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by kerblang 2y ago
Yet again HN gets weird with highly contradictory popular posts trending simultaneously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923870 "A computer can never be held accountable"
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by kerblang 2y ago
I've worked on several systems that implement an "audit log", where every single change is logged with a timestamp & user, notes are auto-generated and/or manually entered about why the change happened, users can dir
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by kerblang 2y ago
English is a terrible programming language.
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by kerblang 2y ago
What are the mechanics of short-lived certificates? Is there some way to pre-load several months' worth of upcoming certs so that you can rotate them into place in the nick of time even though the cert issuer went temporarily kaput at
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by kerblang 2y ago
Most people will prefer a commonly accepted version of truth; autistic folks tend to be willing to violate that status quo and can get in trouble for it. Remember to be pragmatic and not die on a hill for the sake of an argument that isn&#x
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by kerblang 2y ago
People insist devs aren't stakeholders but I've heard all of these more times than I can count...
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by kerblang 2y ago
Nihilism is cynicism with a turbo button
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by kerblang 2y ago
This is a truly bizarre and random attack. I don't think OP claimed the book as "proof" of radical socialist fervor in the first place - it's the widely known history, and are we attempting to contradict that ?
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by kerblang 2y ago
Egads, a determinism crisis, with math! We must squarsh the ornery willfulness of this wee ball, but how?
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by kerblang 2y ago
Was dealing with mocking voodoo garbage this morning as a result of fixing a bug. What a horrible mess just to claim a few lines of "test coverage" while ignoring critical db functionality. I wouldn't mind if the mocking fram
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by kerblang 2y ago
Warship
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by kerblang 2y ago
Didn't see this comment before complaining in a separate comment, but a destroyer is not a battleship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer
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by kerblang 2y ago
> D. Richard Hipp (DRH) was building software for the USS Oscar Austin, a Navy destroyer. The existing software would just stop working whenever the server went down (this was in the 2000s). For a battleship, this was unacceptable. Maybe
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by kerblang 2y ago
Interesting in light of another much-discussed story about AI scraper farms swamping/DDOSing sites https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549624
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by kerblang 2y ago
It looks like various companies with resources are using available means to block AI bots - it's just that the little guys don't have that kinda stuff at their disposal. What does everybody use to avoid DDOS in general? Is it just
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by kerblang 2y ago
If one could get sufficient AI for Muzak (not that challenging) into the footprint of a white noise box like LectroFan, would fun & profit ensue, with the bonus of killing spotify? The author acts like this ghost thing ruined spotify
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by kerblang 2y ago
I had the impression that hash routing in React was deprecated and a React-based back end is almost a mandate now... Wondering what options people are actually taking?
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by kerblang 2y ago
As usual, it must be warned that living forever means you can be tortured forever. Interesting that an article on Dante is getting upvotes today...
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by kerblang 2y ago
Aaaand I'm still stuck on the anachronistic idea of hierarchical menus with text that explains what you're about to do, along with keyboard shortcuts and - in the non-mac world - "mnemonics" (sequential keyboard shortcut
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by kerblang 2y ago
TIL after hearing the name a gazillion times that it's actually spelled with a "t". Apparently I am not alone...
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by kerblang 2y ago
The various message-queueing products, Kafka, et al. Sorry for late response and not responding sooner...
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by kerblang 2y ago
I don't buy the b.s. around MQTT being so lightweight/efficient/etc. It's just using TCP/IP. Maybe by the standards of the day that was comparatively special, but I've never seen any real evidence for the claim
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by kerblang 2y ago
> During my life, I have met several people, especially among software engineers, who seem to be similar to me This begs a question though: Since programming is mostly done with language - admittedly primitive/pidgin ones - why isn&
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by kerblang 3y ago
Okay, good. As authentic "pragmatism" goes, the author conveys a sense of cynical pragmatist-in-waiting rather than activist pragmatist-in-action; I would do the pragmatic thing, and yes, I'm smart enough, but not if there&
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by kerblang 3y ago
I agree: It's not 75%. But you're suddenly substituting the word "brilliant" for "pragmatic" and that's kinda questionable. It might be that you define brilliant differently than some others, so that IQ is
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by kerblang 3y ago
Answering myself again, yeah, they all seem to have this private key hidden away somewhere. Didn't know that. https://frontegg.com/blog/authentication-apps#How-Do-Authent... ?
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by kerblang 3y ago
Do all these 2FA apps - like say Microsoft Authenticator - have these hidden/not-so-hidden private keys? From other posts it sounds like you can view the token and write it down... MA doesn't have that, I don't think.
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by kerblang 3y ago
Surprised this is the only comment mentioning the amazing Zyrtec (with Cetirizine) (probably misspelled, even with the bottle in front of me), in poem form. But yeah it does work, smashingly. Also I found changing my AC air filter helped.
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by kerblang 3y ago
Answering myself, this helps a bit: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-authenticator-will-now-... I guess we need a better way to handle "Old phone went swimming, had to buy another, now what?"
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by kerblang 3y ago
I don't understand: Why on earth does google want to sync MFA tokens? They're one-time use, aren't they? Or... feh, I can't even fathom

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