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by breischl 6y ago
Finding the right information is already difficult and a time-suck. Adding an extra place to look (and search interface, etc) for no extra value just makes it suck more. Plus there's all the TCO reasons - licensing costs, extra servers
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by breischl 6y ago
>Cross-team communication, documentation, API publishing and adherence goes from being very low impact within an org to suddenly being critically important. Totally agree, but I think this is underappreciated by many. People tend to wave
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by breischl 6y ago
Wow, that is an impressive rant. >Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison That is just brilliant comedy. :)
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by breischl 6y ago
Colorado at least is _not_ entirely by mail. It's an option, and a good one, and I personally use it, but it's not mandatory. To my sibling comment - "reliably blue" lol. Only in the last 3 presidential elections, and th
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by breischl 6y ago
Couldn't easily find numbers on vote-by-mail as a percentage of all votes, but this is suggestive that it's enough to swing most elections already. >In 2014 Colorado (72 percent) and Oregon (71 percent) led the nation in voter
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by breischl 6y ago
>Google [is] data-driven to do what? Interesting point, particularly in light of their history of starting up products only to kill them off 2-5 years later. One could say they are data-driven to sell ads, but that's almost overly b
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by breischl 6y ago
Fair point right now, but that's not going to be the case forever. And once things start to open up again and cases are less common, this kind of contact tracing will become even more important to track down new outbreaks.
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by breischl 6y ago
Nitpicky clarification: at least for the Apple/Google spec it's advertising something more like "my key for the current 15-minute timespan is 7733". ie, not your identity, just a temporary key.
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by breischl 6y ago
>can have data housed in each country where they see fit Hadn't thought of this until you mentioned it, but having it only work within a country could significantly hinder the ability to trace imported cases (ie, cases from traveler
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by breischl 6y ago
I took his meaning as "assume better hardware will be available in the future", which is not what you seem to mean, and may not be as true these days anyway. That said, when I've seen people over-engineer things (and maybe th
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by breischl 6y ago
I think it depends on the size/scope of what you're doing, how complex it is, and how much novelty (technical and domain) there is in it. For things that are not terribly new, are small enough to knock out with 1-2 devs, and aren&
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by breischl 6y ago
Frankl was a holocaust concentration camp survivor. I don't think that's exactly what he was getting at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
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by breischl 6y ago
On the one hand it's incredibly sad that they have to make announcements like that. On the other hand, this reaalllly feels like evolution in action.
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by breischl 6y ago
There was a study fairly recently showing that sunlight (UV) kills the virus. I suspect he just saw that, or maybe it was on Fox News, and he picked it up from there. Similarly, there were some preliminary studies that showed effectiveness
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by breischl 6y ago
1) I find this kinda funny. Why are you worried about this in SQL but not for other code? It's not like it's hard to chuck Python, JS, Ruby, ASP, etc code straight into prod, you just don't do that because it's stupid. D
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by breischl 6y ago
>enough people don't want to build If the problem was that 51% of people didn't want those things, well that's just democracy. For a true veto, one person is "enough people." That's an exaggeration in this c
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by breischl 6y ago
But now you're filling your application with arcane and inscrutable logic, with an extra layer of abstraction via the ORM to make it even less scrutable. I think one should view a SQL DB like a microservice. Instead of REST endpoints (
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by breischl 6y ago
You've managed to argue with the individual phrases while missing the actual point. Tell you what, let's assume that you're right. The CDC is continuously reevaluating mask usage by the general public, but recommended against
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by breischl 6y ago
They did an effectiveness analysis at some point in the past. If the situation had not changed from that point in a way that would indicate masks should be used, why would they reevaluate the whole thing? No organization, no matter how capa
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by breischl 6y ago
You, earlier: >I think the CDC did actually perform a cross-benefit analysis on masks during the initial segment of the outbreak . Given the not-incontrovertible, yet positive, efficacy of masks, combined with the implications of a PPE
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by breischl 6y ago
TFA actually mentioned that point specifically, if you read it... > I went into it thinking they’d lied to us, hoping to prevent hoarders from buying up so many masks that there weren’t enough for health workers. Turns out that’s not tru
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by breischl 6y ago
Were they allowed to do that under the terms of the contract or something like that? If not, it sounds like fraud. If so, it sounds like a way to never make any significant payouts...
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by breischl 7y ago
If everyone is cheating, then you don't have an advantage, so what's the point? I guess you could look at it as another level of metagame, though.
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by breischl 7y ago
There was a very nice top-level comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834981
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by breischl 7y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I could see doing it to "internalize" the risk of rare events like what we're seeing right now. Basically it applies an incentive towards regionalization over globalization, that can mak
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by breischl 7y ago
Company I'm at now requires basic security training every year. TBH it kinda sucks at showing solutions to this kind of problems, but at least it makes people aware of the risks. I think that might be a PCI compliance thing, but I&#x
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by breischl 7y ago
I think this stuff is hilarious too, especially in the era of webpages that are really Javascript apps fed by a JSON API. It is not at all hard to have your JS app directly operate on DOM nodes without using markup at all. Create the DIVs a
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by breischl 7y ago
In the original context (finance/investing) his point is that virtually nobody actually manages to consistently beat the market average (net of fees). So it's a "loser's game" and most people would do better avoidin
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by breischl 7y ago
Tangentially, I once joined a startup where a week after I started the CEO demanded that I run their crawler software on my own personal hardware, on my personal internet connection, 24x7. I (politely) told him to go fuck himself. I later l
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by breischl 7y ago
At a different level that's part of the reason receipts exist, and why you occasionally see things like "if we don't give you a receipt your order is free." In those cases it's typically about preventing the employe

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