SgtBastard

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by SgtBastard 3y ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but China over literally Millenia have effectively terraformed mountains into channels and channels of rice paddies for the cultivation of rice - areas that westerners would not typically consider farmland
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
A common abbreviation for agriculture.
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
A JWT with a sid claim that RPs use to check session validity is 100% still a JWT with bearer authz claims.
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
Friend, do you not understand that not all services are Microservices? The article even states Microservices are not suitable for startups - the conversation in this thread has been able service oriented architectures which is a much broade
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
In at least Apple's case, Device PIN is also a factor to unlock the secure enclave where the passkeys are kept - so, assuming there's no stronger enforcement that it must use FaceID/TouchID, shoulder surfing a PIN unlock of
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
The WebAuthN standard (and corresponding browser implementations) do inject browser supplied attestation of the requesting domain, so only a horribly broken implementation would sign a request for mail.google.hackers.ru with the key provisi
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
> To my understanding, Passkeys implementations don't sync private keys, they sync and cross-sign public keys. I haven't seen anything in the FIDO alliance or vendor (Apple, Google, MS) documentation to suggest that they'r
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by SgtBastard 3y ago
Two major problems with holding passwords server side as hashes: 1) Every authentication attempt needs to send the password as cleartext (even if over TLS) so that the hash can be recomputed server side and compared. This gives ample opport
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
> The only problem… No. Pilots weren’t even aware of MCAS’ existence until after the second fatal crash. That’s a huge problem, compounded by > Boeing cheaped out and made MCAS depend on a single AoA sensor. https://en.m.wi
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Do you own the woods around you? If not, it’s these attitudes as to why we can’t have nice things.
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
IANAP, but a lot of the root cause analysis around the 737 max crashes was that they were sufficiently different and so should have required re-certification of pilots before being allowed to fly them. Due to the costs involved, Boeing ma
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
“Everyone knows” FAANGs are a source of many good and new ideas - what makes you think it’s hidden?
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Deserve? Perhaps not. But respond favourably to, in sufficient numbers, that it remains profitable for the shovelling class? You betcha.
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
He’s not saying anything of the sort. You seem very worked up and calling people names is ironically something a puerile teenager in high school would do. Go outside, get some fresh air and perspective and come back to being a productive me
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
He's saying you're arguing in bad faith because you are: Human drivers are fully autonomous and make mistakes - the difference being we accept the risk of human drivers and their mistakes as a society and have not (yet) with self
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
You were supposed to bring balance to the market, not destroy it!
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
>The entire process of industrialization was hugely deflationary Prices definitely lowered, but the difference being that while there was also supplier upheaval as artisan/bespoke producers were replaced by mass production - the ind
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
>In my understanding it's something comparable to `gin.Default()` or `flask.Flask(__name__)`, rather than lower level basic `http.Server{Addr: addr}` or `http.server.HTTPServer(address)` (which still doesn't require any manual
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
As a sibling commenter mentioned, there’s a minimalist functional web server available out of the box, that can later have other more complex components added on: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
So maybe be accurate when asking someone to write cheques then?
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
… how often are you hand-parsing HTTP requests and hand-crafting HTTP responses one character at a time? Productive devs want the request/response wrapper objects and routing constructs to handler methods to get work done and can still
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Yes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux Also VS Code, an open source IDE with first class support for .NET languages: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setu
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
That’s a bit of a grim take. There’s been multiple instances of otherwise well regulated banks being blind sided by deliberate concealed fraud by its employees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barings_Bank
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/post-incident-review-a... I stand by what I said. >I’m sure todays engineers do their best with the constraints they have. There are two real constraints in the software enginee
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Friend, your nitpicks here are of something I didn’t say. I said explicitly “path to monetisation” not “assume they’ll pay and stick around”. I hope you’ll agree that it’s easier to find a subset of users that will pay when your superset
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Those same workarounds could be still be multi-platform (Android and iOS) and if you’ve got any sort of complexity in your business logic you don’t need to implement and test it in JS/TS + Swift + Kotlin, just JS/TS
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
>It’s a branding issue, not a technical one. I mean, for a single version bump (Google called it Angular 2.0) to render not only the code not migrate-able, but the entire paradigms on which the framework was based on is basically unheard
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Jira is a not very good product, implemented by worse engineers, that happens to be better than its competitors (ironically proving the point I made further up thread).
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
> You might as well say, having users is very very rarely a contributor to success. These two things are not even remotely the same thing. Having users is a path to monetisation but having a high performant app no one uses is not. In fac
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by SgtBastard 4y ago
Seems to be limited to loading comments in-app. Posts are loading fine and Reddit.com is showing comment threads. Busted API deployment?

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