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by efitz 2y ago
We could also leverage trusted third parties for this purpose, for example, banks or DMV or Walmart. However, there needs to be a fiduciary interest by the third-party (eg liability for identity theft, etc) in order to incentivize them to a
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by efitz 2y ago
Mobile phones identify themselves to the mobile network through a number called the IMEI. IMEI cloning is not particularly difficult nor does it require exotic equipment. This means that it is relatively easy for an attacker to be able to s
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by efitz 2y ago
From the article: > “I've lost faith in the nonprofit business model”. There’s your problem right there. Investors want profit. If you want investors then you have to convince them you’ll deliver ROI. Altruism is not a business mo
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by efitz 2y ago
Now that we have about 15 years of ORMs, do they really make things easier? SQL is not a difficult language to learn, and views and stored procedures provide a stable interface that decouples the underlying table schema, allowing for migrat
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by efitz 2y ago
This is exactly right and one of the reasons why I hate computer software. If you think about manual processes like standing in a line and talking to a clerk, you don’t necessarily have to start again from the beginning if there is a hiccup
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by efitz 2y ago
Yep, we've had great luck with zero-tolerance laws. Why do we even need judges or juries; the law is the law and if you step one millimeter over the line, straight to jail. https://www.vox.com/2015/2/24/
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by efitz 2y ago
Anyone looking to start a new manufacturing business would be insane to consider California for any number of reasons- cost-of-living, (urban) quality of life, regulatory environment, state taxes, etc. Right now manufacturers should be cons
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by efitz 2y ago
If you think about it, you can broadly classify (at least in US politics) right vs left as “which large groups you trust”. For example, republicans tend to trust corporations of any size and tend to distrust large government. The opposite
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by efitz 2y ago
Yeah I never FIN my connections eithRST
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by efitz 2y ago
Actually when acting as an agent of the government he does NOT have the right to try to influence people to deprive Americans of their rights. “Personal opinion” only applies in personal context. If he’s wearing his ambassador hat then it’
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by efitz 2y ago
I would humbly suggest the ambassador STFU and read the Bill of Rights. Yes, our news sucks and is polarizing. Yes, our corporate news sources are largely captured by one side. But the government has no business trying to suppress discussi
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by efitz 2y ago
<satire/>In unrelated news, Amazon announces layoff of 4500 developer positions...
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by efitz 2y ago
Why should I think that LLMs would be good at the task of analyzing a cloud incident and determining root cause? LLMs are good at predicting the next word in written language. They are generative; they make new text given a prompt. LLMs do
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by efitz 2y ago
Humans are not “generally intelligent”; our intelligence is extremely well adapted to being a hominid family animal in a tribe or clan in a savannah habitat with large predators and hostile members of our own species lurking about. Our sens
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by efitz 2y ago
I worked for Microsoft for 17 years, most of that in and around Windows. I can tell you that you are wrong. Whatever the company’s flaws, the people in Windows care deeply about compatibility and about not breaking things with updates. I
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by efitz 2y ago
The article says "If you don’t have the vocabulary to describe a problem it is unlikely that you will be able to fix it." I fundamentally disagree with this. You don't need to know design jargon to identify bad design or to
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by efitz 2y ago
And the TFA is basically an interview with the CEO of the company that makes the drug, saying "it works".
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by efitz 2y ago
> I just seem to love eating Or it could be compulsive behavior, which can be diagnosed and treated either with counseling or medication.
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by efitz 2y ago
I have been trying to get my state legislators to implement such a consumer law for over a decade. The federal proposal will likely be ineffective unless it has an individual cause of action. What that means is that the only way (IMO) such
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by efitz 2y ago
Involving computers in vote tallying is an invitation to fraud. In the US right now, our problems are well understood and primarily relate to ensuring that only legally eligible people vote, and that the vote was cast by that actual person.
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by efitz 2y ago
I am willing to bet that Elon Musk and SpaceX are doing the calculations very carefully and will build a space elevator if technology advances make it more cost effective than reusable rockets to get to Mars.
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by efitz 2y ago
Were the reported issues all addressed by the Homebrew maintainers or are any still unmitigated?
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by efitz 2y ago
Yes I did not miss the irony :-)
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by efitz 2y ago
> LISTEN TO THEIR ACTUAL PROBLEM ALL THE WAY. This is the key. People want to be heard, and also people don't necessarily divulge detail in the order you expect. The very last thing that they say may completely invalidate the solut
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by efitz 2y ago
Hard lessons I've learned: 1. It doesn't matter what your title is, how much expert education, training, or experience you have, or even what hard lessons that you have learned: you are not an "expert" in an area unless
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by efitz 2y ago
TL/DR: You should think of and use queues like shock absorbers, not sinks. Also you need to monitor them. Queues are useful to decouple the output of one process to the input of another process, when the processes are not synchronized
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by efitz 2y ago
I think a better description than “underutilized” would be “sunk capex cost” - Google (or any cloud provider) cannot run at 100% customer utilization because then they could neither acquire new customers nor service transitory usage spikes
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by efitz 2y ago
The abstraction of representing everything as files is often leaky (and often clunky).
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by efitz 2y ago
the driver in question was tested and passed WHQL. CrowdStrike included functionality in the driver to interpret a downloadable file (similar to an antivirus signature file). The file in the problematic update was malformed, and the Crowd
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by efitz 2y ago
They absolutely do, long before Apple did: WHQL (pronounced “wickle”). https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/19/drive...

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