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901.
by arkh 9y ago
QubesOS. Makes fucking up accounts even harder to do. https://www.qubes-os.org/
902.
by arkh 9y ago
The gaming community get new fools to pay for this kind of things every day. Fool me once shame on me. Fool my neighbor's teenager then.
903.
by arkh 9y ago
> the “utility density” of reading those 1000-page textbooks is very low. A lot of pages are not relevant, but I don’t have an efficient way to sift them out. I understand that some knowledge might be useful some day, but the reward is t
904.
by arkh 9y ago
You may want to learn about Boeing and how the US intelligence agencies are used for US industrial interests. And have been for decades.
905.
by arkh 9y ago
That's the joy of multinational bureaucraties where old people will do anything to stop young people's ideas to keep their cushy place.
906.
by arkh 9y ago
Do you really want a ritual to summon sex crazed beings? You may want to be a little more specific there. Djinns are the BOFH of the magic world.
907.
by arkh 9y ago
If you like this kind of stories and don't mind a work in progress you whould try https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/61ya08/oh_this_has_not... where a nerd ends up in a fantasy world.
908.
by arkh 9y ago
Not purely rational you have parahumans where most protagonists' acts have some logic behind it. Not a lot of evil people just because they're evil, and not a lot of pure heroes either. https://parahumans.wordpress.com&
909.
by arkh 9y ago
> Do we want to protect our citizens? The only answer is yes. This is not the right question. It is the one they use but is not the right one. "Do we want our citizen able to protect themselves" is the right question. And as mo
910.
by arkh 9y ago
I'm waiting for Web 3.0: everything goes through websockets. We can also call it newframe (mainframe 2.0) if a new buzzword is needed.
911.
by arkh 9y ago
> It's not hard to implement the logic when you have the rules. It's hard to define the rules. Software development in a nutshell.
912.
by arkh 9y ago
The NY Times has a beef against the tech industry. It's time to ask why.
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by arkh 9y ago
I like the "Guidelines for Creating Presentations" from the Beamer ( https://github.com/josephwright/beamer ) doc. Mostly: don't overdo slides, what you say is more important. http://distrib-c
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by arkh 9y ago
> And I can also see there being some need to monitor internal chat in case it's used for unacceptable purposes such as sexual harassment. You don't want simple monitoring. You want data stored in a way it can be checked after
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by arkh 9y ago
They sure have some influence on medias. Also, a lot of events thought as right-leaning get disturbed: MRA conventions, speech from "not the right people" in gaming conventions etc. which have security prices jacked-up because of
916.
by arkh 9y ago
Freedom of speech is an absolute. You have it or you do not. The moment you start restricting it you don't have any. I'm from France and there is no freedom of speech here. If you think laws made to fight against "hate speech
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by arkh 9y ago
All of America's neonazis would probably fit in a 200sqm hall, with room to spare. Why worry about a statistical anomaly? Just because they have Voat accounts? :)
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by arkh 9y ago
In my culture we use what you'd call profanity as punctuation marks. I feel it is imperialist for people from one culture to want people from other cultures to adhere to their way of communicating.
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by arkh 9y ago
You are not your code. And behavior can be changed. If someone criticized your code, taking it as a personal attack is YOUR problem. If your behavior is criticized, it means you can improve: acting like a fool may not mean you're a foo
920.
by arkh 9y ago
Private methods are the internals of your classes. It may change a lot for performance or to make it easy to maintain, one method may become 3 or 4. But people who use your class don't care. They input something in your public methods
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by arkh 9y ago
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a good read: it presents what kind of code you want to attain and methods to get there from a crappy code base. The definition of legacy code for the author (which I like) is: untested code. So the bo
922.
by arkh 9y ago
It depends on what you unit test and why. If it's for 100% test coverage: forget about it. If you test private methods: you're doing something wrong. What people usually see from the "unit test evangelists" are codebase
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by arkh 9y ago
And what most call diversity is only about skin color and gender. The exact definition of racism and sexism. You have more diversity of thought and behavior across social classes or countries: a person coming from Chile to work in the USA w
924.
by arkh 9y ago
It also goes both ways. The players have to engage and help build the story. I love the Feng Shui RPG for how they insist about the back and forth between player and DM. They also encourage the DM to pre-roll everything to make fights go sm
925.
by arkh 9y ago
If there is no loophole to the speed of light limit and the Heat Death of the Universe is not just a theory I guess most individuals in advanced civilizations will decide to end their lives in some drug (or equivalent) induced nirvana.
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by arkh 9y ago
> WSDL is an awful web services things The thing is, when creating webservices you like creating tests. With WSDL you have tools which given a WSDL will generate a test-suite for you and some mocked services. With JSON you'll have t
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by arkh 9y ago
> we found a very interesting biological pattern in the data Isn't it related to p-hacking? Get lot of data, search for a pattern then publish some theory the pattern would "prove". Instead of having a theory first, settin
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by arkh 9y ago
Gotta love JSON. It's XML without the tools so you get to reinvent everything to pad your resume. XML -> JSON WSDL -> JSON schema XPath -> JSON path XSLT -> JSON template? SOAP -> Swagger and friend
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by arkh 9y ago
> if it takes 6 months to get a new developer up and running on the codebase That's the problem you have to tackle as fast as possible. An overqualified candidate would be a good fit there: first task, streamline the onboarding prob
930.
by arkh 9y ago
Here is my problem and I think a lot of people's problem. The only sexism I've seen in tech is benevolent sexism. People interrupting you in meetings? Same thing for men. People who shit on your work? Same thing for most men. Bad

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