gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
Don't make assumptions. My employer does not do end-of-year reviews. To make a long story short, my manager got angry because I wrote a quick and dirty tool that bypassed a lot of confusing abstraction layers, and is significantly easi
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
Really, the only time I use "http" is for running web services on my localhost for debugging, to connect to my router, and to connect to my NAS. I'm not sure the best way to secure that situation. Unencrypted traffic that onl
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> And now sometime back I got like 2-3 dressing downs from managers, reason being I am not taking leadership feedback seriously enough and mending my ways. It's important that you have relationships with your boss's boss. Some
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
See https://leedrutman.org/breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop It explains the problem with primaries. To summarize: In order to make it through your primary, you need to be ultra-conservative or ultra-liberal, and even suppor
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
Then why did mine do http first? Use the F12 screen to watch your browser resolve a domain that you type into the address bar.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
IMO: The right time to ask this question is when all browsers default to HTTPS; instead we should ask why browsers default to http instead of https. IE: I just typed "google.com" into Brave and it made a request to http:/&#x
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
We still need elections: There are policy decisions that really need to follow popular support; and there are situations where the general public needs to be able to overrule the legislature. (For example, marijuana legalization in Massachu
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The linked PDF, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/66d70657deaace3ac1fc4... , makes it very clear this is an old idea on page 3.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
Because many of us forget that getting elected and staying elected requires putting on an act for the minority of Americans who vote in primaries.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The George W. Bush era (not administration) was very polarized. When I read his memoir, he didn't come across as polarized, but more naive about polarization in the media. He did mention that he regretted not having a better media pres
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> Perhaps we can use this wild ancient idea to build a new, better democracy for the 21st century and beyond… The linked page makes it very clear that this is an old idea.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The manufacturers all want you to use their dongle. It's not CYA, either. A lot of the Amazon ones aren't safe. > I think you're underselling how standard it is. It's about availability: There's still way more CC
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
I watch my Bravia in the dark. Then again, mine is 5 years old, so maybe there's some differences.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The problem is that a lot of content today is mixed so that effects like explosions and gunshots are LOUD, whispers are quiet, and dialog is normal. It only works if you're watching in a room that's acoustically quiet, like a prof
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
There is no legal mandate for NACS. Cars are still sold with J1772/CCS ports, there are still CCS chargers being deployed, there are still J1772 home chargers being sold, almost every level 2 charger is J1772, and my NACS EV came with
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
You know that you can rent a golf cart. There's a reason why retirees play golf.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
And that retirees play it long after they've stopped playing other sports.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
A few years ago, I went skiing and rode a chairlift with a novice skier and some of her friends. She kept complaining that, as soon as she got into a rhythm, the ground would change and she couldn't maintain her rhythm. She didn't
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The technology is fine, it's the leadership. Plenty of other countries are rolling out EVs fine, we (the US) just can't seem to build out the charging infrastructure or standardize on a charging port. (And don't forget that L
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> Proper usage means disabling Nagle at the socket level but managing your own buffering in user-space. Honestly, if you're writing a (cough) typical webservice that just serializes an object to JSON, you've pretty much done th
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
What about GIMP or any of the other open source image editors? Just supporting a modern OS's graphical API (The pre-OSX APIs are long dead and unsupported) is a major effort.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> as are they everywhere else, presumably! They aren't "all over the place" in the US, and I certainly don't have a local archaeologist that I can just call up. FWIW: The Northeastern US is quite recent with human pre
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
A few days ago I implemented IComparable in .Net / C#, and copilot "read my mind" and made a suggestion. It saved me 2-3 minutes of typing. It took me about an hour of debugging to realize that copilot swapped a variable pref
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
I think some companies are making a mistake laying off employees who don't use it; because it's more important that employees have autonomy to choose the right tool for the job. The mistake is pushing it too aggressively, instead
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
I do think AI involvement in programming is inevitable; but at this time a lot of the resistance is because AI programming currently is not the best tool for many jobs. To better the analogy: I have a wood stove in my living room, and whe
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> The Cambrian explosion IBM-PC compatability didn’t happen overnight of course. There's a recording of an interview with Bill Gates floating around where he pretty much takes credit for that. He claims (paraphrasing because I liste
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
> How do you manage the key for encrypting IDs? The same way we manage all other secrets in the application. (Summarized below) > Is the ID encrypted using AEAD scheme (e.g. AES-GCM)? Or does the plain AES suffice? I assume that the s
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
The key will never be rotated. (There's no reason to.) We're not worried about key compromises. If the key is lost, we have much bigger problems.
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
That's basically the conclusion of the library: > But my key takeaway would be that if your product is just a SQL wrapper on a billing system, you now have thousands of competitors: engineers at your customers with a spare Friday af
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by gwbas1c 10mo ago
I work on an application where we encrypt the integer primary key and then use the bytes to generate something that looks like a UUID. In our case, we don't want database IDs in an API and in URLs. When IDs are sequential, it enables

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