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by ajsharp 6y ago
There's a great rule of thumb for workplace communication mediums I saw long ago. It was something like this: - Email: Not urgent. Expected response: ~1 day. - Chat: Somewhat urgent. Expected response: < 1 hour. - Text: Shit is on f
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by ajsharp 6y ago
100%. The market is fundamentally different than it was the last time "green tech" tried to become a thing. Solar is nearly at price parity with fossil fuels. The space is currently exploding and will transform the world in the ne
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by ajsharp 6y ago
why....why is this so satisfying??
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by ajsharp 6y ago
> Our work describes a side-channel attack that targets the Google Titan Security Key’s secure element (the NXP A700X chip) by the observation of its local electromagnetic radiations during ECDSA signatures (the core cryptographic operat
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by ajsharp 6y ago
A $10 million dollar fine for this is hardly a disincentive for similarly minded actors to do the same. If you're a large incumbent company fearing a challenger, a $10 million worst-case scenario fine for taking them out is pennies com
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by ajsharp 6y ago
I noticed the site isn't using Google Analytics, or any tracking pixels for that matter. Wonder if this is in any way connected to the ranking algo.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
The author correctly identifies the problem as part technical, part people. My shot-in-the-dark estimation is probably 70% of teams doing microservices do it to solve the people problem before (if ever) they need it to solve the technical p
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by ajsharp 6y ago
"The halcyon days of Google’s youth are a distant memory." Cheers to the legal assistant who won't get nearly enough credit for this.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. It's incredibly disappointing how long these issues have been endemic of the US welfare system. I'm not sure if other countries handle phase-outs more efficiently, but these would be painfully easy "b
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Ok, how do I um...get that money??
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Appreciate this anecdote. I tested their new PaaS recently and found the build times to be ungodly slow, much more so than Heroku.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
"The company denied there had been a breach of its data." This is about as serious a breach as it gets. To have (or claim) zero knowledge of it is pretty bad. If the details of the story are correct, it would imply the attackers h
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Fair enough. Still, there are no supply dynamics here where a price ceiling would cause supply issues.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
> If the price is too high, then no one will purchase it. Therefore, Gilead makes no money. This is great in theory but is entirely inapplicable and utter non-sense in practice in a health care context, and in this instance in particular
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by ajsharp 6y ago
I'm curious: what would be a per-unit price you would consider too high? Of course it has high R&D costs -- no one is suggesting otherwise. I'm not even sure what your point is -- that it is monopoly pricing, but because the
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by ajsharp 6y ago
In a more normal market with fixed supply, such as rent control, that's true. Much less so in a monopoly market with largely intellectual property.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
What's funny about it?
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by ajsharp 6y ago
In addition to basic secret sharing, Sharesecret has a slack extension that detects different types of potentially sensitive data and alerts the sender to redact and encrypt to get it out of Slack. We also have an auto-destructing private c
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by ajsharp 6y ago
This is classic example of monopoly pricing. Gilead developed a drug the federal government has minted as special. They can charge whatever they want for it because there's a period of effectively unlimited demand (until a vaccine hits
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by ajsharp 6y ago
I created Sharesecret ( https://sharesecret.co ) to protect against exactly these kinds of attacks. Most company Slacks are a ticking timebomb of sensitive artifacts waiting to be discovered. Whether it's passwords or just ge
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by ajsharp 6y ago
This is amazing.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Really appreciate you taking the time to type all this out. This is awesome. Thanks.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Deux Ex felt then and still today like a gift where story was everything, right before online/multiplayer completely transformed the industry, and for a good ten years single player was more or less an afterthought. I've never bee
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by ajsharp 6y ago
> News today is literally just this: “<big name person> did/said <dumb thing>!”, “<group> protests against <bad thing>!”, and so on. > News is entertainment. Quick gratification that lasts a day, at max. I
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Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi(chollinger.com)
259 points by ajsharp 6y ago|80 comments
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Cheers to this. Startups and the ecosystem in general (funding) seem increasingly drawn to incrementalism -- largely unimaginative solutions to low-stakes problems but with a high perceived exit probability. We need way more things like thi
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by ajsharp 6y ago
So yea, pretty much. I had to do this with a project from a couple years ago where we were moving a ton of images from a legacy colo'd server to S3. I can't remember how much data it was but it was enough to where it didn't m
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JSON Parsing with Go Embedded Structs(ajsharp.com)
2 points by ajsharp 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 6y ago
The Fed balance sheet is probably the most direct way to look at the aggregate liquidity injections: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Completely agree. The micro thing is rooted in a desire for simplicity, which is laudable from a theoretical perspective. Small is simple and simple is nice to work with. But in any production software it's usually a pipe dream. Kind o

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