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by pas 11mo ago
How easy it is to get married? Get the various birth certificates, get eligibility papers, get an appointment, oops, you are over the 3 months. Beep, 6 months in some DHS warehouse, have fun, try again later.
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by pas 11mo ago
most people don't care and don't even know, and Activision correctly believed that it won't matter (doesn't matter) ... of course the whole company from Satya down to the idiot whatever art director who asked for this ar
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by pas 11mo ago
pointing out that the basics matter is a valuable insight if this comes with the side-effect of some random blogger getting "easy" credit then so be it the same thing happens in economics, where the bitter lessons have to be learn
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by pas 11mo ago
Many thanks for the detailed answer! How do you know when to call it quits? How do you know when people are not aligned or honest, or that you are not right for the team, or when the team is not right for the client/project? How much t
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by pas 11mo ago
pnpm (maybe yarn too?) requires explicit allowlisting of build scripts, hopefully npm will do the same eventually > security model yep, some kind of seccomp or other kind of permission system for modules would help a lot. (eg. if the 3rd
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by pas 11mo ago
Arguably having a ton of hard to write, hard to maintain docs is waaay worse than Markdown that gets attention in PRs (MRs). Especially that the things in the article seem irrelevant compared to actually adding and handling non-text content
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by pas 11mo ago
> "it'll only get harder in the future" that's generally true, no? of course waiting a few days/weeks should be the minimum unless there's a CVE (or equivalent) that's applies
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by pas 11mo ago
permanent? why? how so? sure, I don't expect the UK to apply for membership tomorrow, but (unless either the EU or the UK disappears completely) both parties would gain from deeper integration
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by pas 11mo ago
Hah, we already have those medicals in Hungary. Well, it definitely has some cash-grabby aspects, but - at least here - there's some real benefits to having a doctor think at least for 2 seconds about how someone's chronic conditi
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by pas 11mo ago
I'm shrugging a bit, because we have very different experience regarding what the law did, as I worked on projects and privacy and handling of personal data was taken pretty seriously. (Sure, my sample size is small.) Separating good t
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by pas 11mo ago
> the difference between cults and religion sounds interesting, can you please summarize it, if possible?
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by pas 11mo ago
what was it then? why it did less for user privacy?
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by pas 11mo ago
can you please explain the driving licenses part?
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by pas 11mo ago
can someone explain what happened? how is it relevant to EU laws?
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by pas 11mo ago
Rolling out new code should be done differently than rolling out new data to fight bots. If every time there's a new bot someone needs to write code that can blow up their whole service, maybe they need to iterate a bit on this design?
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by pas 11mo ago
pure or not eventually this comes down to durability, no? and the way to do it is to either have some kind single-point-of-control (designated actor or single-threaded executor) or mark the data (ie. use some concurrency control primitive e
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by pas 11mo ago
long-running transactions are a really fundamentally bad idea if the length of the transaction scales with the number of accounts/users. these things need to be batched up in a way that code with at-least-once semantics correctly solve
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by pas 11mo ago
Chromium can be forked (probably there are already a bunch of degoogled ones) to keep Manifest v2 what's missing is social infrastructure to direct attention to this (and maybe it's missing because people are too dumb when it come
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by pas 11mo ago
logs, spans and metrics are stored as time-stamped stuff. sure simple fixed-width columnar storage is faster, and makes sense to special case for numbers (add downsampling and aggregations, and histogram maintenance and whatnot), but any wr
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by pas 11mo ago
like in many places people live too scattered (higher density would provide more healthcare facilities closer to people), service costs are enormous, and productivity is abysmal
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by pas 11mo ago
that's not exactly fair, air travel is very well optimized for safety and costs, not for availability and latency (and cost in public systems)
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by pas 11mo ago
there's no need to post 7 digits accurate GPS coordinates, the important thing is to have an understanding of how many are how far from where they are going to, ETA, what's the capacity (free units ready or cars yes crew not, or v
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by pas 11mo ago
if someone wants to attack them they can call them. so what's the point of not providing this very useful information to the public?
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by pas 11mo ago
It's not enough to win all battles, if you still lose the war of attrition (and logistics, and politics, and hearts and minds, and so on).
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by pas 11mo ago
> the swarms that everyone gushes over aren't that effective when a 1000 pound gorilla like the US Army turns up to play ... maybe. maybe not. the same army lost against stubborn Afghan shepherds. and before that against Vietnamese
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by pas 11mo ago
People change their diets to live longer, and in general medicine seems more valuable. People happily pay a lot for more QALYs. Having food security is important, just as having warm clothes and shelter too, right? Providing what people nee
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by pas 11mo ago
if food security is important then the EU should pay for cost-effectiveness, economic sustainability, ecological resilience, storage capacity, and so on. AFAIK right now it pays the same for a huge unproductive monoculture of non-edible cor
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by pas 11mo ago
some (many?) startups hire for impact and are looking for people (ICs!) who can "move metrics", so not that far from sales
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by pas 11mo ago
yes, and that's why it's usually better to put the spans where you actually need them instead of depending on monkey patching. still, it's the same whether you use DataDog or Sentry (or OTel).
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by pas 11mo ago
the problem is not simple either, and the same (or very similar) SDKs are used by the very fancy platforms too, no? compared to dumping logs to a file (or a single instance Prometheus scraping /metrics) everything is frustrating, becau

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