erpellan

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by erpellan 9y ago
My point was that any branching strategy will necessarily introduce an integration delay. Instead of merging to master every hour or so, the delay is measured in days. The longer the gaps between merges the larger the change set, the greate
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by erpellan 9y ago
"isolated from everyone else's commits" Assumes nobody's changes ever collide or conflict with each other. Introduces a fear of refactoring and making improvements as you go as that increases the risk of a merge conflict
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by erpellan 9y ago
We commit everything to master and run CI/CD(staging) on every remote push. If some work isn't release-ready by EOD it's pushed to a branch overnight so it's not just on a single laptop. That's it. Works great!
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by erpellan 9y ago
Wine was probably vastly more expensive as a proportion of income in the 1700s compared to today. Makes sense that glasses would be that much smaller.
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by erpellan 9y ago
I agree it looks odd but you know what? It's NOT illegal to travel with ANY quantity of cash. No matter how suspicious it looks. The burden of proof of a crime still lies (or should lie but clearly doesn't) with law enforcement.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Given a situation where (pre-rust) the usual choice would be to use C or C++, it's totally appropriate to choose Rust. That's one of Rust's express design goals. Go is intended to make it very easy for junior devs to build co
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by erpellan 9y ago
Does this mean that someone can game 1-time special offers by repeatedly signing up and then demanding to be forgotten? There's probably no legal obligation to enforce once-only cashback sign-up offers, so the right to be forgotten wou
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by erpellan 9y ago
Yes, and?
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by erpellan 9y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this strictly worse than DNSCurve & DNSCrypt? Those protocols are secure even over a hostile network. The only traffic visible is an end-to-end encrypted DNS request.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Satoshi added the block size cap as a DOS-prevention mechanism (to stop blocks from being bloated with 'dust' txns and grinding the network to a halt). It was done without any real discussion and the value was probably whatever fe
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by erpellan 9y ago
KYC/AML applies to the person, not to the serial numbers printed on the bills they hand over.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Just like _actual_ cash! The bank doesn't scan the serial numbers on the money I deposit and yet they somehow correctly credit my account.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Use a computer to optimise for getting as close to the same number of people in each district with the shortest borders (probably roughly hexagonal districts). Carving up the populace on any other basis than 'number of voters' is
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by erpellan 9y ago
This reminds me of the story of ancient Ethiopians using binary maths. I read about it a while back and finally managed to track it down (the original link seems dead): https://web.archive.org/web/20170609082700/ht
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by erpellan 9y ago
Changing the oil that frequently probably won't hurt but in a modern car with synthetic oil it's entirely unnecessary.
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by erpellan 9y ago
This problem was solved in 1999 with client-side certificates. Your browser would simply refuse to log you into the fake bank site.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Who is this 'they' you speak of? I for one enjoy living in a country with roads, power, drinkable water, no guns, free healthcare and the reasonable expectation that everything will cost roughly the same tomorrow as it did today.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Android 7.1.1 https://support.essential.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008012428...
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by erpellan 9y ago
Woah. Nice one, Microsoft. That's amazing.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Google authenticator only stores its data locally. If you lose your phone you're screwed. Authy replicates data so you can have your 2FA on multiple devices and easily restore them if your phone dies.
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by erpellan 9y ago
Ethics is a human construct. So data could very well show that unethical (by some definition) behaviour is profitable. I think this is the point being made: the data shows, beyond statistical doubt, that payday loan ads aimed at a certain d
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by erpellan 9y ago
This looks like a childish attempt to drive traffic to their consulting site, which itself looks like it was put together as part of a class project. Half the links on it go nowhere.
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by erpellan 10y ago
Code of Conduct. Conduct. CONDUCT! Not: code of thought, beliefs, sexuality, politics, religion.... All the discussions of philosophy and belief systems in this thread are missing the point. It DOES NOT MATTER how you feel about someone els
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by erpellan 10y ago
I do this (subvocally) when hopping between dev and prod. "I'm looking at production. I'm checking this query is the one I think it is. I'm running it now. I'm closing production."
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by erpellan 10y ago
"Collaborate on standards. Compete on quality" Or something, I'm probably butchering the quote. There's a reason we can play CDs from any manufacturer in every manufacturer's player. Likewise SD cards, VHS videos, D
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by erpellan 10y ago
Safer? Debatable. There are no cars in that picture, which represent the largest danger to moped riders. You'd also need a road 10x wider for the same volume of traffic.
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by erpellan 10y ago
It's hard to play the scrappy upstart 'disrupt' card when you're a 50-billion or so valued company who can afford to hire people who can tell you how not to fuck up quite so incompetently.
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by erpellan 10y ago
So much this! It's 2017. I get that maybe, _maybe_ at scale you need the fastest code you can get. But you'd damn well better fuzz-test the crap out of it before it goes anywhere near a network connection.
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by erpellan 10y ago
This has been the case in the UK for many years. There's an actual regulatory difference between 'use by' and 'best before': https://www.food.gov.uk/science/microbiology/use-by-and-best...
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by erpellan 10y ago
You might find this helpful: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/rubberbag.html A human body is a mechanical system. Fuel + air in --> Work done + waste out. That's it. Any other argument is literally dis

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