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by kijin 2y ago
git blame is the best teacher of humility.
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by kijin 2y ago
I think you still care too much about the visitor's identity and agency. Step back a bit and ask why anyone ever tried to throttle or block bots in the first place. Most of the time, it's because they waste the service operator&#x
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by kijin 2y ago
> tire wear is proportional to vehicle weight to the fourth power. Does this mean that a bus that weighs 10 times as much as a small car will produce 10000 times as much tire dust? If it does, I'm not sure if investing in buses will
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by kijin 2y ago
Depends on where the sand is. I don't want that stuff in my lungs.
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by kijin 2y ago
There exists an Ubuntu-like distro that doesn't have snaps. It makes regular LTS releases like Ubuntu does, it's more stable, and it upgrades flawlessly every time. It's called Debian.
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by kijin 2y ago
When the only tool your AI can wield is a hammer, everything had better look like a nail. Once the models become fast enough to feel instantaneous, we'll probably begin to see more seamless interfaces. Who wants a pair programmer who g
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by kijin 2y ago
If I didn't have the modulo operator, I would just check whether division resulted in a round number. I wouldn't rate someone who understands this basic principle lower than someone who just happens to know about the modulo operat
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by kijin 2y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence surely is indistinguishable from malice.
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by kijin 2y ago
Not just correct code, but also a whole bunch of incorrect answers, as well as votes and comments to help weigh the trustworthiness of each answer.
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by kijin 2y ago
In aggregate, Stack Overflow probably saved developers far more time than anyone ever put in, and saved companies all over the world far more money than the founders made in their exit.
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by kijin 2y ago
There are opportunity costs no matter which job you take, from startup to FAANG. So of course this is assuming that you joined the startup after carefully considering other employment options, as you absolutely should. No disagreement there
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by kijin 2y ago
Yeah, that's a problem. It is leaking metadata, not content. Ideally, the image should be padded, encrypted with a different key, and given a different URL for each user who is authorized to view it. But this would increase the client&
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by kijin 2y ago
AFAIK the attack described by OP only works if the attacker knows the (randomly generated) URL of the image, which probably means they have a Signal client that can decrypt the image already. So the secrecy of the content is not at issue. T
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by kijin 2y ago
We're not talking about that kind of risk. It's just a synonym for the amount somebody is going to lose if the company fails, regardless of what the amount means to them personally. VC invests $1M in a startup, they are risking $1
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by kijin 2y ago
Some people just like the hustle culture. They can't seem to stand the boredom of a sustainable company with years of runway. So it obviously depends on your personality. For some, the thrill is worth the risk. For others, it's a
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by kijin 2y ago
Being successful at a startup isn't about being a good coder, either. Especially if you're a founding member or an early hire, it often has much more to do with having good insights about where technology meets business, knowing h
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by kijin 2y ago
Nothing stops Cloudflare from inspecting the file contents, or using a hash to distinguish between identically-sized files. The only reason we assume they don't do this is because it's a waste of resources for no good reason. But
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by kijin 2y ago
Usually, the only engineer who has any chance of making a significant amount of money is the technical co-founder, often called the CTO. The rest of the money belongs to the MBAs and the bankers. It's always been their money, it will a
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by kijin 2y ago
Yeah, this is often overlooked in all the talk of $300k FAANG salaries. Few people get those senior salaries, and those who do get it because of their unusual skills and experiences. A stint at a startup is still a pretty good way to get th
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by kijin 2y ago
It used to work back when the software market was growing exponentially. You could take care of old customers using revenue from new customers, because you always had more new customers than old ones. Upgrade cycles also used to be much sho
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by kijin 2y ago
Many distros still provide the `service` command, and don't print any warnings when you use it. At best, you might get an informational message that the equivalent systemd command is being called. There is no recommendation to call the
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by kijin 2y ago
A small-scale contractor doesn't have a price list, but a real estate developer who builds an entire subdivision at a time definitely has a price list. There might be taxes and fees on top of that, but everyone expects that anyway. At
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by kijin 2y ago
In a perfect world, that would be glorious. In the real world, designers will just plaster all webpages with images to replicate the fonts they aren't allowed to use. SVG sprites, anyone? :(
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by kijin 2y ago
The great thing about working with a non-hipster language or framework is that everything is incredibly stable. There's no need to worry about the latest update breaking something, or argue about which design pattern is more correct. A
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by kijin 2y ago
Agreed. If SQL didn't have NULL, we'd have other special values meaning "I don't know" or "no data" all over the place. Too many newbies hear that NULL is bad, so they declare all columns as NOT NULL and e
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by kijin 2y ago
Terminals are generally located to the side of a runway at some distance, where a plane aligned with the runway is unlikely to hit them no matter how fast it's going. Not sure if there's a regulation that requires this kind of arr
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by kijin 2y ago
Yes, especially because the concrete block is against regulations. A terminal beside the runway at roughly the same distance is not against regulations. Almost every rule in aviation is written in blood, so if there's a rule about some
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by kijin 2y ago
Then push up the valuation. Find out how many euros your co-founder is willing to part with (or even borrow!) in order to get that 99% ownership that they want so badly.
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by kijin 2y ago
Yeah, I think it will be better if OP can reach an agreement somewhere in the middle where they retain just enough shares not to interfere with future investment. 5-10% of something is better than 49% of nothing. Plus they can collect some
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by kijin 2y ago
SSH remote absolutely rocks. It's the #1 reason I chose VS code instead of some other editor with an SFTP plugin. I'm working on a Windows host with a bunch of Linux VMs. Although I can share directories between the host and guest

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