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by kyrra 7y ago
PGP definitely has it's issues. It is a good tool for dealing with files, but yeah, it has it's problems. It looks like Google's security team prefers the use of Tink[0] when having to encrypt things. [0] https://
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by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) For server-to-server, I continue to prefer PGP to provide my encryption. While Google Payments[0] supports PGP and JWE for encrypting payloads, PGP is well tested and most of the bugs have been worked out. J
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by kyrra 7y ago
I wonder how this fix behaves with '\r' on all platforms. Obviously the primary systems (windows/osx/linux/bsd) all use \n or \r\n, but I'm wondering if Git has been ported to more obscure systems that only us
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by kyrra 7y ago
What do you mean by outside travelers? do you mean people from other states, or from outside the country? If you mean from other states, then they are legally barred from doing that. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by kyrra 7y ago
When you say hangouts, do you mean old hangouts or the newer Hangouts Meet? They are 2 very different products.
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by kyrra 7y ago
I saw this mentioned in a WSJ piece yesterday. > You can get an external webcam—although top models are sold out across the web. ( Logitech says it’s increasing production and distribution to meet the new demand.) https://www.
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by kyrra 7y ago
(I'm a googler, opinions are my own) Even for US citizen's, there isn't a full-proof way to deal with account recovery. I'd say your account getting locked for incorrect reasons is pretty rare. I think one important thi
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by kyrra 7y ago
(I'm a googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on Fi.). Google Fi provides sim swap attack protection. To bind a Google Fi # to a phone, you need to be able to log into your Google account on that phone (from the Fi app). The
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by kyrra 7y ago
Work Profiles is the feature: https://developer.android.com/work/managed-profiles I recently had to wipe my phone and changed from full-access to work profiles and it's nice to have that clean division between my
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by kyrra 7y ago
My guess? The people involved at Tailscale. Two of the founders (Avery Pennarun and David Crawshaw) are former Googler's that had a lot of respect within the company (I loved both of their G+ posts internally). Brad Fitzpatrick also
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's a common optimization in Go. The benchmark tool that ships with go allows reporting of bytes allocated per call. Many webserver frameworks in Go strive for 0 allocs so as a user of the library, you know it won't cause extra g
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by kyrra 7y ago
My friend was selling me on affinity recently. They have a 50% off sale going on with their products right now, and they have 90 day demos to try it. Definitely will have a learning curve for someone that has only used paint.net, but will b
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by kyrra 7y ago
By reporting, I believe they mean how many ventilators the US has. See my peer comment to yours that has data from 2010 and 2012, which is the newest the US seems to have.
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by kyrra 7y ago
The US last got data in 2010 I believe. I believe this is the paper many people site today: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-an... > The median number of full-feature mechanical ventil
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by kyrra 7y ago
Correct. This is just exposing indexed versions of some of our larger open source projects with this code search. Chromium also has its code indexed by the older version of this tool: https://cs.chromium.org/
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by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) Btw, the "finding a new role" is easily within Google. One of the "cloud" teams that was defragged was in my office, and some of those people were people I've worked with over the yea
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by kyrra 7y ago
it made it painful for a while, but GoLand and VSCode both support modules at this point (though VSCode uses the gopls[1] (language server), that I've been having mixed results with). [1] https://github.com/golang/
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by kyrra 7y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416067 ?
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by kyrra 7y ago
The creators were working on Google Search and tired of various aspects of it, and tried to fix their annoyances with Go.
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by kyrra 7y ago
My money is on the email hack having the biggest impact. Especially when the FBI reopened the email server investigation right before the election. I don't think the contents of the hack had much impact, but the act of it and the inves
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by kyrra 7y ago
Look how much money Bloomberg had spent and isn't doing all that great in national polls. Also look at the 2016 election, Hilary spent almost double what Trump spent and still lost. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F
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by kyrra 7y ago
I can read Google groups just fine in incognito mode. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/golang-nuts It's a matter of what the settings are on the group (the group admins get to decide visibility
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by kyrra 7y ago
WSJ is the origin of the story (even Forbes links to them as being the source). How is it clickbait? Also, the title on the WSJ article right now is: "Google Resists Demand From States in Digital-Ad Probe". Also from the articl
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by kyrra 7y ago
WSJ had an interesting piece a week ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracles-man-in-washington-fans-... TLDR: Oracle has a lobbyist (who was on Trump's transition team) that has gotten the ear of the Whitehouse a
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by kyrra 7y ago
As was said in another thread, you only tend to hear about the private equity deals that go bad. Here are some of the big ones both good and bad: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/111015/10-most...
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by kyrra 7y ago
I don't believe this is correct. It will just spawn green threads, which are neither system threads nor processes. You'd really want to use syscall.ForkExec: https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ForkExec ED
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by kyrra 7y ago
I just went through this as well. And I discovered that GitHub can import private bitbucket mercurial projects. That made it super easy.
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Judge approves $26B merger of T-Mobile and Sprint(cnbc.com)
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by kyrra 7y ago
Aside: this is one thing I found interesting about go. They maintain one compiler and two front ends: llvm: https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/ gcc: https://github.com/golang/gofrontend Go: https
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by kyrra 7y ago
Go purposely "randomizes" order of a map when it's iterated over, which you can see running this demo: https://play.golang.org/p/DISpyv0Zuq_j HN discussed this a little 6 years ago: https://ne

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