mr-wendel

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by mr-wendel 11mo ago
Fwiw, I use Tailscale/wireguard and take care to ensure the source IP gets fed to apps properly. This makes it easy to guarantee I have a reliable way to identify myself on my webapps and auto-auth.
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by mr-wendel 1y ago
I already think the power-on noise sounds like an obnoxious fart. I can never remember how to suppress it so I refuse to turn a macbook on around other people. I may as well install this to reaffirm that yes, this is an Apple product (in ca
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by mr-wendel 1y ago
Let's also recall that almost nobody changes their mind when engaged in these types of conversations, and the more confrontational the more likely you cement existing biases. Where you do stand to make a difference is with more casual
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by mr-wendel 1y ago
I was selected to represent my high school as a candidate for computer science at a state-level competition. The teacher in charge of selection made it clear that he very much didn't want to pick me -- there just weren't any bette
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by mr-wendel 1y ago
My little Databricks story: we setup hosted model inference for an in-house model. Worked great for several months! But then they did maintenance and broke the entire feature. Reconfiguring everything from scratch didn't work. A key pa
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
But thats exactly what you get when you ask questions that require shifting, specific contextual knowledge. The model weights, by their nature, cannot encode that information. At best, you can only try to layer in contextual info like this
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
I'm sure I don't really have to point this out, but... The last thing you would ever want to do is associate your domain name with gross, offensive content like this. The web is crawled all the time for snapshot data. Additionally
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
> I thought that being a man of my word meant that, as I'd given my employer my word that I would follow their security policy, I should follow it to the letter This basically sums up my "cover story" nicely so I didn&#x27
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
I think this thread highlights nicely that context is everything. In this case, I think vasco's take is correct: the sysadmin was indeed trustworthy enough to exercise this discretion in response to overzealous employee productivity ru
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
Absolutely not. I would hope to learn the lesson some other way. In hindsight, it equates to kicking someone hard in the groin for laughs. It hurts my foot, them a lot, and it's just a poor way to learn how to earn "respect".
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
Imaging to do different was only one part of the lesson. The other, and bigger, part is acknowledging the difference between wanting to do the right (for not just me) thing versus that was sure to score points with authority.
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
Caught a senior sysadmin in a small company using a proxy on our infrastructure to hide misc web browsing from oversight. The logs were the give-away. It was typical misc IT/nerd news stuff... the kind of thing a different company cult
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
Ditto here. I thought I'd try Apex Charts on my most recent project and regret it: - mobile support works, but is poorly done - very heavy library to load - RAM intensive; a few charts w/ lots (e.g. ~100) data points spirals out o
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by mr-wendel 2y ago
Not exactly what you are asking, but I quite like "Technology Connections" videos on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/search?query=... Lots of great data points (and a little bit of
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
Using the shebang just helps highlight the fact that the rule is in use globally, but otherwise has no advantage to using `set -u`. The clarifications on `-u` and arrays are useful. I'm definitely used to assuming newer (... non-ancien
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
Some tips of my own: - It's almost always preferable to put `-u` (nounset) in your shebang to cause using undeclared variables to be an error. The only exception I typically run across is expansion of arrays using "${arr[@]}"
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
If drilling big holes for scientific research is your thing, I suggest https://usoceandiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Casc... as an interesting read about earthquakes and tsunamis. A quick summa
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
Along similar lines, the only scenario I've found where auto-focus on input can be obnoxious is with mobile devices. Causing the virtual keyboard to appear by default can make the display scroll and shift unexpectedly, reducing accessi
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
How new is this problem really? For example, consider the example of Demand Media (e.g. https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fal... ). They invested quite a lot in cheap content generation
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
Additional food for thought from a educator's perspective: "I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop" https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-wanted-to-be-a-teac...
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
It definitely cannot. Even doing static camera motion detection takes some work, and from my experience boils down to some kind of manual heuristics. OpenCV does provide a great set of "primitives", however. For example, I like to
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
Lets add https://www.deseret.com/2001/2/28/19781208/toxic-utah-a-land... too the list too. Thankfully, far less "let's test on people", but Dugway, Utah has quite a history of testing and
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by mr-wendel 3y ago
My favorite use of this that I've spotted in the wild is https://nightride.fm (not affiliated, just a fan!). It's a Synthwave music site + community. In particular, I noticed that EventSource goodies are used to broadc
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
More on this case can be found at https://holdcbpaccountable.org/2016/08/09/cervantes-v-united... . The real life story is pretty sickening: an ~8 hour ordeal starting with the CDP saying "we think you ha
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
Good on you, and may you find plenty of wind to keep that ship sailing. I'm totally with you on this. My extra two cents: generally refuse to answer "why" and the "how long" questions. My personal responses are &quo
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
I didn't realize "@media (prefers-reduced-motion)" existed, so I appreciate learning that. I agree with counter points showing how animation can add useful context, particularly in response to user interactions. This fails to
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
I think this comment gets to the essence better than anything else: passion. Something is going to need to motivate you through the process of learning, failing, and growing in a new field. If your motivation is primarily based in getting a
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
I think good arguments often have to begin with an assertion that "we aren't as dumb as we tend to think" and introduce color that gives the average person the benefit of the doubt. This post does that nicely. > "Thei
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
I'll start with a confession. Based on below, I'm #3, all the way, and I think #2 is the absolute worst. I see it from an accounting point of view: you've got a liability on the books the moment the benefit is promised and it
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by mr-wendel 4y ago
Also good points to consider. The parental investment factor probably is a much more dominant factor in the equation too. Curiosity and resilience too. And thanks for a charitable understanding of the "covid baby" idea: obviously

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