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by phoehne 2y ago
As I said, it's not always the case. But in some cities there are shuttered properties, in sometimes prime locations, that are held by non-residents. In some places, like London, it's literally a money laundering who's who.
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by phoehne 2y ago
The vast majority is likely money laundering.
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by phoehne 2y ago
First, not all land is the same. The US coasts, for example, have much better income and job availability than sparsely populated cities in the middle of the country. In Europe, the size of the city is somewhat "fixed," dependin
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by phoehne 2y ago
I'm not sure if it's the case in your location, but sometimes foreign buyers come in and buy properties they don't expect to inhabit (unless something goes really bad in their country). Europe and the US have strong rule of
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by phoehne 3y ago
I don’t know if Niklaus Wirth (the designer of both Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon) participated in the DoD competition, but Ada was heavily inspired by those ideas. The shame was Dr. Wirth (out of ETH in Switzerland) didn’t define en
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by phoehne 3y ago
I’m glad to hear that. We’re moving stuff to Rust at work and it’s great at memory safety. Much better than relying on Unchecked_Deallocation. But that said, there are a lot of times when something can’t be out of a range, like voltage i
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by phoehne 3y ago
Is FileMaker also in this camp?
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by phoehne 3y ago
Learning C++ programming on OS 7 put hair on my chest. After that Unix was a walk in the park.
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by phoehne 3y ago
I think the gold standard for this was Visual Basic, especially combined with MS Access. And they didn't touch on File Maker. A lot of those one-person, in-house applications I've come across were wrappers around databases more
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by phoehne 3y ago
I don't know if it's still true, but when we were doing a analysis of alternatives for a customer looking to modernize, we reviewed salary surveys to determine the future cost of maintenance. While COBOL developers were about 15%
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by phoehne 3y ago
I don't know about fun, but maybe you can cosplay a1970's/1980's developer. The press (and many managers, directors, and even developers) treat COBOL knowledge as something that was doled out between 1965 and 1985 and t
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by phoehne 3y ago
It's done by another team. It's use is generally comparable to NPM and pip. In fact we use pip, but we pull from our servers instead of public. A lot of the scanning is automated and takes care of problems I've actually run
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by phoehne 3y ago
It does create moats where non existed before. I do think the government over-estimates how well and up to date it keeps its standards. I don't know if it's still true, but 8 years ago (2015), you had to submit documentation to
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by phoehne 3y ago
That's a fair point. I think the casualties will be the stuff that's released that's not directly monetized. The open source developer doesn't make any money to justify paying for any of the process to get a seal of ap
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by phoehne 3y ago
No, but this will largely target producers of software. So they'll have to show they've done their due diligence by probably producing documentation about procedures they followed, designs, conformance to the designs, procedures
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by phoehne 3y ago
I think I would rephrase one sentence 'what constitutes secure software by design.' to 'it may make some places actually realize there's an activity called software design, which is when you think about how the software
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by phoehne 3y ago
You'll have a blessed version of Linux from IBM/RedHat that specifically meets USC x.y.z requirements for use in a, b, and c industries. You'll have a supported version of Postgres, etc. etc. They'll be a version or tw
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by phoehne 3y ago
There's no evidence that mom and pop shops are any less likely to put borax in their 100% organic, gluten free, artisanal milk than a large company. Or even just washing the kitchen you can't really see. It's food safety la
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by phoehne 3y ago
Sometimes slowing down and better process and standards are two parts of the same coin. While unit testing might speed you up on net, creating design specs, design reviews, architecture reviews, control boards for configuration changes, et
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by phoehne 3y ago
What we have now is kind of untenable, but I'd argue it's not about the incentives for developers, it's what customers will pay for. I had one customer, as [sic] government agency, lecture me about how sensitive their docume
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by phoehne 3y ago
Using a blessed supply chain is not as stupid as it sounds. We do it at work so that every dependency we take is scanned.
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by phoehne 3y ago
There’s even one that kind of looks like a samurai helmet.
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by phoehne 3y ago
The real pushback is that it doesn't produce disturbing hallucinations that shake your soul to its core, leaving you in a state of existential angst.
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by phoehne 3y ago
How about we use generative AI to produce the experience I might like to see if I were browsing the web, based on Google's extensive data on me? That can be rendered to me in a continuous stream on YouTube. Then I would have to stop
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by phoehne 3y ago
Dear Mr. Smith: Your employer has generously agreed to offer you a position, quite reasonable, and with many great benefits at the venerable firm of 'Zumba'. Our interest is that you should join our staff forthwith and at the ear
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by phoehne 3y ago
I agree it's not an entirely new issue. But it's a little different from search results. Say I use the generative paint brush in photoshop. It reproduces a portion of the copyrighted work. I then use the image on an advertisin
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by phoehne 3y ago
I think this will be a bigger issue than some people think. Maybe there's a market for 'clean' training data that doesn't include potential copyright claims. Just public domain works. We'll know it's an AI b
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by phoehne 3y ago
Good times... good times...
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by phoehne 3y ago
I don't think it's as big a heft. First, there are standards bodies that list currencies as "default" set, much like we have ISO standard country codes. No one really complains if Narnia isn't a country, that Disn
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by phoehne 3y ago
RDMS databases are not a weak point. A bad model of your transaction is a weak point. Depending on the application, and not all applications require this, you may need a consistent read state for the data. Eventually consistent is like s

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