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by chunkyks 4y ago
I revisited this in 2020 and found some additional things, separate from that errata. All my code is available here: https://github.com/RANDCorporation/milliondigits And there's a news article about it here: http
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by chunkyks 4y ago
The "Adobe PDF Experience", for me, is "locks up if I try to use it for smartcard signatures", which is 98% of the reason I open a PDF outside the browser. Add a sprinkling of "spend money to upgrade" harassmen
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by chunkyks 4y ago
RAND Corporation | Research Software Engineer, Data Scientist | In-person/Remote, Santa Monica, DC, Pittsburgh The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I work at RAND; I saw James give this talk, and it was fascinating. To my recollection, this was in the wake of the Project Maven debacle [1], and was trying to answer the question about whether the aversion was a vocal minority of Silicon
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by chunkyks 4y ago
My current title at work includes the words "software" and "engineer", and thus I have a natural mutual predator-prey relationship with infosec and compliance/IA. Which brings me to the point: Compliance isn't
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Recently enough to have been unacceptable, the director of our internal apps team decided to only support IE when they redid the intranet site. This, in a place that installs Firefox on all endpoints and proxy logs showing less than 50pct I
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by chunkyks 4y ago
That's what kexi was supposed to be. https://kexi-project.org/ I tracked it for a long time, just was never able to make it fit my needs
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Early in covid, I played with a famous 65-year-venerated dataset from where I work. Found some interesting minutiae and ended up on the front page of the wsj over it. https://github.com/RANDCorporation/milliondigits It
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by chunkyks 4y ago
And a better way to handle certs for it, and all the IDEs, behind a corporate MITM SSL proxy would really improve my day.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Thank you! I try!
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Every time I see someone's off-piste raytracer project, I feel compelled to link my own silly contribution to that diaspora: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Seems easily solved by twitter recalculating their number of users by subtracting the bots, leaving the total users around 49 million and change.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
The security boundary thing breaks smart cards. Had to jump through unpleasant hoops to keep my Firefox profile after upgrade. Plus, patching now is two separate things instead of one. Different version of packages are in two different repo
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by chunkyks 4y ago
"but for 999.99 you can buy a dongle that converts one to the other."
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by chunkyks 4y ago
The fancy security boundary thing totally broke smart cards. The blast radius on this Firefox snap thing overall just infuriates me.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I was doing an experiment with my raspberry pi, and I needed a joystick of some sort for input. Only thing I had lying around was a ps4 controller. Plugged it in, used pygame for input, all was good but I couldn't figure out the touch
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I'm pretty confident that that horrorshow was a case study in A/B testing: People can't decide what to watch and agitate over flicking through titles, so some bright spark had the idea of just starting stuff in the background
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by chunkyks 4y ago
"If a study came out that said deafening high-pitched noises increased conversion rates, we would all be bleeding from our ears by end of business tomorrow, right?" Netflix auto play? Is that you? You were a hateful idea, no one l
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by chunkyks 4y ago
The code they created, to implement that component, is an original creative work. Thus protected under copyright.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
The whole globe? No. But the berne convention does have 179 signatory countries. It's not just "western". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
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by chunkyks 4y ago
There was a looong period of time where a lot of developers felt entirely free to drop whatever they wanted into c:\Windows, System, System32, whatever. It's a big part of what led to windows getting a reputation for being poorly behav
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I tell people that I'm not precious about my stuff, and if something sucks I want them to tell me so that I can make it better. The other thing that I find works really well is "what is your least favorite thing about this tool?&q
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Fond memories. I met my now-wife on Orkut. I remember when I quit using it, too; the platform just became dominated by a language I didn't understand.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Thank you!
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by chunkyks 4y ago
"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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by chunkyks 4y ago
This feels like an opportunity to link my own, much sillier, raytracer: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
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by chunkyks 4y ago
RAND - Statistical Programmers and Research Software Engineers - Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, Pittsburgh - http://www.rand.org RAND is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help ma
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I've been using Kagi for a while. I'm totally on board with springing $10/mo for good search. The biggest thing that worries me about Kagi is that, in order to be using it and paying for it, I have to log in, across all my de
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by chunkyks 4y ago
That's the point, though. What makes someone senior is being good at everything that isn't writing code. Such as being in tune with the business and how it's demands behave over time.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I haven't seen anyone else point out: One of the ways you can often identify really experienced programmers is by them being able to pretty accurately separate thing-that-probably-will-change from things-that-probably-won't. Findi

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