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by lizard 3y ago
You know, after I wrote this I got to thinking, "Why don't I have have more social Zoom calls?" The answer is that I never was good at social things like inviting people to coffee. But it doesn't help that we're tau
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by lizard 3y ago
According to the stats on the original link, there are over 25,000 identified secret ids/keys/tokens in the data. And it looks like that's just identifiable secrets, e.g. "Google API Keys" that I'm guessing are
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by lizard 3y ago
Kinda like you say yourself, the service is probably the least interesting part. It doesn't really matter whether its a public repository or if you use thing your friends shared only within their network. When it comes to what people e
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by lizard 3y ago
> Isn't this quite circular? People using code you publish publicly makes you reluctant to publish code publicly? Not that I disagree with this project, but just to maybe help see it from a little different perspective... When peopl
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by lizard 3y ago
I don't know about you, but I don't tend to have breakfast and lunch over Zoom. While I did go out to lunch with coworkers more often while working in the office it was almost exclusively with direct teammates, and other groups I
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by lizard 3y ago
> My stake here is just to alert people that their municipalities are taxing them for using the Internet, and hiding it in "fees" that most customers assume are Comcast soaking them (see: this very thread). This is what surpris
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by lizard 3y ago
I imagine some people won't be thrilled about the "Fee listing fee" that's going to show up on their bill.
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by lizard 3y ago
Does being able to say I have a labrador. instead of, I have a dog. give any value? It depends what you are doing and who you are working with, I suppose.
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by lizard 3y ago
Its notable, perhaps, that the if __name__ == "__main__": block allows you to do this for a _module_, i.e. a single *.py file. If you want to do this for a package, add a `__main__.py` You can also use either of these throu
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by lizard 3y ago
I think of scripts as a sub-type of program; it is more appropriate to contrast it to a library, such that the intent changes a few expectations about how the program is built and maintained. A script is specifically a program intended to p
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by lizard 3y ago
It seems like there's an opportunity here for SO to use an LLM to provide an immediate response to questions, then allow the community to discuss, clarify, expand, and even correct the response. This could even be done collaboratively
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by lizard 4y ago
Yes, it does add something. To be vain about it, there's enough drama and messiness in day-to-day life. I don't want to be reminded of that when I look back; I want to see the good parts, that it was all worthwhile. But, more prac
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by lizard 4y ago
On one hand, I'm not a photographer, I don't want to be a photographer, and I don't want to spend 30 minutes trying to get everything lined up and everyone looking in the right direction and not blinking or sneezing or whatev
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by lizard 4y ago
Sure, but that's kinda the point. Changing society's beliefs and especially behaviors can take generations. Today's adults are talking about it, but not doing enough about it. But for many of them it only became a problem aft
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by lizard 4y ago
As a fairly new parent, I'm not thrilled about the world my daughter will inherit. I struggle with a lot of questions like whether I should raise her to be a "good" person or a "successful" person. But, I've he
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by lizard 4y ago
> To what extent is this an actual "issue?" What are we sacrificing for having a plethora of divergent ideas? There's nothing wrong with divergent ideas per se, but divergent ideas themselves don't really do anything.
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by lizard 4y ago
I don't know if anyone is arguing that a forced transfer like this is a good thing. But there's a fair discussion at least, like for many things we do, about whether it can--or perhaps must--be used for some "greater good.&qu
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by lizard 4y ago
I think there's room for some middle ground here. It does not seem unreasonable to put some constraints on the AI such that if prompted > produce a work in the style of $living_artist it could respond > With respect to $living_ar
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by lizard 4y ago
Right?! If the first breach included 2 records and this only 1, it would still be the "second biggest" breach of the year. But, the necessary context is right in the first paragraph: > ...more than 3.1 million patients in the U
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by lizard 4y ago
I've been having this fight recently at work. We're implementing a new (cloud) platform that's pretty central to our primary business. Some sub-projects have already spun off, before we had even decided how to set up and main
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by lizard 4y ago
> at least Microsoft knows how to deal with enterprises. For what it's worth, this was a big part of why I had a positive image of Google. Enterprises are boring, especially when it comes to technology. They make boring decisions ab
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by lizard 4y ago
> New messages which the sender expects to be received ina certain way but there’s no guarantee it will be because we don’t know if the recipient is setup to handle it as you expect. I think this is one of the biggest points about commun
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by lizard 4y ago
I'm not particularly familiar with Electron and WebView2, but even the Electron blog suggest that WebView2 uses some different IPC formats that can be faster[1]. Considering a big selling point of Teams is as a hub for other Microsoft
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by lizard 4y ago
Right, I do this with argparse for creating simple CLIs for a module generally intended to be imported and used in another program. argparse has nothing to do with the actual module functions and won't be needed if the module if going
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by lizard 4y ago
I recently learned however that the SteamOS desktop is built on a read-only image, with the expectation software will be installed via flatpak. It is apparently possible to turn the read-only protection off to use pacman or your own thing,
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by lizard 5y ago
Thanks, that was not clear with the commentary about "paying someone" and "before you read it" that make it sound like something normal people wouldn't do and should be wary of.
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by lizard 5y ago
You are absolutely allowed to remove the ads from your copy of a magazine, whether you do it yourself, another household member, a visitor, or even someone you pay. Even if someone does it without your consent, the dispute is with the copy
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by lizard 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the rules for data brokers or if Optery is able to compel anyone to actually delete things, especially if they claim not to not have a way to prevent reentry. The platforms I worked with all handled opt-outs with
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by lizard 5y ago
Not in California, but spent some time several years ago working on the tech for a sales arm. My impression there was that people where pretty conscious of opt-outs and wanting to manage them carefully, if only because the consequences of n
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by lizard 5y ago
I like my job. I mean, it's not necessarily my _passion_, but I care about the cause and believe I contribute directly and significantly to it. And while there is a lot of plumbing to do, I also have freedom to explore news ideas and l

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