y ago
It seems to me that the solution here is to fine people when they misbehave. In the Amsterdam it was very common for people to ride on bikes without lights. A year of targeted action by the police fixed that almost entirely.
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by Manfred 9y ago
Thankfully it's also a great example of how to write good markup so the page is perfectly usable and readable with styles turned off.
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by Manfred 11y ago
I had one of those, conceptually the most interesting hardware I've ever had. I never took advantage of the modularity.
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by Manfred 12y ago
Unfortunately this is a problem with most monolithic tools. The only sensible solution is to keep points of integration as minimal as possible so you can adapt when there are changes. Minimalism combined with the fact that CocoaPods has a p
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by Manfred 14y ago
That just means you have to try a bit harder (; I agree that it's not always possible to set up everything automatically but with a shared encrypted filesystem, good instructions, and tools like Foreman you can go a long way. In case someth
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by Manfred 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, it's actually something I wanted to write about. A maintainable application should be up and running with a seeded database in a few commands; i.e.: gem install bundler && ./script/install.
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by Manfred 14y ago
> But what worries me about this advice is that there are some things that feel like they're trivial to implement […] It's up to the developer to make that call. For things like OpenSSL or concurrency libraries it seems an easy choice.
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by Manfred 15y ago
Then you send a quick note to the owner of the repository to ask him what's up.

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