indymike

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by indymike 5y ago
> The reason they attempted this one is because they thought they already had good enough models to avoid taking large losses. Risk aversion and launching a new business strategy do not work well together.
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by indymike 5y ago
> Can you not imagine how useful it is to know user data e.g. what neighborhoods receive the most clicks, what type of homes generate the most favorites, how long people view one listing vs. another, … that is unrelated to public MLS dat
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by indymike 5y ago
> This article is asserting that enough people don't find that to be the case that it's become a problem. Unpopular opinion: all entertainment does not have to be free, or approaching free. I'm able to buy access to thousa
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by indymike 5y ago
> I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc. You are at the level where the choice is either become
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by indymike 5y ago
> The proliferation of streaming services is too much to manage and inconvenient, nearly to the point of customer-hostile. And with each content creator wanting its own platform (Disney, Paramount, etc.) it's getting worse. I rather
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by indymike 5y ago
> People develop confidence and expertise from repeated success at accomplishing things. This works just as well, and has the benefit of not introducing bugs and security problems: "Thanks! I can merge this if you fix A and B."
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by indymike 5y ago
> But I'm glad maintainers act as gate keepers. Me too, it's kind of the whole point of being a maintainer :-)
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by indymike 5y ago
> Posts like this are major contributors to maintainer burnout. Lack of contributors also causes maintainer burnout. The best way I know to have zero help is to treat a contributor poorly. Sometimes it cannot be helped, for example, when
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by indymike 5y ago
> From what I have seen, older people in our trade seem to recommend against PHP due to it having a terrible relationship with consistency, functionality, performance, As an older person in the trade, I don't agree with the other ol
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by indymike 5y ago
You are correct.
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by indymike 5y ago
I'm thankful that I was born in the late 20th century, in a country where working in a factory paid well, farming isn't done with slave labor, where wars are limited (unless you live where the war is) and my middle class standard
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by indymike 5y ago
> That's the issue, trying to make one airframe fill three drastically different roles and hence failing at all of them. Really, you can thank the the F-4 Phantom II, F-16 and both versions of the F-18 (the A and C, which is a much
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by indymike 5y ago
Exactly controlled font rendering and color accuracy over the web are impossible to get exactly right because what is correct for one OS/GPU/screen combination will not be correct if you change OS or screen (and sometimes GPU).
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by indymike 5y ago
> It's by all means a mainframe. The PDP-11 was a minicomputer. It did not have the data throughput to compete with a mainframe.
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by indymike 5y ago
> no, the correct figure is 78% Not credible. There should be some odd number of tenths: 78.3% is clearly more credible than 78%
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by indymike 5y ago
> And you're confusing JSON the format with typical implementations. Open a JSON file and you see decimal digits. There is no limit to the number of the digits in the grammar. Parsing these digits and converting them to binary doubl
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by indymike 5y ago
It tells you how to load the value and can be human readable for audit purposes. example: degrees::'celsius'::100
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by indymike 5y ago
> JSON numbers, just like all human readable formats, are decimal... All JSON numbers are implemented as integers or floating point, and as a result, have to be cast as a decimal (a decimal type is generally something that meets this spe
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by indymike 5y ago
> The dominance of JSON just shows that JS is dominant. I don't know that's the case... I've used JSON in lots of non-JS languages because it just works, and errors rarely are caused by mismatches in how JSON behaves in la
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by indymike 5y ago
> The problem is that companies don’t want to invest the time in good security because it’s less profitable. Or, they are old and decrepit. If the company runs critical infrastructure, then peoples’ safety is at risk. Most of the time, i
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by indymike 5y ago
> I think this does not acknowledge how incredibly asymmetric the difficulty is on each side. It is expensive and difficult to protect against security breaches, I'm not an security guy, but occasionally, I get asked by a friend tha
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by indymike 5y ago
Ok, so the AWS bill is roughly $1,500 per company. That includes CDN, DNS, backup/restore, load balancing, serverless functions, database hosting, geographic redundancy, file storage, firewall, log aggregation, a data warehouse shared
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by indymike 5y ago
This is just good old monopoly market capture. Edge is malware, don't support it.
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by indymike 5y ago
I'm pretty sure adding $300,000 in salary to manage a $300/mo hosting bill isn't the best idea... but I do agree they'd be able to do more that just wait for something to break. AWS isn't bad if you have some disci
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by indymike 5y ago
I like the idea of a payment ban because it will force most companies to look at the systems that should be in place to prevent attacks. So many companies don't have working backups, and have not partitioned their systems in ways that
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by indymike 5y ago
> Looking at our VPS provider bills each month makes me cringe. Hosting costs often go up slowly over the years, and eventually, you have an unsustainable price. Just get quotes from a few other providers and go back to your current host
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by indymike 5y ago
So... blogging is no where near death. There's plenty of traditional written word blogs, but last I looked, audio and video podcasts are doing great, too. A podcast is an RSS feed with a media payload, and the sites that host them are
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by indymike 5y ago
I think this article is best summed up with: "Author exhausts arms hand waving."
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by indymike 5y ago
> Personal trust as a foundation for identity Eventually every system boils down to personal trust, from the doctor that certifies you were born, to the person looking at the computer screen in a licensing office who is deciding if she i
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by indymike 5y ago
> For citizens who want efficient, effective access to services that require identity. There are some citizens who want this. Not all. > a poor implementation doesn’t guard against overreach. A good implementation enables overreach as

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