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by orf 2mo ago
you, the dog owner, would have a case against the trainer. you, the person being bitten, would not give two craps about some story from the dog owner about how they hired a bad dog trainer who against their wishes secretly trained them to b
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by orf 2mo ago
I care about submitting reviewable code, because I care about my colleagues. That’s different from caring about the software you build.
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by orf 2mo ago
> LLM's don't "care" about the project/software they build. Most vibe coders don't even care The vast majority of software engineers, pre and post LLMs, don’t care.
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by orf 2mo ago
This is great: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/the-chie...
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by orf 2mo ago
Worldwide. I ask again: how do we travel given that cars, planes and trains are “not serious”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_accidents_an... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category
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by orf 2mo ago
Relative poverty and enforcement: if a cop accepts a bribe they can lose their job. It’s not worth accepting £20 (or even £2000) bribe and forfeit larger future earnings. So when bribes do happen it’s for much greater amounts (or nebulous,
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by orf 2mo ago
There is more than 1 fatal airplane crash per month, FYI. Same for trains. Same for cars as well for that matter. How do you propose we travel safely?
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by orf 2mo ago
> Outages happen as a result of the system's design being shoddy in the first place, and an attitude where bugs shipped are acceptable because it's only a single component, rest of the system shouldn't fail. This is correc
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by orf 2mo ago
To put it bluntly: that is complete nonsense. AWS has had more than 1 outage a year - is it not worth investing in? Are they not serious? Outages are just a specific kind of bug, often surfaced by the interactions of several discrete bugs.
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by orf 2mo ago
> First of all tons of more outages than ever, remember that React useEffect fkup [0]? Complete insane that this would happen at an infra company that runs a third or so of the web. Bugs happen all the time. They roughly increase with sc
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by orf 2mo ago
No, not at all. Parquet is great for building static content incrementally, but it’s not great for this: the aim is durable writes (it’s a log system after all), but with parquet you need large row group batches. Worst case (low log volum
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by orf 2mo ago
This comment is a great example of completely misunderstanding… everything? Just because a few people on a niche tech site are excited by niche tech stuff doesn’t mean you should focus your entire business on them, and the implication that
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by orf 2mo ago
My friend built his niche news site with lovable. He used Wordpress as a headless CMS, and lovable built some absolute monstrosity with cloudflare workers - every page view incurred a call to Wordpress, no proper caching and it was slow as
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by orf 2mo ago
How does it handle conflicts during reverting? If another merge depends on a change, and that change causes a failing/broken test, does it revert both?
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by orf 2mo ago
Are f-strings not easy for beginners? What would you prefer instead?
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by orf 2mo ago
> Unlike other approaches to increasing the safety of C, Fil-C achieves complete memory safety with zero escape hatches. Except there is an escape hatch, by your own admission above? > `zunsafe_call` is a weird thing to get hung up on
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by orf 2mo ago
> the zunsafe api is basically unused. One library uses it (OpenSSL) for good reasons Wait, so there are escape hatches? But… you’ve repeatedly said, many times, that there are zero escape hatches? And now here you’re saying not only t
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by orf 2mo ago
Why is it becoming obvious?
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by orf 2mo ago
> That's a different attack vector So you’re saying that the attack vector has… shifted.
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by orf 2mo ago
> Surfside Beach Mayor Robert Krouse said the emailed payment request appeared genuine. “We don’t see where the town erred,” he said, so he didn’t see “why we should be paying double.” If you didn’t err you’d only be paying single
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by orf 2mo ago
How would that help, at all?
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by orf 2mo ago
It doesn’t necessarily follow that because Postgres is “fully utilised” it is hitting “hardware maximum”, or even that it’s not bottlenecked on contention. As an example, spinlocks can push CPU usage very high whilst being an obvious sympto
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by orf 3mo ago
What specific technical issues are you experiencing with running Bun that would justify a change?
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by orf 3mo ago
> Please make my predictions come out wrong.
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by orf 3mo ago
Wow, you missed the entire point of the article.
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by orf 3mo ago
> I've invoked it in my job mostly to explain to younger developers why learning vim keybindings+terminal git usage Interesting - I see it as the opposite: learning the git CLI is pointless. It’s slow, clunky and it doesn’t teach yo
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by orf 4mo ago
US card fraud rate is significantly higher than in the EU. In 2015 it was about 0.042% in the EU, vs 0.1388% for the US. The 2021 rates for the EU fell to ~0.028%. You get nervous about giving your card to a waiter because you’re in a forei
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by orf 4mo ago
I see that, but the adversary wasn’t a low effort one, and didn’t need millions of accounts.
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by orf 4mo ago
> New user registration was stopped on June 11 and then re-enabled after the project added Anubis to try to foil the attacker's mass account registrations. That did not work This confuses me - why would a proof-of-work anti-scraping
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by orf 4mo ago
> As a discussion regarding if it’s ethical to ignore restrictions progresses, the probability of someone bringing up a famous case where someone ignored unethical restrictions approaches one Seems reasonable to me. Substitute Rosa parks

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