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by ljm 11mo ago
This does depend on a certain level of testing (automated or otherwise) for you to even be able to identify what breaks in the first place. The effect might be indirect several times over and you don't see what has changed until it lan
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by ljm 11mo ago
Depends how you come at it. Useless because you personally think it's a waste of your time, or you're above it? Definitely ego, it's not all about you. Useless because it's poorly executed or mismanaged? Perhaps not. Thi
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by ljm 11mo ago
It's always a challenge to write on topics like empathy and ego because of how heavily they are steeped in your own experiences, both professional and personal, and especially to do so without falling into the same ego-driven traps you
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by ljm 11mo ago
The pipe operator makes it much easier to create home-grown cryptographic hash functions, as everybody used to do in the early 2000s: md5($password) |> sha1(...) |> sha1(...) |> md5(...) |> rot13(...) |
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by ljm 11mo ago
Putting conditional logic in legislation still benefits big companies, if it still requires legal expertise to unpack all of the complexity added to the law. GDPR is a mess exactly because of this, and so is the UK’s ridiculous OSA. It’s lo
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by ljm 11mo ago
I misrepresented it, yes, but learning from my then-time friend, the purging aspect was a key aspect of it for them. More or less a way of getting ‘all that shit’ out of your system. That is obviously a perversion of the social act of takin
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by ljm 11mo ago
I knew one person--shared a flat with them--who was heavily into that sort of spiritual-esque alternative health, the sort you'd connect to the so-called Woo-to-Q pipeline these days, who would subject themselves to that kind of thing.
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by ljm 11mo ago
Pretty much - the time spent ruling out the hypothesis that it was a cyberattack would have been time spent investigating the uptick in deliberately written error logs, since you would expect alerts to be triggered if those exceed a thresho
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by ljm 11mo ago
If the internet was just social media, SaaS productivity suites, and AI slop, sure... But there are systems that depend on Cloudflare, directly or not, and when they go down it can have a serious impact on somebody's livelihood.
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by ljm 11mo ago
I would be less worried if Cloudflare and AWS weren't involved in many more things than simply running DNS. AWS - someone touches DynamoDB and it kills the DNS. Cloudflare - someone touches functionality completely unrelated to DNS hos
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by ljm 11mo ago
I don't think anything has pushed me towards low-key single player indie gaming more than the industry's relentless endeavour to blur the lines between gaming and gambling. Multiplayer? I loved the asymmetrical co-op ones like It
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by ljm 11mo ago
Spack is a really unfortunate name for a project given that it's a slur derived from 'spastic' in the UK.
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by ljm 11mo ago
It also looks like they've launched a new version of the Steam Controller.
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by ljm 11mo ago
That rebranding and Microsoft's abjectly terrible product naming convention essentially killed the Xbox. What the absolute fuck were they smoking when they went from Xbox, to Xbox 360, to Xbox One, to Xbox One X, to Xbox Series S and
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by ljm 11mo ago
Perhaps UK centric but I’d also consider: IN BOOST TO x — increment x by 1 IN BLOW TO x — decrement by 1 Throw in ‘BAN THIS SICK FILTH’ as a way to throw an exception. Of course, the absence of SLAMS and SNUBBED are notable. They should fit
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by ljm 1y ago
Composing multiple smaller agents allows you to build more complex pipelines, which is a lot easier than getting a single monolithic agent to switch between contexts for different tasks. I also get some insight into how the agent performs (
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by ljm 1y ago
Plenty opportunity in many languages or systems to lock yourself out by doing something silly.
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by ljm 1y ago
If it’s the first one I’d be going a step further back to see how the work was defined. More often than not I’d expect the PR comes from a ticket that is too broad in scope and could have been broken down with a bit of architectural thinkin
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by ljm 1y ago
Also so The Machine can give you the encoded social security number of someone who is either going to commit a crime or become the victim of one so pre-conspiracy Jim Caviezel can come and save your life or blow your kneecaps out.
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by ljm 1y ago
I wonder if OP could have got different results if they implemented a different schema as opposed to mimicking Kafka's setup with the partitions, consumer offsets, etc. I might well be talking out of my arse but if you're going to
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by ljm 1y ago
Fifteen Million Credits is already here. The difference is that we don't have credits the way the characters do in Brooker's universe; we have social clout in the form of upvotes, likes, hearts, retweets, streaming subs, etc. most
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by ljm 1y ago
I love how these elaborate stereotypes reveal more about the author than the group of people they are lampooning.
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by ljm 1y ago
Maybe the humans in the loop were all MBAs who believe documents and powerpoint slides look more professional when you use graphical bullet points. (I once got that feedback from someone in management when writing a proposal...)
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by ljm 1y ago
Add to that list: - showing focus-stealing modals when loading the page/app, which breaks the quick look functionality on iOS - interrupting your workflow with tutorial popups (especially multi-step ones that point to different parts t
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by ljm 1y ago
All you need to do is s/wrench/social engineering/ and you will understand exactly why it's such an effective--if not infallible--vector of attack. The only defence is to not have the secret at all .
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There is delicious irony in the owner of a lock company being so insecure.
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by ljm 1y ago
This comment could have been written when people were pushing to SVN repos on SourceForge when Git was becoming the next big thing, enough for a competitor to founded. Yet still, the status quo is not Subversion and SourceForge, both of whi
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by ljm 1y ago
I remember the optimism: Google is launched and it is web directories but…better. It takes a decade to become a monolithic ad-tech company but all is not lost yet, until it becomes the face of enshittification of the entire internet another
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by ljm 1y ago
Username definitely does not check out.
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by ljm 1y ago
Turns out guilt by association is problematic whether it’s a Gestapo tactic or a terminally online one. People need to step back and breathe. It’s possible to feel one thing about a (frankly shite) blog post and its author without tarring e

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