mrazomor

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by mrazomor 4y ago
- pay a shady botnet to do it for you - buy a bunch of VMs and curl your site's weakest point (don't wait for the http response) / use loadtesting tools - change the site infra to support 1 request per second at most, and hit
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by mrazomor 4y ago
I'd personally start from answering the question: "How does this directly affect me?". I'd ignore the feel of someone being wrong and try to understand the direct impact -- how much do you believe you miss out. Then ac
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Yes. I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ . It's hosted in a git repo. My significant other has access to the repo, a private key copy on encrypted USB drive (plus backup) and its password in owns password manager. It h
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by mrazomor 4y ago
> when I watch proficient people using these editors I'm always amazed at what they can do Maybe provide a few examples? Might help to understand what kind of productivity gains you are trying to achieve (and help with giving you be
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by mrazomor 4y ago
One thing that worked well in practice (years ago): - design svg template (eg. in inkscape) - set placeholders (as svg is just xml -- {%address%} etc) - replace the placeholders with the actual value & use headless inkscape to produce P
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The number of search results is plenty useful. Even for grammar! If spell checker isn't of help, use Google and see which option is more popular (I used to use it often when I wrote more in my native language, which has a few peculiari
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Err... the gist of the protest is: not all research is there to advance diversity, while Uni requires it, that guy doesn't want to lie to get his work presented. I'm not going to assume any interior motives. Isn't forcing lef
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by mrazomor 4y ago
My impression is that Google actively tries to hedge. They are aware of the fragility of the ads business. But it's difficult to set up a business when your baseline is "Google Ads". I thought they have it with Cloud. I'
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The presentation mostly lists warnings and notices about deprecation. If you turn them all off, most likely the compilation would pass. So, backwards compatibility is there (if we ignore newly introduced keywords).
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by mrazomor 4y ago
What's easier: writing set of rules to drop language features or educating 10k engineers? It's difficult alone to have those engineers follow the style guide (even with help from linters etc). Average engineer, in any company, doe
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by mrazomor 4y ago
"no exceptions" is one of the best parts of Google style guide, IMO. Note that, banning of exceptions introduced returning status (error codes done right). It makes it easier to follow the code and makes the code more readable (bu
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Very useful presentation. Full of details, but easy to consume. On voices against stripped down C++ (via code style): I find it working great in practice. Makes the codebase manageable, and keeps people away from using unnecessary complex l
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by mrazomor 4y ago
> after the biggest companies hired at breakneck speed through the pandemi Isn't this the main reason why this "frugality excercise" is being held, and unnecessary stress generated? Sounds like a major VP+ screwup. I hope
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by mrazomor 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Must be a terrible situation. I've seen similar projects, at least in some dimensions. Here's what worked for me & observations: - Large fraction of features are unused. Have internal analytics tha
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by mrazomor 4y ago
+1 An amazing documentary. It presents the war from unbiased perspective. Something that I wasn't able to get (been living there, including during the war). Learnt so much from it.
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Basic techniques: https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.... Smartness (NLP): https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ There are also newer techniques, like "deep le
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Yes, but there are layers of badness. An update might break the feature I need, or change something my workflow depends on (more common). I'd rather wait for blog posts with workarounds/fixes. As it tends to be extremely time cons
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The first paragraph resonates with me so well. I'm sorry that you went through a burnout. +1 to the rest of the post. Very well said.
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Probably this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3Ahy7Fxsc Or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI (terrible audio) Both are very old, but extremely well aged. IMO, the secret behind Go
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by mrazomor 4y ago
This is similar for many of the Big Tech companies. The expectation is that people grow in a year. If the interview process is sound (I won't go there), it doesn't make sense to keep retrying the process without changing the main
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by mrazomor 5y ago
A loss which might be worth debugging (maybe it contributes to the whole pattern of losses -- didn't dig deeper): "Brave: A Teen Girl's Guide to Beating Worry and Anxiety" is never explicitly mentioned, but all ~60 miscl
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by mrazomor 5y ago
In case using Kythe was an option, what was the rationale for not using it? One major limitation of Kythe is handling different versions. For example, Kythe can produce a well connected index of Stackage, but a Hackage would have many holes