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811.
by goalieca 5y ago
Careful here, these are more like thin clients with high network latencies.
812.
by goalieca 5y ago
queue the need for ifix to show how to remove 5g antennas.
813.
by goalieca 5y ago
> Apple always does what is in the best interest of Apple. Everything else is just marketing. I don’t truly believe Apple is interested in user privacy as a core value but it is a hell of a differentiator compared to Google. On this topi
814.
by goalieca 5y ago
> unless it's directly interfering what they're trying to do That's where the trouble will come. I can see trend emerge where essential functionality could be blocked on account of tracking being disabled. I have some fait
815.
by goalieca 5y ago
Processors have had BCD (binary coded decimal) instructions since the earliest 8-bit micros. They usually deal with 0-99 and then you have to add digit by digit but it can handle carry propagation.
816.
by goalieca 5y ago
That new interface sucking resources..
817.
by goalieca 6y ago
Dockerhub is quite a feat of engineering though.
818.
by goalieca 6y ago
There were certainly polarizing events in the past. Canada has no shortage of important events including the Quebec referendum. But i've never felt like i was under continuous pressure from one news cycle to the next.
819.
by goalieca 6y ago
Banks, Enterprise management, ... these are all guarding extremely valuable assets so i considered them security websites (not sure what is more security relevant other than the master email account we all have). They are written in a way t
820.
by goalieca 6y ago
There’s many security sites that load tons of external scripts. My bank is one such example. Even if those third party trackers and such are trustworthy there remains the whole supply chain attack consideration.
821.
by goalieca 6y ago
I remember things about a generation ago. It wasn’t always rosy; some unacceptable things were causally said. But, there seemed to be less hate for the other team. We seem to live in a hyper-polarized world exemplified by the shift in late
822.
by goalieca 6y ago
UML is dying though. I remember being grilled during job interviews on OOP design questions with UML and all those obscure details. I hate it. But now even the embedded world is more about API contracts with system designs and data stores.
823.
by goalieca 6y ago
Print debugging is the only way in a distributed system the way we are building micro services these days. We just call it logging. Edit: ..and do it in production
824.
by goalieca 6y ago
> The wrong type of super-long-tenured engineer is just going to be defensive and full of excuses about why something was built one way, even when the pain of using what they built is dragging down the whole organization. Haha. So true.
825.
by goalieca 6y ago
How much enterprise software have you used over the years that has terrible quality? Vision and execution matter a lot in user experience and doubly so for security.
826.
by goalieca 6y ago
> and once you land the customer you'll have the budget to go back and fix it There’s always one more sale in the pipeline and you can end up with 15 year old products that are entirely the result of feature chasing. I think it is a
827.
by goalieca 6y ago
If you’re really clever you can figure timings out using JavaScript.. to the point spectre was remotely exploitable. LOL.
828.
by goalieca 6y ago
Imagine gathering screen size, installed fonts, graphics card, processor model, extensions, plugins, operating system, ... and so on. Perhaps you could gather enough system properties to actually identify someone uniquely. It’s like a finge
829.
by goalieca 6y ago
I’ve always wondered how many of our problems with technical debt are self inflicted by trying to design for some future that may never exist. Simple, direct, and declarative code with tests are very maintainable.
830.
by goalieca 6y ago
It’s been said many times, but if the business model is advertising then you’re the product.. not the quality journalism or content. They’ll focus on generating content to increase engagement instead of perfecting what you think it is they
831.
by goalieca 6y ago
Punishment vs rehabilitation. In this case you can have a chat with Stallman about the consequences of the pen and how people felt when they read his words and have him make a public statement afterwards.
832.
by goalieca 6y ago
Methinks this would make a useful money laundering scheme because I can’t for the life of me figure out why people would pay millions for a digital image that is posted publicly on the internet.
833.
by goalieca 6y ago
Personally I find microsoft Authenticator pretty nice. Yes, there’s more requests but it’s easier to tap a button on my watch than to drag open some other Authenticator and type in a pin.
834.
by goalieca 6y ago
I don’t know at which point slack is better. We use both and I find teams annoying and weird but I prefer it because it is less distracting than slack. In some ways slack feels designed to keep my attention and stay engaged.
835.
by goalieca 6y ago
The mask test is an interesting one. Please don’t fry me for this, but the WHO has a report on mask usage from December that notes some inconclusiveness in community settings. It can be very hard to prove something with a rather small effec
836.
by goalieca 6y ago
Who decides the truth? I don’t want to muddy the waters too much but i am concerned with current trend to appeal to science as an authority of truth to justify whatever public policy is in play. Scientific publishing can be a chaotic proces
837.
by goalieca 6y ago
I would argue they say that in public but massive content manipulation through moderation is not even a secret.
838.
by goalieca 6y ago
I’m unable to use my banks app because the tracker being blocked causes an error that fails very loudly and blocks login. I refuse to whitelist it in pihole.
839.
by goalieca 6y ago
Building on the giants.. Fourier could more easily be explained once you understand linear transformation as a multiplication with basis vectors. Seems simple enough right? But that is assuming you the prerequisites.
840.
by goalieca 6y ago
Imagine they used jira, confluence, and git. It would still be a huge no! Code archeology is a real necessity even on a <10 year old system. The best way to find out about something is to have a chat with a ‘historian’ who has been with

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