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by chefandy 2y ago
I wonder if they snagged themselves one of those executives that justifies ignoring privacy by insisting people really do want targeted ads more than privacy... so you really really don't even need to inform them about it or give the
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by chefandy 2y ago
I enable debugging telemetry when I encounter bugs, but I'm not going to constantly send some company a shitload of my usage metadata just in case it's useful at some point.
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by chefandy 2y ago
I don't have direct access to my long-term savings and retirement accounts— I have to go through my financial manager who'll works in a small, local firm, and so would anyone trying to impersonate me. He would probably recognize m
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by chefandy 2y ago
If you have at least a fraud watch on your credit which means creditors are supposed to call you on the number they have listed before they open new accounts, then the money is arguably worth protecting more. But if you think it's toug
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by chefandy 2y ago
You can have a financial manager control your accounts for you and just keep a small checking account, (plus they'll help you grow your balances) but they're not free. Well, they're not free if you want them to be unbiased. G
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right. Snowflake facilitated AT&T'S abject negligence, but ultimately the buck stops with AT&T, here.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Well it's starting to feel like data privacy just doesn't exist anymore. I don't know why administrators for big customer databases even bother setting passwords these days.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Competence crisis? Crikey, that's a lot of crises! Sounds like we're in a crisis crisis.
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by chefandy 2y ago
It's probably linking to the 'sequence number' rather than the page number. The cover is the first sequence number but doesn't have a page number. So if there was a few blank pages before the numbered pages started, it w
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by chefandy 2y ago
As an aside, Microsoft hired Carter to design a high-quality serif typeface that was easy to render on under-powered PCs. When you're designing type, having a standard set of words you can use to compare revisions is important; for thi
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by chefandy 2y ago
It's funny how big of a difference perspective makes. I think this is a neat portrayal of how differently designers and engineers reason about design topics. I was surprised to see an article about type that didn't involve code ed
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by chefandy 2y ago
One annoying problem that I encountered with that approach was different binaries having different version conflicts on different platforms. Not unsolvable, but definitely unsolvable without a whole lot of irritation, and a huge PITA to mai
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by chefandy 2y ago
I haven't encountered any silver ammunition for that particular gun. I haven't worked on a big python project in a while, so I'm not sure if rye would do the trick.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Surely everyone working on codebases large enough to require package management has the flexibility to make unilateral architectural decisions and re-solve problems a battle-tested library already solved, having mitigated all of the counter
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right. Everything can be reduced to a simple problem if you ignore enough important details.
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by chefandy 2y ago
- Open piano - Push keys in the correct order If you forget what order to push the keys, it's literally written on the sheet in code easy enough for young children to decipher. I don't understand the kerfuffle.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Cross-platform applications that rely on binary libraries have always been the beginning of my Python dependency misery. It usually works fine, but when it doesn't, it's miserable.
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by chefandy 2y ago
I actually did a ctrl-f for LILO and this was the only comment that mentioned it. Time flies.
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by chefandy 2y ago
If you're only interested in technologies ready for imminent public distribution, you should probably ignore coverage about early research and check out press releases from battery manufacturers. If that's not good enough... try a
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by chefandy 2y ago
I thought the article was going to argue against chunking ideas into centuries because it's an arbitrary, artificial construct superimposed on fluid human culture. I could get behind that, generally, while acknowledging that many acad
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by chefandy 2y ago
Wow that seems crazy to me. I grew up in the northeastern US where even 3 decades ago, before a large expansion, we had 7 area codes within an hour drive. It would be bizarre to make such an assumption about someone, even then. When I lived
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by chefandy 2y ago
Nice!
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by chefandy 2y ago
There are other advantages to this method: easily showing which wires are active while debugging, giving new programmers an intuitive sense of what's happening in control structures like for loops, using color, symbols and line weights
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by chefandy 2y ago
I should have known better then to take that bait. I'm not interested in pedantic philosophical debate about theoretical obligations skewed by imaginary prices that don't reflect real world business scenarios. In fact, I'm op
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by chefandy 2y ago
> There is no moral hazard, only an economic one. Er... No? If you take someone's money in exchange for goods and services, you have a moral duty to give them what you said you would. Not a broken version of it– what they bought. If
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by chefandy 2y ago
I agree that it's a bad approach, though I'd be skeptical of a technological solution. And while a centralized government ID service would solve those problems, it would probably cause a pretty huge privacy backlash. I don't
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by chefandy 2y ago
Notaries have legal authority to affirm positive identity. If these companies got notarized documents from each of their customers, I really doubt they'd hire this company.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Wasn't for me, though there may have been some installation option that I didn't pay attention to.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yeah, I'm sure it's braindead simple if you regularly do systems stuff on Linux, like I used to. But not having done that for a while, I needed to a) find the info for the different ways to install the driver on this distro and fi
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by chefandy 2y ago
If you need to check someone's government ID, you probably expect to have to go to court or otherwise deal with the government over it at some point. Being able to show why you thought it was someone, not simply that you thought it

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