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by fidotron 1y ago
> There was testing, just not for the bad input (the blank fields in the policy). But if you change a schema, be it DB, protobuf, whatever, this is the major thing your tests should be covering. This is why people are so amazed by it.
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by fidotron 1y ago
From their report: "This policy data contained unintended blank fields." This was reading fields from a database which were coming back null, not some pointer that mutates to being null after a series of nasty state transitions, a
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by fidotron 1y ago
But this is a whole series of junior level mistakes: * Not dealing with null data properly * Not testing it properly * Not having test coverage showing your new thing is tested * Not exercising it on a subset of prod after deployment to sho
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by fidotron 1y ago
Moon landing money on static analysis that failed to identify the existence of a completely untested code path? Or even to shake this out with random data generation? This is a dumbfounding level of mistake for an organization such as Googl
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e... "Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage" While the Googl
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by fidotron 1y ago
Mac Stickies absolutely can be set to float above everything else, and survive power outages (battery permitting) and reboots. It is true they are tied to the Space they are in though. They also have the advantages associated with not being
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by fidotron 1y ago
Do not Mac sticky notes do all that, except they don't live in the physical domain? Isn't it just reflective of the fact that you are more disciplined about tidying up your physical world than the virtual one? (And this might be t
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's increasingly strange how psychologically different something is when it's physically in front of you vs a representation of that exact same thing on a particular sort of display, especially given apparently some representatio
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by fidotron 1y ago
Very very cool. Do you have any insights into the current performance bottlenecks? Especially around dynamic scenes. That particle simulation one seems to struggle but then improves dramatically when the camera is rotated, implying the stat
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by fidotron 1y ago
> the infrastructure is apparently terrible This is unsurprising. LED displays/arrays/strips involve using enough power that a software specialist is unlikely to manage it safely without getting decent at electronics. Conversel
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by fidotron 1y ago
They're right too. "Let's install random drivers to get the USB serial to work" etc. Working on it was one of the motivations for https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella where I'm basically trying
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's not my place to go into details as to what it is at this time, and there are other people involved on here! The build is neither cheap nor fast, though the proof of concept was. If you are aiming at a dev/maker audience telli
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is the truth - my recent work has dragged me into doing exactly this, building hardware "giveaways" to promote SaaS in niche industries, and enabling the backend devs to have an API they can understand to control it. It has m
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by fidotron 1y ago
You have to wonder if the model is going to end up recreating Verlet integration in there somewhere, or if it's generating a pile of those optical acceleration cancelation type heuristics in neural net form. It's one of those idea
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by fidotron 1y ago
The idea of a unified mechanism here is clearly good, although it would probably be better as an API than an app, they may merely be keeping that detail from the press release. It also has curious data/privacy implications. If there is
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Microsoft Kin(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
There were curious incidents like this: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1494461/why-is-google-... But I tend to share the view that WP was, with the Nokia WP8 devices, finally getting somewhere. The fact not
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://www.wired.com/2011/08/blackberry-london-riots/ BBM was much more mass market than your attempt at revisionist history would suggest.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> FirefoxOS was never going to eat Apple's lunch it was going to eat Google's. Aside from all else, and what about the very responsive Windows Phone 7 or similarly flawed WebOS? Let alone all the feature phones, Blackberry etc.
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Introducing Dispatch (2020)(netflixtechblog.com)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
The real reason Firefox OS was doomed was the timing was all wrong with the explosion in graphics capability of the devices, as anyone that worked on anything performance sensitive during the iPhone 3GS -> 4 will tell you: the same GPUs
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by fidotron 1y ago
The same European intellegentsia that is progressively forcing Apple to tear down the walled garden simultaneously fails to understand that this is exactly why they had it in the first place: > You’re not affected if (and only if) . . .
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by fidotron 1y ago
I always thought the squirrels were the serious problem: https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2020/04/the-pumped-up-squirrel-o...
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by fidotron 1y ago
Refraction effects like that require a surface normal, even inferred from something like a bump map, or the result of a blur filter used as a bump map. I'm not aware of any CSS filter that could take a normal and do the appropriate ray
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by fidotron 1y ago
This looks tailor made to be hard to recreate easily in CSS. Which is just going to make people try even harder.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I am not quite that age but notice a similar phenomenon, and have indulged slightly in it myself. My gut feeling is the motivation relates to how computing evolved, particularly in the 80s and 90s. Essentially people used to feel that their
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by fidotron 1y ago
One of the massive lessons of the AI hype is users hate much of the self indulgent output of the tech industry in the prior decade. The two major areas are writing and design, where way too much blog style tech writing injects so many side
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by fidotron 1y ago
You can play with the output https://www.4dv.ai/en Apparently using PlayCanvas.
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Series C and scale(cursor.com)
94 points by fidotron 1y ago|70 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
The book about Lua (Programming in Lua) is a masterpiece, and one of the essential programming books. If I could write that well in my first language I could probably triple my income. To do it in a second one is just incredible.

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