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by bostik 5y ago
There is an utterly perverse incentive to consider as well. If the median shelf-life of abuse evidence is shortened, in that the item in question can no longer be forwarded/viewed/stored/..., what does that imply in a world w
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by bostik 5y ago
> If regulation was focused on function it would be less expensive and yield better results for society. ... and that would actually require that those in charge of regulations would be technical enough to understand the complexities
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by bostik 5y ago
> a lot of UK population basically got an ”organic 3rd vaccine dose”. Isn't that how the vaccination regime is supposed to work, actually? With two jabs in, contracting Covid still comes with something like 4%..20% hit rate.[ß] Ho
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by bostik 5y ago
In an industry where the median tenure for a SWE is ~2.5 years, that's "doing no worse than the industry average". Turns out upper management rates predictability quite high.
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by bostik 5y ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I can provide a real life take. Not specific to GDocs, this applies to all browser based editors. You may usually write code in a terminal based programmer's editor (vim, em
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by bostik 5y ago
> I could not spot a scenario in the first 5-7 min of interview. This is endemic and part of a much wider malignancy in the tech interviews. Cram two medium-to-high difficulty questions in the span of 45 minutes and require the candida
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by bostik 5y ago
> Not encrypted, hashed. I'm sure you know this, but to provide some context for others - this is one of the few spots where ambiguity between [password] encryption and hashing may have played a role. OP stated they used crack(1)
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by bostik 5y ago
You make a good point, but I feel it's getting downvoted thanks to the implied tone. > [...] get a deeper insight into how things work. It's just that you probably don't want to use that in production [...] That is the g
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by bostik 5y ago
-cracks knuckles- Coming from Google, top answer to inserting data with python+psycopg2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61861310/how-to-use-psyc... (no bound variables, straight up format string) Same route,
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by bostik 5y ago
Considering StackOverflow rewards speed, and that most common questions fall into category of "how do I make thing X work?" - a good proportion of highly voted answers already come pre-loaded with vulnerabilities. And no, I'm
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by bostik 5y ago
Sadly, I wasn't confusing it. The world is cruel, and a non-zero fraction of absentee parents became so because of the child in question. Meaning: for a number of children with an absentee parent, they were the reason for one of thei
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by bostik 5y ago
An apology?
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by bostik 5y ago
Desalination is indeed a nice way to drain excess energy from the grid, because the end product is directly usable. But let's keep in mind that large-scale desalination comes with its own externalities. Removing salt from sea water lea
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by bostik 5y ago
HN is in the vanguard, though. The crowd here is not representative of the state of the global online population at any given time, but one could say that global online sentiment tends to trail the HN sentiment by a number of years. But it&
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by bostik 5y ago
I've said it before, but it deserves to be repeated again: the term "E2EE" has been hijacked to infer things that are decidedly not within the remit of end-to-end encryption. We keep seeing the term to be interpreted to mea
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by bostik 5y ago
> Competing specifically for underrepresented group members with a metrics-driven goal to boost ratios at one specific company above the relevant benchmark? Not obviously good to me. I've been trying to call this out for years, to
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by bostik 5y ago
Something that would have been known as age-old by the time the enlightenment started to set in. So that's what, 1300's as the cutoff? 300 years is barely enough to establish a town pub. For the record, I'm a Finn. By my own
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by bostik 5y ago
Tomatoes are associated with Italy, but they are not a traditional Italian ingredient. The plant was introduced from Americas in mid-1500's, and became a staple only during the 1700's. 0: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu&
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by bostik 5y ago
> * Why do you believe that "not everyone can understand chemistry"?* I am a physical embodiment of a person who can not understand chemistry. Basics hell yes, organic chemistry for most parts yes, process chemistry ... iffily,
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by bostik 5y ago
> On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it. Okay, I'll bite. You can't just drop a war story headline like that and walk off. Pleas
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by bostik 5y ago
Douglas Rushkoff calls this "extracting wealth by destroying value". Apt.
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by bostik 5y ago
Well, in this shared-secret case we're talking about "symmetric signing keys" (really: MAC keys). Those types of keys are not defined by the users, they are issued by the party you're connecting to and delivered over a k
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by bostik 5y ago
Both NIST and NCSC now actively discourage password expiration. And it took them only what, 30 years, to catch up with real-world best practices? That said, there is a place for 30-day rotation. That's when the so-called "passwo
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by bostik 5y ago
> Companies tend to be way too specific about the skills required This is true at least for finance and (technical) hedge funds. Having observed from the sidelines over the last few years, a common pattern has emerged. Companies realis
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by bostik 5y ago
Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein [0] 0: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/29/common-sense/ yes, this CAN be attributed to him
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by bostik 5y ago
> assume that every string in the code will inevitably be seen by a real user/customer. That's a good rule, and the same principle can be applied to communications in general. In fact, I have the three rules printed on my off
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by bostik 5y ago
There's a technique I've experimented with over the past 2 years that seems to cut through some of these cloak-and-dagger games. State that you want to conduct your own research into the company first, and that by hiding the nam
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by bostik 5y ago
> It was also the first place I ever worked where it was normal for people to get fired in their first year. Not sure how you ask about that in an interview though, lol. There is a way, actually. One of the things you want to ask when
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by bostik 5y ago
So, at least in the US justice system it's one dollar, one vote.
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by bostik 5y ago
Since my comment triggered a real discussion, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the subject. For what it's worth, my own views are probably on the fringe side. To start with, when I say "financially fully independent",

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