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by beachy 1y ago
Good rant but a bit of a simplification. NZers love to go off and do their OE (overseas experience) typically in their early-mid twenties often in hubs like London. A kiwi in their 30s who hasn't lived and worked overseas is the odd on
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by beachy 1y ago
That sounds like a dream gig. Do you find it satisfying running your own utility?
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by beachy 1y ago
I think of it in terms of Vegas-style casinos or cruise ships. About $2B for a casino, $1B for a cruise ship. So imagine Johny Ives to be worth a couple of cruise ships tied up outside 2 hulking casinos.
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by beachy 1y ago
Maybe so, but from the outside voting as an American looks stifling. I wouldn't want to vote for either of the two parties, although both hold some positions that I agree with more than the other. Either of the two parties promoting vo
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by beachy 1y ago
Simplistically, yes. Except that the whole US system is binary, and your vote is too - you get to vote either 1 or 0, with no more nuance than that. So technically yes, people voted for this, but also many were forced to because it came in
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by beachy 1y ago
A great counterexample indeed. Top down hustle getting things moving.
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by beachy 1y ago
> If you don't like it: learn to wire wrap Actually I know how to wire wrap. I last did it 40 years ago. Technology's moved on.
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by beachy 1y ago
It's the American experience that decisions are made at the executive level based on faulty intelligence, while people working at the coal face such as yourself have a much better understanding of what's really going on. Case in p
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by beachy 1y ago
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)
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by beachy 1y ago
> But it’s worded to assure the user that the choice is reversible .. While also disrespecting anyone who never wants to avail themselves. What happened to good old "Don't ask me again"?
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by beachy 1y ago
There's a lot of stuff that was better in the "good old days". But to be alive when it's possible for gifted individuals to create technology like this is just incredible.
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by beachy 2y ago
I don't get the point. If they were refactoring /cleaning up the code and porting to a modern platform - then yeah, that would be good for the future. But also a massive effort and well beyond anything that someone can parachute i
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by beachy 2y ago
The front end is in the hands of the enemy. They can do what they want with it. The back end is not. If it falls into the hands of the enemy then it is game over. Security-wise, it is clearly acceptable for the front end to be of lower qual
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by beachy 2y ago
> Especially in this case where they had a red flag that she didn’t want to turn over the list until the deal was done I'm not in the game but I think if I was spending this much money I would want some statistically sound samples o
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by beachy 2y ago
I found that interesting too. Not a Kagi customer yet but I always feel the need when googling to be able to blacklist SEO spammers, and that would include Pinterest as an image SEO spammer. But blocking political sites you don't agree
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by beachy 2y ago
"Before Elvis, there was nothing" - John Lennon
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by beachy 2y ago
Decades ago my first real job was as an IBM engineer fixing computers at a heavily unionised timber mill. One of their many rules was that nothing could be plugged into any electrical outlet on site unless the device had been inspected and
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by beachy 2y ago
If a piece of software crashes in the forest, and no-one is around to hear it, did it really crash at all?
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by beachy 2y ago
> real fascists wouldn't be gutting the NNSA or the DoD. They'd be building it up and expanding it, even at this early stage. Not necessarily. If those organisations were not blindly obedient to the leader (which they shouldn&#
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by beachy 2y ago
Sounds like an argument over semantics and the meaning of the word "breakthrough". Running the 4 minute mile, climbing everest - those are achievements rather than breakthroughs. I'd also class the atomic bomb as an achieveme
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by beachy 2y ago
When I started at Oracle way back in the day, there was no Google. I was charged with building a DSL so that users could specify their own business logic and tax rules. I spent 5 x 16 hour days in a flow state coding in C and emerged with a
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by beachy 2y ago
1000x is a bit hyperbolic but I'll admit I had forgotten the purgatory of slow version control. You are correct about that.
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by beachy 2y ago
> The question of human climate change's impact on things like wildfires is an interesting, important, and very difficult one Perhaps it is difficult to prove scientifically, but as humans we can operate on common sense if we choose
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by beachy 2y ago
Rats also eat electrical cable insulation so I wouldn't use them as guidance for your diet.
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by beachy 2y ago
Darcs to me is a bit like VHS vs betamax. A superior technology that did not win in the market due to other factors. Way back in the day we did some due diligence on our source control - at that time CVS - and settled on darcs as the most e
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by beachy 2y ago
> this is a machine with a clock ticking in microseconds. I can't imagine it'd take more than a week or so to reimplement any sort of business logic it had. You're kidding right? In the old days people had to do insane thi
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by beachy 2y ago
One insight from that great book I've always liked was when the CEO tells the team "no mode switch". His directive was about backwards compatibility with the old instruction set. With hindsight the team realise this was a use
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by beachy 2y ago
Reminds me of a quote from "Soul of a new machine": > During one period, when the microcode and logic were glitching at the nanosecond level, one of the overworked engineers departed the company, leaving behind a note on his te
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by beachy 2y ago
Au contraire, it's an incredible efficient way to gain high level insights into a new field that I just don't have time to dive into otherwise. And HN spans all the layers, from low level instruction set developments to the commer
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by beachy 2y ago
Looking forward to enlightening replies to your question, I don't get it either. Keycloak APIs are already hardened, how is security provably increased by creating a new, far less tested access layer for the browser to use?

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