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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There's a lot of participation from India and other lower-income countries. Not a bad thing - it keeps a fair number of talented school-age kids gainfully employed, and it's a lot more dignified than being paid peanuts for solving
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
It's also easier than "gray market" sales. Bug bounties pay for a wider variety of bugs, including plenty of stuff that's of no interest to your perhaps-Saudi buyers; and they don't require you to develop a weaponiz
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The problem isn't building a publicly-funded browser, it's building a publicly-funded browser that's good and that can keep up with the demands of the platform - which means taking risks, also when it comes to security and pr
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The basic answer is "nothing". Things happened to the rest of the internet. The author's SEO diagnosis is correct: the bulk of HN traffic is blogs, but they are almost never on the first page of Google results for the relevan
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The problem with such "lessons learned" is that they are usually not lessons learned - I bet there were numerous people within the organization who knew about these issues before the test. The actual issue is probably that these p
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I'm announcing a new and exciting "doe_eyes' bicycle rider" program. The requirements are simple: you need to have a bicycle and at least $200M in assets under management with our firm. Knowing this, if you meet a person
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Why do paying customers need any public symbol? I don't know, but they do? It's a keepsake of sorts, and it drives adoption if you see that the people you respect are paying for the platform. Almost every platform with option
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
That's a pretty charitable interpretation of what they used to mean. You and I couldn't get "verified". The only exception for mere mortals was having a good friend at Twitter to skirt the eligibility criteria. But in ge
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I hope I'm not too jaded, but this reads really weird to me. The author disses a "$5 range outlet" (even though I don't think they're usually that cheap), then talks about spending several hundred bucks on better ou
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Like can Google query any Chrome instance in the world? Or is it only from/to google.com? I'm sorry, I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make? Yes, it sounds like the API is exposed just to the conte
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Most other display technologies have their downsides too. For example, fot-matrix LCDs are far more fragile and more easily damaged by sunlight or heat than 7-segment LEDs. If you don't discuss that, but dwell on the downsides of 7-seg
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Not the entirety of it, but significant portions of the text are AI-generated (along with all images). More to the point, it doesn't really say anything interesting. It's a tech demo for AI text and images more than anything else.
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
If they selected "5" and failed to answer the same question, would they be a hire? If not, what's gained by having them self-assess? I imagine the answer might be "we wouldn't waste time talking to them", but t
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I have seen this used two ways: 1) As a recruiter-level screening question. A recruiter can't evaluate your answers to a coding problem, but they can reject all candidates who select less than "7" on a slider. It's basic
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
While I think that supply chains are pretty resilient... were we watching the same thing? We had a mild disease making rounds - far less serious than some of the pandemics of the early 20th century, let alone before that - and we had multi-
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Foolish in what sense? It's not foolish when it works. It can certainly shield you against individual problems, such as losing a job. In many cases, there are benefits to scale, but the optimal scale varies from one setting to another.
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There are tens of millions of people who practice emergency preparedness. There is only a tiny handful of people with private bunkers, and it's overwhelmingly just rich folks who treat it as an offbeat hobby or a status symbol - like a
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> It’s completely normal to not disclose a breach if there’s no proof or great likelihood that customers were implicated. A bit more complicated than that for public companies. But OpenAI is private, so yeah, they most likely don't
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I mean, yes? IBM is profitable and is spending some of its money on projects we all benefit from - just like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Apple, and just about any other larger tech company out there. That doesn't mean that their core bu
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
But I don't think it is? IBM is, in essence, irrelevant. It keeps milking legacy customers, but it has no competitive edge otherwise. Microsoft was never this far gone. PG was proclaiming their death because startups no longer feared t
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think that's an exaggeration, especially for cutting boards. Unlike thickness planers, most drum sanders have an open frame. Even the smallest 16" units can handle projects that are 30" wide. And these units work perfectly
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I've heard so many techie pitches for new, more enlightened ways of learning - and they all seem so detached from the realities of primary education that I don't even know how to process it. I know of engineers who credit their su
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> We did not know mobile phones and e-commerce were going to be huge back in the 90s. Eh? We did. The whole dot-com boom was predicated on that assumption. And it wasn't wrong . But most of the dot-com investments went sideways. In
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The overarching point appears to be getting rid of angle brackets, which is not something that Duff is doing. Further, Duff's device keeps case labels on the left of its control structure; moving ifs to the left is the other "inno
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Right. That was my takeaway too. Some of the examples of success stories he gives aren't technical at all - they're business books. It would be absolutely exceptional for a software engineering book to sell 100k copies. If you&#x2
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Obviously, not everyone who writes code needs a development license That's actually a very likely outcome. The startling statistic is that roughly half of professions require occupational licensing. In some places, you need licens
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This is not really accurate. To get meaningful emissions from normal electrodes, you need to heat them up to about 2000 °C. Vacuum tubes operate at 700 °C or something like that. The trick is that one electrode is doped with special rare-ea
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
They are insulated really well - by vacuum! I'm actually surprised by the figure, though. A small tube requires about 300 mA at 6 V, and the trick is that you can connect the heaters in series instead of doing it all in parallel and pu
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
It's a narrative that's easy to believe in because audit rates are going down. But when you think about it... why should be they going up? In the 1980s and before, the IRS literally had no way of knowing if you're telling th
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The argument is that we don't use Dahl's books as cautionary tales. They're entertainment. The concern is that kids may instinctively pick up some harmful stereotypes from that. Personally, I don't like it and I think we

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