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by dkarl 6y ago
Doreen Traylor proves that a homeless person can write, have an online presence, and make a living as a freelancer. The fact that you think that's important is exactly my point, that you think homelessness is a different issue dependi
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by dkarl 6y ago
Broke, hungry, and poor are all different from being homeless. The vast majority of people served by food pantries are not homeless. Most people who can't afford to put a roof over their heads are sleeping under somebody else's.
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by dkarl 6y ago
I kinda can't blame him, because it's common for people to paint a picture of homelessness as something that can easily happen to appealing, relatable people who are highly functional by middle class standards. I hate it, because
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by dkarl 6y ago
Massive frauds are predictable when it becomes profitable to participate. For example, right now in the UK, the government is guaranteeing certain loans through a Covid relief program. Predictably, banks are letting a high number of fraud
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by dkarl 6y ago
Thank you for making this point. The idea that it was an unpredictable failure mode of a complex system, rather than predictable exploitation of a system where safeguards against exploitation were deliberately removed as "inefficient,
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by dkarl 6y ago
In theory, I like your idea, but in practice, I think corporations large enough to run experiments like that are not able to objectively evaluate anything they do, at least not officially. It's too political. I've been in dozen
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by dkarl 6y ago
Bureaucrats track compliance. People who know security and bureaucracy (ideally) design the standards. Engineers are still responsible for building secure systems that happen to also check all the compliance boxes. Compliance is mostly
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by dkarl 6y ago
One of the big companies in corporate security compliance is literally called Checkmarx. They couldn't be any more honest about it. https://www.checkmarx.com/
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by dkarl 6y ago
> when land was still cheap Twenty years from now, you will be able to tell the same story about wherever high-earning, highly educated young people settle in the meantime. All you have to do is predict and buy in.
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by dkarl 6y ago
I had a similar experience with a SaaS. They let us run fine for months, then started degrading our service. When we contacted them, they tried to convince us we had a bug in our implementation. No, we confirmed we were using their servi
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by dkarl 6y ago
You might think that something as simple as Little's Law is intuitive, but people who haven't learned it don't always find its conclusions obvious, and they are less likely to see when a problem can be framed as a queueing pr
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by dkarl 6y ago
Maybe it's easy to overlook these things when you have a really deep computer science background, but coming to software engineering from a non-CS background (math degree) I found lots of valuable knowledge in CS. The most important p
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by dkarl 6y ago
As a counterpoint, the non-techies in my family have become so used to the iPhone and iPad mail client that they look for (and find, and use) the desktop mail client on their Macs. Even my mom knows she has to "find the mail and give
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by dkarl 6y ago
Maybe because exfiltration had an established meatspace usage before it was applied to data, and for a lot of people, applying it to data might be an extension (though a straightforward one) of the usage they're accustomed to to. Prob
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by dkarl 6y ago
I think you're dealing with more than one thing here, including maybe some unrealistic expectations. It's hard to have a hobby that is the same as your profession. A hobby often needs to function as a relief from the pressures a
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by dkarl 6y ago
That sucks. I worked in a role where I had to make decisions like that for the "implementers." Nobody liked that system. I left and so did almost everybody else. In my current company, design tasks are just tickets, but we tend
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by dkarl 6y ago
I used to need a number of pairs of "nice" shorts to bike to work in. Then I switched jobs and there was a shower at work, so most of those shorts no longer had a role. I could have put them in storage in case I end up biking to
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by dkarl 6y ago
At no point have I ever said "I no longer want to wear this, I'll sell it for a buck and buy something new". Me either, but I do get to the point where my closet and dresser are full, and I have clothes in them that I haven
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by dkarl 6y ago
I think you've put your finger on the vital issue: catering to readability. A function call is great if you can give it a name that allows readers to read past it without navigating to the implementation. If most readers are going t
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by dkarl 6y ago
The lockdown is justified by certain measurable factors, such as hospitalization rates, the risk of death, and the risk of major complications, and as we vaccinate the population, these factors will decrease. They will decrease quickly at
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by dkarl 6y ago
I feel two ways about it because I'm so similar to my friends and family in terms of the charities I support. I did appreciate, and remember, a charity gift I got from somebody who I knew did not give a damn about the cause that the c
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by dkarl 6y ago
This is perfect, because there are good options at virtually every price point for virtually every recipient. Beer, wine, tea, coffee, golf balls, tennis balls, olive oil, vinegar, stationery, art supplies, etc. These are especially good
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by dkarl 6y ago
> That question of trade-offs, by the way, isn't even a question of science any more, but values. Unfortunately, everything is framed as a battle between those who believe in science and those who don't, rationality versus irra
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by dkarl 6y ago
I feel this way for 95% of my system, but the last 5% is important for my ability to focus and work efficiently. An underappreciated aspect of customizability is that you don't have to learn new habits when the defaults change. You c
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by dkarl 6y ago
Trump's justification was that Suleimani was planning attacks against US targets, which is a pretty high bar for intervention (unless it was a complete fabrication, which doesn't seem likely.) Any other Democratic or Republican a
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by dkarl 6y ago
> so that the U.S. gets involved before Trump leaves office If it's about the difference between Biden and Trump, it would be about the incoming administration being more likely to get involved, not less. Virtually the only thing T
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by dkarl 6y ago
The intersection of debugging regexes and debugging code written by someone cycling through autocomplete looking for methods that sound right should not be real. It should be a myth, a region of programmer hell, a scary story to tell child
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by dkarl 6y ago
Sadly, the ability to mash autocomplete instead of looking at the doc page for regular expressions will be a major selling point.
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by dkarl 6y ago
DHH tweet quoted in the article: You don't sit around thinking "oh, browsing the web is slow on my decked-out iMac", but then you browse with the M1, and you're like, DAMN, I can actually feel that +50%. I wish I coul
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by dkarl 6y ago
Endurance athletes train for hours per day. Skill athletes spend hours per day doing what we call "exercise" but which they think of as low-intensity skill work, separate from their physical training. But even then, their physiq

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