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by owl57 3y ago
In a strange twist, I'm currently in Russia and use a VPN almost daily, but not for news — English-language news sites from HN to CNN simply aren't blocked, and to watch out for any new scary local stuff I find it most convenient
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by owl57 3y ago
Yes? The world is nowhere near perfect, but those mafia guys are probably actually going to protect "their" money from other gangs, and Google's obsession with your data means they have even more incentive to protect said dat
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by owl57 3y ago
> If you are a company that has usernames and passwords > didn't do anything wrong here besides have a ton of users Passwords aren't a trivial part of this. OpenAI offers login with Google/Apple/MS. Managing their
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by owl57 3y ago
My current job involved a relocation to another country. Now I know how to call it: a very remote job. :)
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by owl57 3y ago
Amon Amarth encouraged fans at a festival to sing along even if they don't know the lyrics: "It's death metal, no one would tell the difference!" But by the way their lyrics are in plain English and make as much sense as
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by owl57 3y ago
> I haven't held an X1, but according to specs online, it looks like the top edge of the screen would be about 9-10" tall when open. Does that match yours? I think yes, more like 9". Don't have that laptop now to meas
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by owl57 3y ago
> you won't use it and it gets in the way of the external monitor Did this with a Thinkpad X1 for some weeks recently. Unexpectedly, no trouble at all: the laptop is small and flexible enough to not get in the way at all. Built-in k
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by owl57 3y ago
This week, I have been loudly angry at C++ and its library ecosystem and how many developers are needed to write a ten-line function without undefined behavior. I take my words back.
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by owl57 3y ago
Now I'm thinking that default Github flow is almost there. > i can still review and apply patches from my local inbox `git fetch` gets me all the code from open PRs. And comments are already in email. Now I'm thinking if I sh
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by owl57 3y ago
> would you store your bank password on a piece of paper you always leave sitting in your backyard? Not that I'm advocating for checking passwords in git repos, Github or otherwise, but you metaphor depends on how rich you are and
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by owl57 3y ago
> I don’t see any obvious reason why an employee would ever need to fork a company’s private repo to their personal GitHub account. I don't see it as well, but Github docs seem to suggest that forking a private repo inside the sam
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by owl57 3y ago
It isn't actually a toggle, but a pair of links to the other two versions, MN and EN. EN version has two links as well, to MN and MNG versions.
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by owl57 3y ago
> published 2023-05-26 Hmm…
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by owl57 3y ago
Yeah, works only the other way: the fact that the loader is still means one of two things — either the app is completely stuck or it ignores UI conventions of the last decade (which can be good or bad, depending on domain).
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by owl57 3y ago
I think I've seen this animated (... -> -> . -> .. -> ...), this is quite good. But the animation is important. Without it user can think that the app froze, especially in the world where every other app shows some sort of
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by owl57 4y ago
Setting aside all that debate about future AI agency and focusing on currently known mode of operation, why not. I haven't tested, but GPT-4 may already know enough to act on "this part of my/your code is too clever, please r
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by owl57 4y ago
> How long before AI becomes half as intelligent as the average programmer making said programs undebuggable by the average programmer? It doesn't work this way. A programmer with a bit of experience knows to curb the desire for cle
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by owl57 4y ago
Maybe such code is written by people scarred by JavaScript and trying to avoid ==. But not sure: I saw this in the wild as well — actually, the victim brought the broken function to chat scratching his head — and he was a quite experienced
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by owl57 4y ago
And this is not deserving of WAT. This is actually a result of how awesome JavaScript is. But if you ever actually do this, then... WAT.
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by owl57 4y ago
Rule #42: There is an Emacs mode for it. No exceptions.
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by owl57 4y ago
…go outside. This is the way. Hmm. Thinking in this context… Wearing a helmet even in a room of friends looks like overkill from anti-surveillance perspective, but could be a good protection from deep fakes: someone could still record you
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by owl57 4y ago
A bit weird, but I would support a local style guide that limits initialization style choices to parens for calling non-initializer-list constructors and braces for everything else — for simplicity, consistency, less confusion with assignme
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by owl57 4y ago
I can't quite wrap my head around this. Apparently they advertised a consumer device with remote access over the WWW as "No Clouds"? And the advertisement actually worked, as in, many "privacy-minded security camera buye
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by owl57 4y ago
Ah, that kind of console! WTF indeed. I was thinking of an administration UI with lots of text fields, like "AWS Management Console" (but that would be probably broken as well if you can't enter a domain name).
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by owl57 4y ago
Sad, but why shocking? Imagine you're the backend guy tasked with generating the passwords for new users. You see the problem. Now, technically fixing it involves figuring out which other things users will now be able to screw up with
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by owl57 4y ago
Joking aside, this exact misspelling is probably way down any brute-force list. So, if your threat model is spammers stealing accounts with common passwords and nobody really trying to hack you in particular, it may be secure enough.
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by owl57 4y ago
I'm not sure lazy is entirely correct word. Using textures that are known to work well and make the world somewhat familiar to players of other games is probably the art version of "use boring tech".
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by owl57 4y ago
I feel like there may be more Emacs Lisp being written recently than other Lisps and prose about Lisp combined.
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by owl57 4y ago
> What kind of catastrophic mistakes might a junior lawyer make if they lean on it too heavily? The same ones software developers are already making when they lean too heavily on StackOverflow, more recently Copilot and arguably less a
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by owl57 4y ago
> Another way of looking at it -- scalability is pretty much the entire value proposition of software That sounds like a good way to look. People are Turing-complete, although that doesn't mean that they are very good at scale wit

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