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by jdlshore 5y ago
It’s still a pretty normal level of inflation. I assume 3% in my financial planning. But yes, being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> Check US inflation since the early 80's. It's 200%. It's been 40 years. Applying the rule of 72 ('cause I can't be bothered to do a more sophisticated analysis) and assuming that your "200%" means pri
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by jdlshore 5y ago
It's a classic example of a Christensen disruption. The disruptive technologies are often pioneered or even invented by "old guard" companies, but they ironically fail to capitalize on the invention, and eventually fall by th
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by jdlshore 5y ago
One disillusioned employee that has access to the secret algorithm.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
That’s not how the technology works. The files are never decrypted. Instead, if enough hashes match, a “visual derivative” is revealed. What a “visual derivative” is hasn’t been explained, but most people seem to think it’s a low-res versio
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by jdlshore 5y ago
You're correct. The amount of misinformation in this thread (and in the other responses to you) is out of control. The database of CSAM hashes is blinded and no one has the hashes. Without the hashes, this attack is useless. It's
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by jdlshore 5y ago
The document states that incorrectly flagged items are forwarded to engineering for analysis. Given their target false-positive rate (1 in 3 trillion, was it?) it seems likely that engineering would very carefully analyze a rush of false po
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by jdlshore 5y ago
This feels more like a marketing document to me than a workaday threat model. It's fairly handwavey, and the goal seems to be to convince rather than to do a hardnosed analysis. Not that it's not useful—I found it convincing—but I
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Apparently 70 million images have been reported by other providers (if I'm reading [1] correctly, which I'm not sure I am, since the paywall hides it before I can read closely). Assuming that's correct, the answer is "a
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Slippery Slope Fallacy(owl.excelsior.edu)
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by jdlshore 5y ago
“A SRE friend” is “pretty confident?” That’s a very bold claim to make on hearsay. Does your friend work at Apple? Are they just speculating, or do they have actual evidence? Why do you believe them? C’mon, people, I know this is a knee-jer
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Cookie AutoDelete will do the trick. It has per-container deletion rules.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Applaud. When I look at the alternatives (e.g., Facebook), I see pictures being stored in the cloud unencrypted, where they can be scanned for a match with the CSAM hashes. Apple, on the other hand, is developing a system to scan for CSAM m
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I see a lot of math and graphs. What I don’t see is an indication that the author understands the problem. Is he an experienced salesman? (The opening struck me as rather reductive, so my inclination is to believe that the analysis is proce
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> Now we are going to have to click through another 20 separate screens? I’ve never seen that. (Maybe I’m not visiting the same types of web sites you are.) You’re obviously ranting, which makes it hard for me to take you seriously. But
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I’ve implemented GDPR compliance and found the law and associated guidance quite clear.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
It may be clear, but it’s still in violation of the GDPR, which requires clear, unambiguous, non-coerced consent for each case where consent is required. Non-coerced means you have the option to decline and services can’t be withheld if
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by jdlshore 5y ago
It shows what you type on screen. For example, if you press Ctrl-C, it shows that on the screen. It’s useful for screencasts.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I have, and so have a lot of people. (Look up “Ward Number”). He worked at Tektronix back in the day. He created the WikiWikiWeb in about 90 lines of tight Perl. He is currently building the Federated Wiki. He’s currently working at New Rel
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> Perhaps the author has not observed good TDD. It’s quite possible; Microsoft perpetrated a brain-dead interpretation of TDD around the time the author is describing (2008) and there are still people there who believe that’s what TDD is
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by jdlshore 5y ago
This is a polemic against Extreme Programming that could have been written 15 years ago (and been just as wrong-headed then). And was. Many times.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Agile assumes people are intrinsically motivated to do good work. (This is called “theory Y” management.) It doesn’t work if people have to be extrinsically motivated (“theory X”). If you have a bunch of people who are just doing the minimu
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Six hours is longer than I would use for a regular retrospective, but 30 min is very short. The format you’ve described is fairly shallow. Check and Derby and Larsen’s Agile Retrospectives for ideas about what you might be missing.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
They’re “gravity defying” because they hang off the side of the mountain, and the people who installed them had to do so also. Don’t be so literal.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Yes, and it’s worth noting that Hillel was referring to _Leprechauns_ when he talked about the cost to fix claim.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
There’s a variety of analyses out there and they very consistently show a log-normal distribution for release predictions. I’ve analyzed Star Citizen’s publicly available data and found the same for their task estimates. It’s very reliable.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I'm skeptical of Wilson's reporting. One of his quoted studies looked interesting (slide 20, Fucci 2016, "An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach"), so
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by jdlshore 5y ago
No, there was no increase in health outcomes.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Counterintuitive as it may be, the Oregon Experiment showed increased costs. It did show an improvement is psychological outcomes, I presume due to peace of mind, because their wasn’t a corresponding increase in psychiatric medication.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> leading to worse outcomes. Do you have evidence of this part specifically? Because the Oregon Experiment found no improvement in health outcomes in a large randomized trial of low-income recipients of Medicaid. (Partly because their he

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