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by kyrra 4y ago
Companies should cooperate when compelled so by law, not just cause. This gets into the space where many here knock Chinese companies as they are regularly directed partially by the CCP. The real question is, when does laws that apply only
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https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html > Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memor
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by kyrra 4y ago
Agreed here. I haven't actually used staging env as described here (single instance where you can test. We have used what is called preview instances for quite a while. We tend to keep 2 hot, and they get recycled ever X hours and new
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by kyrra 4y ago
The issue is back in 2009, the US government started backing student loans, so they were guaranteed loans. There was also no loan limit on these. This is allowed universities to charge more and more money, in the fed was happy to back these
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by kyrra 4y ago
/meme why not both! Googler, opinions are my own. Sometimes we use flags on my team for controlling experiments and whatnot, flags tend to be used for more static settings, like the name of other jobs we call. We have a few configurati
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1password used to do this with a thing called 1password anywhere, which was turned down in 2016. https://1password.community/discussion/63045/moving-beyond-1... If stores all the passwords in encrypted js files, w
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by kyrra 4y ago
Even better that $20/month on linode is a GCP free tier instance. For this case, I bet it would be free. https://cloud.google.com/free
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by kyrra 4y ago
Cheapest linode is $5/month. Not sure why you'd need one that is $20/month
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In the US, that would require an entire upending of how our country built housing and commercial space. That won't happen without a major shift. People will not want to give up their freedom of mobility.
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by kyrra 4y ago
Googler, options are my own. This is a great write-up. As someone who has had to deal with backend subsetting a bunch in the past, this is such an interesting read. One thing interesting about Google's scale and this architecture is th
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by kyrra 4y ago
The editorial pages of WSJ are definitely conservative. The news side tends to lean center left. As a conservative and subscriber to Wall Street journal for the past 6 years, the news side regularly butts heads with editorial side.
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Most people use these to buy products that they likely can't afford. This isn't systemic issues, this is people wanting things that they can't afford given their income and wealth.
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I went with Epson as well after having a xerox laser printer for about a decade. The xerox allowed me to do aftermarket toner and it work decently well, but it's still had issues. Sadly a good laser printer, the toner is just far too e
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by kyrra 4y ago
Cleaning up code is something I get great pleasure. It not only makes navigating the code base easier for people new to the code base won't look at something that isn't ever actually run in production. It also prevents people from
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by kyrra 4y ago
Agreed. When things are web hosted, there's all kinds of processing. Still. Spam filter, searching email history, even loading an email is considered processing the email. I believe both Google and Microsoft try to firewall any Enterpr
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by kyrra 4y ago
Fyi, this is related to the story from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823946 An important comment from the original story: > OEMs have mitigated the issues above in previous updates. A new security up
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by kyrra 4y ago
Can the universities prove that whatever process they have now (or is trying to do) is better than a pure meritocracy? Obviously we would need to agree on what "better" means here (ie: what outcomes they are measuring). The quest
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by kyrra 4y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-team-amon... FTX and it's executives donated $70 million to politicians as well (in the last 18 months). SBF donated $40MM to Democrats, and a different executive
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by kyrra 4y ago
I don't think you can do commits from hg serve, can you?
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by kyrra 4y ago
I'm sort of amazed that git and mercurial haven't built something like that yet. Makes me a little sad that Facebook created a new scm instead of expanding mercurial to include features like this.
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by kyrra 4y ago
This was one thing that annoyed me about Affinity as well, no AVIF or WEBP support. There are a number of threads on their forums asking for it, but Serif staff stopped responding to those a while ago.
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Default created Debian based linodes use a static IP. How they assign you the IP is they have an initial network boot script that injects that static IP into your config. I learned this because I wanted to test image recovery of deleted lin
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Chime: 12% https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33455728 CloudKitchens: https://archive.ph/t46mK Amazon hiring freeze: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454151
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by kyrra 4y ago
Basically most news agencies started doing this after AP pushed it. https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566...
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And what was the financial impact of the blackouts that happened in the last few years? During that event the solar was effectively zero, and wind was close to that. Plus too many gas plants were in maintenance or froze/broke, which c
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by kyrra 4y ago
Check the commit history on the project. Last real commit was mid April.
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by kyrra 4y ago
The major issue with the Jones act is that it prevents domestic transport of goods on water unless it is a built/flagged US ship. This accounts for a tiny fraction of transport within the US (3%): https://data.bts.gov/
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> most popular smartphone in the world While this is a technically correct statement, it is also hiding the truth. Android makes up 70% of the smartphone market still, but the phones are made by different companies (hence why the iphone
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During the dot com bust, my brother -in-law ended up being unemployed for 18 months. Moving back in with family, if an option, is always a good path in situations like this.
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by kyrra 4y ago
You're ignoring history and momentum. (I am likely wrong on some parts of the below). Credit cards have been present in the United States for a century (I believe originating as store credit), within becoming ubiquitous after the mag s

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