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by gortok 2y ago
login.gov is one of the few government services that as a private sector techie I'm in awe of. They really knocked it out of the park with login.gov, and I can only assume it was politics that had the IRS use ID.me instead of login.go
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by gortok 2y ago
While waterfax highlights a problematic section of Mozilla's change: > UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic
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by gortok 2y ago
If you don't want this to happen, then a company would need to: 1. Have the capital to build and maintain a browser 2. By selling copies of that browser 3. In sufficient funds to keep the business going and make the owners a profit. Le
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by gortok 2y ago
The reason why they're called DOGE staffers is because Trump renamed the US Digital Service to the US DOGE Service. That's why they're DOGE Staffers. They were there before January 20th, when it was still the US Digital Servi
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by gortok 2y ago
By 'life-altering', do you mean: Fewer women dying of sepsis?
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by gortok 2y ago
Executive Orders were meant to give instructions to the executive branch on how to “faithfully execute the law”. They turned into — through several presidents, a way to bind the executive branch to a particular way of interpreting the law —
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by gortok 2y ago
> Who controls the US Capitol Police? I remind you that they obeyed Trump during the January 6th insurrection. [Citation Needed]. Seriously. Heck, even a cursory read of the Wikipedia article would tell you they are controlled by the
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by gortok 2y ago
They do have authority over certain airspaces and this is one of them. They can tell the military not to fly over certain airspace.
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by gortok 2y ago
The only part of the article I disagree with is this line: > But in general, it’s a good idea not to install NPM packages blindly. If you know what to look for, there are definite signals that these packages are dodgy. All of these pac
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by gortok 2y ago
The humorous part to me is when folks talk badly about 'antifa' they either forget or gloss over what the 'fa' means in antifa.
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by gortok 2y ago
With this comment you seem to be putting the Overton window farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas.
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by gortok 2y ago
> it is freaking hard to commit to 3-5 years of virtually no salary to maybe get to the same outcome you would have had with a funded business. I agree and I disagree. It is hard to bootstrap a product. It's even harder to bootstrap
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by gortok 2y ago
> While we gained some traction with some startups, we ultimately weren't able to build a hyper-growth business. >"We then decided to pivot into a vertical B2B SaaS AI product because we felt we could use the breakthroughs i
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by gortok 2y ago
The default 'height' of the Tesla Model Y headlights make it appear to be bright lights by default. I live in the DC metro area, and buses (who are typically folks that drive a lot) would constantly flash me to let me know they t
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by gortok 2y ago
Gruez. You pay payroll and estimated taxes quarterly. As long as you hit 90% of your actual tax burden, there are no penalties. You file income tax yearly and that sets you up for both your remaining burden that you didn't pay in esti
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by gortok 2y ago
> Seems like a stretch. "Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States"[1] was up into the beginning of 2022. The tax changes were known in advance for years. If the tax code changes were a significant factor
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by gortok 2y ago
It was a combination of factors: zero interest rate policies changed to fight inflation and the Tax Cut Jobs act of 2017 changes (section 174) requiring capitalization of everything softwsre development related except bug fixes went into ef
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by gortok 2y ago
> Visual studio is open source. No it’s not. Visual Studio is a proprietary product and the latest version is Visual Studio 2022. Visual Studio Code is open source, and it is about as close to Visual Studio as Lightning is to Lightning B
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by gortok 2y ago
The terms seem oppressive in nature and not designed to actually be agreed to. If I wanted to say “I made them an offer” but wanted to be sure they wouldn’t take me up on the offer, this is the sort of term sheet I’d use.
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by gortok 2y ago
> it used to be pretty positively received on HN Doesn’t that call into question the decision making of folks on HN rather than being a positive view of the product?
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by gortok 2y ago
There is a correlation between new code and memory vulnerabilities (a possible explanation is given in the blog post, that vulnerabilities have a half-life that decays rapidly), but why does the blog post indicate causation between the two
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AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human(bbc.com)
50 points by gortok 2y ago|57 comments
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by gortok 2y ago
I ordered automated cat feeders and had bought the “honey guaridan [sic]” which is a Chinese knockoff when I thought I was buying “HoneyGuardian” brand automated cat feeders. This is blatant behavior on the part of sellers and Amazon turns
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by gortok 2y ago
This is also not the study, but a summary of the study. At this point I’ll email their POC and see if they’ll release the actual study itself.
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by gortok 2y ago
This is not a study. This is an executive summary of a study. This sort of stuff rankles me. Without the numbers, questions, and methodology there’s no way to ascertain what errors the folks who created the study committed, if any.
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by gortok 2y ago
You can save minutes of talking to folks through Months of work and tens of thousands of people-hours building something people don't want or need. You can save months of research by spending years of work and hundreds of thousands of
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by gortok 2y ago
downvoted, because in your response you conflate two issues: 1. The problem with using Microsoft 2. The lack of institutional knowledge of securing BSD and MacOS and running either of those at the scale Microsoft systems are being run at. T
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by gortok 2y ago
Industry term for when Apple launches a product that does substantially what yours does, or incorporates your product features into their product. https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...
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by gortok 2y ago
Congress hasn't declared war after WWII. I suppose that's why you used the euphemism "congressional authorization"; instead of what was intended by the folks that wrote the constitution -- a declaration of war.
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by gortok 2y ago
That hasn't stopped any president in the last 60 years from using the Armed Forces to conduct a war -- or "police action" -- if you prefer.

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