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by bhawks 3y ago
So you're leaving them right? Why work for someone who clearly doesn't align with your professional values?
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by bhawks 3y ago
At a certain scale you don't need to make OKRs fun and playful - there are enough VPs that all the OKRs read like an episode of Silicon Valley. If you're big enough to have company level OKRs that were written solely by folks that
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by bhawks 3y ago
Initially there was a desire to use only 16 bits for all of Unicode. This would allow for only 65K characters - so space was at quite a premium. The jump from 8 bits to 16 bits effectively doubled memory costs and still wasn't enough t
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by bhawks 3y ago
The $25 version works fine don't buy features you don't need. https://www.yubico.com/product/security-key-nfc-by-yubico-bl...
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by bhawks 3y ago
ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk and chill. https://developers.yubico.com/SSH/Securing_SSH_with_FIDO2.ht... Can't steal keys that are in a detachable hsm.
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by bhawks 3y ago
This is a very shallow take on a nuanced topic. Frankly conversations with friends that sound like: "$THIRD_PARTY is successful and I am not. Why don't I get recognition" doesn't require a work relationship at all and is
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by bhawks 3y ago
Given that the NSA was created in secret and did not become public knowledge for many years after it's establishment I can see the subversive side of spelling out it's name on a hoodie. They still want to be No Such Agency.
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by bhawks 3y ago
The OpenBSD way of one blessed libc as the interface to the operating system is perfectly fine for their project. The Linux kernel is a separate project from the several different libc implementations and the Linux kernel project treats the
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by bhawks 3y ago
It is my decision whether your notification is worth my time. If you're using SMS because you don't think that I'll give you push notification permission then that tells you that I literally do not want them (save your monthl
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by bhawks 3y ago
While you won't win rationale arguments with ad hominem attacks and theatrics you certainly will get lots of clicks and ad impressions. The irony being that the author would have had an incomprehensibly different life if Marc Andreesse
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by bhawks 3y ago
The American mortgage market is very unique from the perspective that it has 10, 15 and 30 year fixed rate debt. There are generally no prepayment penalties and no balloon payment (each payment is the same amount even the last one). You can
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by bhawks 3y ago
> This is exaggerated to the point that I consider it fiction. BTW Google doesn't substantially use gRPC within their datacenters. For explicitness Google uses stubby which shares a lot of interface level commonality with gRPC but t
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by bhawks 3y ago
The web works better on Android. At Google some PMs used to lament that Android users spend more time in the browser than in apps versus iPhone. In my experience using browsers on Android are much better than on iPhone and not everything re
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by bhawks 3y ago
The solution to your problem is simply more passkeys. I am not being sarcastic - which ever service your authenticating to make sure you have passkeys from at least 2 different devices so you do not lock yourself out. If you don't fit
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by bhawks 3y ago
It is really just a language model but because German sentences are about 4 times larger it is technically a large language model.
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by bhawks 3y ago
Evan created both Vue and Vite so that is the thread connecting them
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by bhawks 3y ago
Configs for any mildly complex piece of software ends up looking like: 30% implicit defaults that are waiting to break when you upgrade something 25% boilerplate 20% derivable from some other configuration but you just gotta set them all ex
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by bhawks 3y ago
We have been running military operations nonstop for practically 40 years. Our military budget is the size of the next 12 countries put together. There is little functional or healthy about the current state of affairs.
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by bhawks 3y ago
This affects all air craft not just the F35 > “During the safety stand down, aviation commanders will lead discussions with their Marines focusing on the fundamentals of safe flight operations, ground safety, maintenance and flight proce
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by bhawks 3y ago
Which unfortunately are not thread safe.
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Only the really bad code has a hope of lasting that long.
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by bhawks 3y ago
> Latency and fees are higher than existing mechanisms in most of the world, and at much higher environmental cost. This statement is simply incorrect. The later 2 scaling ecosystems built on top of Bitcoin and Ethereum offer 1-2 second
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by bhawks 3y ago
You're certainly entitled to choose non-crypto solutions to whatever problems you face but saying that crypto isn't solving those problems for other people is just ignoring the facts. Crypto continues to be a store of wealth and
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by bhawks 3y ago
These types of agreements existed long before crypto, there are other demand sources that will put in a floor but are not as easy to turn off during peaks. The fact that there have not been scalable, reliable storage schemes devised that ca
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by bhawks 3y ago
But ERCOT is not running at max fossil fuel generation capacity at all times. [1] Keeping industrial scale operations running is usually cheaper, safer and more efficient than turning them completely off. This is not like switching off a li
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by bhawks 3y ago
On one hand there is a customer who is always willing to buy electricity you can generate in extremely predictable volumes and they will stop when you ask them to. A grid operator should be able to figure out a way to ensure that they alwa
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by bhawks 3y ago
Having a customer that is always willing to buy energy but can zero out their consumption within seconds of a single phone call is a great asset to grid operators. Outside of Bitcoin the only customers in this class are industrial operation
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by bhawks 3y ago
Whatever system there is in place doesn't seem to do much to address: + lone wolfs such as Uvalde, Las Vegas, Nashville, Waukesha... + Cross border drug operations + Transnational incidents like Nord Stream, spy balloons, COVID. + Mil
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by bhawks 3y ago
Living in a world where we only trust photos from official photojournalists because everything else may have been doctored is not a good outcome.
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by bhawks 3y ago
The kerning in the prompt between the @ and the j is really unfortunate

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