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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
For this one however this seems to be the case? The wording of the article isn't crystal clear, but it looks like the cops took control of the servers, and decrypted messages from there. So either the messages weren't truly end-t
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
This quote sure was a huge red flag to me. "My dad's a genius" because you're not supposed to rely on genius to make a good crypto system, and also because it makes Eap sounds like he has absolutely zero knowledge on
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> Changing 1% of code on top of that is probably not really that much compared Quite a few companies have millions and millions of lines of code. Changing 1% of it would mean changing more than 10K lines of code, perhaps even more than
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
For a moment there I thought you were referring to this trademark: https://pcsoft.fr/windev/index.html Which was known at a time for having young women in light clothing in their marketing material.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> At-will employment laws protect employees that want to quit Does your unemployment insurance work after you quit? Or does it only work when you're fired?
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
I'm afraid "supposed to" is the operating word here. In practice, the people who make the calls more often does not do so because they inherited a crap load of money, not because their own genius or hard work raised them to
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> You probably won’t get to choose what to work on, and you may not agree with all the decisions of the powers that be. In fact, it’s practically certain you won’t. After all, you know more about the subject matter than they do. Wait a
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> I can’t see a reason why this is all not equal on both sides. I can. Think of what employment is for a second: shareholders (or company owners) own the capital, and the employee gets to follow orders. Structurally, the company pay
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> every employment should be at will!! I would agree in an ideal world where salaries are tied to a qualification (a notion a tad more nuanced than just diploma), instead of their job . While there is no (nor should be any) constitu
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Genuine question: how do we train managers, then? Surgeons have pigs, but even then it's not perfect, and there comes a point where they have to perform surgeries on actual humans (hopefully under supervision).
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> These are all rhetorical techniques to make your idea their idea. Ok, cool, I've heard this a gazillion times by now. I don't disagree, it does looks like it's better at getting shit done. Just one question: how do I
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> Why would you get fired for giving feedback? Is this just a US thing? Possibly: in many places there they have "at will" employment, where they can basically fire you with little to no severance at any time for any reason.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
The difference is how measurable the consequences are. In aviation when there's a screw up people die right then and there. People dying is a very hard to game metric, and it provides a very strong incentive. The consequences of bad
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
One important option seem to be entirely missing here: Start. A. Union. It seems the real problem here is the power difference between people, combined with the powerful side not having a thick enough skin… or lacking the actual competenc
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
ISP issued home routers have a remote update procedure, enabled by default. At least that's how it works out in France. Starting from there (to be checked), shortage of equipment is not a thing: most routers are programmable computers
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
The third person plural is so convenient. You did well, not directly accusing me of uncritically accepting an idea. You did well, not directly saying I didn't think it through enough to explain it. Your caution paid off, you just
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Just look up "intersex". Or don't. It's your time. Mine is up.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Considering that the biggest threat to independence is probably the USA themselves… I'm guessing not very far. You'll probably be okay if you cater to businesses and foreign investments, but if you stray too far from the USA'
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Oh come on, don't pretend you don't know what I mean.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> Stop doing that and almost everyone will happily leave you alone to dress and behave however you please. I'm pretty sure they won't. And for that reason alone… https://www.youtube.com/@TacticoolGirlfriend
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Do I upvote the sarcasm or flag the transphobia?
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
Because people like you are often at the forefront of wider social movements. Stuff like healthcare, safety nets, worker empowerment… Your influence goes way beyond gender care or women's rights. Beyond their bigoted sensibilities the
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> Democrats believe a man who thinks he is a woman is scientifically a woman It's a bit more complicated than that. Gender is a social construct, mostly determined by genes & genitalia. It's not quite enough to believe
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
By that reasoning Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy weren't far right, because a very significant portion of their population actually voted for that. Or France now, our "Rassemblement National" used to be far right, but now eno
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> In practice this benefits USA as a major weapon producer, at least it has until now. This feels like a club you pay 2% for protection…
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
You're correct. Which is why in practice I often consider using a forward declaration and pointer to implementation instead. But you know what, even that can be gamed. I have gamed it once: I copied & pasted the definition of th
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
By "legacy", I mean "old stuff we thought were good, but is not useful for new projects". Now nothing prevents people from using a useless technique for new projects. Anyway, I don’t care about what we should mean by th
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
The most reputable resource I know of is Making Software , edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson.
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> Projects describing the real world. Yeah, one of the 3 big lies of computer programming: thinking that we should program around a model of the world. We should program around a model of the data that we need to transform to solve w
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by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> What would it take to falsify the claim that inheritance is a legacy technique? A demonstration that inheritance is a good technique. Which it is not. It hurts locality of behaviour, and that's bad because it increases the rat

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