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by nikanj 2y ago
The company is not 10 years old, they loudly declare they've bootstrapped since 1996 https://x.com/Vultr/status/489139385154420736
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by nikanj 2y ago
Or you can use your track-record of discovering CVEs as a stepping stone to a cushy infosec job
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I'm forced to use Cisco AnyConnect to contact customer sites, but I'm about four levels of outsourcing removed from the folks who would actually have the golden keys to access the Cisco portal. I have long ago accepted that small
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by nikanj 2y ago
"I propose that we all agree to ban all permanent lunar development that is visible with the naked eye from Earth" Nimbys, now in space!
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That's like saying you don't want to go for a run, because professional marathon runners are so focused on time
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Yes, with ChatGPT or similar: " Can I use AI to get on the global leaderboard? Please don't use AI / LLMs (like GPT) to automatically solve a day's puzzles until that day's global leaderboards are full." https
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by nikanj 2y ago
Not to worry, we'll eventually have a similar experience moving from Chrome to whatever comes next. Their market share is in the IE6 digits now, and Pepperidge farm remembers how advanced and sophisticated IE6 was considered when it la
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It's usually "This is fine! We'll use $BUZZWORD to fly before I hit the ground." I still remember the countless startups where the business model was basically "You give us money by the boatload, and we promise to u
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If you have the financial aptitude to become a CFO, would you rather eat ramen in a flophouse or make proper money in an investment bank?
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Large banks have gone to great lengths to teach people that banks can never be trusted
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His target audience is not the patients, its other doctors. Just like any other professions, the best talks / articles are the ones that are a pleasant audience experience. A dead-dry paper just gets skimmed and changes nobody's m
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by nikanj 2y ago
Or until Google decides to change things to be more standards compliant, regardless of the collateral damage
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That's great when you're distributing your software for free and giving away the source code too, but it's a complete non-starter for commercial software.
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Using modern tools and standards? So build with node.js, runs like a pig, only supports the three models made by the sponsoring company?
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The "What’s Causing the Decline?" portion completely ignores cause #1: Gaming your Google ranking is a key element in dropshipping and similar shady businesses. It's hard to keep your search accurate, when there's millio
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Just like Nokia, where the organization was made of dozens of business units trying to screw each other over. A great concept on paper ("We have no credible competitors, so to remain fresh, we have to become our own competitor"),
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by nikanj 2y ago
Hating Comic Sans is a meme, and the hate will never end. People make hating it a facet of their personality, the same way hating pineapple on pizza is made into a core trait
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by nikanj 2y ago
> You don't need to obfuscate it that much, just not start with // and then the rest can be still human readable/inspectable. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'll never again trust Chrome
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by nikanj 2y ago
This does bring Chromium in line with the URL spec, but Firefox still works properly with those callback links. Not sure which other engines you are speaking of, to my knowledge there really aren't any other viable Windows desktop brow
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PSA Google Chrome pushed a breaking change in custom protocol handlers this week
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"IPv6 is great and easy to use, if you're one of the leading experts who designed it" This is not the kind of glowing endorsement you think it is, if you're expecting your technology to see widespread adoption
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Serious, competent network engineers are not created in vacuum from platonic ideals and TCP fragments. They're home hobbyists who grew up hating ipv6, and won't magically learn it overnight when their previous networking guy quits
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Using coins as precision weights was used in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet, published in 1877
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Most of Qt remains available under LGPL, but the Qt company does their best to dissuade you from using it without a commercial license. They have succeeded in convincing me, for example. I don't want to build anything on a platform whe
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Good guy, pretending to be a bad guy, pretending to be a maintenance guy. Very Tropical Thunder
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When an organization gets a bad infection of the bean counter disease, every level replaces one $250k person with three $60k people. Bringing the extraordinary performers back into the house is incredibly hard, because A players don't
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The same reason people still do R&D for vinyl records: There's enough customers who want to buy the old thing, for ideological, emotional or other reasons
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You can overfill the cylinder for the first stroke, because the unspent fuel will burn on the next cycle instead of being exhausted. High power engines exhaust a lot of unburned fuel, because you can't guarantee an exact 100% fill for
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Session management does not require a cookie consent. Implementation-relevant technical cookies are exempt, it's the 337 different analytics services that sites use that require the cookie consent
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Malicious compliance gets the website two benefits: 1) Annoying the customer enough with the popups might net a permission to track from an user who originally did not want the cookies 2) Making the cookie banners as frustrating as possible

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