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by chipdart 2y ago
> And even if it were, Musk builds the best rockets ever and stuff like that and to a first approximation knows how they work. Being fed the tour guide's summary and high-level overview of an event is not the same thing as knowing h
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by chipdart 2y ago
I don't think that complaining how articulate a board member was has any relevance to the outcome of a vote. Board members are there to decide, not to be professional entertainers or politicians. You have a board member mentioning shad
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> But the board handled this horribly; it's unsurprising they lost the fight, and frankly, listening to her podcast, the main question I have is why she was on the board in the first place. The level of articulation, the weak framin
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by chipdart 2y ago
> those employees are dumb sheep who can't decide for themselves The point is that they are smart because they know not to put themselves at risk with actions that would not lead to get rid of a threat. > (...) decide for themsel
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by chipdart 2y ago
You somehow missed the whole point, which is that once retaliation was extremely likely these employees decided to not put themselves at risk. This is how dictators get their 99% approval rating, and why democracies enshrine the right to vo
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> The schizophrenia treatments available just make me feel that we understand so little about it. The drugs used are such blunt weapons that can be debilitating in themselves. It's interesting to point out that this is also true in
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The reason people "cling" to labels, is because when you're suffering from something as severe and difficult to live with in normal society such as complex/chronic PTSD, answering the question "What the hell is
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Historically, only a small proportion of the population would identify themselves by their zodiac sign, their temperament, whatever. I don't think is true. Even Mensa, which by design is expected to be very exclusive, reportedly h
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by chipdart 2y ago
> S3 kind of forces you to use those features. Not really. In order to set bucket request metrics not only you need to explicitly set your bucket to be open to the world but you also need to dig down the options to explicitly enable them
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> Having two almost identical terms that mean completely different things is not a very good idea. What's the problem of telling apart the task of authenticating users from authorizing their access? There's already identificati
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> Rinse and repeat hundreds of times and nobody stops the think of the cumulative effect on the 99% of customers who don't need those features. Does it cost anything to not use features you do not need? Last time I checked, all the
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Isn’t session token theft as much of an issue as JWT token theft? I think the author focused too hard on the association between JWT and how they are sent through the Authorization header, and session tokens and how they are stored as
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> Don’t see how those prevent tokens from being misused? The purpose of a nonce is to explicitly prevent the token from being reused. The purpose of the other claims is to prevent them from being accepted (and used) in calls to other ser
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> The audience and scope claims exist to address that problem. Provided that RPs reject JWTs issued for other audiences than themselves there’s no security weakness here. My interpretation is that the audience and scope claims, as other
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> "Login" doesn't really cover token or key based authentication, i.e. service accounts don't "log in" but do require authentication and authorization To build on top of this point, authentication also inclu
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by chipdart 2y ago
> What I don't think the HN bubble is fully familiar with is the fact that probably 70% of programming happening today is boring low paid drudgery (or maybe 50-90%). What I find odd is that AI tools are used to create new code but t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The need to define all 5 has basically nothing to do with C++'s heritage. If you allow those operations to be defined, they all must be defined when you define one of them. I'm sorry, that is not true at all. Nothing forces y
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> (...) I had to deal with an "Architecture Team" full of Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice like "did you know you can pee and poo at the same time?" It reads like you had experts givi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Is it actually complicated? It is. There is no point in arguing otherwise. To understand the problem, you need to understand why it is also a solution to much bigger problems. C++ started as C with classes, and by design aimed at being
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> I'd argue it barely works in C++ as well. I've seen so many poorly implemented classes that violate the very complicated 3/5/0 rule. I'm afraid you're complaining about entirely unrelated things. It's
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> 100% of the using structs like they are C structs vs using class as objects is cultural not a part of the language. I think this take is completely wrong. There is nothing cultural about it. C++ was created as a strict superset of C, a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> In other words, C structs and C++ structs are not the same thing (although C++ can usually handle C structs too). C structs are Plain Old Data. C++ structs are "objects" and there are pages and pages of rules in the C++ Stand
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That doesn't answer my question.
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> I mean tbh, a list structure with logN indexed access, insert, and removal seems like a really useful structure. Indeed B-trees are hardly novel. The point is that no one has a practical need to implement them themselves, unless you&#x
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If you take out plain text from this presentation, what's left? The tree structure? The log aspect? In order to claim any of this is remotely novel, you have to first ignore the whole body of work built around information systems.
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> I'm not sure the paper-like presentation of the article shows that the author was in pure discovery mode, eager to share something new and interesting. If the author was following a paper-like presentation, the author somehow skip
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> Maybe the author just independently came up with this, thought it was cool, and wanted to share? That's perfectly fine, but that's besides the whole point. The point is that between coming up with something and implementing i
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> (...) the community behind NodeJS/TypeScript is the single most fragmented and toxic environment I've ever experienced. On that notes everyone would do well to skip Rust entirely. What a shit show of a community.
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> Good for obscure leetcode problems (...) God, I hate how pointless leetcode has become, and how it's used in interviews. Smug assholes using obscure data structures and algorithms trivia that no one ever used at all in any profess
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> If you put off all updating doesn't that lead to a lot of technical debt down the road? It depends on what you interpret as being technical debt. For example, are you piling up technical debt if you skip a patch update to the type

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