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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Sure, "if" all of that old code (how many billions of lines of code?) was rewritten and redeployed since. If not, then... the above statement does not stand.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Wait, what is this "everycrsreport.com" -- is that some kind of authority on.. things? Should we trust it? If so, why?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Lol, reminds me of examples like Kopi Luwak coffee beans - somebody, somewhere, followed a type of cat, civet cat, and, once the cat defecated, decided that _that_ cat shit looked most appealing, so why not go ahead and taste it? Or, pore t
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
That sounds very useful. I am also super impressed that you managed to present your product without mentioning "big data" or "machine learning" or AI - given that anyone that does anything these days crams those big word
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Indeed. Microsoft also exposed all of that HTML/JS engine as COM or whatever component, so it could be used by applications other than browser. I remember using Microsoft Money -- personal accounting software -- and it seemed to be all
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
I wonder if the two solutions were ever compared on some kind of test case corpus - like encyclopaedia, or something similar. I am talking about execution time, memory use and so on. Given Knuth's background, it may well be that he was
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
This is kind of shifty... is it 5GB or 100GB? Yes, if you are dealing with large databases, you need to learn about... dealing with the large databases. 5GB is something that a small laptop will do.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Sadly, the coverage does seem to vary widely. I heard the absolute horror stories, and the opposites, too. What province/territory/city were you in?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
" One of the big takeaways I had was that no matter how you use it, Postgres will work completely fine as long as you have <5GB of data. " Surely you meant "5TB", not "5GB"?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Indeed. So, as per the article, they take $100M investment to keep this weird chain going.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> a smaller image often reduces the potential attack surface because vulnerable things just aren't there By the way, the article proposes blind download of artifacts from someplace on the internet, on every build. Not only that
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> we don't really look like your 1920s co-op! Thats is not good marketing -- do you want customers to believe that you are the only innovation that happened in the field of _insurance_ (worth what, many trillions of dollars a ye
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Until 3 years ago, J.P. Morgan chase would only store the first 8 characters of your password. They would accept more but silently discard it Oh, I am sure they do. The big question for this thread is: how come this "8-charact
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
One of the concerns with email that article raised was: the recipient can click on "reply" -- without encrypting the reply message -- which would send the response together with the original message "quoted" - all of tha
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Adding a table to hold users' credentials doesn't really solve the problem that is being discussed, which is storing users' credentials. ? Not sure if serious.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Yeah, this "we can't extend password beyond 8 characters because legacy systems" argument does not hold water. My experience: built a Web site/app for: a) major bank b) major corp, back in the days when Web presence was
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
I don't understand your point. You seem to be all about "price discovery", but if it goes the wrong way, ie you discover the price is below what you accept, it is "bullying". Weird.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
As for the A-pillars, I read about a solution somewhere, goes like this: - There is a camera on the 'out' side of the A-pillar; - There is a screen on the 'in' side of the A-pillar; - The car tracks driver's gaze an
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Sure, but why 25mm? Where is that number coming from, and why is it better than 36mm?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Ubuntu did some years ago; it did cause some uproar. Just search for "Ubuntu Amazon"
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
I wonder, "just how significant"? In this case, shower can be converted back to the bathtub, for not too much money/time. Besides, once the house is sold, usually some interior changes are made by seller and/or buyer, e.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> So they fine the registered owner of the car for the driver being distracted? Yes, I think that makes sense. If the car owner is a car share company, they will know who the car was shared to, at the time, and then they will send th
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> After some days it popped up a message kindly asking to give it some network access. After a few more days it simply ignored the flight mode and connected to get fresh ads. Yeah that's gross. Btw, Amazon does sell some cheaper
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Dan is trying to demonstrate that there is room for many more large VC style returns by investing in companies that's primary value is being an API. I am sure you are trying to help them, but some more details would be helpful
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> We always have to assume worst case for security vulnerabilities, it's kind of the whole job of being a security researcher to determine what could have happened. Many people will be annoyed by this "assume the worst&quot
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Um... if "they" are system administrators, they do not need to brute-force password. They can just change it to whatever they want.
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
"The honest truth is that you shouldn't. " (believe your own memory) That does not seem like a good way to live. Imagine "not trusting your memory" tomorrow morning, and refusing to recognize your bedroom, your spou
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> companies did IN FACT time share servers. > Ok. It was so uncommon that I didn't encounter it for the 15 years preceding AWS. That just shows that.. you may not have enough experience. Time sharing was the norm before perso
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Unicellular organisms have zero or one nucleus. If they have two or more nucleus is multicellular Hmm, is that true? Looks like there are unicellular organisms with multiple nuclei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Nah, I've seen people downloading their preferred configs right to the production server, because they, understandably, feel more comfy with that. But, it may not be for everyone. Where I work, we are in the process of reaching some c

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