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by pdpi 9mo ago
We live in a world where the sitting president calls January 6 a day of love, and has pardoned the rioters, and then says that people protesting ICE are "domestic terrorists". We live in a world where federal prosecutors are choos
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> It's shocking that Apple hasn't done this trick yet when everyone else started doing it years ago. It's not that shocking — them not doing that is part of why I keep buying their products. I believed their leadership und
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Honestly, the way you conflate soft skills with randomness and capital-P Politics is worrisome. > Every single thing that you listed requires a understanding of the opposing party that you just talked about in order to make the deal work
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by pdpi 9mo ago
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. Soft skills are mostly definitely not about sucking up. At a previous job, the PM for another team often asked me to join some of their meetings — her engineers were shit at talking to non-technical
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By way of example — I can (and did) remove the ads from the Start Menu on Windows 10 Professional. But there's literally no reason they should've been there to begin with.
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> Speaking of high pixel density, Windows is the only OS that does scaling properly. Haven't tried Windows 11, but a bunch of Microsoft applications in Windows 10 render text using sub-pixel rendering in 2x high dpi mode, resulting
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by pdpi 9mo ago
> Signal is hardly more private than goddamn Whatsapp. To be fair, that is largely because WhatsApp partnered with Open Whisper to bring the Signal protocol into Whatsapp. So effectively, you're saying "Signal-the-app is hardl
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by pdpi 9mo ago
You just expressed that opinion on social media. There's no reasonable definition of social media that wouldn't include Hacker News.
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by pdpi 9mo ago
Symmetric encryption is computationally ~free, but most of them are conceptually complex. The purpose of encryption here isn't security, it's obfuscation in the service of dissuading people from depending on something they shoul
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A cryptographer would say that XOR ciphers are a fundamental cryptography primitive, and e.g. the basic building blocks for one-time pads.
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XOR encryption is cheap and effective. Make the key the static string "IfYouCanReadThisYourCodeWillBreak" or something akin to that. That way, the key itself will serve as a final warning when (not if) the key gets cracked.
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by pdpi 9mo ago
> And then people simultaneously complain that Mozilla is reliant on Google for funding. There are not many good revenue options available for a browser other than selling search defaults - and AI may start choking off that revenue as we
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This seems reasonable at first glance, but imagine applying it to other development tools — "You can't use Xcode/Visual Studio/IntelliJ to build a commercial IDE", "You can't use ICC/MSVC to build a c
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If they’re passing on my own address and payment details, are they _actually_ selling something they bought? Using an agent of some sort to figure out where to put how to pass the payment information seems more than a little irresponsible t
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by pdpi 9mo ago
What you're describing would see the government fall outside the purview of the law naturally, without the need for an exemption. This is a true case of an exception that proves the rule — the fact that they made the exemption is itsel
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I can build it myself and skip that step. Or, if the build process is reproducible, you can make trust less of an issue by having a small handful of independent people run their own builds and post their signatures. That way you need those
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by pdpi 9mo ago
Not sure which way this tips the scales, but Chase has a retail banking presence in the UK, GS doesn't. If Apple wants to expand Apple Card internationally, and want to keep the number of partners to a minimum, Chase would be a better
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On the contrary — the timing is perfect. Yesterday, that statement could've been described as hyperbole or a far-fetched hypothetical. Today, it's a different story.
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Everybody knows that coffee stains are the only surefire way to tell whether a paper has been read or just printed out and ignored. A colleague in uni (way back in early 00s) would add these to her documents every once in a while to give th
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by pdpi 9mo ago
I think it's fair to say they're related, yes. But causality can well be the other way around — that Windows upgrade failed because of flaky hardware.
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after funding cuts(theguardian.com)
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If I'm doing work than involves three different libraries, I'm not reading and committing to memory the whole documentation for each of those libraries. I might well have a few tabs with some of those libraries' source files
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There's all the usual "$APPLICATION is a memory hog" complaints, for one. In the SWE world, dev servers are a luxury that you don't get in most companies, and most people use their laptops as workstations. Depending on y
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by pdpi 10mo ago
Part of what bothers me with AI energy consumption isn't just how wasteful it might be from an ecological perspective, it's how brutally inefficient it is compared to the biological "state of the art" — 2000kcal = 8,368
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> The only actual hard part was just that the rental market in Berlin has vastly more demand than supply. If you were in London, it's like you never left home!
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Yeah, moving here involved basically buying a plane ticket, and, after I got here, booking an appointment to get a National Insurance number (basically equivalent to an American Social Security number). Never occurred to me that moving to a
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I'm an EU citizen and UK resident. If I were to become one of those officials, my banking situation would become much more complex. One of the defining characteristics of the EU (not that the UK ever cared, even before leaving) is Free
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In my opinion, we do mocking the exact opposite of how we should be doing it — Mocks shouldn't be written by the person writing tests, but rather by the people who implemented the service being mocked. It's exceedingly rare to see
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I'm Portuguese and have lived in the UK for over a decade. UK keyboard layouts suck for writing Portuguese, because they lack convenient ways to type all the diacritics. Portuguese layouts (especially on macOS) suck horrendously for pr
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I'd go a bit farther — "mock" is basically the name for those dummy versions. That said, there is a massive difference between writing mocks and using a mocking library like Mockito — just like there is a difference between u

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