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by etruong42 2y ago
Who would do the prosecuting? The DoJ? Who would they prosecute? Hegseth? Walz for adding Goldberg to the chat? Could the DoJ behave sufficiently separately from the office of the President to conduct a proper prosecution?
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by etruong42 2y ago
We humans love quantifiability. Since you used the word "measure", do you believe the measurement you're aspiring for is quantifiable? I currently assert that it's not, but I would also say that trying to follow your sug
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by etruong42 2y ago
In terms of the disconnect between executives and society, the elephant in the room here is society's approval of CEO, father, husband Brian Thompson's cold-blooded murder. The disconnect goes way beyond disagreements about RTO.
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by etruong42 2y ago
My experience working on Google Cloud Platform is similar. Even when the solution is relatively technically simple, there are many organizational impediments and politics because the solution likely involves multiple fiefdoms. The only thin
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by etruong42 2y ago
I'm not the parent comment, and I think I get the gist of what you're saying. To be fair to the parent comment though, it's not just making recruiting easier. It's reducing the risk of compromise within your organization
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by etruong42 2y ago
Stories like this and Andres Freund who caught a supply chain attack before it was deployed to practically all linux servers help me realize that, sometimes, all it takes is for a decent person doing decent things at the right time to help
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by etruong42 2y ago
Can you elaborate? I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the value of precedent is to have courts rule on matters in a manner that is consistent with past rulings. Are you suggesting that courts can interpret the law completely dif
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by etruong42 2y ago
"The people back in the studio on TV after this - they were talking about it like - who risks their half-a-million-dollar-a-year job for $70,000?" "Scott says he was kind of overworked and unhappy with his job, so everything
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by etruong42 3y ago
I imagine someone who has this skill has a shot at being L4 or L5 at Google. levels.fyi estimates a year salary of an L5 engineer at Google to be 362,248. If we naively divide that by 50 (weeks in a year) * 40 (hours of work a week), we&#x2
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by etruong42 3y ago
> why would you rock the boat and risk the nice thing we have... It's not just about profit. Careers and incomes are at stake. People will get hurt. I think we really need to define "risk" and the "hurt" people m
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Portmortem of What Ails Google(medium.com)
1 points by etruong42 4y ago|0 comments
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Parenting and language acquisition: Dinner conversations(medium.com)
2 points by etruong42 4y ago|1 comments
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by etruong42 4y ago
Language acquisition includes the ability to acquire skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension in a single or multiple languages. Children are naturally filled with curiosity, so they acquire language skills very na
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by etruong42 4y ago
New technology sometimes creates more work even though it makes the previous work easier. When the electronic spreadsheet was introduced in the 1980s, even though it made accountants more productive, the number of accountants GREW after the
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by etruong42 4y ago
> so there are more niches where hiring someone to babysit a few hundred VMs is profitable This makes a lot of sense. The same thing happened in the past with new technology, such as the electronic spreadsheet: "since 1980, right ar
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by etruong42 5y ago
"Making that discussion off limits internally could ensure that inequality in profit sharing becomes a structural feature of the company." The main concern seems to stem from making the discussion off limits. No "fixes"
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by etruong42 8y ago
The link elaborates that this concept is enshrined in the US Constitution Bill of Rights (4th amendment), so it covers government surveillance. It is not directly applicable to private entities using recording devices.
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My Art to Studying (Algorithms)(ethantruong.net)
3 points by etruong42 8y ago|1 comments
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by etruong42 8y ago
Validation, acceptance, endorsement, and promotion have murky boundaries. Validation and acceptance are key components to a healthy outcome after a painful experience. It can go too far, and endorsement and promotion can mutate a viewpoint
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by etruong42 8y ago
You're right, but the attacker won't get the user's original password that they probably reuse elsewhere. If it's just your authentication system hashes that are compromised, the damage can be contained.
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by etruong42 9y ago
Here is Freakonomics coverage on the practice: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
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by etruong42 9y ago
It has already been quoted before so I'll quote it again: > cooking has economies of scale and specialization, so it’s cheaper to cook for many families at once I'll try to add a little more value to the conversation - there ar
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by etruong42 9y ago
I like how Alan Kay still ends up using nested parentheses when discussing Lisp: > (These operating systems in both Smalltalk and Lisp were both better (claim) and easier to write (simpler to demonstrate) than the standard ones of today.
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by etruong42 9y ago
Where is the complementary relationship? Is it with the facebook.com website and their open-source AI product? More AI means more people will use Facebook.com? Or is the comment only tangential to OP?
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by etruong42 10y ago
"Advertising company will block ads"? or is it "Advertising company will block ads (obviously except its own)"? "Content providers - use Google's ad network if you want to make sure you get ad revenue from Chro
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by etruong42 10y ago
I see many valuable feature, such as the highlighting and the tooltips. I wonder if these could have been expediently implemented as VIM plugins - perhaps each feature could have been a VIM plugin so that people can pick and choose which fe
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by etruong42 10y ago
Hypothetically, if you were the parent of such a child (or such an adult offspring), how should you make sure that they stay safe if what they are working on is beyond your capacity to evaluate?
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by etruong42 11y ago
Since you make mention of poverty and "having to fast", it seems you're conflating undernourishment with fasting. Making a blanket statement about countries that eat less is hard to discuss meaningfully. But one example of in
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Why I Fast (Intermittently)(ethantruong.net)
2 points by etruong42 11y ago|2 comments
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by etruong42 11y ago
Applying the ideas from Benford's law to these findings seem very promising to me as primes follow a lognormal distribution[1] and that is where we expect Benford's law to apply[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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