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by lbriner 4y ago
You can never guarantee that! Even if the law was able to be that clear-cut about a particular crime, plenty of people would still believe they will get away with it, otherwise there would be no hard crime in the world right?
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In lots of cases, this is demonstrably not true. Sure some scammers might make millions but many make much less. Look at the average cost for prison, the cost of the police and Courts and it can add up to much more. I'm not saying that
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by lbriner 4y ago
Yahoo's latest tactic is just to insist on complete DMARC alignment to even stand a chance of being delivered. We have no problems with pretty much any other provider apart from them. And of course, they won't help you understand
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by lbriner 4y ago
Why does this article not even once mention that average could mean "mean", "median" and/or "mode"? Even the title alludes to one of the biggest problems in the domain and that is that many people don&#x27
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by lbriner 4y ago
It's not even a choice between free and not-free, sometimes you would be happy to pay but then the tool becomes bloatware. As the OP said, why do you need two vertical menus for an RSS reader? Why not hide the advanced stuff under an a
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think that is a bit unfair. Many of us have used something that was originally a certain way and worked and we have let it get embedded and useful at which point it becomes more and more complicated, maybe the upgrade prompts become much
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by lbriner 4y ago
Ironically, I think one of the biggest issues is around packaging, specifically Helm charts (but if there are others, it is probably the same). In many frameworks, packaging is to help people by hiding complexity. Need an ingress? Use a Hel
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by lbriner 4y ago
I wouldn't say that I hate Atlassian but I didn't get on with either Confluence or Jira. I think now that web applications have become so advanced, we are starting to suffer from subtle UX issues that are not necessarily easy to p
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by lbriner 4y ago
Our Product Team use Devops, particular the "Features" part which makes it easier to organise at a high level but also you can easily link to other PBIs created to implement those features. My experience is really related to peopl
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by lbriner 4y ago
I have only a small dabbling in Rust and it was to create a Postfix milter. What was awesome was that someone had already written a Rust crate so that I didn't have to do anything too horrific. The compiler on Ubuntu just worked as exp
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by lbriner 4y ago
Like a lot of fads in IT, Big Data sounded like "if you have a lot of data you can monetize it" so companies threw 7+ figures at the technology and then realised that you can have too much data to know what to do with and couldn&#
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by lbriner 4y ago
This is not the same at all. An equivalent would be if Steven King read a lot of other authors and then copied parts of their works into his own books for profit, even if they were changed slightly.
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think the challenge is that unless you consider and write the tests first, it is easy to create tests that pass. Test ssl verify? Easy, just mock it returning 1 and the code passes. In real life, however, maybe the return value is -1 and
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by lbriner 4y ago
Yes I agree, that it is easy to assume people are not clever but you only have to see most Politicians after they leave Government to hear how (usually) perceptive, articulate and intelligent they are - which presumably is how they convince
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by lbriner 4y ago
I don't know who said it but "Failing to plan is planning to fail, however, no war was ever won by planning alone". In other words, most of business (as well as life) is both strategic and tactical. My strategic plans are nee
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by lbriner 4y ago
That's not quite true. There is a difference between e.g. making a really nice design "as good as possible" but producing something that is not best-practice, doesn't solve the problem well, isn't a standard look fo
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by lbriner 4y ago
OP wasn't saying that all people are always held accountable for all of their actions but the Iraq war caused a massive problem for Labour at the polls that they never really recovered from. Also, the incessent onslaught of media vultu
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by lbriner 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the underlying problem being that most tools are too mouse intensive, for me, the issue is that there are shortcomings that make it so that you need to use the mouse a lot and which don't need to be solve
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by lbriner 4y ago
I had the same on Duolingo, getting unnecessary animations after getting a question correct was not only tiresome but very slow especially when you are on a time-limited bonus. Fortunately, they have accessibility mode which disables the an
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by lbriner 4y ago
That is fine for things that serve an obvious function. If you need a checkbox, use a checkbox, it doesn't need improving. If, on the other hand, you create a new type of control/interaction to solve a problem better, great. Also,
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by lbriner 4y ago
An A/B test with two bad options will just lead to the least worst option but OP correctly points out that to design a new way of doing a checkbox etc. with no problem to solve is a dangerous exercise in vanity. In some cases these une
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by lbriner 4y ago
I don't know what physical issues exist but there are immense challenges with these projects, not least of which is that you often have to do most or all of the work before you can get any benefit. You then have old trains that need re
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by lbriner 4y ago
I saw the same program and was cringing. "The train has crashed" now meaning its software has crashed and it needs a reboot. It is not frightening that it might physically crash the train, which I assume has crazy numbers of fails
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I think anxiety is an unusual mental issue because it can seem completely rational. There are things in life to be worried about right? At the same time, just because it can seem rational, doesn't mean it is necessary. We would all wor
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by lbriner 4y ago
Some interesting parts, although issues related to memory bandwidth and disk IO are not as relevant today. I guess the most obvious parallel is that current OSs were designed for hardware that worked the way it did 30 years ago and now that
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A couple of extra points. The article alludes to the need for through tracks although it is perhaps not immediately obvious that this can also be used for main "terminal" stations. In Germany, very few trains terminate in the Haup
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by lbriner 4y ago
Bureaucracy is terrible but the only other mainstream option is based on trust and people have a habit of abusing it. What alternatives? Someone visits the restaurant and says, "yeah that all looks OK"? Then they take a bribe and
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People expect to be protected from the unscrupulous which means councils, governments, police, IRS etc. all need to know who is doing what, then there is the ability to do background checks, tax status checks and in regulated areas perhaps
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by lbriner 4y ago
What's depressing is that these hardware specs are millions of times faster/more cores/more storage/more ram than 20 years ago but we still manage to produce laggy applications and websites. How can something that should
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by lbriner 4y ago
The way I read it, you might have lots of javascript to compute and render your e.g. counter control but you can keep that on the server side, only return the (much smaller) piece of HTML code and ONLY the JS needed to make the control inte

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