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by efitz 2y ago
child sexual abuse materials
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Hahaha people here got so upset that there wasn't unity of support for quitting X, that they flagged the post.
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Site seems like it was hugged to death. My initial take on this is that it's probably just another one of a thousand "let's self-sort ourselves by political bias". BlueSky has a CP problem (enter "does BlueSky have
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I’m not sure that I agree with the article. In the course of my work, I think of an invariant as a state that must hold true at all points during the software’s execution. For example, “port xxx must never accept inbound traffic”. I don’t t
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“Data” has syntax (structure), semantics (meaning), and often needs references (to other parts of itself or other data). There does not exist a perfect configuration language because whether and to what extent each of these capabilities are
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by efitz 2y ago
You need docs. Most users won’t read them. Do a good job anyway because they can save you a TON of support costs if they’re good, even for the few people who do read them. The cost of writing docs is easily offset by even a modest reduct
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by efitz 2y ago
This article rings so true. There are lots of ways to make a lot of money selling a service. The best way IMO is to build a service that is easy to integrate and customize, delights your customers, and has a simple pricing model. There sh
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by efitz 2y ago
Did the author just reinvent Forth?
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This is amazing and terrifying (I am a security engineer and parsing complex document formats is a never-ending treasure trove of vulnerabilities).
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I once changed my schedule for a month to sleeping 4 hours, waking for 4, sleeping 4, and then waking for 12. I would work in the day, come home, sleep 4, wake 4, and then sleep 4 more, then off to work again. On weekends I switched to a
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by efitz 2y ago
I learned typing on an IBM Selectric, my parents made me take a typing course before they would buy a computer. White-out or correction tape was how we fixed typos (or just didn't make them). If you were smart you wrote your words ou
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I loved WP5.1 for DOS because of one feature: "show codes" - it made it trivial to understand why the formatting looked the way it did, and to fix formatting problems. Other than that it was not outstanding software :-) I never u
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WordPerfect's GUI releases were yuck. Late to the scene and lost the essence of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. I'm not surprised that Word won that battle.
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Neither is a US company. TikTok is on their last appeal to the Supreme Court to avoid being banned in the US. Huawei is banned by the US government for many uses, e.g 5G infrastructure. Neither is a good example.
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by efitz 2y ago
Exactly. The big companies are scared of lawsuits and trying to get approval for something like that would be a nonstarter. As a matter of fact the device folks at the same company would be working hard to kill such an idea in its infancy
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Wow these people really just go all in on the unethical practices.
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I think that the difference between that app and the proposed app in this branch of the comments, is that that app is just an LLM echo chamber for your journal. It would be different if you also saw posts from other people that you could r
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YouBook?
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Nobody has the patience anymore to be presented to or read in any form other than bullet points and low information density charts. I grew up before computers and learned to communicate in the absence of all the short attention span distrac
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No tournament is needed. Everyone knows that Source Code Pro is the best coding font.
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I think that we should consider passing a law that a vendor may non disable “log in with” and supporting functionality like password recovery, for a user account for some lengthy period of time after involuntary termination of the user. But
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Having to have multiple passkeys per site to circumvent vendor identity lock-in is one of the main problems with passkeys.
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Insurance companies sold such plans for decades; the price goes up as you get older (==riskier from the pov of the insurer). Just like life insurance. At some point the consumer makes a decision that the cost of insurance doesn’t justify
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Interesting result but probably predictable since you’re trying to use the LLM as a database. But I think you’re onto something in that your experiments can provide data to inform (and hopefully dissuade) creation of applications that simi
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Not by itself, not anymore, because of ACA. For most people, the most cost effective insurance is catastrophic major medical + self-pay for anything else. What passes for insurance now really isn’t “insurance” in the sense that completely
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by efitz 2y ago
Thank you! As an aside, I consider anything that actively subverts the company, beyond whistleblowing, as unethical, and in fact, it’s a threat that people like me have to defend against, so I would never involve myself in such activities.
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How do I reason ethically about this? I am a security professional. My work directly affects the security of the systems I am responsible for. If I do my job well, people’s data is less likely to be stolen, leaked, intentionally corrupted
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Do you see something in the article that should require credentialing to state?
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We’ve lots of programming languages; most businesses need only an OS (Linux- free), an application language (python, java, C*), a database language (SQL), and a front end be language (js + html). No need to go to bare metal in most cases a
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Why do developers continue to work on AI? Sooner or later (probably sooner) it will be adequate enough to remove the need for many or most developers. I listened to this week’s All In podcast and the podcasters (all wildly successful tech

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