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I have been working in distributed systems for 6 years or so. It is a field ripe with difficult problems and active areas of research. Some things people don’t even think of as distributed systems suffer from many of the problems inherent i
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It's a bit late for me, with approximately 8500 < N <= 10000 working days. I can't even remember how I felt last week :)
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This is not the first time bridges have been used in comparison with software development. From Programming Pearls, Section 7.3 [Safety Factors], by Dr. Jon Bentley, which reproduces Vic Vyssotsky's advice from a talk he has given on s
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Although you make a valid point, the article linked to is statistically questionable, and consequently potentially very misleading. “Potentially”, because it may (who knows) accidentally have come to the correct conclusion, notwithstanding
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I read his book, which was really good. The disturbing thing to me about it is not that this could happen on the scale of Theranos, or hoodwink so many big names: Henry Kissinger, General Mattis, George Shultz; the list goes on - but that i
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This. I worked with an end-to-end encrypted communications company for 5 years, and learned a vast amount more about crypto, attack vectors, and security holes than I did in the previous decade or two, but I would never claim to be a securi
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I have the same tablet and the same experience. If they stopped making the iPad Pro, or something like it, I would be very much affected, because I do a great deal of real-world work on it, in places that would be much less hospitable to ev
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I disagree, because the analysis is faulty. Computers always do what you _tell_ them to do, not what you want them to do. The onus for keeping computerized material private is on the owner, and the owner screwed up royally by wrongly allowi
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There was no sign that the supposedly private documents were intended to be private. I’ve often fiddled with URLs on public sites because I’ve had the intuition that something hasn’t been indexed that perhaps should have been indexed, or be
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I got interested in Forth because of an article I read in either Byte magazine or Dr Dobb’s Journal. It was not because of the Forth language that I was curious , it was because Forth was the first TIL (threaded interpreted language) that I
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This is true, but “toxicity” seems to arise much more frequently in some people than others. In Robert Sutton’s book, “The No Asshole Rule”, he describes what it takes to be a “certified asshole”: > A person needs to display a persistent
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Erlang does go way beyond concurrency into the domain of distributed and highly-reliable systems, and has more than lessons for us IMO - together with OTP, it’s still arguably one of the most effective and battle-tested environments for hig
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I hear you. I worked with two blind systems people for close to 5 years - we were all working remote, so initially I had no idea they were blind - and subsequently learned from them about their struggles and frustrations dealing with shitty
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That’s the reasoning behind the Erlang “let it crash” philosophy. It’s not advocating poor programming; it’s asking processes to handle whatever issues they can within reason, but otherwise to crash and be restarted by their supervisor proc
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Where things get problematic is with commands that send a set of environment variables to stdout, like eval $(ssh-agent) Sure you can get addons (like bass[0]) that will translate the sh environment variable settings to fish, but i
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I am deeply saddened by your suffering. I cannot imagine what you are going through, and have nothing but empathy and a glimmer of understanding to offer you. My small insight as a lifelong depressive is that well-meaning people who give ad
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The times and the fashion evolve (or devolve, as it may be), and sometimes perfectly innocent things are blown away by the winds of change. "O tempora o mores" was said by Cicero over 2,000 years ago, which - together with plenty
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by defined 9y ago
I wonder if any efforts have been made to conduct a deep review of clinical trials to see if there are patterns of protocol design that are likely to lead to underreporting of adverse effects. As (unfortunately) a user of a number of prescr
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I just see it as making promises (pensions) the company was not committed to keep. I'm sure the judge didn't use the word "mendacity " lightly or unadvisedly.
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Finding smart solutions to the issue of corporate data breaches is laudable. Finding solutions that are feasible for use by people who are being paid the lowest wage that the company they work for can get away with will be miraculous, IMHO.
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by defined 9y ago
I was just reading about ME, which seems to fit your symptoms. IANAD and all that, but worth checking for if it hasn't already been ruled out.
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by defined 9y ago
My daughter has this. And PCOS. It also took years for it to be diagnosed correctly. She even had doctors tell her to get psychotherapy because it was "all in your head"!
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This is a very good point. Create a diversion to move people's attention away from the State's failures or underperformance; political theater all the way. This is not to say that an opioid crisis does not exist, only that it is b
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My subsequent comment acknowledges that JIT means more than compilation at runtime. In .NET desktop, it means compilation of all CIL to native on every run, just before execution. To me, that's just executing the second pass of a compi
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> .Net never interprets CIL instructions. I wasn't aware of this. To be clear, it's not 100% accurate to say "never", because it depends on the .NET environment, but point taken. I now understand that .NET (on desktop
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by defined 9y ago
Well, depending on how you install certbot, it sets up a cron job automatically for you (on Debian, anyway). It's no big deal - it just creates the cron file /etc/cron.d/certbot. I'm curious as to how you get certbo
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This is a very interesting and well-written article, but I am puzzled by the technique being described as "JIT compilation". Isn't JIT compilation the process of compiling some sort of intermediate code into machine code at
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by defined 9y ago
In the USA, what builds credit scores is showing a pattern of using revolving credit and servicing the debt over a period of time. You are penalized if you use too much of your available credit. You are also penalized if you use too little
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by defined 9y ago
I'll second that. Had a similar experience.
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by defined 9y ago
Update: I switched to Firefox. Happy.

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