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by chii 5mo ago
The incentives of the bank is to cut fraud. Fraudulent transactions will eventually cost the bank (when they would have to reverse/reimburse it and eat the loss). A denied transaction only results in an angry customer who will quickly
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by chii 5mo ago
obviously under the maximum allowable pressure that each surface of the bus can withstand.
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by chii 5mo ago
> when composing function invocations it is very easy to write a function invocation where the result would depend on the order of evaluation of the expressions passed as actual parameters this simply means your functions aren't pur
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by chii 5mo ago
It's the same as energy sovereignty.
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by chii 5mo ago
proxies like customer/revenue growth, complaints/satisfaction and such works imho.
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by chii 5mo ago
productivity is meaningfulness but for somebody else.
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by chii 5mo ago
> Wouldn't the argument be that you'd build separate copies of those services as well? you can't if the service requires the network effect to function well, if at all. Look at blusky and all that alternatives, look at the
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by chii 5mo ago
> could only send letters and packages to people subscribed to the same private postal service ... that's a corporate monopoly's wet dream.
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by chii 5mo ago
In my opinion, the idea of idempotency is to accept both requests, but only one is actioned (and the requester is non-the-wiser about which). Otherwise, you're just recreating database transactions - something that doesn't need to
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by chii 5mo ago
So you have to serialize the requests, and have one of them wait for the other to finish to return the 409? > why is it sending a retry? may be two clients tries to do it? Or there's a bug with the client in how they do it? Isn&#x27
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by chii 5mo ago
If those folks wanted money for their work, they should be charging a price for it.
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by chii 5mo ago
i wonder if it ought to be `/wiki/%2F%2F` instead...
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by chii 5mo ago
> there is no security benefit to filtering out unneeded url parameters. there is - security in depth. If a url parameter would've been a vulnerability because something lower down the stack misinterprets it (and the param wasn&#x27
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by chii 5mo ago
and who sets that pin? It's the parents, not the cable company.
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by chii 5mo ago
> seriously want to stop adolescents from watching porn no, they want to pretend this is the issue, so that pervasive monitoring or permission and/or deanonymization is normalized. It is to serve the state apparatus, rather than any
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by chii 5mo ago
How come tax loopholes aren't as scrutinized? Mandatory age verification online is a blight imho. It should be outlawed.
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by chii 5mo ago
But you don't extend that same argument for an agricultural research department by asking them to have a homegrown farm for supplying the university with food! I dont think a competent CS department requires their being a homegrown or
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by chii 5mo ago
Not really - i would prefer that any policy change that _could_ be utilized in the future to enable future draconian changes be killed before it takes root. I want a system, like type safety, to guarantee that XYZ cannot be possible, rather
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by chii 5mo ago
> I expect that it will initially not use it it's boiling the frog method. Moving too fast means backlash, but a slow, step by step transition where each step seems reasonable, but ultimately end up with a locked down device, is how
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by chii 5mo ago
The Russian reserves are taken just as you described. The trust is eroded by a bit, despite the general acceptance that it was justified.
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by chii 5mo ago
While your point is completely true, the specific example of coke is ironic because Coke's dominance is more related to marketing than their formula!
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by chii 5mo ago
Fuel is simply a noun for a source of energy, it doesn't need burning for something to be fuel. Look at nuclear fuel - it doesn't burn.
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by chii 5mo ago
It's because the peaceful places where they're also found don't make the news.
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by chii 5mo ago
> I asked if he had ever heard of collective bargaining or knew about unions and he said no. collective bargaining or unions do not prevent technological progress, but merely retard it in the hopes that their members can benefit at the c
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by chii 5mo ago
The PR needs to have someone who knows the whole thing. Having several people review each separate parts but not understanding the others' can cause interaction bugs. If such bugs cannot happen (say, due to modularity, or type safety g
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by chii 5mo ago
everything except +2 is unapprove. The nuance is comments on the PR itself, rather than the state of the approval, which is binary (or ternary, if you want to count leaving it in an unknown state for extended periods of time).
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by chii 6mo ago
> Unless there is some hidden cybersecurity risk of them shutting off panels remotely? The weakest link won't be the panels themselves, but the grid infrastructure, or telephony infrastructure. Unless somehow the chinese were able t
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by chii 6mo ago
quantum computers will flourish the same day that fusion does.
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by chii 6mo ago
> There should be a big team of people at AMD whose whole job is just to dogfood their stuff if they had this management attitude, they wouldn't have been so far behind so as to need this action in the first place!
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by chii 6mo ago
> Same people, new tool. the tool works better than stackoverflow, and i expect it eventually will improve enough that such people become as "productive" as the intelligent and conscientious engineer today.

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