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by chipdart 2y ago
> I like the comparison between much older hardware with brand new to highlight how far we came. That's ok, but why skip the previous iteration then? Isn't the M2 only two generations behind? It's not that much older. It&#
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by chipdart 2y ago
That's besides the point. If I'm passed on a short url, I need to trust that the link points somewhere safe, that all the link shortener does is return a Status Code 301 with the actual link, and if I open the short link again tha
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The main benefit is really just the fact that once you claim a link, you don't need to claim another and you can change the destination that link leads to as many times as you want - we need this a lot and don't want to pay a
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by chipdart 2y ago
I did not referred to the funding remark. It is besides the point and immaterial to the discussion. My point was on the remark that this attack vector is somehow only applicable when projects are starting out. This is false, and insinuating
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by chipdart 2y ago
> So we've had what, two incidents (xz and eventstream) in how many years? This is specious reasoning. You're only complaining you only heard of two incidents. What you're really pointing out is that this attack vector wor
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by chipdart 2y ago
That person might just be a regular Java developer who works on a project which onboarded Checkstyle, and can't disable it's MagicNumber check. https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks/coding/magicnumber.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I think the question is how are you meeting the hiring manager? In each and every single time I met a hiring manager, that took place after the early interview rounds where the bulk of applicants were filtered out. In some cases, the h
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by chipdart 2y ago
> For jobs where I met the hiring manager (referral, networking, etc.) I had 2 out of 3 applications lead to offers. For resumes submitted online I had 1 out of 50 even respond. I don't think this means what you think it means. In f
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by chipdart 2y ago
> "Google” is now a common verb meaning “look it up on the internet” In the meantime ChatGPT is already a household name and is synonymous with querying a service to get it to generate answers.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I kind of already use ChatGPT to surface things because Google's become absolutely useless if you don't know the exact thing you're already looking for. I think Google no longer works even in searches you know the exact
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by chipdart 2y ago
I'm not sure you understand why your comment makes no sense in the context of SQLite, as under the hood it stores most data types as text strings, whereas it supports storing JSON as JSONB. https://sqlite.org/draft&#x2F
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Json columns are really useful. When prototyping applications in sqlite or postgres you can just dump everything into a json column, and as things begin to cool down and stabilise, you can migrate them into their own column. I agree. T
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by chipdart 2y ago
> the entire point of design time is to understand and design your data first. What's hard to understand? You design a data store to store data, and aggregate data is still data. Do you care about low-level details of an aggregate d
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I thought the point of nosql was O(1) GET and UPDATE operations Tha was never the case. It would be silly to assume that given ultimately your GET and UPDATE operations are inter-process requests which involve serialization/deseri
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It’s so comfortable to iterate quickly without schema constraints I'd be very careful about this simplistic reasoning. The whole point of schemas is data validation, and the hard part of "iterating quickly" is migrating
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum. Out of curiosity, are there any models trained on HN posts?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> We also have AI based efficiency boosting tools and greater offshoring to contend with I think that AI is parroted around but there is little to no substance to the claims. Some activities can and will be impacted by generative AI, but
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Why do you need logs for that though? You could also use metrics and define the alert routing based on thread holds and alerting rules there. No, you cannot. At least for most of the practical cases. Some upstream dependencies can and
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You absolutely DO want all of those log levels. I agree, this is a very clear fact that's readily understood by anyone with any experience developing and operating a service. It's weird that we see claims arguing one of the c
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Sure, but that doesn't mean you should argue with faulty logic. The faulty logic is undoubtedly jumping to conclusions that just because you personally don't know the origin of something, that automatically means it's a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> In my experience this hasn't been the case at all. I've also noticed that if you click the profile of people that end up on the front page, they are often new (or suddenly active) accounts with a certain pattern: You make a g
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by chipdart 2y ago
From the very first paragraph of Wikipedia's article on IoT: > "Internet of things" has been considered a misnomer because devices do not need to be connected to the public internet; they only need to be connected to a net
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Is it strange? I'd say it's fair to assume that potential alien visitors (...) Just because you personally can't provide an explanation for a photo or a video, which I might add can very well be fake and often are, that
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by chipdart 3y ago
> That's part of the campaign to discredit what others see and to encourage anyone who sees something to keep quiet. Here's the ugly crackpot conspiracy loons angle rearing it's head.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> There are absolutely scads of purported "lights in the sky" style UFO videos taken from mobile phones on the prominent UFO subreddits. I don't think you got the point. Before camera phones were ubiquitous, the bulk of re
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Although this characterization does not represent a lot of the analyses, and I think it's silly to "homogenize" a group of people and misrepresent them via stereotype. You certainly aren't being serious. The term UF
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by chipdart 3y ago
> At the same time, the supposedly rational opponents to this does everyone a disservice by judging all of it based on the loudest fraction of people. Not really. The UFO community is synonymous with gullible crackpots and conspiracy loo
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I want the aliens to be real so much. But even if it doesn't turn out to be aliens, these sorts of events present an opportunity to study and explore as-of-yet unexplored or poorly understood phenomenon, which can be equally excit
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by chipdart 3y ago
This blog entry is highly disappointing. The Sigma blog post reads as if they reinvented the wheel with basic information that is not only widely known and understood but it also featured in books published decades ago. The blog post author
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Britain is max 200kph (125mph) currently although there is infrastructure designed for 225kph (140mph) on conventional lines though this is not permitted any more. It’s not correct to say that trains circulate at close to top speed a l

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