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by maccard 11mo ago
At a previous team, our ceo would send out a weekly 5 minute “catch up” video. This covered pretty much everything you needed to know in our company, it saved so many hours, until people complained it could be a message, and then people cou
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by maccard 11mo ago
I echo the parents sentiment - I don’t need to be there for a one hour meeting while 12 people give a perspective on a topic, but if you make the wrong decision I will say no. My job as a higher level manager is to ensure that whoever is th
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by maccard 11mo ago
> Anyone can do that, but not anyone can simply “patch the kernel” and such. Sure they can - download this pre-patched ISO and boot it in QEMU. Now you have a modified kernel, _and_ you’re not running dodgy spyware on your PC.
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by maccard 11mo ago
This is what a console is.
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by maccard 11mo ago
This is unworkable for even slow paced games.
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by maccard 11mo ago
Eventually you have to send data to the client and they have to send you back what they did. Assuming you’re running a game server with 240hz updates, on a 120hz monitor with no buffering, on a low latency connection in the same location to
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by maccard 11mo ago
It’s estimated that cod warzone has 45 million players - a 0.1% false positive rate at that player count is 45000 people. That’s a _lot_. It needs to be orders of magnitude less than that.
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by maccard 11mo ago
Fortnite has a fairly invasive root kit level anti cheat too, don’t forget.
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by maccard 11mo ago
> Cheating is a meat space problem and there is no technical solution to it Cheating is an arms race - the number of people who are willing to run a second computer with DMA connected to a single machine is vastly smaller than the num
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by maccard 11mo ago
What do you return if there is no value set? That’s the entire point of optional.
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by maccard 11mo ago
>null will always trigger access violation.. No, it won't. https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Mz8sqKvad
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by maccard 11mo ago
I’m very much pro c++, but anti c++’s direction. > optional is unsafe in idiomatic use cases? I’d like to challenge that. std::optional<int> x(std::nullopt); int val = *x; Optional is by default unsafe - the above cod
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by maccard 11mo ago
The idea is they don’t want people from the Netherlands wrapping and reselling Romanian data and cutting the bottom out of the market.
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by maccard 11mo ago
I could have written 4x the amount on Right to Roam, but I didn't. My point is that it changes how landowners treat their land and access by default. They could provide gates and come after people for not respecting their land, but i
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by maccard 11mo ago
> This is such a tired HN cliche response and it comes up as a negative whenever people mention things that actually improve users privacy, even ad blockers. We’re talking about regulation here. Some things (like ad blockers) are a unani
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by maccard 11mo ago
https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-complexity I think this section on complexity sums it up really well whether you’re talking about code or laws
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by maccard 11mo ago
The problem with this is that DNT header is used by such a tiny minority of people that it’s basically a walking unique identifier for all of the side channels. Arguably it’s as identifying as the cookie you’re asking them not to store in t
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by maccard 11mo ago
That’s the “you’re holding it wrong” defense. Good rules will have their intent followed by bad lawyers. Bad rules will have their letter followed but their intent missed. Most lawyers aren’t bad, they’re just risk averse. I’ve had very few
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by maccard 11mo ago
Does that mean fail to create rds backups? And that AWS needs to keep your EC2 instance and RDS instance running while you decide if you really want to pay the bill?
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by maccard 11mo ago
I disagree - I think they’re a bad law. Ideally it wouldn’t need to be enforced at all, because companies would comply with it. The last website I worked on we had 0 telemetry in cookies but we used a cookie for non telemetry uses. When we
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by maccard 11mo ago
It’s not over regulation, it’s bad regulation. Not all regulation is bad, and some of it is wildly effective at not just achieving the letter of the law but actually solving the problem it was defined for. Good regulation IMO looks bad beca
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by maccard 1y ago
> The cap can be opt-in. People will opt into this cap, and then still be surprised when their site gets shut down.
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by maccard 1y ago
I can see the "AWS is holding me ransom" posts on the front page of HN already.
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by maccard 1y ago
I would put $100 that within 6 months of that, we'll get a post on here saying that their startup is gone under because AWS deleted their account because they didn't pay their bill and didn't realise their data would be delet
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by maccard 1y ago
What does a hard cap look like for EBS volumes? Or S3? RDS? Do you just delete when the limit is hit?
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by maccard 1y ago
Yes you're correct. It seems like you got my point though. Slack often uses more memory than my IDE + compilers combined, to display the chat history of 60 people.
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by maccard 1y ago
> it's usually some anti-virus abomination (or other security-related software) that steals 90% of the resources. I'm almost certain that it's our Microsoft AD tenant. Either way, kind of proves the point. We have plenty o
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by maccard 1y ago
Unreal has gotten better since then, but you still need the actual game code to load the asset correctly. It’s a major pain in the ecosystem.
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by maccard 1y ago
> But really, imagine how much power these things have and if you could actually run a free (as in freedom, in the GNU sense) OS on them and really get access to all that power in a handheld device. Only if. Skipping the "handheld&q
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by maccard 1y ago
Painting is such a good example, and is one of the closest analogies to programming. You can do it fast and it’ll be done but you probably won’t like it. Or you can prep for it and it’ll take 10x longer, you won’t see anything for 90% of t

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