alienchow

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by alienchow 2y ago
How do you scale mTLS ops when the CISO comes knocking?
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by alienchow 2y ago
That's pretty much it. I think the main issue nowadays is that companies think full stack engineering means OG(FE BE DB) + CICD + Infra + security compliance + SRE. If a team of 5-10 SWEs have to do all of that while only graded on fea
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by alienchow 2y ago
I agree, it incentivises SREs to reduce pager toil.
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by alienchow 2y ago
Google paid SREs 67% their hourly rate for tier 1 oncall outside business hours, regardless of whether they were paged. So 12h shifts on weekends were a full day's pay. Convertible to Off-in-Lieu. I had so many off days. Not sure if it
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by alienchow 2y ago
Matter of preference. I've found TDD to be inflexible for my working style. But your suggestion would indeed work for a staunch TDD practitioner.
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by alienchow 2y ago
When setting up unit tests traditionally took more time and LOC than the logic itself, LLMs are particularly useful. 1. Paste in my actual code. 2. Prompt: Write unit tests, test tables. Include scenarios: A, B, C, D, E. Include all other s
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by alienchow 2y ago
To be honest not really. For mid career pivots, your work on your resume counts more than a degree. You'd see more success transitioning organically by helping out with simple technical projects on the team and filling knowledge gaps w
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by alienchow 2y ago
I am actually unaware of downsides of PCRE. Could you explain? I hardly ever use literal grep nowadays.
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by alienchow 2y ago
This requires the attacker to steal your key. When that happens, by the time they can get the secret key I've already revoked it. The biggest problem with FIDO keys isn't the fact that people can gain access to your accounts if it
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by alienchow 2y ago
For functions: grep -P '^func funcName\(' For methods: grep -P '^func [^)]+\) methodName\(' Hope that helps.
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by alienchow 2y ago
I very rarely use literal grep at all. Perl grep is my standard goto. For functions: grep -P '^func funcName\(' For methods: grep -P '^func [^)]+\) methodName\('
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by alienchow 2y ago
Single letter variables in Golang are to be used in small, local contexts. Akin to the throwaway i var in for loops. You only grep the struct methods, the same way no one greps 'this' or 'self'. The code bases you'v
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by alienchow 2y ago
They were biased to mobile games because it's the most lucrative, and so game studios index on that. If you go further back, there were wildly popular CRPGs that just weren't very widely marketed outside of China. They were AAA gr
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by alienchow 2y ago
Imagine having a book that was written centuries ago that's considered one of the four pillars of great Chinese novel classics. Have that book be arguably the most popular of the four. (Debatable with 3 Kingdoms) The story is told to c
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by alienchow 2y ago
You just need to export it using QR codes. My keys were paginated into 11 QR codes when transferring devices. They now have cloud sync, which I don't really think is a good idea. But it solves your problem of migrating devices. However
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by alienchow 2y ago
Boq/PoD merely standardizes production deployments. You can choose to not do it, and end up having to redo everything yourself. The vast majority of all services uses it perfectly fine. Unified rollouts, unified versioning, universal d
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by alienchow 2y ago
Along the same grain, Google, the search powerhouse, releases Google Authenticator with no search bar in the Android version. And continues to wilfully not include one despite multiple feature requests. Yet there's a search bar in the
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by alienchow 2y ago
I wanted to make a joke about it possibly being Chromecast has no LLM. Then I realized the replacement product advertises Gemini.
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by alienchow 2y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing. I've been looking for an alternative to CDPush (Google's internal version controlled config push). Unaudited, untracked web UI based feature flagging has been my peeve with the other solutions. I'm s
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by alienchow 2y ago
Why don't you give Mission Control a try for 6 months?
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by alienchow 2y ago
The replies from Googlers in this thread surprise me. I've actually found DDs very useful for team onboarding, and for async stakeholder communications when making changes. Design docs typically also lead to fantastic g3doc documentati
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by alienchow 2y ago
Cheesy answer but, the people.
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by alienchow 2y ago
Just left Google a few months ago. My take is that there's a difference between a company that is willing to invest money into EngProd endeavors, and a company that uses SaaS for everything. While I can understand that most companies d
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by alienchow 3y ago
You have absolutely no idea who Jeff Dean is, do you?
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by alienchow 4y ago
Based on prior works, I assume it means you can access the PS5 root. i.e. you can run anything you want on a jail broken PS5 as opposed to just what Sony wants you to run.
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by alienchow 4y ago
I'm very much below the national average height for my gender. After a while you'd start hoping that conversations occur at your eye level instead of flying over your head. Practically everyone I know from the same gender and half
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by alienchow 5y ago
It's actually also quite frustrating when financial institutions don't have proper secure practices in place. If you've ever wired money from SFCU, you'd know they would ask you to fill out a form with a handwritten wire
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by alienchow 5y ago
Fentanyl is used in epidurals, for one.
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by alienchow 5y ago
The Malaysian government sure enjoyed trolling with Pukul Habis though. Also airspace above our military training base seems to be FFA to them. "Malaysia knows turn off the tap means invasion." I mean, that's exactly the reas
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by alienchow 5y ago
Yes you can negotiate the prices with insurance, but that means there's always a risk that insurance doesn't cover as much as you hoped for. This means every emergency becomes a risk assessment of estimated cost / probability

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