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by chundicus 6y ago
A NATO member is as trustworthy as a country actively trying to destabilize democracy around the world? One who has brazenly done this sort of attack before and has a very obvious recent history of silencing dissidents? I'm all for som
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by chundicus 6y ago
A lot of my CEO and founder friends talk about this"... rephrased: "My CEO and founder friends are upset that their employees use a piece of software to talk about the toxic culture my CEO and founder friends have cultivated"
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by chundicus 6y ago
Yep. Higher taxes + minuscule military spending (compared to U.S.) + citizens who probably believe more in governance and social welfare than your average American.
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by chundicus 6y ago
Because in many cases we signed legally binding treaties with what were sovereign people at the time (and ostensibly are today but in practice not actually). We have either used loopholes or outright reneged on the treaties to further take
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by chundicus 6y ago
What are some examples good KPIs and A/B tests for better consumer user experiences? Engagement is obviously deeply flawed if a good consumer user experience is your goal, but it does have the nice property of being easily measured. Do
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by chundicus 6y ago
I could make some guesses, but can someone give me a good answer as to why there aren't any of these satellites close to the poles?
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by chundicus 6y ago
I'm skeptical. Amazing progress has been made in the last 5-10 years but it still feels like we need more paradigm shifting in the ML/AI field. It feels like we're approaching the upper limits of what stuffing mountains of da
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by chundicus 6y ago
I've been curious about the freelance route, but unsure what this really looks like in practice or if it's even possible for me to get into it. 1) How did you get started? Is it feasible for more junior engineers to get into it or
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by chundicus 6y ago
I don't agree entirely with all these, but I think 3 is the most compelling. It was kind of magical to younger me discovering the interoperability of podcasts and the freedom that granted listeners (and creators too). I've been a
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Ask HN: Programmers who worked at small and big companies, which do you prefer?
7 points by chundicus 6y ago|9 comments
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by chundicus 7y ago
Low bar or not, they had to rewrite the entire app to get those gains. I think it's still technically impressive.
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by chundicus 7y ago
Here's my two cents as a developer who has only paid the cost of AWS once for a one-off project (in retrospect I could've gotten more value with similar processing power with a different service). AWS is established and relatively
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by chundicus 7y ago
This is referring to RSA the company, not RSA the public key cryptosystem (both created Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman)
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by chundicus 7y ago
time to restore from backup really is not a personal concern "whatever it won't happen to me" isn't my point, but okay. I'm not advocating for recklessness or apathy toward infosec / IT. I'm not trying to
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by chundicus 7y ago
Regularly backup and keep those backups off your network, boom problem solved. My point was not that I take no precautions or that you're not at risk because you're not a government agent.
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by chundicus 7y ago
Sure, which is why I mentioned the "wide net". I take reasonable precautions, apply basic monitoring, and take care with what software I'm downloading so that I lower my risk of this. It's not foolproof but it's goo
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by chundicus 7y ago
I think it's all relative really. I don't really worry about these sorts of exploits because I'm not a high value target whose going to be attacked by most scary exploits. Certainly there are exceptions, especially when the e
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by chundicus 7y ago
Life, uh, finds a way
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by chundicus 7y ago
I love when people port software onto hardware you wouldn't expect. Takes a certain kind of mind to approach it and maintain the motivation to stick through it. Great writeup.
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by chundicus 7y ago
I've played Rocket League for years on PC with next to no issues? I use a controller though
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by chundicus 7y ago
This article really made me think about the Google Ads API. Miserable to work with.