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by cyberax 6mo ago
One of my first sizeable projects was a COM-compatible compiled language with .dbf support primitives for data transformation. As a unique quirk, it could even work on Novel Netware to interface with Btrieve. Netware supported loading PE ex
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by cyberax 6mo ago
And to add to this: AWS teams were also quite focused on avoiding surprise bills for customers. Because surprise bills led to customer support interactions, Sev2/3 tickets that needed investigation, etc.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
This is simply because AWS UI is not made by one team. Each individual team makes their own UI/UX decisions, and things like pricing info just get forgotten and/or scheduled "for later". So they just added a default tabl
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by cyberax 6mo ago
IAM is NOT from any lineage. It has grown organically and is complicated, just as any other policy language. AWS even uses an automatic proof assistant to verify IAM policies. However, the secret to IAM in AWS is to NOT use IAM. Just create
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by cyberax 6mo ago
> Even setting up an ec2 instance, a really basic use case that has a fixed cost based on size, you have to go Google it and find their ec2 pricing table This is the "Comparison Table" from the EC2 launch wizard: https:/
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by cyberax 6mo ago
> The UI to fire up a new machine did not show me the price. I had to look up the price in another table that did not have the specs. I'm sorry, what? I just tried the EC2 launch wizard, and the price is listed right in the dropdown
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by cyberax 6mo ago
For now. They'll likely start requiring device attestation in future, and the emulator can't pass it.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Agreed. I'm just pointing out the possibility (for now).
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by cyberax 6mo ago
I think it's possible to run the Play Services in an emulator, faking the device type. Google doesn't seem to use the platform attestation for now.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Yes, and? If you're a drug addict, Seattle or Portland that have de-facto legalized drugs, and that have generous local programs, are surely a much better place to be than Texas or Missouri.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
That was exactly my point. How do you prove that housing supply linked to homelessness is NOT just a correlation?
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by cyberax 6mo ago
And also to add to this: OK, assume that you won the point. 75-80% is totally not "almost 100%" and only 65% of people become homeless because of drugs. So what next? Building more housing won't help drug addicts that are _al
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Ah, a great example of how to lie with statistics. Thank you for that, I'll put that in my upcoming book.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
To add a bit of negative here: the format is incredibly inefficient in JS, because each point gets expanded into a full-blown JavaScript object. You can save a lot of RAM by using an array of interleaved coordinates. For an additional bonus
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by cyberax 6mo ago
> Thank you for confirming that you cited a chart listing 75% of unsheltered people and called it "close to 100%". I already said that the study is from pre-COVID time, and puts the lower bound due to its conservative methodolo
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by cyberax 6mo ago
> False, and harmful. Sorry. But you're either misinformed or actively malicious here. > US HUD says it's ~16% of homeless people It absolutely is close to 100% of _unsheltered_ people. Some social workers helping the unshel
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by cyberax 6mo ago
It's just buzzwordy bullshit. The European system is just a classic credit/debit system. The Chinese system is a bit more sophisticated, with offline capability and smart contracts. But it doesn't use any distributed proof-of
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by cyberax 6mo ago
> You could, in theory, use the VISA network and not pay those fees to a card issuer. You can not. The only way is to have a private agreement with the card issuer. That's why stores all try to push their co-branded cards.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Dollar is already "digital", and has been for the last 50 years or so.
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> You get a notification from Apple Pay when you pay with your physical card? I do. Which is sometimes annoying if somebody else is looking at my screen.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Lifehack: Latin is much easier if you already know a Slavic or a Baltic language (except Bulgarian). While declension patterns are different, the case structures are very similar. Not identical, but close enough that you actually just need
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Sure. I added my email into the profile.
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by cyberax 6mo ago
We ended up caching the credentials and the JWT refresh token from Clerk, and then manually requesting the access token using the Clerk's sparsely documented frontend API. Except that to do this with Clerk, we needed to fake the cache
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by cyberax 6mo ago
That's the biggest joke. It's not. China has literally _thousands_ of years of bureaucratic institutional memory. And it just keeps perpetuating itself. Before the 20-th century, the Chinese officials had to study the classic Chin
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by cyberax 6mo ago
The timing doesn't line up. BYD has already been selling EVs by the time Tesla opened a factory in China. Heck, they were selling EVs even before _Tesla_ existed. And they clearly have their own expertise. There are videos of BYD and T
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by cyberax 6mo ago
It absolutely supports my point. Countries and regions that stopped using or depending on coal early are now doing better than regions that are still clinging to it. Yes, in the past coal was useful, and having access to coal was linked to
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Clerk looks _really_ good initially. It's perfect if you want to prototype something and not care about auth. It's only when you start getting into the details that you begin to suffer. For example, there's _still_ no way to
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by cyberax 6mo ago
Not long ago this was linked to coal and cancer. And even higher rates of cancer and lung disease correlated with higher standards of living. Should we start advocating for the return to coal? Maybe transplanting cancers to cause better pro
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> In particular, I think PHEVs should be an regulated requirement for all consumer (and probably semis, why aren't they hybrids yet just so they can have better acceleration/torque and regen braking) vehicles in ten years, with
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> Some important context is that Clerk is a major success. They just raised 50 million dollars and they have lots of satisfied users. And even more users who are looking to escape. Clerk is just a mess. They are trying to cram EVERYTHING

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