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by debatem1 9y ago
I'm super glad to hear someone in higher education say this. Is it a common opinion in admissions circles these days? (By the by, I'm a huge fan of your work. It inspired me to get into compression several years ago and it's
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by debatem1 9y ago
Why can it only touch three circles? I can draw as many tangent circles as I want to for any given path.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Abdicate is correct here. It also means "to cast off", although that meaning is seldom used anywhere other than the phrase "abdicating responsibility". Edit: not sure why I'm being down voted. I am correct: https:&
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by debatem1 9y ago
From their description it's probably a cantenna
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by debatem1 10y ago
Ok. I'm curious why you're telling me this. What's your motivation? There's certainly no point in arguing with me, since I'm both reasonably poorly informed and aware of it; I have made no bones about the fact that
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by debatem1 10y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Articles like this showed up for Enron and MCI/WorldCom and all the others, extolling one virtue or another and showcasing their success. Now we have one for Vanguard, ergo it will fail. I'm not serious,
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by debatem1 10y ago
This feels like an article that will be shown for irony points in a documentary about Vanguard's collapse a few years from now.
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by debatem1 10y ago
It's pretty common in the embedded world where you don't have enough flash space-- or don't want to use what flash you have-- to hold a root CA store. Such devices are usually great targets for learning how not to secure thin
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by debatem1 10y ago
While I'm glad they published this much, I wish they had published the tools themselves. As is, this is really just enough information to get worried and not enough to fix anything.
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by debatem1 10y ago
This seems to say more about the incentives around patents at Apple and Google than it says about innovation or anything else at those companies. In particular, it seems to say that patents are more highly encouraged at Apple and that there
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by debatem1 10y ago
I had a similar experience at a previous company I worked at, and a similar reaction. When people heaped criticism on them for sexism I essentially said "no way, I've never seen any of that, this is outrageous, you're slander
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by debatem1 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here. Git supports binary blobs. That's a choice that was made way back, and it is not the fault of the user for using that feature. If Linus didn't want people to use git for binar
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by debatem1 10y ago
This is awesome and I'd like to support the effort to turn it into something robust enough for production. What's the best way to do that?
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by debatem1 10y ago
Can you explain why? I went back and reread it and it said the same thing I thought it did: that the fix wasn't a big deal and they were moving forward on it. I agree it isn't a hairy fix, but think that it would have been better
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by debatem1 10y ago
The issue is that this could have been fixed years ago. All the information needed to move forward today was also available the last time this got brought up. Fixing it then would have better for git's users (because they wouldn't
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by debatem1 10y ago
As Linus touches on in the article, SHA1 is used for signing in git. This is clearly a security function, and should not have depended on SHA1 for at least the last several years. Additionally, the defense offered against substituting binar
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by debatem1 10y ago
I'm not saying he should go out and break things now. I'm saying that the way forward he outlines could have been followed years ago, as essentially the rest of the industry did. Instead he waited until his user base was totally p
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by debatem1 10y ago
I'm mystified as to why this is even a discussion. SHA1 is busted. That impacts some git users. The fix is not invasive. Fix the bug. Make the transition. Move on. Super unprofessional.
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by debatem1 10y ago
Have you reached out to anyone? https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/ would be my first place to go. It even specifically calls out "Here is proof that this company is conducting itself un
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by debatem1 10y ago
Can you provide your evidence? Who are the people that they have standing by? I wonder if it would be possible to convince those people to support a better cause. There's a dire need for some good investigative journalism right about n
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by debatem1 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that Uber had their service working more than a year ago, so while the folks you mention might help take Uber to the N+1th order of optimization they are clearly not necessary to reach the Nth. I suspect this is
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by debatem1 10y ago
Interesting phrasing. Very self-focused. Seems more consistent with their behavior to date than with a newfound sense of remorse, but it's easy to focus too much on too little. Uber employees, do you think there's meaningful chang
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by debatem1 10y ago
Just to be clear: selective enforcement is the law of the land. Has been since before IIRIRA passed-- and enforcement was looser, not tighter, before then. So when you say you respect the law, that's the law and I'd expect you t
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by debatem1 10y ago
I appreciate that you acknowledge that racism and xenophobia taint the arguments you're making, even if you yourself are not racist or xenophobic. It's hard to stand up for a view when it is held by people who are widely reviled,
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by debatem1 10y ago
With respect, I disagree. Derogatory terms like "anchor babies" describe people who are, after all, US citizens of immigrant descent. Similarly, the rancor directed at the judge in the Trump university case had nothing to do with
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by debatem1 10y ago
Hmm. Thanks for taking the time to respond, but I'm still not clear on this. It's possible I'm beyond help. I can see how the statement that it was irrational of her to stay makes potentially invalid assumptions. It seems app
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by debatem1 10y ago
It seems you're speaking to whether her staying has potentially positive outcomes for others. My read of the comments upthread is that they're viewing the events through the lense of what's good for her personally and immedia
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by debatem1 10y ago
Yuck. I'm sorry you went through that.
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by debatem1 10y ago
Nope, I am as well.
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by debatem1 10y ago
Android doesn't do what I want. It just warns you that a user added CA exists, which isn't specific enough to change user behavior but is frequent enough to cause fatigue.

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