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by macksd 5y ago
ZeroSSL appears to have the advantage of fewer rate limitations if that's an issue. Haven't used it a ton myself though.
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by macksd 5y ago
To help keep it as blind as possible, studies sometimes use something that is better understood and gives you the side-effects you might expect if you weren't on the placebo. Like the Pfizer COVID study used the meningitis vaccine as a
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by macksd 5y ago
Or just lead with "Perforce powers the technology that drives the digital economy", and that way I know there's no substance to the rest of it and can stop reading right away.
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by macksd 5y ago
Ha! There was also Apache S4 - a distributed stream processing framework from Yahoo! But it was retired before leaving the incubator a very long time ago.
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by macksd 5y ago
The arms race already exists: hash sizes and standard key sizes have increased. Because Moore's Law already applies to classical computers: you effectively lose 1 bit of entropy / security every year.
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah but you're replying in a thread below where I already answered your question about how these concerns get addressed with a person.
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by macksd 5y ago
No, but I have underground pipes managed by a metro district. I've had people come by who were supposed to be inspecting a meter and they do have reasonable requirements for giving notice that they're entering or doing work. I&#x2
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by macksd 5y ago
The city worker carries credentials and is usually driving a marked government vehicle. Neither one gets to be in my backyard without talking to me first.
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by macksd 5y ago
And going to another extreme - I know couples who have lived together for years before deciding to get married, and the marriage really didn't last very long at all. A lot of sociological explanations but the point I really want to mak
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by macksd 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the most common picture of Linus Torvalds is a picture of him giving NVIDIA a rather rude gesture with his finger, and the reason was because of the way they push a proprietary driver and don't work well with an op
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by macksd 5y ago
The problem is that many graduate degrees are very research focused and they don't say a lot about the skills many company's may need from software developers. Jobs I've worked that used Leetcode simply wouldn't need you
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by macksd 5y ago
>> Please come back with a warrant we can verify Ok. Now how do I verify one, assuming the information in this article is accurate?
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by macksd 5y ago
I feel like I've been seeing a lot of comments lately to the effect of, "no - that would be illegal!" Yeah, we are talking about criminals who are already breaking one law. Often criminals who, in the very nature of their cri
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by macksd 5y ago
Getting a call claiming to be from Trump's campaign asking for money doesn't even mean it's actually the Trump campaign, it could be anyone trying to get money from people who are passionate about Trump. And that's one o
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by macksd 5y ago
Federal law requires a lot of things, but that doesn't mean people comply. Robocalls are already illegal. Soliciting people on the Do Not Call List over the phone is already illegal. Yet they happen daily for me.
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by macksd 5y ago
>> So it's still coming from a pretty dark place. I think it's worth remembering that the world can be a pretty dark place anyway, and being prepared for stuff can make it less dark. The training I did was basically a civili
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by macksd 5y ago
I did secondary school in the US, and there are lock-down drills that are mostly motivated by school shootings. In fact the first time I experienced practicing one was shortly after Columbine in a school not that far from Columbine. That sa
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by macksd 5y ago
Some people are good at the discipline and self-motivation required to make this work and like the situation where you're more isolated except when you go out of your way not to be. Some people are much happier and productive in an env
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by macksd 5y ago
It just means that traffic is encrypted at a lower layer in the network stack, so there are entire protocols that get "wrapped" in it, and they can't sniff the IPs you're talking to, etc. Of course, now your VPN provider
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by macksd 5y ago
If one did need to worry about trusting public wi-fi, one would also need to worry about trusting one's cell service provider or home / business ISP. And you can use a VPN for an additional layer of security over all this, but the
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by macksd 5y ago
But there are already series that do that, and they've been doing it more and more. And honestly even in those series' it's hardly a surprise which teams are finishing at the top all the time because they snag the most expens
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah just so you know that show twisted all kinds of things to add to the drama. More drivers speak out every season about how audio clips of them were edited to make them sound more adversarial to their team mate, etc. and they really don&
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by macksd 5y ago
And if you don't already pay for ESPN, F1TV has a 7-day trial or $26 for the year (if you don't mind waiting 2 days after the race - there's a higher package that lets you see stuff live) that let's you watch on-demand a
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah a lot of these comments definitely sound like they are from a new fan who picked up the vibe from Drive to Survive, with its made-up rivalries and over-editorializing. I find the items laid out in the article to be some of the most unt
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by macksd 5y ago
It could come off as a little snarkier than I would like to be, but as soon as someone says something should have been documented better I ask them where they think I should have put said document. Then I ask them if they looked there befor
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by macksd 5y ago
This is therapeutic to read - I've been on the receiving end of this a lot. Once I even had someone go about 5 levels deep. "We should have a doc for this process." "We do - here's the link." "I couldn&#x2
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by macksd 5y ago
There are loopholes everywhere. Non-compete contracts for healthcare providers were already illegal in Colorado, but our pediatrician had to locate her new practice ~20 miles away from where she wanted because of a non-compete with her prev
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by macksd 5y ago
The general complaints about the API's design and style have not changed so much even with the advent of eager execution by default, etc.
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by macksd 5y ago
This is a pretty good write-up: https://nicodjimenez.github.io/2017/10/08/tensorflow.html
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by macksd 5y ago
So 17 levels below a comment I made about the news just making everyone angry and addicted to it, people are still commenting about whether Nazis are economically left or right. I guess that tracks.

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