hospadar

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by hospadar 4y ago
> if someone decides to target you I think reducing log spam is actually a great security outcome, if the only thing normally present in the log are my real logins, an attacker's attempt world stick out like a sore thumb.
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by hospadar 4y ago
I really feel that it should be named "Deep Brown"
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by hospadar 4y ago
It does seem like much of Getty's business is redundant if you can trivially generate "photograph of person laughing while eating a bowl of salad" Maybe the new business is "reasonably high degree of trust that if it&#x2
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by hospadar 4y ago
I'm not sure if describe collective action as "a game they will lose." Labor laws and the 40 hour work week didn't just get handed down by well meaning capitalists. They happened because of decades of intense coordinat
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by hospadar 4y ago
I've always thought that the ability to communicate to other humans about programs and to be able to synthesize a conceptual understanding from looking at code are highly valuable and sometimes-overlooked in the workplace. Assignments
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by hospadar 4y ago
I have some beefs: > To be more specific - for most web projects I work on, I have a very similar yaml file for CI, Dockerfile, Very similar, but not actually the same - of course there's always a tradeoff between control and conven
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by hospadar 4y ago
While you're at it ask your corporate boss if you can use his private jet since it is your labor making him wealthy after all. I'm sure he'll be very generous. I agree that powerful people aren't great but it seems ridi
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by hospadar 4y ago
Do you honestly believe that Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, who just shot himself into space on a private rocket, is worried about his personal safety because of the president of the teamsters?
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by hospadar 4y ago
> The experimentation of the Cold War was fairly tightly controlled and limited in quantity; This seems a bit generous to the US & USSR - remember when we nuked the bikini atoll many times? (oops sorry about your homeland)
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by hospadar 4y ago
Plenty of folks are making a lot of money out there maintaining an echo chamber (facebook, many politically-aligned news websites on all sides) on the internet, so while I agree that it's maybe not great for society, it does seem to wo
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by hospadar 4y ago
See also: https://thirty-thousand.org/ General idea being to massively increase the number of reps (presumably adding much more diversity of opinion and nuance to congress). Not specifically about RCV, but lots of great tho
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by hospadar 4y ago
> Direct democratic voting by the employees? I would guess but do not know that ESOP corps generally have much lower executive comp for this exact reason? Attempted some limited googling but the (seemingly) best source for this is a lil
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by hospadar 4y ago
I've been really leaning into handwriting - and good penmanship in general as a fun creative activity. I started writing all my notes/journal entries/etc in cursive during covid just for something to do and I've become
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by hospadar 5y ago
> Seems like the company might eat the fine, the city will take the money, and the problem persists, but now the city is happy too. Then the fine isn't big enough? (:
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by hospadar 5y ago
Yes definitely. Objectively less stuff _can_ happen to you - for example, you could write an insane racist rant and then still be rich!
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by hospadar 5y ago
Passing a driver's test doesn't fully prevent all car accidents, and yet we still require potential drivers to pass a test. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
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From Programmer to Computer (1958)(pubs.acs.org)
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by hospadar 5y ago
I was wondering if there was any similar conversation going on way way back when compilers were a new thing - found this gem by Grace Hopper (1958) (yeah THAT Grace Hopper). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021&#x2
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by hospadar 5y ago
The whole notion of online proctoring seems pretty whack to me also: what world are we training and testing people to live in? The real world has internet, you can search for stuff, you can work from home and take a break. I'm not goo
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by hospadar 5y ago
I work for ITHAKA (parent of jstor.org) and I think they are decidedly non-suckey: https://www.ithaka.org/ - Great benefits - Very transparent leadership - Nonprofit (501c3) - long-term sustainability of the org & produ
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by hospadar 5y ago
Chain whip!
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by hospadar 5y ago
Also presumably because lots of shopping activity starts and ends on amazon, and if you aren't listed there, you'll lose sales.
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by hospadar 5y ago
To add a little color and for clarity: Some google links (notably shopping links for products) don't just point at a google-owned redirect (presumably for ad tracking/payment calculation?), they also change the link target on clic
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by hospadar 5y ago
I'm sure it won't put a stop to it, I love to read discussions about "Does company X engage in anti-competitive behavior and are they a big enough player that it's a problem". That seems to be a much more useful di
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by hospadar 5y ago
Personal hot take on meritocracy: I think that "talent" is a tricky thing. Meritocracy (which I might define as "how much you get/are paid/are given access to is based on your talent and/or contribution to soc
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by hospadar 5y ago
> The only solution to the underlying problem is to allow construction to meet the underlying demand. While I do think that allowing more construction would be great, there's probably other things that could help alleviate the probl
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by hospadar 5y ago
On a literary note: another great sci-fi reference point is Samuel Delaney's "Babel 17" - the hook is that a government creates a language that enables extreme thought capabilities, but prevents you from conceptualizing the o
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by hospadar 5y ago
Wow mostly unrelated, I had no idea that _Amanita Muscara_ was considered to be psychoactive (usually is described as poisinous in field guides). Also frequently considered to be edible (after treatment) in some places. Fascinating! (for
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by hospadar 5y ago
Amen! Turns out people are complicated and brains/thoughts/ideas don't exist on a single purple spectrum from red to blue.
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by hospadar 5y ago
>> What happens if the URL changes? > Cool urls don't change. Use configs. I also kinda think that for many webapps, the risk of this is somewhat overstated. I've got tons of apps with a few hard-coded URL paths that poi

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