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by bob1029 1mo ago
Unionization seems to be a secondary effect of strategic failure. If there is a causal relationship, I think it happens in reverse. Walking the game theory backward, if the team was executing successfully and productively and everyone is ge
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by bob1029 1mo ago
It sounds like the author went through a lot of pain to avoid using git+lfs or perforce. I use git+lfs for unity projects and it works out great. If I had a real studio I'd buy some perforce seats. Reinventing the wheel like this is qu
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by bob1029 1mo ago
The alternative to a bridge troll is "no bridge" if the bridge troll is the only party who has the capability to construct it in the first place.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
I like how providing an incredibly efficient payment network is framed as holding progress back. I'd frame it as making the standards for competition very high. I don't see people getting super ideological about their inability to
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by bob1029 1mo ago
VisaNet & friends make the modern consumer world go round. The fees they extract are a drop in the bucket compared to the economic activity that they enable with their networks. Many businesses simply couldn't exist without somethi
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by bob1029 1mo ago
One day the stockpiles of iPhone 13 minis will deplete to the point where making new products in that form factor is economically viable. Until then, off to eBay we go. There are more than enough sitting around completely unused. You aren&
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by bob1029 1mo ago
That hinge mechanism looks like some pretty wild engineering to me.
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They have multiple fake product "labs" with which to use as sets simply for filming these videos. I am sure one or two FTEs is plausible.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
> In some cases, the new AI workflow may even destroy value. I am really struggling with this one right now. The client's development team is letting Claude document and refactor the product codebase without much intervention, purpo
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> ... we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors ... I've observed this exact effect last week. I made a discovery regarding a stepwise performance improvement in a codebase. I sha
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by bob1029 1mo ago
I think there is something deeply wrong with the state of contemporary fiction. I was on Spotify the other day checking out the fantasy audiobook offerings and the only item that wasn't absolutely repulsive was Jim dale reading Harry P
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by bob1029 1mo ago
I have a hard time believing that these companies aren't spending some amount of money manipulating public perception with social media influencers who are moonlighting as employees.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
The house is located in Austin TX. Root cause analysis complete.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
Minimization of 3rd party dependencies has always been a key for risk reduction. Now more than ever before. Some stacks make this a lot easier than others. I regret the rules of HN effectively forbid this conversation because it has meaning
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by bob1029 1mo ago
> What am I meant to take away from this? If you look at other IoT devices, they’re going to show the same thing. But here it’s presented as bad. Why? The influencer economy is a bit soaked these days. You need to crank up the stakes to
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by bob1029 1mo ago
For structured logs and json I've found a lot of success with PPM-style schemes. If your JSON file has many of the same object, you could see ratios in the single digits.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
> Renting servers is the easiest way to bankrupt your company. I can think of a lot of easier ways.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
> The soccer organization confirmed this week to The Register that it has moved its stadium’s server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through HPE’s hybrid cloud management platform, GreenLake. This is ju
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by bob1029 1mo ago
System design and architecture are the art. Programming is a set of techniques useful in realizing these compositions. I've never once in my life looked at a piece of code and thought "I am in the presence of god". However, t
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by bob1029 1mo ago
Meta could drop a new feature tomorrow and have the tech media in a shambles within 15 minutes. Their product family is used by 3.6 billion people every day . OAI and Anthropic are still measuring per month.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
How often do we need to bind a specific machine to a specific key in the case of TLS? In every case of TLS I've seen we are concerned with organizational identity, not machine identity. This effectively extends to client certificates i
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by bob1029 1mo ago
I suppose the value of this depends on your threat model. The TPM will give you stronger assurance that a machine owns a key, but it's likely that a dedicated HSM would be much harder to extract the key material from. TPM being inside
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by bob1029 1mo ago
Preserving 256 bits is not that difficult.
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I think the most realistic concern here is amazon scanning your backups. I totally get it. A lot of the reason for retaining total control over the storage medium is that what is being stored isn't strictly legal. You should locally en
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by bob1029 1mo ago
I've abandoned all forms of media outside of HN, GitHub, Steam, Spotify and the occasional visit to a pirate streaming site.
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by bob1029 1mo ago
> The problem was never the practice. Extreme doubt. The theory of music is about as useless as it gets if you aren't in some kind of academic program or collaborating with other musicians on a shared composition. It helps with dead
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by bob1029 1mo ago
What are the odds that a new QS crypto scheme has a fatal flaw or is otherwise intentionally backdoored? Amping everyone up with fears over quantum breaking classical seems like a fantastic way to get another round of vulnerabilities inject
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AWS Glacier is mostly just LTO done for you with exponentially less risk.
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If you are trying to monetize your software, the biggest factor is whether or not your customer trusts you. MIT and source out on GitHub is the easiest way to build trust. You will find that some people simply "steal" your work in
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by bob1029 1mo ago
How are you backing up 100TB of data? Have you factored the consequences of catastrophic data loss into the economics? How much value would you lose if all your data was gone? There's no way you are consuming this much content actively

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