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by akersten 5y ago
I really don't have anything constructive to say. I think in general we're getting too soft on shitty things, so I'm going to be harsh. I clicked through to the demo site ( http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/ ) a
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by akersten 5y ago
Yeah yeah EAP and watercooler conversations. Here's some things that would actually make my life and mental health as developer at a large game company better: - Eliminate crunch time due to management's bad planning - If crunch t
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by akersten 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. If anything we need new legislation that reminds the patent office that doing math on a computer is the same thing as doing math, and the concept of software patents is clearly invalid by definition. Moving in th
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by akersten 5y ago
Needlessly long parameter/command names and the bizarre insistence on capital letters are the #1 and #2 reasons I detest PowerShell. Like GP, I resent that Linux tools are moving in that direction.
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by akersten 5y ago
> pushing a button that says you dislike the content is silencing or harassing the creator? Part of the toxic positivity movement recently has been to re-frame everything disagreeable as a personal attack against them, using words like &
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm in favor of this as long as they introduce the same mandate for gun manufacturers: figure out a way to reduce murders. Either both mandates make sense or neither does. I think you can probably tell which camp I'm in.
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by akersten 5y ago
Have you considered that your marketing blurb is actually, not that novel after all? GPT3 is damn convincing these days :)
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by akersten 5y ago
So-called programming "tutorials" have never sat right with me. The idea is fundamentally wrong. It's like trying to learn painting by watching a series of videos in which you're taught which parts of canvas to paint wha
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by akersten 5y ago
Can anyone speculate what in the world is even tripping Denuvo up in this scenario? Is there a realistic threat model they add to their garbageware that tries to detect... multiple physical distinct CPUs on one system as an indicator that t
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by akersten 5y ago
It is wrong to call this a bug, this is a feature of Unicode and very intentional. Whether we should have thought about that when allowing parsers to digest anything outside of ASCII is the real question. The answer is probably "IDEs
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by akersten 5y ago
One is luck and the other is engineering. From the looks of it, this is a high luck, low competency endeavor.
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by akersten 5y ago
> it really is quite a good standard, I think we need to start judging how good a standard is by how easy it is to implement for its intended purpose. The purpose of IPv6 was to superscede IPv4. 25 years later, only 1/4 of the top
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by akersten 5y ago
> How is putting advertisement on ANYTHING patentable Because our patent system is broken beyond repair and should be entirely dismantled never to be rebuilt. Remember cases like this the next time you hear anyone try to justify existenc
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by akersten 5y ago
> Develop CSS No, do not. There is no reasonable privacy preserving manner in which you can do so. Spyware is fundamentally incompatible with privacy. I don't care how many god damn whitepapers they write about their novel perceptua
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by akersten 5y ago
> Companies no longer getting away with misspelling customer names has absolutely been something that has been discussed before this case. Correcting incorrect data sure, that's part of what the law grants you. But I believe this ca
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm not saying this is a bad outcome (modernization is overall a Good Thing), I'm saying it's bad that the GDPR is being used to achieve it. Before today, you cannot seriously tell me that (hypothetical) United Airlines being
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by akersten 5y ago
> ample time to replace noncompliant systems. I think the point here is this is completely out of left field as far as what anyone has insisted would be non-compliant with GDPR... If you had done a compliance audit the day GDPR passed, I
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by akersten 5y ago
As I'm (slowly, begrudgingly) learning about IPv6 I can't help but agree. Astounding that backwards compatibility was abandoned in favor of ... Being able to hand out a /64 or /48 to anyone with a pulse? No residential c
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by akersten 5y ago
> If you're not using a registrar subject to the EU rules I'm not sure why you'd bother to object to the rules in the first place. Because we don't want this horseradish inspiring other governments?
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by akersten 5y ago
> They operate on incredibly, incredibly small margins I've never understood how an industry so hard for competition to get into, so defensively positioned with regulatory capture, and so overpriced and gouge-happy from a consumer P
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by akersten 5y ago
This is one dudes side projects, not an Enterprise K8n deployment - I think email is a great option. Of course when you go full "web scale" you should start using products like Sentry, but we're talking alternatives to "
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by akersten 5y ago
I don't understand. Was it not possible to decouple the UI/events thread from whatever performance intensive things your app might be doing? We've had HTML5 games for a long time now and they've figured this out. Is this
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by akersten 5y ago
> He was also using Facebook’s trademarks Seems like the only potentially legally valid part of it. And even then, if he's not misrepresenting his product as made by Facebook (just "compatible with Facebook" or "use w
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by akersten 5y ago
With the disclaimer that I haven't looked too closely into it - that does make things sound a little sketchier from a user privacy perspective. I probably wouldn't use the extension myself. I'm still curious how Facebook has
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by akersten 5y ago
A ban? Fine, whatever, their house their rules. A cease and desist for making a browser extension that automates a process that any user could themselves do with no special "hacking" required? Absolutely absurd, I hope there is no
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by akersten 5y ago
You (your client) can still subpoena Cloudflare for the customer's IP if you can get a court to agree that it's infringement and then go after the upstream host. That's seems like a solution compatible with this ruling, and a
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by akersten 5y ago
My hypothesis is that most of our "unproductive time" in the 40h workweek is just filler time spent warming seats, a direct result of there actually not being all that much work that a human can consistently accomplish in a week.
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by akersten 5y ago
Tangential - the skip list example seems different from how I learned them in data structures. Wouldn't a better skip list have "down pointers" at each node so you don't have to retrace your work at each layer?
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by akersten 5y ago
In the spirit of always starting your negotiation high and working toward a palatable middle, I'd like to propose a 2-day work week and 5 days off. You may think that sounds crazy, but how many hours of dedicated, actual work do you do
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by akersten 5y ago
> (people frequently argue that NAT is valuable for network security - nonsense). Most of the devices on my home network should never be routable from the Internet. Without NAT, they suddenly are, and I have to go out of my way to config

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