amichal

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by amichal 5y ago
Postgres was not good at (for us) - IDF and other corpus based relevancy measures. had to hand roll - thesaurus and missspelling - again possible of course with preprocessing and by adding config files - non Latin alphabet languages. E.g. A
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by amichal 5y ago
True, but not that hard. I had some “dangerous experiments for kids” book back in the day and by far the most fun thing in it was aerosolizing flour with a straw to get the right mixture near your Bunsen burner for your own glorious short l
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by amichal 5y ago
Yeah... my intuition was/is it wouldn't make a big dent, but an interesting thought experiment. That said. I think the small renewals are the part that makes holding onto these domains for years possible... Random example. 20 year
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by amichal 5y ago
Devil's advocate.... what percentage of .com registrations are parked/squatted domains looking for a sucker to buy at huge markups from the registrar price? I'd be very happy if this made the math on squatting a little less d
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by amichal 5y ago
NIST attempted to indicate SMS was not usable for 2FA sometime in 2016. Since other methods were not common yet (and maybe because banks had just barely gotten SMS 2FA deployed?) they were pressured to "soften" their recommendatio
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by amichal 5y ago
I tried to read your links above. The first spends over 80% of the article telling everyone how stupid they are and then presents 5 different definitions of "electricity" and then ANOTHER rant about how they are all wrong and fina
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by amichal 5y ago
Having done this informally many years ago for a dozen neighbors in a village before we got decent broadband I can relate. People get real weird and twitching when there internet is out and there is nothing like being woken up at 6am on a S
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by amichal 5y ago
i've done the first when serializing an arbitrary table of trace data in a jsonb column. Did it to make it compact and then realized that if all i wanted to do was show it in a UI it was much easier to parse as a html table, and only m
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by amichal 5y ago
This article is about the details of zip file handling in the Shell Extension... Reading the first few paras I thought they would talk about the struggle it was to implement a shell namespace extension. I did a somewhat crappy one 20-someth
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by amichal 5y ago
I can assure you there are. Comcast hides their real rates as well as they can but in some places they are required to publish them. In my rural area (where they are the only real option): $139.99 gets you "Select+ Includes Limited Bas
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by amichal 5y ago
without javascript the only meaningful thing that can be done in HTML are to navigate to a new document with HTTP GET (A[href=]) or submit data via HTTP POST or similar verbs ((BUTTON, INPUT[TYPE=BUTTON]. INPUT[TYPE=IMAGE]) where the url is
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by amichal 5y ago
I think the fines/penalty headlines are a big misunderstanding/distraction (which got me too until I had to spend the time on reading the actual law for an actual EU client). They are what happens if you continually, willfully dis
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by amichal 5y ago
This[1] site seems to track actual fines. I found maybe a dozen fines of individuals. Here is the largest fine of a 'private person' I could find: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-69 . If the database is at
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by amichal 5y ago
And you dont need to have one: .... hiring an actual Data Protection Officer is only required by the GDPR if you meet one of three criteria: * Public authority — The processing of personal data is done by a public body or public authori
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by amichal 5y ago
My first attempt at generated English sentences was while avoiding a middle school poetry assignment. I was just basically selecting nouns and verbs from quickly hand made list of words. It produced: "the duck hit the bus with bike&quo
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by amichal 5y ago
Check out https://themomproject.com/ no affiliation juts heard good things and I respect their mission.
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by amichal 6y ago
Reading the more technically detailed comments I think really reinforces throwaway894345's point. I understood what "91%" means (much better than non-techies in my circle) but assumed a lot incorrectly about the controls and
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by amichal 6y ago
My layman's understanding was that "91%" "effective at preventing disease" (from the TFA) goes something like this: - Take two identical[1] populations of people - Wait for some people (100 for easy math here)
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by amichal 6y ago
Learning so many options from this thread. I've used these tools when I knew what to look for but thats been the tricky bit. psanford also mentioned truffleHog and others, lstamour mentioned https://github.com/cloud-gov
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by amichal 6y ago
Nice tooling. I've used bfg when we knew what patterns to look for. This project didn't generally access private data, had a reasonably well behaved team for most of its life (the pre-linter & code-review commits were my own d
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by amichal 6y ago
Thanks! I knew they existed but hadn't investigated for one that would look over past history. Will try out truffleHog.
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by amichal 6y ago
These secret scanning integrations have been very helpful. We had a client ask to take a project open source recently that had started a few years ago as closed source. We of course checked over the current version of the code and have had
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by amichal 6y ago
I've always wondered about this. We have a site dealing with finance for a East Asia audience. It's original audience was Europe with a blue theme (signifies trust etc) and it got extended to Asia (english speaking still). So we j
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by amichal 6y ago
Alternate datapoint from outside YC: We've had pushy account reps trying to upsell from both vendors (and not knowing that we already talked to another rep). We've also had reps get actual engineers on the calls early who advised
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by amichal 6y ago
I wanted "squash merge" to work for me to handle this. Full history in the feature branch for detailed git blaming and a single 1000-line merge commit in main with "New Checkout Flow" but i never fully groked getting it
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by amichal 6y ago
Looking at other people's code I vastly prefer a feature branch with a summary name of the feature "new-checkout-flow" or whatever and then the commits as they where without squashing/rebasing. Mine tend to have quite a
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by amichal 6y ago
It's a good point but I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident. If your IDs were sortable in the past it's probably a good a idea to keep them sortable. And since tweets more often than not refer to tweets in
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by amichal 6y ago
I talked once to a dev who does this sort of thing. Its common. It's also interesting to consider what options folks have for quick, easy short-circuit algorithms. Any ideas for clever hacks to prevent the totally absurd with minimal s
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by amichal 6y ago
A really good idea. Not at all the same social/economic climate as it was at the time but I couldn't help remembering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company which really lent some perspective to industr
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by amichal 6y ago
Not just Facebook, lots of folks do this. I was reading an news article on my phone on NYT just yesterday while someone else in the house was buying things from a big online clothing store (not amazon) on her phone at the other end of the c

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