erikerikson

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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Hrm, I'm very sorry. There it is, a little buried but I missed it, and it sucks that I falsely impugned your honor. The entirety of my criticism was based on my failure and I made it while you are helping fix things. FWIW, if anythin
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
This reads like an onion article > residents of the Node.js ecosystem stood unified in their belief that the malicious remote-code execution was a completely unpredictable tragedy Does anyone believe that claim? There's been so man
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
You seem to be insisting that UUID meets the promise of it's name, despite the long standing documentation to the contrary. Is that your intention?
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Please explain.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Canvas to schools to tax payers
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
The question was whether the same transitive responsibility applies to FERPA, not whether HIPAA data is involved.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Except those payments are being passed through, are they not?
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Does that really shield the schools? HIPAA wouldn't care.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
When you frame it like that it sounds like the thieves are doing us a favor. Except it should be heavily fined and jailable for the entire executive team and maybe the board too.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
That lab sounds terrible. In the only monkey lab I've been in, I witnessed deep mutual love between the animals and their keeper. The conditions you describe seem unnecessary.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
As you write, we all have our own balances. I'd suggest there are ethical reasons against those. As a society we have investigation review boards, laws, and other conventions. There is a sizable set of people that like to outsource (w
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
So you do nothing on the trolley problem, eh? Not to troll but it doesn't require disease to work through discomfort if you believe the outcome will be worth it.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Do we consider strokes to be neurodegenerative? I would have expected them to be considered acute.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
I would have expected Apple to catch that on review. That was a egregious failure and betrayal of trust on their part. I wonder if they took any responsibility for the consequences of their error. I'd agree if you wrote that most use
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
I do talk to computer users and they do fear making installations. Many of them have installed something that was adware or a virus, often without meaning to and regretted the results. I have been helping my family and extended family mem
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
I would attribute EOL phone use to largely to being frugal or poor. I'm sure at least one person considers the ecological factor but I'd expect that to be a small cohort.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Hrrm. It seems your original comment has been heavily edited. > They aren't asking "can I install applications from outside the app store?" I agree. They don't want to. They already can't begin to evaluate app
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
No, they calculate in the fact of that lack of control into their purchase decision. They mostly didn't want that control in the first place. They just want to _______, for many things you can fill in the blank, including things like
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Welcome to Hacker News. I suspect you meant to reply to a different comment. Regardless the most plausible speculation I've read here is that the RNG used to generate the UUID is low quality.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Agreed. While it's an uncommon scenario it is a significant case and UUID shouldn't be used in that case because as you write checking doesn't work well. Better to use an alternative such as coordinate/reserve monotoni
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Not really. Your clients can random robin to connection points across providers and move write heads upon connection. If you worry about hard coding you can reduce the surface to a per-context first minimum contact point.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
A lot of databases have a uniqueness constraint that is basically a register level compare and replace. Others have a if_not_exists which is nearly the same. If you're not targeting a serious throughput use case, it's enough. If
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
No one has yet defined the scale but almost all of the real world scenarios people are actually encountering would be handled by either of the offered solutions.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
I totally appreciate what you are complaining about. It's always been part of the documentation for a UUID. Having had Martin Fowler as a colleague and meeting with him weekly for a bit, I'd expect him to nod along with what I&#x
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Yeah, that was a little sloppy but it's generating is more expensive than not generating. In more words, generating an id and validating uniqueness is more expensive than only validating uniqueness.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
There are better approaches like pre -avoiding collisions but generating tends to be more expensive than checking.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
No I didn't miss it. DynamoDb works fine, using CQRS if necessary.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Only expensive if you have unsorted keys or lack an index. Neither of which are unscalable.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
Super simple to detect and try again.
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by erikerikson 5mo ago
I never claimed it was trained on the notables of humanity. On the other hand, to your adjacent point (to twist it) that humanity needs some correction, I whole heartedly agree.

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