powerhour

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by powerhour 4y ago
Maybe if you and your peers and all of the higher-ups are equally blind, ya. Otherwise your blindness might prevent you from seeing what's going on.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Tax based on vehicle weight, too. Heavier vehicles damage roads faster a lot than do lighter vehicles. https://www.gao.gov/products/109954 > For example, while a truck axle carrying 18,000 pounds is only 9 times hea
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by powerhour 4y ago
Games can stop supporting decentralized items, and if every game you care about does, the item may as well have been centralized to begin with. What's the difference? I'm not asking about the technology, I'm asking about the
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by powerhour 4y ago
You don't need to read the article to be triggered by "smart people" articles. It really brings out the anecdotes.
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by powerhour 4y ago
My fear is that is what I'm doing right now. I've been writing code alone for a while, it's very possible it will be hard for new hires to understand or update. I know there is tech debt but I don't have time to fix it (
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by powerhour 4y ago
The only thing helm provides is awkward templating, IME. Ideally you'd never use a text template library to manipulate YAML or JSON structured objects. Instead you'd have scripts that generate and commit whole YAML files, or you&#
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by powerhour 4y ago
This reads like you're looking for a fight by using the least charitable interpretation of the quote.
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by powerhour 4y ago
I wonder how often SMS 2FA serves as the entry point for more business. Like, devs choosing Twilio to try it out for low volume work before expanding into large campaigns.
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by powerhour 4y ago
When the alternative is expecting someone else to give up their scarce free time, yeah, you'd better be producing perfect code or work somewhere that doesn't care about overnight outages.
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by powerhour 4y ago
I'd prefer that as well, however I end up being the one woken up because your (the generic you) code has errors. If you're not willing to be on call I hope you're at least "willing" to be terminated if your code wak
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by powerhour 4y ago
It doesn't matter. If anyone outside the "norm" is included, a group of folks online will be angry about it. They're a minority and can safely be ignored (and probably about other topics as well).
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by powerhour 4y ago
The messaging isn't really that mixed. Folks mostly want the police to enforce and investigate more important matters than they do now (speeding vs overly tinted windows, for example, or home invasions vs sleeping in a park). edit: rem
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by powerhour 4y ago
> The other behaviours that they normalized and now all of us deal with are what they call ‘serial returns’ where you buy maybe one of everything and return what you don’t want. My wife and I do this, although not with small retailers. V
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by powerhour 4y ago
Analogies are like cars, they're never perfect but that's OK.
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by powerhour 4y ago
I think so. I think the disagreement is in how to deal with the problem. Obviously tariffs are a terrible idea (if you think about it for more than a couple minutes). Alternatives like mandating exporters meet environmental and employment s
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by powerhour 4y ago
The only reason engineers in the US adopted "clean rooms" was to circumvent copyright law, not because they simply weren't willing to copy IP from their competitors. US companies still invested heavily in R&D. Maybe Chine
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by powerhour 4y ago
It seems like we've all individually been able to find spam, and I'm guessing Google engineers that use Google for searching have the same experience. Is it just a matter of them allowing us to help train their algorithms? I'
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by powerhour 4y ago
It's absurdly common for Google to completely ignore the first term I include in a search. It's not like I typed it just for fun!
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by powerhour 4y ago
We want private companies to be in the business of rule enforcement, IMO. Some want to prevent monopolies from having too much influence over commerce but it's far from the majority (based on all available evidence).
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by powerhour 4y ago
I see you've read my productivity blog!
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by powerhour 4y ago
It doesn't have to be disruptive to users, companies go out of their way to make it disruptive. As others here have said, companies can just stop adding code to track users and stop storing so much information. It's actually way l
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by powerhour 4y ago
Relay the full trace of all IPs and switches involved in sending a call my way and give me a way to filter based on that trace. I want to block an entire source if they don't do a good job of screening their clients.
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by powerhour 4y ago
> The bug has since been fixed and Cloudflare has kindly allowed me to publish this write-up. Seems wild that they can deny you the opportunity to publish your findings for 7 months after the fix for a beta product went live. What is tha
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by powerhour 4y ago
There are a lot of people who choose the perfect over the good, even when the perfect is impossible. They revel in it. Incremental movement forward is their enemy just as much as going backwards. It's easy to manipulate people who dema
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by powerhour 4y ago
Course we don't know if that would still be the case for rats that were capable of communicating with others online.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Unfortunately they won't be able to do much about it, besides jail someone (who may in fact be unable to make the victims whole).
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by powerhour 4y ago
I don't remember Gibson but I wonder if we can get to the point that outlaw hackers limit damage to the wealthy and send "refunds" to the exploited. That would be worth celebrating.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Making a version affordable and available to small time randos would probably have helped as well. Was it even possible to buy a complete system at something other than call-for-pricing pricing?
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by powerhour 4y ago
That's only a problem if the difference between the two sandwiches is nontrivial. If I'm satisfied by either option, always going with option A is just fine, IMO.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Not really a fan of having the tax break at point of sale. I don't want dealers knowing my income.

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