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by bhawks 3y ago
> First, the Dockerfile file format for declaratively describing a machine (operating system, installed packages, processes, etc). I have a hard time calling Dockerfile declarative when the RUN statement literally runs a sequence of user
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by bhawks 3y ago
How much can I trust the insights a tool like this gives? The landing page focuses on ease of use and privacy (awesome!). But is this a tool I can use to make critical informed decisions or something where I am willing to trade correctness
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by bhawks 3y ago
With Minecraft simulating a 8bit games - https://www.pcworld.com/article/559794/8-bit-computer-proces...
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by bhawks 3y ago
Storing code review (and ci results, and analyzer runs) in git is a wonderful idea. All these workflows are a derivation of the source in the repository and keeping them close together has a great aesthetic. It also enables the 'single
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by bhawks 3y ago
Going deep into personalization on Google.com (answering queries using your signed in data across other google properties) feels like high risk low reward. In a post gdpr & right to be forgotten environment they know they have targets o
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by bhawks 3y ago
The author has enough knowledge to be dangerous and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near an authentication system. The first diatribe against 'nondeterminstic' logins demonstrates a naivety to both account takeover and botting
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by bhawks 3y ago
> The problem is that first world labor is totally overpriced and their lifestyle is simply unsustainable If first world labor is living an extravagant lifestyle how much would you suggest dialing it down to? Should it be totally equival
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by bhawks 3y ago
2/3rds of single family housing is owner occupied. Half of the remaining are owned by 'mom and pop' landlords. So being very generous, maybe 10% of the supply is really counting on price appreciation versus income. If demand
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by bhawks 3y ago
Reducing prices requires increasing supply - but what is going to incentivize folks sitting on a 30year mortgage at 3% to sell? The Fed's low rate policy during pandemic and then the rapid rate rise has broken the housing market. There
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by bhawks 3y ago
It is definitely too late for his $250,000 short position to pay out, but he still might be able to capitalize on his book project. There has already been a ton of damage done: 9 million jobs lost, 8 million home foreclosures, $20 trillio
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by bhawks 3y ago
Can't trust the people to be able to speak to each other. People will get hurt if they have to think for themselves. If the people are revolting it is definitely illegitimate on their part, our dear leaders are infallible in their effo
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by bhawks 3y ago
The author has tunnel vision that the only actors in the room are users, service provider and the state. (And the service provider is colluding with users for some reason to stymie the state's power). Service providers are made up of e
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by bhawks 3y ago
You trust that CPU doing the build? Have you heard about the mess Intel Management Engine is? Unless you build from the transistors up you have incoherent security theater.
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by bhawks 3y ago
Provocative title but practically no content behind the link, just a pre-order pitch.
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by bhawks 3y ago
The weight of managing depot wide upgrades are definitely not a factor in turning down customer facing services. In 10+ years doing low level libraries and infrastructure no one ever used my teams efforts as a reason to sunset an offering.
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by bhawks 3y ago
No the real reason is Google's internal systems do not depend at all on these services. Therefore no one values the maintenance effort required to keep the lights on. If anything the CI/CD infra backing Google development keeps th
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by bhawks 3y ago
I'll see your 1kg and raise to 100kg.
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by bhawks 3y ago
The point being that the politicalization of the court could have been short circuited if politicians did their jobs legislating abortion access into law. We wouldnt need to have the charade of the past few SCOTUS confirmation hearings abou
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by bhawks 3y ago
Management is captured by rest and vest itself.
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by bhawks 3y ago
Hiring H1Bs post layoffs adds distraction to the real problem at hand. Google's 10k layoff was simply not justified by management's soulless explanation. The company is a technical and financial juggernaut. It is still hiring. T
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by bhawks 3y ago
You can get effectively the same behavior as an mkdir based lockfile when using BEGIN IMMEDIATE instead of just BEGIN with a WAL based SQLite db. (other modes should use BEGIN EXCLUSIVE). Using this feature statements will immediately fail
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by bhawks 3y ago
Wherever possible it is better to use filelocks (a named file or directory) or SQLite (which deals with the arcana for you and has been both unit and battle tested). Using file locking APIs is just a minefield of pain otherwise.
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by bhawks 3y ago
Seems like Big Tech hasn't been following the other Big $INDUSTRY playbook fully yet - you gotta buy your own competing medical studies. Newbie mistake. I am sure they'll learn, they figured out how important buying politicians wa
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by bhawks 3y ago
The inclusion of "land use" and "water use" immediately makes this suspect to me. What's wrong with using land for agriculture or using rainfall and water? With the article calling out wheat farming as one of their
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by bhawks 3y ago
Reading between the arguments it feels like the most meaty point is how plurals in table names play poorly with consistency in the context of auto-generated code and UIs. One would wonder how AI guided code / ui generation could cope w
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by bhawks 3y ago
See the successes of spycraft in South America. It has been truly a blessing to all people living there.
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by bhawks 3y ago
You have to weight the aggressive security posture against the fact that there are nearly 1.5 billion smart phones sold every year . [0] In addition to having ridiculous computing power and storage capabilities, they carry microphones, cam
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by bhawks 3y ago
Just use https://wormhole.app - it is end to end encrypted, privacy preserving and network friendly.
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by bhawks 3y ago
The desktop OEMs lament their inability to differentiate their hardware offerings. I had always wondered why some of them didn't see the opportunity to enter the tablet space on Android as a path to differentiation. The only risk I wou
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by bhawks 3y ago
The model updates are not persistently stored and are not accessed individually. The system can only access aggregated averages of updates. Here is a paper that describes the cryptography protecting user data https://eprint.iacr

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