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by fivre 5y ago
It was very weird to go the other way around and have read Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More before HyperNormalisation came out. I love Bitter Lake and The Power of Nightmares, but cannot stand HyperNormalisation for having almos
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by fivre 5y ago
and yet, "throw features at it until it meets the client's requested idealized spec, with weird carve-outs for some legacy system that we promise will be gone in a year or so, maybe" while also maybe conforming to some mythol
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by fivre 5y ago
Cloudflare's customers request and then enable those features. Cloudflare itself doesn't give a damn about that traffic; they have bandwidth to spare. They will, however, happily sell tools to people that do care. That isn't
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by fivre 6y ago
This implies that the incentives are any saner when driven by sales, which isn't necessarily true. At least on the enterprise end (which is presumably where GCP wants to make a significant chunk of its revenue), sales can be equally dr
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by fivre 6y ago
There's plenty of figurative or suggestive speech that's not literally "I will kill so-and-so" or "Someone should kill so-and-so". As other commenters have noted, Bannon's actions and other statements sugg
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by fivre 6y ago
> technical writing is almost always understaffed > it's really hard to show a causal link between the docs we create and developer success Amen to that. IMO good documentation is incredibly valuable, but not in a way that aligns
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by fivre 6y ago
Is there any legislative or regulatory work that is trying to address the gigantic mess that is music (or media in general) copyright and licensing in the US? The DMCA is over 2 decades old, and seemingly nothing useful has come up since. T
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by fivre 6y ago
deadbeef ( https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef ) tries to be a foobar2k clone of sorts, and while it's nowhere close (foobar2k is just really damn good), it's alright for what it is: a basic GUI playlis
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by fivre 6y ago
Good news! Bandcamp is exactly that (giving you your choice of FLAC or MP3 or whatever, without DRM, and available for download again so long as Bandcamp continues to exist) and is good for artists, since it's an actual album sale, so
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by fivre 6y ago
I mean, yeah, but pretend Excel is, idk, sword arms. You get a lot of work done by whirling around the office, spinning your swords, cutting off a variety of limbs and heads in the process. You get to the end, meet the few survivors, starin
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by fivre 6y ago
yes! I actually love that format! it's how I grew up! I'll recognize that I'm a bit of an oddball in that respect nowadays, but it can work, at least with a small enough room. I love having all the conversations cross over on
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by fivre 6y ago
"the big players are already fuckers, flaunt the law, and will eat competitors' lunches if they don't do same" seems a rather sad outlook. if we can't ask companies not to be horrible because their predecessors are
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by fivre 6y ago
i saw this and, echoing many of the other commenters, thought it was a _different_ TCP chemical, in this case, a relatively obscure drug similar to PCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenocyclidine i was VERY confused fo
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by fivre 6y ago
> Aside from that, I don't want scripts shitting files all over my file system Word. One of the things I love about Linux is that the prevalence of package management as a defining feature of a distribution is that it's almost
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by fivre 6y ago
How well will this cope with everyone's favorite idiotic invention, the hold feature that interrupts the hold music with a brief silence followed by a pre-recorded human voice saying "DID YOU KNOW THAT BASIC FEATURES ARE AVAILABLE
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by fivre 6y ago
i want a YouTube RED original series, where they just have the YouTube RED, YouTube TV, and Google TV product managers engage in a bareknuckle octagon brawl as a metaphor for internal Google PM battles to become the emperor and autocrat of
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by fivre 6y ago
Are there no lines the op, or you, would not cross in the pursuit of your engineering work? Perhaps you're okay with Coinbase's mission specifically, but are you saying that you're okay with _literally anything_ in the pursui
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by fivre 6y ago
There is not-insignificant, if not huge group of site admins that take a "aha! more security therefore better!" approach and will just enable under attack mode (the 5s JS challenge) for everyone all the time. Some are a bit more s
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by fivre 6y ago
> People can actually like maintaining enormous, C/C++ legacy codebases instead of greenfield work in safer and smarter and easier-to-use technologies? in a sense, yes? it's not masochism, it's perhaps recognition that som
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by fivre 6y ago
in some ways it was simpler, but in a lot of ways it wasn't. reference materials back in the day were on actual goddamn paper, or in man/info pages, which seem weird and archaic nowadays. sure, maybe the tools were simpler, but th
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by fivre 6y ago
having worked on, well, quite literally the other side of the room as the parent, i'll echo this and add a bit: WAFs are not perfect, WAFs are not themselves defense in depth, and WAFs are--most importantly--one facet in a complex set
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by fivre 6y ago
Not entirely, no--arguably we may have similar values, in a sense, but (and this is where the guesswork comes in) may have arrived at them via different paths. I'll posit that the path matters, a lot. The people in question are current
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by fivre 6y ago
We should indeed. I unfortunately don't know enough at Facebook well enough to have those conversations in person often, so internet will have to suffice. It's unfortunately very much in the interest of Facebook's leadership
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by fivre 6y ago
They didn't, oddly enough! They were as surprised at the outcome as most everyone else was, and had more intended to put the expected Clinton presidency off on a bad foot. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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by fivre 6y ago
The point is that they're well-educated themselves, persistent, and capable of learning from their mistakes. Earlier attempts were childishly bad. The contemporary ones are better-crafted, and may not be reaching you--I don't know
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by fivre 6y ago
I've made attempts to reach out to some of my old friends there on the T&S team in light of some evidence really blatant Russian agitprop thriving and finding an audience there. Between this and the Zhang memo, however, it looks qu
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by fivre 6y ago
it's rather divisive, seemingly--50/50 whether it gets upvoted or nigh-instantly -1 and flagged. lol hn, WE MUST WRITE VERY FORMAL TRADITIONAL ENGLISH HERE
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by fivre 6y ago
there are actors who excel in the status quo through virtue of said quo lauding their strengths (here, putting on a good face during sync communication) alongside basic competency in other skills (having a bare minimum capability outside th
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by fivre 6y ago
hell, it ain't just ads, it's outright malware at this point. i had to look up some shit about my printer, and hoo boy, searching for that churns up even more of a cesspool than i get when trying to search specialized windows topi
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by fivre 6y ago
This one isn't entirely their fault--it's legitimately a customer demand they've acquiesced to, and while they bear some blame for doing so, they're not the root of the issue there, users are. There's a legitimate c

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