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by aristus 4y ago
Good catch, thanks. i'm Im still updating my blog for this decade. :D
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A Dismal Guide to AWS Billing(carlos.bueno.org)
13 points by aristus 4y ago|4 comments
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by aristus 4y ago
I've been writing Python for, gosh, almost 20 years now. I've used many frameworks but for an MVP I'd probably use good old web.py or Flask or similar. Over those years I've come to greatly appreciate the wisdom of Gall&
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by aristus 4y ago
It was "facebookers" in spoken talk, "fbers" written. Former employees are generally referred to as "ex-fb". Many private discussion groups with that in the name.
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by aristus 4y ago
Relatedly: is there software / database designs recommended for managing osint facts?
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by aristus 4y ago
Living in Mexico City around a lot of construction, I've had my heart (and kit) broken by dirty, inconstant power. For small things like a Wifi repeater a 10Ah battery inline works ok. But for anything beefier or without its own intern
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by aristus 4y ago
There are only two hard problems in economics: cash invalidation an naming things.
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by aristus 4y ago
This is a bit of a hobby horse for me. I grew up in El Paso / Juárez which is arguably where the burrito was invented. The problem is that burritos these days try to pack two pounds of stuff into a one pound sack. A proper burrito is a
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by aristus 4y ago
Once you use them as the gatekeeper for auth ans identity, it becomes that much harder to delete that Facebook or switch phone brands. Not to mention much deeper insight into your activity everywhere.
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by aristus 4y ago
Hey, everyone, ease up. I have: 1) dropped a production database because I thought it was the test database. 2) screwed up a print job costing $100,000 in today’s money and had to do it again 3) crashed all of Facebook with a C++ bug. 4) cr
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by aristus 5y ago
I learned digital print design because I saw the world of pen & ink design get flattened by computers. I learned web design because I saw digital print design get steamrolled by the internet. I decided then to learn programming as self-
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by aristus 5y ago
Mexico City, at least in the central parts, has an interesting layout. Busy avenues roughly 1km apart grid the neighborhoods. Inside those squares most of the streets are one-way and low speed. You can walk in almost any direction and find
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by aristus 5y ago
Whatever the parties (owners, managers, workers) involved collectively agree is fair. Instead of the boss earning five orders of magnitude more than the average employee, why not four? But as it stands today, workers don't even get the
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by aristus 5y ago
Ok, so your limit is 1,000X. Fine, whatever. Let's take it as read that that is fair. But he is getting 100,000X or more. And worse, any hint of worker organization to maybe kinda sort of ask whether that's fair gets crushed.
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by aristus 5y ago
A bonanza, to be sure. But does that justify one guy taking 5 or 6 orders of magnitude more from that bonanza than the average employee? Where you land on that question doesn't matter. The real problem is that if the employees themse
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by aristus 5y ago
Generating wealth is separate from how you divvy up the proceeds after. On that second step is where many people have an issue with how it's done today. And, not to put too fine a point on it, intentionally confusing one with the other
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by aristus 5y ago
Scary for property owners, for sure. ;) And there's an important difference between wealth generation like organizing some group of people to produce value, and wealth accumulation at three-comma scales, which usually involves scre
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by aristus 5y ago
It's not Einsteinian, though. Simple Gallilean relativity is enough to model what's going on.
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by aristus 5y ago
This sounds a bit like software transactional memory (STM), in the sense of giving threads the illusion of total freedom while keeping them separate in reality. In STM data races are solved by unwinding the victim thread, essentially allo
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by aristus 5y ago
Heh. Ask Apple Records about that. Apple Inc, which publicly admits to being named after the record company, violated their agreement not to get into the music business, twice .
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by aristus 5y ago
More or less the plot of The Mouse That Roared, which predated Dr Strangelove. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
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by aristus 5y ago
Of course. This was a what-if. Can we do the same using mathematical constants that are proven to have random digits?
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Show HN: Transcendental numbers for arbitrary-length One-Time Pads(gist.github.com)
2 points by aristus 5y ago|3 comments
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by aristus 7y ago
Ahem: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/28/facebook-two-factor-phon...
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by aristus 7y ago
Isn't that basically Searle's Chinese Room argument?
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by aristus 7y ago
Lemire is one of the leading experts on string matching and the author of several core libraries you probably use every day. edit fine, so instead maybe click on the links in the post to see that this article is just one of a series. He&#
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by aristus 7y ago
Or, perhaps, a two-letter domain means that K evin K elly, founding editor of Wired Magazine, founder of one of the first online communities called WELL, who's been working in tech longer than most of the people on this site have bee
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by aristus 7y ago
"Means and motive matter as much as ends. AIs don’t operate in isolation. Somebody designs them, somebody gathers the data to train them, somebody decides how to use the answers they give. Those human-scale decisions are –or should be–
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by aristus 8y ago
> If there are no subsequence/substring matches, it can optionally fall back to approximate matches. This is rarely necessary to provide. > Matches should be sorted alphabetically. But pay attention to other languages / alph
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by aristus 8y ago
People forget this has already happened, more or less. In 2011 Google blackholed Belgium's newspapers when they got uppity. Pretty sure it happened a few times before that as well. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/1

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