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by fivre 6y ago
To be fair to Epic engineers, I don't think many of them want the system to be that way either--they may not be super-experienced, but that shit's more a product of ossification from decades of refusing to change much of anything
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by fivre 6y ago
I blame the chat apps more for this tbh. Coming from a long history of using IRC, using separate messages is a completely normal way of dividing up one's text, and it was fine because N lines of text in a single message wasn't hug
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by fivre 6y ago
My struggles with Jira are more that the people who should be in charge of configuring it effectively and running it smoothly (team managers and PMs) often don't. I see a lot of stuff that's incredibly inconsistent and a lot of fe
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by fivre 6y ago
we're getting to the point where the only reasonable answer is to regulate this, as the tech giants have well demonstrated that their only concern is to do the bare minimum trust & safety work that's beneficial to their busine
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by fivre 6y ago
This is the worst goddamn thing about Spotify. Oh, wanna search for a cool band outside our platform, but there name is in Chinese or something else you don't have an IME for? TOO BAD, GOTTA INSPECT ELEMENT.
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by fivre 6y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945323-the-red-web is a nonfiction work on the subject (and a bunch of other related stuff) and is excellent.
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by fivre 6y ago
im not really registering domains that i necessarily /know/ how i plan to use them yet, but more as vanity names i like and may want to use in the future--basically i tend to register the domain and then use it for some side proje
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by fivre 6y ago
https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Lawyer-Refe... exists for basically exactly this purpose, and similar services are offered by most state bar associations. Yes, you do have to /pay/ for l
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by fivre 6y ago
I trust VPN services for the one thing they're good and useful for: hopping over geo-fences for content. You should not have any expectation of privacy or security from consumer VPN services (if you want that, obtain Tor Browser or Tai
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by fivre 6y ago
10-20 minute router misconfigurations and subsequent fixes are sometimes a fact of life. big network infrastructure is complicated, and sometimes the best laid route tables of mice and men do go abloop and die. Outages happen no matter what
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by fivre 6y ago
Are you Muslim? When you, or your hypothetical strawman comic make fun of them, are you punching up or down? To not mince words here, if your comedy career was wholly dependent on making fun of Muslim cultural practices that have existed fo
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by fivre 6y ago
> However, because trans rights, LGBT, race, etc. has been so profusely politicized, it's become a third rail. Making fun of a trans person and an Irish person are, for whatever reason, not on the same playing field any more. I&#x27
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by fivre 6y ago
> anger at new trans-rights encroaching on hard-fought womens’ rights How is this a thing though? I won't deny that confusion and fear are very real feelings people have when confronted with something that challenges their existing
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by fivre 6y ago
Is this stuff news to people? Having worked in that segment of industry, yes, that is how things largely work now, and that's largely how they've always worked, even if perhaps there's a bit more consolidation now (market fac
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by fivre 6y ago
Any sort of HCI or design stuff was absent from my CS education, and it seems to be one of the bigger gaps I see with engineers: not many people will try to have someone actually use their software after creating it, and there's a to
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by fivre 6y ago
just ``` set -o vi ``` problem solved! no more emacs pollution!
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by fivre 6y ago
i use them to pay security deposits on apartments, since i still use a credit union that only exists in a city i haven't lived in for a decade all banking i do online and their web/mobile presence is really good, so i don't r
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by fivre 6y ago
OKC's collection was from their own service that people had clearly signed up for and provided data too--even if they released those studies a ways in the past before people were as familiar with privacy concerns, it was at least a mor
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by fivre 6y ago
I listen to a lot of ambient music normally and that ends up being seemingly 80% of my recommendations, despite also listening to a bunch of loud angry punk. Spotify's discovery tends to be pretty iffy for anything at least for me anyw
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by fivre 6y ago
Your evidence is one poorly-written newspaper article, a reddit disaster-porn post, and some random picture of Caracas? Authenticity of the reddit post aside, do you have the slightest knowledge of urban development in the Soviet Union, or
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by fivre 6y ago
Were you asleep for all coverage of the 737 MAX MCAS, or the technical failures that contributed to multiple warships casually driving into other ships? https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgeral...
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by fivre 6y ago
> Software can kill if we put blind trust in it and give it full control over the situation. But we shouldn't do that. Do you work in a commercial software firm? Have you ever seen your salespeople talk with their customer contacts?
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by fivre 6y ago
Oh boy, just wait til you see how many protocols make up an IPSec implementation :) Those get named after the overall framework (if they're not just named "fooVPN" or simply "foo") even though there's no single
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by fivre 6y ago
This is the most important thing to understand: non-Russian media loves to persist a never-ending charade that the whole of the Russian government is a direct limb of Putin and controlled wholly by him, which is quite far from true. It make
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by fivre 6y ago
It's worse when they /do/ want to be closely involved, but then also thinks that being closely involved means dictating functionality to a T. Using software does not translate remotely well into /designing/ software
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by fivre 6y ago
A rather belated comment in HN timescales, but whatever. I'm a English-native Russian learner, and most of my exposure to the phenomenon of English as the lingua franca of computer stuff was in college, where it was bizarre to hear the
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by fivre 6y ago
Turns out the 50+ years we'd need for fusion is a bit too long a position for a system that demands quarterly growth for growing retirement accounts, whodathunk. They take 50 years to mature anyway, what's the point? Granted, you
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by fivre 6y ago
Not the ad companies, and I'm not sure I'll miss the ad-funded internet. The internet services I use most often and enjoy are either paid or are essentially nonprofits. The ad-funded internet seems to largely churn out a wealth of
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by fivre 6y ago
At my previous employer, a large network services provider, everyone got the same depth of support, even people that were on the free tier! Granted, the people paying us $ENTERPRISE usually got responses in minutes, whereas free users might
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by fivre 6y ago
> cognitive overhead to follow and visit multiple blogs Didn't used to be an issue really. Then Google killed off Reader and nothing filled the void fast enough.

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