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by gregmac 7y ago
They have to strike a balance to optimize between shipping costs, time spent packing, packing material costs, claims due to damage during transit and insurance/theft costs. If items are usually/never ordered by themselves, packing
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by gregmac 7y ago
Ohh, this is a favorite topic of mine and I'm of the opinion there's no clear best solution (possibly good market opportunity here), only a series of trade-offs. ---- In one project, we use DBGhost (for MS SQL Server). It's l
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by gregmac 7y ago
I think it actually is a popular opinion here, and in general, among people that write software and/or have a basic understanding of encryption. Ever tried to get a non-technical person to use any kind of non-"automatic" en
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by gregmac 7y ago
> The ElectionGuard SDK will be available through GitHub beginning this summer. We encourage the election technology community to begin building offerings based on this technology and expect early prototypes using ElectionGuard will be r
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by gregmac 7y ago
From what I can tell, it's the invocation model and deployment that is unique here? You invoke faast from your local machine (or build server, or cron job, whatever), and in turn it deploys some functions to a serverless platform and r
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by gregmac 7y ago
> It seems like the clear workaround is to ask travelers if this is the case, and to ask for their passwords to any popular sites that provide this service. A clean laptop desktop is suspicious on its own. So someone wanting to hide some
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by gregmac 7y ago
After a marked decrease, piracy appears to be on the rise again [1]. The timing coincides with the peak content availability of Netflix, and then the fragmentation as every studio decided they needed to build their own streaming service. It
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by gregmac 7y ago
> We, for some reason pride ourselves on doing something new every time around, it seems. You can't copy and paste a successful surgery from one patient to another. > I've argued before with my leadership that, if we really
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by gregmac 7y ago
To send data using long polling, a new http request has to be made, since long polling is basically just a regular http request with a (possibly) very slow server reply. The client can either terminate the connection and make a new one, or
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by gregmac 7y ago
And what about all the times someone looks into something like this but finds no way to improve things -- is that doing their job or wasting time?
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by gregmac 7y ago
Hm, interesting, I thought this would be more about how these companies define "active user". For example: is a user with the app installed, logged in and running in the background considered "active" that day, even if
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by gregmac 8y ago
I think the Slack default of "Notify me on every new message" is the absolute worst thing. Change it to "Notify me on direct messages and mentions only". I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is a reasonable default,
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by gregmac 8y ago
To save you the click bait headline, literally first paragraph: > America is regressing to have the economic and political structure of a developing nation, an MIT economist has warned.
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by gregmac 8y ago
But now they need to pay for the car anyway, so you're left balancing the comparatively small cost of parking + extra gas + extra mileage against inconvenience of switching transit methods + cost of transit. There's many other fac
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by gregmac 8y ago
Sometimes you just have a single element to show/hide on an otherwise static or very simple page. It's satisfying to make that work in minutes with just a couple lines of code, which you can craft/tweak in your browser dev to
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by gregmac 8y ago
The tax is based on litres and type of beer [1] but it does in fact work out to be around 45% for something like Coors Light. There's a lower tax for draft beer, and a lower tax for microbreweries. The average Canadian apparently drink
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by gregmac 8y ago
I suspect you're arguing from the point of view of a determined attacker against a specific target, in which case, I agree -- there's an infinite number of different attacks you can try, with the caveat that any failed attempt is
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by gregmac 8y ago
How much money is wasted in duplicated efforts of two or more companies working on the same thing? There's merit, of course, to having different teams of people trying different approaches, but I assume even the learnings of failed att
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by gregmac 8y ago
> They need to know that, because they need to decide if it's worth it in the first place If this is the case, they should also be able to state the threshold above which the item would be "not worth it", and I would assum
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by gregmac 8y ago
The incentives are also very messed up, because of the way commission is paid. Freakonomics [1] famously covered this: Commission is typically 6%, which is split 4 ways to the buying agent, their agency, the selling agent and their agency.
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by gregmac 8y ago
While I'm hugely skeptical of the current state of self-driving cars, you could probably get human drivers to make the same mistake if you were to repaint the lines. However, humans will also notice the oncoming cars (if there are any)
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by gregmac 8y ago
As a society we've conditioned people that when your manager or someone in authority "asks" you to do something, it's not really a question. I think when that particular power dynamic doesn't exist, people are more
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by gregmac 8y ago
> I also quit when people began to care more about correctness than helping and made my contributions much less valuable ("you cannot post, this question has been deleted"). Same boat here. I also have been a SO user for over 1
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by gregmac 8y ago
Something I wish this discussed more was development vs production logs. It talks about a unique request identifier across microservices, but this applies within a single service too. In your development environment, you're usually onl
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by gregmac 8y ago
Yeah, this is just like any other thing you call out by putting on your resume. Nobody is a expert in everything, of course, but if you specifically put "TCP/IP" or "OOP" on your resume, you better be able to explai
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by gregmac 8y ago
From a network/protocol point of view, there's nothing really special about the top-level domains (TLDs), other than what we call the "internet" is largely based on names allocated by Internet Corporation for Assigned Na
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GitKraken v5.0: Interactive rebase, GPG commit signing(blog.axosoft.com)
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by gregmac 8y ago
If a third 737 Max 8 were to crash before a root cause of this crash can be determined, would you then say it's a prudent move to ground them all? What about a fourth? Fifth? Is your position that any grounding of the planes is unjus
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by gregmac 8y ago
There's a good hint at what's going on in a thread from yesterday about the 737MAX reports [1]: > 1555013 is pretty damning in telling how the airlines treated the MAX as the same type as the 737-800: > "I had my first
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by gregmac 8y ago
I highly suggest using a catch-all on a subdomain, not a top level domain. Top level domains get dictionary-style spam/phishing storms (eg alice@, bob@, charlie@, etc), but those don't seem to occur with subdomains. You can also c

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