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by bshipp 5y ago
I think you've just added additional support for badRNG's point above in that even when agreeing with someone it generates divisive comments. There was no reference to wage slavery or even race in the comment you responded to.
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I'm in the same boat. I've used lastpass for years and tried a few alternatives over the time but they fell down when it came to providing access to my "vault" on different systems or architectures. The biggest benefit i
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by bshipp 5y ago
...which is what floors me when Google made this statement. I thought the whole benefit of their Google drive system was deduplication of common files to minimize storage space costs. If they start tinkering with private files then people
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by bshipp 5y ago
This has been my take as well. Honestly, if you're keen to share something you shouldn't, it's pretty trivial to host it via https://rclone.org as an http server. The only person accessing it off of Google drive
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by bshipp 5y ago
I'm glad this point has been made. $125 million is pretty much the bonus allotment for the janitorial staff at JC Morgan.
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I'm aware of AT and the work they do. Its a great initiative. I'm just saying that other projects like https://pushshift.io/ have been capturing all reddit posts and comments for years now.
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I had to install the last Win 11 release candidate the week before the official release because I needed a new function in WSL2 that was simply unavailable without being part of the "Insiders Program". I gave it a week instead of
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by bshipp 5y ago
but it's not really necessary for Reddit. their API is fairly robust and there are numerous options for scraping the site.
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by bshipp 5y ago
I've used pandas off and on for the better of a seven or eight years and, unlike other python libraries, I always feel like I'm starting from scratch every time I begin a new project. following a tutorial/official API on a s
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by bshipp 5y ago
You use Python to rapidly build a small backend system and then, if any warts appear that need to be smoothed over, you carve that function off to a more robust solution. Python is great for programming at the speed of inspiration.
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I know the common refrain with this inflation is that it's temporary due to COVID, but when I talk to suppliers and customers I'm finding that everyone's costs are skyrocketing this year (and last, as well). I have no illusio
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by bshipp 5y ago
> YES yes I know the rhetoric, " just find a better job". That's the rhetoric from young people with no strings attached. People who are older, often with families, always with local connections and long-term relationship
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USA 1980 inflation was stopped by spiking interest rates. What probability would you assign to the current Federal Reserve ever having the fortitude to do something similar? I would place that at less than 5%. The entire financial house o
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by bshipp 5y ago
I feel like we should at least reference some companies who "do FOSS right" by releasing internal projects to the ecosystem. in the data science realm, for example, I've made heavy use of Superset and Airflow from Airbnb as
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by bshipp 5y ago
For sure, but what could be done is eliminating any non-superflous task so they can focus on resolving that specific problem. Have a team handle all github issues and media inquiries. Another team focus on initially evaluating all incoming
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> maintainers care GREATLY about how many users they have. They do. Until they don't. That inevitable day when they get yelled at in a github issue thread by a user who didn't bother reading the documentation, while staring at
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by bshipp 5y ago
> none of these richly rewarded, supposedly brilliant experts at organizing engineers has gotten out in front of this Indeed. Each of them has had to spend the last few days madly trying to fix this problem to avoid exposing exposing the
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by bshipp 5y ago
> No. I think this whole line of reasoning doesn't resonate much with reality. Oddly enough, I hear the same thing from boss all the time.
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I'm so confused. I thought we were talking about a single volunteer open source developer responsible for a vital tool, and it was too onerous to give them additional staff.
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by bshipp 5y ago
True, I suppose I should have been clearer: fork and resubmit to npm with a new label. 'core2-js' or something.
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by bshipp 5y ago
> So think hard about what help Google et al could actually be providing to help log4j here. I think you make a perfectly valid point and one that shouldn't be overlooked. How about this: "Here's a $100K and an isolated p
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by bshipp 5y ago
If I misspoke or offended anyone it was certainly not intentional. The bulk of my comment was based on the linked tweet: > "Log4j maintainers have been working sleeplessly on mitigation measures; fixes, docs, CVE, replies to inquir
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by bshipp 5y ago
I'm not saying you, as an engineer for those companies, should be the one to donate your time and energy toward the problem. We all have competing priorities, as do the maintainers of those FLOSS packages. I'm saying that your co
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by bshipp 5y ago
I admit to a certain level of exaggeration but, at the same time, we are talking literal peanuts to a large company. They could spend a million dollars and it'd be a rounding error on their balance sheet. In all seriousness, taking ac
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by bshipp 5y ago
I'm still flabbergasted that the original maintainers are rushing around trying to patch these problems. Unless their specific personal/professional projects are at risk they have no responsibility to hurry and fix a thing. You&#
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by bshipp 5y ago
But...and bear with me as I'm no JS guy and am unfamiliar with that library...how hard is it for the community to fork it and go on from there? Literally every time I find an esoteric library on Github the first thing I do before forki
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by bshipp 5y ago
Just to play devils advocate, perhaps having everyone synced to the same dependency is a blessing in disguise. Sure, it's awful when a breach is found, but since it affects everyone simultaneously at least it gets patched immediately.
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the only thing you are wrong about is the "couple of years". this orgy of cheap money started under Greenspan in 2001 and went nuclear under Bernanke in 2008. The tap has barely slowed ever since. It is, without a doubt, the lar
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by bshipp 5y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. I was thinking someone was trying to make it through to the other side without leaving. In the situation you're describing, you're certainly correct that it's easily carried insurance. Although I'd
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Its an interesting question. I'm not a union guy and spent my youth working in construction so I've encountered my share of plodding union tradesmen who took remarkably long to do small things that could be finished in a few minut

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