Spivak

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by Spivak 3y ago
Just use a password manager that stores your TOTP token along with the password and never care again. I use Bitwarden. Say no to proprietary hardware enclosures that deny you access to your own keys. Only use them as secondary auth of conve
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by Spivak 3y ago
It's weird for programmers to be worried about getting automated out of a job when my job as a programmer is basically to try as hard as I can to automate myself out of a job.
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by Spivak 3y ago
Used as a common denominator for basic communication, yes. Use for the kinds of rich interactions and modalities (like the "server" metaphor) that Apple, Google, and everyone else wants to add to chat, no. And that's where we
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by Spivak 3y ago
Because "chat" is pretty much meaningless as a term. The only common thread between chat apps is "bidirectional data transfer between at least two devices." SMS and Discord are both chat but have wildly different comple
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by Spivak 3y ago
> which, sure, is older And deprecated for going on 11 major versions of Python.
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by Spivak 3y ago
And even that is wrong, single entrance/exit was originally because you had subroutines designed to be goto'd into at different points for different behavior and would goto different points outside the subroutine as the exit. Ther
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by Spivak 3y ago
Installing self-contained programs written in Python not packaged for your distro: PIPX_HOME=/usr/local/pipx PIPX_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin pipx install app==1.2.3 It sets up an isolated install for each
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by Spivak 3y ago
> This further cultural entrenchment of people into homebodies is really sad to me. This is an odd take because the trend in new/remodeled homes is dedicating practically the entire first floor and back yard of every home as an ente
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by Spivak 3y ago
I love me a Brazilian steakhouse, I think you're overestimating the patience required. * If there's something specific you want and it's not currently going around you can ask and they'll usually bring you a whole skewer
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by Spivak 3y ago
Anything in between is all the downsides of both approaches. Once you have the flow for deploying always running hot application(s) with autoscaling the benefits of lambda are basically gone. Low volume scale to zero is just another route.
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by Spivak 3y ago
Lack of psychologists is the cause of increasing untreated medical health problems in the exact way a lack of doctors leads to an increase in untreated illness. And given how many older adults have untreated mental health issues and just
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by Spivak 3y ago
Maybe I'm just spoiled by modern languages that have this and the ones that don't are bolting it on (Python/TS) but how do you put up with it? Any language that can't tell me the what goes in / comes out of a functi
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by Spivak 3y ago
Push notifications don't signal an active line of communication like that though nor do they connect who's talking, only the means. In all your examples the equivalent would be "They know someone called you." "They
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by Spivak 3y ago
> Spamming advertising in chat [without paying Twitch] is a bannable offense. The reason the rule exists is because you don't get to advertise on Twitch without paying them, but they're paying them so :/
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by Spivak 3y ago
They're right and they should say it. You would think I was insane if I made a CLI tool worked by fetching and running dynamically generated pre-compiled binaries from a server for each subcommand command and yet that's what we do
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by Spivak 3y ago
> it's not feasible to spy on every person to monitor them for wrongdoing currently Sure it is! That's the whole point of search being the previous big technical hurdle. YouTube monitors every single video posted in real time f
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by Spivak 3y ago
> a person's Google searches are used to establish criminal intent in criminal trials. > > can ask google for the IP's of people who searched for particular terms within a geographic area These aren't mass surveilla
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by Spivak 3y ago
This happened during the last big technological advancement -- search. Suddenly it became possible for a government to theoretically sift through all of our communications and people online made constant reference to it talking directly to
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by Spivak 3y ago
But the humans that create it do exist in that domain and so all we're talking about is tuning the stats so the outputs meet the set of philosophical demands. We're literally a profession that gets paid almost exclusively to desig
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by Spivak 3y ago
> but that new upgrade for the stadium at a cool $120m, seems like a great idea. This doesn't have anything to do with universities specifically. There's always money for endeavors that have positive ROI. You can tell what a pe
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by Spivak 3y ago
And the fact that the disease itself was mild for most people didn't change the fact that people's lives were put on hold for 2 years. Even if you didn't feel like you "survived" it still put front and center that o
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by Spivak 3y ago
You. Will. Be. Old. Care for society's elderly is literally the charge of the young and abled. You will eventually reap those benefits after having paid your keep. If you wouldn't say it's silly how much of society's exp
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by Spivak 3y ago
One of my favorite math quotes -- definitions are neither true nor false, they're either useful or not useful. So this misses it a bit. You can divide 0 by 0 for example and it's 1. In fact you've probably already done it wit
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by Spivak 3y ago
You are forgetting that most business' needs are extremely minimal. By volume there are more bakeries, bars, gyms, one man doctor's offices, little car dealerships, hair salons than businesses that have actual IT needs. And for
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by Spivak 3y ago
The part that's missing for me is what hardware do I put it on?
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by Spivak 3y ago
> If what you need is a configuration language, please don't express it in Python Oh god please express it in Python more so than anything else. The configuration language file -> templating the configuration language file ->
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by Spivak 3y ago
It's not vim/emacs. It's "use whatever editor works best for you" and "use vim" which is why people are mad. No force need be applied to "we have an office but you can work remotely if you'd like
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by Spivak 3y ago
Customer support, sales, marketing, design, finance, account management, customer retention, management, hr, legal, purchasing, leadership, analysts of ever form, copywriters,... If your work is at all "office job" you probably do
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by Spivak 3y ago
Are you my current CEO? He accidentally let slip that he unilaterally is (trying to) force RTO for 200 people because he's lonely. Oh boo hoo get a social life outside of work. We all suddenly understood why he was not even bothering t
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by Spivak 3y ago
> I don't think anyone is saying that. They're saying that collaboration on those problems is more effective/easier when everyone is in the office together. I genuinely don't ever see this dynamic at least for technic

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