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by otterley 5mo ago
I take issue with the “ideally have already read the paper” part. That’s actually not true for most of the attendees. There will be some who have, though, and those will be your co-authors or others who have helped you prepare it before the
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by otterley 5mo ago
I think it depends on the individual and the culture. In a strong culture, engineers don’t their egos get in the way of healthy conversations and will be capable of defending their position against probing questions without it upsetting the
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by otterley 5mo ago
In my experience, the ones who most fervently believe they have such “clues” are often the same ones who lack them. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve encountered engineers who become indignant when someone tries to redirect them to
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by otterley 6mo ago
"Working backwards" is also, famously, Amazon's philosophy. It's one of my most cherished takeaways from working there.
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by otterley 6mo ago
People who are this certain of their predictions should be forced to put real money on them on Kalshi or Polymarket instead of drive-by blowharding on HN.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Link?
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by otterley 6mo ago
The social costs of gambling, particularly compulsive gambling, cannot be so easily dismissed. I would encourage you to visit your local Gamblers’ Anonymous group or seek out addicts’ stories of loss and despair to get a fuller picture of i
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by otterley 6mo ago
I’d love to see them if you’ve got them. So would some lawyers, I think.
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by otterley 6mo ago
> You appear to have taken umbrage at me pointing out how your claims are unsupported and have already twice attempted to weaponize social norms to quash disagreement. I was not trying to quash disagreement. I like healthy disagreement,
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by otterley 6mo ago
What is your point, exactly? Seems like you just want to argue for argument’s sake. This is also against the site guidelines. If you’d like to have a meaningful, insightful conversation, then perhaps contribute something of value to it. Nob
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by otterley 6mo ago
I’m afraid you have it backwards. I made only a claim that it hasn’t happened yet, based on the absence of stories that it has. That’s a negative claim, like “there’s no evidence that God exists.” It is not my burden to prove the absence of
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by otterley 6mo ago
What, exactly, was proven to be groundless?
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by otterley 6mo ago
I don't see anything on the linked page that supports a conclusion that NSA has successfully broken the encryption at rest of an Apple device's storage since they introduced the secure element. Care to share a quote?
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by otterley 6mo ago
> I think the Bitlocker "vuln" is a good reminder not to use vendor provided encryption for any sensitive data I don't think that's true. Some vendors have a better track record than others. Nobody's popped the s
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by otterley 6mo ago
If you had, your investment would be up 20% now. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/csco
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by otterley 6mo ago
Here's the primary source: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-more-public-... Other links: https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey https://github.com/
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by otterley 6mo ago
Would formal validation of these algorithms (e.g. with TLA+) help avoid such bugs?
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by otterley 6mo ago
> It's ironically cheaper to build a team of engineers that will maintain a sane observability stack instead of feeding the monster(s). Can you show the math here? This is a very bold claim, and I’m super curious. A shared Google Sh
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by otterley 6mo ago
Author delivers the lolz: “Friday’s grand opening was full of fanfare and big D energy.”
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by otterley 6mo ago
Hey, knock it off. If you disagree with someone, be polite.
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by otterley 6mo ago
> Corporations aren’t magical entities that somehow exist outside of social obligations and can do whatever they want as long as their own terms of service permit it. Where's your support for this statement in the law?
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by otterley 6mo ago
Why are they incompatible? They’ve been operating together for hundreds of years.
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by otterley 6mo ago
The reason the would-be purchaser sued the state is that they had a plausible argument that the township's denial was illegal under Michigan state law. There are quotes in the article from the Governor's office that they support t
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by otterley 6mo ago
As usual, the story is much more nuanced and complicated than the simplistic and convenient narrative of "ignoring the public." And reading diluted blogspam like Tom's Hardware doesn't help. Here is the full story: (Sour
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by otterley 6mo ago
> Like the recent cases of data enter projects where they just ignore the public voting against them Do you have an example? And was this a binding or non-binding vote?
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by otterley 6mo ago
> A week or so later, if they approve the request, you're not allowed to begin DTO until 60 days after the approval. Do you have proof of this? That is not disclosed in their policy.
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by otterley 6mo ago
If you live in a democracy, you already do run your own country. Vote accordingly. Get involved in politics.
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by otterley 6mo ago
This isn’t about rights. It’s about not being a jerk. Assume positive intent unless you have direct evidence to the contrary.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Hey, knock it off. Personal attacks aren’t allowed here.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Yes, it's a fork of Fedora. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/what-is-amazon-l...

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