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by efitz 3y ago
I find it ironic that we have a reproducibility problem in many scientific disciplines, that we find that many notable scientists have been less than 100% honest in their research, that peer review fails to catch many of these errors, and s
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by efitz 3y ago
Reminds me of this video “Interview with an Emacs enthusiast”: https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
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by efitz 3y ago
> Whenever you evaluate an API, or create a new one, you must always, always, ALWAYS start by writing some code as if you were a user trying to do the thing that the API is supposed to do. I’ve been telling this to the developers I hav
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by efitz 3y ago
Attention all device manufacturers: I don’t want your f-ing cloud. When I buy a physical thing, having to keep paying you every month is a dealbreaker. I don’t care that you want a constant subscription revenue stream, buying a piece of
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by efitz 3y ago
I just want them to upgrade my damn seat. United 1k, hundreds of thousands of lifetime miles, and they almost never upgrade me even with their new “plus points” model which appears just to be some kind of fixed price bid for increasing you
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by efitz 3y ago
I’m going to coin the term “beaverforming”.
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by efitz 3y ago
Getting out my popcorn and settling in to watch the discussion here…
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by efitz 3y ago
PHP is notoriously insecure. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/p... Just because it runs on a desktop doesn’t mean that it won’t be exposed to malicious code.
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by efitz 3y ago
Speaking as a security professional, for the love of God, why?
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by efitz 3y ago
How do you bring an out of control bureaucracy under control, especially when they wield law enforcement powers and use them against political enemies and whistleblowers?
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by efitz 3y ago
It seems funny to me that legislators all over the world think that they can change the physical world with a written law. While I like the idea of a convenient fast charging network for EVs, there are all these details like funding, electr
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by efitz 3y ago
There are standards, but every major smart home tech company wants to be the controller, not a slave. Generally you find that, for each brand of device, you have an in-home controller that controls that brand of device over a proprietary p
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by efitz 3y ago
I am heavily into smart home; I have over 100 devices in my home. My main requirement for my home is that everything had to “fail normal”. My non-geek family would not tolerate the lights not working if the internet connection failed. To
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by efitz 3y ago
Related I used to be the program manager owner of the security event log in windows. When things happen simultaneously or very closely in time on multi-core systems, thread scheduling can significantly affect observations of those things.
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by efitz 3y ago
Apple, while imperfect, is the only large tech company with anything like a principle when it comes to user privacy. Meta/IG would sell literally any piece of information about you they can get their hands on and monetize.
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by efitz 3y ago
> It is unwise, in the course of a search and rescue operation, to report that you think the vessel was irrecoverably lost. I made this point several times on social media during the Titan incident but it fell on deaf ears; it seemed c
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by efitz 3y ago
I am on my 3rd Tesla- been driving them since 2015- and frequently use FSD beta. I’ve watched autopilot develop into FSD. The thing that baffles me about all current autonomous vehicle efforts is how resistant they are to having any sort o
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by efitz 3y ago
I’ve never sold dev tools, but this resonates with me as a buyer. The other thing that I want to know, where I’ve had remorse in the past, is how much effort it’s going to be to integrate the tool with my current processes and workflows. I
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by efitz 3y ago
Are you saying 12 years of study after medical school? Even surgery, opthalmology, etc don’t require that. When I say “doctor” I already included 20 years of education. In the USA radiology is sometimes outsourced; I don’t know all the in
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by efitz 3y ago
Support is gonna work great for the top few use cases and is gonna suck for everything else. One interesting thing about generative AI is that we got all our “AI is gonna take all our jobs” wrong. AI is going to decimate entry level white
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by efitz 3y ago
The screen mock-ups for developer information for users show the phone number. It’s not clear from the blog post if the phone number display is a requirement.
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by efitz 3y ago
Responding to peer comment. It’s public information if a law enforcement officer happens to see you in public. It’s not public information if their surveillance is via a 3rd party whose information is not public. Arguably even if you’re in
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by efitz 3y ago
That would be the “secure in their persons”, and probably “secure in their papers” (the latter has been broadly interpreted by the courts to include electronic information, not just physical papers). US courts have widely ruled that data a
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by efitz 3y ago
Uh, the part where they track people’s location based on cell phone location data purchased without a warrant, for purposes of criminal investigations?
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by efitz 3y ago
I know this is a crazy idea but just hear me out. What if any government agency at any level were required to get a warrant signed off by a judge, that showed probable cause, before they could get your data from a 3rd party, and what if th
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by efitz 3y ago
I think it’s more than that; I suspect that they have pretty onerous internal store processes about inventory control and device transfer to minimize employee theft.
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by efitz 3y ago
It was a fairly common thing to do very similar operations on Apple ][ computers. 6502 had a BCD (binary coded decimal) mode; basically when in BCD mode arithmetic operators carried at 0x9 rather than 0xF, and operations worked nibble-wise
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by efitz 3y ago
Here’s an article presenting an opposing view. It’s not just a matter of planning ahead; it’s decades of work to scale up production given harder to reach deposits, more toxic by-products, and political hurdles, ironically from many enviro
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by efitz 3y ago
Until a failure during boost results in radioactive debris scattered all over the place.
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by efitz 3y ago
I asked it two questions and it gave me very reasonable, complete answers: How do I connect two VPCs from separate organizations (VPC peering) How do I only allow authorized applications to access my S3 bucket (BPA, IAM policies, a lot of

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