colonelpopcorn

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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
Because it makes payouts from advertisers more likely. If I'm advertising on Google's platform I don't want to pay for a web-scraping robot to see my ad.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
We could extend this the other way to, security research tools shouldn't assert vulnerability based solely on HTTP status code. I think most SPAs require a setup like the one mentioned in the article.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
You might be unnecessarily exposing attack surface by including unused binaries in your container.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
Opening up the "case" requires disconnecting the "computer" from "power". Since we haven't figured how to get "the power" going again once it's off this analogy is kind of worthless.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
Sort of like how the second half of The Wall album by Pink Floyd isn't supposed to endorse national socialism, but Roger Waters was recently investigated for inciting hatred, so...ya know.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
It's also got a decent codebase that's easy to extend via plugins.
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by colonelpopcorn 3y ago
Scale to zero has always been my favorite feature of serverless compute. If there was a fast way to do it with VMs, I'd certainly consider it.
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
The same people that wanted to work for Meta and Amazon?
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I feel like the third option should be: not conflating credentials with education or ability. Education is a funded public good, I won't say well funded, but funded nonetheless. Credentials are not a well funded public good, and should
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I don't think I can upvote this hard enough. Getting people to think and talk about what they do in context provides a lot of great insight in how to use tech (or not use it) to solve their problems.
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I think free-trial periods are mostly good enough.
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
That's an interesting idea. I imagine they don't do DoD wipes of their disks because they are probably multi-tenant, right? Can a guest operating system do forensic analysis on the host disk?
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I think you've overestimated how many people look for jobs because they "really want to work" for a particular company. Further, you're asking candidates to eat the opportunity cost associated with spending time on one e
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
It seems much more viable as an alternative to transistors than fiber optics does.
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I was trying to find a simple API gateway I could run as a single docker container on a single host. I ended up using a node-red workflow instead, because I was unable to get any of the options available to me working behind Traefik as my p
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
This in regards to their warehouse workforce, but relevant to devs as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
Unless the baseline is where the high performers are performing at right now. It's a win-win for companies to hold employees to high standards. Either they sacrifice health, family, relationships, hobbies, etc. to meet unsustainable de
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I'm having a difficult time picturing how these hypothetical juniors will fare without that underlying curiosity driving them forward. Likely they'll wash out of the industry or see enough success to be promoted to a management po
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by colonelpopcorn 4y ago
I love the smell of ASP.NET and Telerik in the morning...
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
Fixer is an attempt to get this kind of reliability together, I think. https://fixer.com/
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
I think this is really why we can't "have fun" anymore. Because bad actors exist and can exploit things being done "just for fun". I do wonder, however, how much of the "serious" nature comes from actual b
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
Why not both?
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
This is the correct comment.
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
Conspiring to overthrow the government is a national pastime in these "13 colonies". "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with anot
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
It filters out those who know how to structure code, but don't know how to write it. Stack overflow copy and paste can still create public projects.
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
I know about it, but I can't use it because it isn't supported in Internet Explorer 11: https://caniuse.com/?search=Intl Hopefully, more people will follow suit and ban IE11 when O365 no longer supports it: https
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
You can stop at #1. Why do I need this when oh-my-zsh exists?
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
I think the trend of soft social credit score via big tech makes this an even dicier proposition.
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by colonelpopcorn 5y ago
In lieu of an actual identity system, credit reporting is probably a necessary evil. Or at least an evil inevitability.

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