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by orf 2y ago
Back in 2015 I discovered a security issue with some Dell software[1]. I remember vividly getting an email about a job opportunity based entirely on this from a company with a strange name, that after some googling made a thing called Vagra
572.
by orf 2y ago
What does your message add to the discussion if you can’t even allude? Why even comment?
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by orf 2y ago
Sure you did, even indirectly: would iOS still be around now if every grandma got their money stolen through iOS malware?
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by orf 2y ago
I guess? Is your question “do different countries have different ways of speaking?” The UK uses both, this one is more explicit/formal, although it does seem a bit redundant.
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by orf 2y ago
Moving home as in moving home, not moving back home
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by orf 3y ago
I like the direction, but it’s really annoying when the completions get mixed up with the actual, static autocompletions. Like, typing the start of an attribute and having the autocomplete pick up the rest of it, only to be suddenly replace
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by orf 3y ago
Yes, but why should users be compensated for that. And why would it use a large portion of that, rather than an additional 1 write per cell?
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by orf 3y ago
Why?
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by orf 3y ago
Assuming 1 train every 3 minutes for 16 hours a day, that’s 52 people per train. Which isn’t that much.
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by orf 3y ago
Strings can contain 0x1E, so it has exactly the same issues as a tab character but with all the downsides of it not being an easy, “simple” character.
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by orf 3y ago
From the docs on FINAL: > However, using FINAL is sometimes necessary in order to produce accurate results Welp.
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by orf 3y ago
This infoq.com article about a pile of apparently hastily built technical debt is going to “kick off a new era of practical engineering” where everyone “rejects software purism”? They are not selling shrink-wrapped software. “Operational”
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by orf 3y ago
For Python releases, this is quite a big problem. Python packages consist of many different downloadable files - for example, the Datadog APM library has over 60 different files[1] depending on the platform and Python version. There's
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by orf 3y ago
You worked 16 hours a day for 7 days? I doubt that - you would be getting only 3-4 hours sleep max?
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by orf 3y ago
Hubris is really, really nice. I've spent half an hour reading some of the kernel code and it’s exceptionally clear and well written - a far cry from ifdef macro soup, two letter variable name loving, comment starved C code I’ve seen p
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by orf 3y ago
I’ve quite literally never seen it download a pre-compiled Python - I didn’t actually know it had that functionality, and have been using it for probably a decade.
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by orf 3y ago
> For clarity, the register of all our nurses, midwives and nursing practitioners is held within Dynamics 365 which is our system of record," the spinner continued. "This solution and the data held within it, is secure and well
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by orf 3y ago
It’s just money, same as advertising. 1 in X impressions results in a click, action or something. If it is, in aggregate, basically free to splash your message all over the internet and generate X impressions, then you’ve got a click/a
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by orf 3y ago
120TB of storage is 3k USD per month when using s3 in Singapore and can sustain a much higher aggregate read/write speed than their existing setup. Like many have said, a lift and shift is never great, and imagining you need 120TB of E
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by orf 3y ago
Sure there is. You’re increasing the scope of the key to include a third party, but… it’s one that controls the OS, distribution channels, publishing platform, SDK, the tools used to publish APKs, even the device drivers on your phone. If t
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by orf 3y ago
What specific technical things do they need help with? Being more clear than “we just need a human to talk to” is better.
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by orf 3y ago
How different is this to any other run of the mill project with few active developers on a single implementation, with backwards compatibility based entirely on promises? Hot take: SQLite has bugs and quirks.
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by orf 3y ago
> Without a license it’s not legal to copy and distribute. Is this true? When you post anything publicly, from sticking a poster on the street to making artwork like banksy, isn’t the default set to “it’s legal to copy, unless explicitly
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by orf 3y ago
I mean… Yeah? Most likely?
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by orf 3y ago
Sure, but it’s more like someone invented and sold a car then strapped a bunch of knives to it.
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by orf 3y ago
> Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines AKA, we’ve created a messy monster that’s out of our control, please don’t blame us.
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by orf 3y ago
Websites broken on mobile considered pointless - use some kind of basic testing instead.
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by orf 3y ago
Indeed, and it gives you a function call interface on top of HTTP with streaming built in, and a lot of the boring stuff handled for you. Which is exactly what you seem to want.
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by orf 3y ago
Why?
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by orf 3y ago
Yes it is. Thanks?

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