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by ragona 5y ago
I'm weirdly impressed by the "switch to metric/imperial" button that updates the article text. It's just so helpful.
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by ragona 5y ago
> He told me to my face he "would not have chosen me" and "didn't know how I got in." Holy shit. Glad that this person got managed out... eventually.
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by ragona 5y ago
Early investors: people who “invested” hundreds of dollars to play. Legitimate business: “we’re a game studio.” Later investors: newer players who see the earlier ones making money.
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by ragona 5y ago
To be honest I sometimes get better signal from things like cucumbers than I do with technology. Tech has a real issue with biasing towards people who happen to have worked on a particular topic, and as we all know we get bounced to unfamil
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by ragona 5y ago
This article neglects to understand the massive college-hire pipelines that top companies set up. It's not that companies aren't hiring junior developers, it's that they _only_ hire from their college recruiting pipeline for
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by ragona 5y ago
I think this misunderstands the hard part of running AWS. You're paying for the software, sure. What you're really paying for is the hundreds of oncall engineers supporting you at all times, and the culture of ensuring that those
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by ragona 5y ago
I would have scare quoted "responsible" instead of "metaverse", personally.
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by ragona 5y ago
Mirrors don't solve the problem, they move it.
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by ragona 5y ago
The GP is talking about Dual EC (the infamous algorithm in question) and abbreviating it DEC.
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by ragona 5y ago
An interesting exception to this is that American Sign Language (ASL) counts differently from normal American cultural hand counting. For example, three involves a thumb, whereas the normal US/UK idiom is only fingers.
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by ragona 5y ago
His direct involvement in an atrocity-filled period of US foreign policy is what gets him called a war criminal, not his pithy quotes.
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by ragona 5y ago
As someone who has interviewed and hired a lot of recent CS grads I can confirm they are way less weird than the fine people I met at the beginning of my career.
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by ragona 5y ago
Not if you have children under 12.
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by ragona 5y ago
Yeah, and I bet it’s even harder if you’re a new player to the space without established relationships.
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by ragona 5y ago
I’m quite sure they could, but mostly just because they could simply walk into your house and tamper with the hardware. You don’t need a fancy zero day when you’re the government.
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by ragona 5y ago
This makes sense, but I believe it’s incorrect. Overtraining is a fairly serious condition that can take months to recover from, not generic over-exertion of a specific muscle group that requires days of rest.
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by ragona 5y ago
I don’t know anyone at Amazon who would hire someone they were sure they’d fire. I’ve never heard of it. It’d honestly even be sort of difficult, given the hiring process and the involvement of a bar raiser (veto vote) on the hiring committ
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by ragona 5y ago
I think you’re incorrect about a few things. First, tolerance to substances is more physiological than simply learning to hide it. Second, consider one drink an hour ten eight hours. You’d barely be inebriated. It wouldn’t be particularly
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by ragona 5y ago
Fiat currency is backed by something like “proof of military,” or “proof of governmental power.”
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by ragona 5y ago
You’re saying we should be in favor of fossil fuels because it will.. prevent war? Gotta imagine the Middle East might have some experience here with regards to the peace bringing properties of oil.
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by ragona 5y ago
I found myself nodding along with your comment, having worked in a massive company myself. A company the size of Google is simply not a single entity, so it isn’t surprising for one division to make a “private mode” that another division do
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by ragona 6y ago
It feels like home because of the key of the song, not the instrument. Sometimes the guitar is tuned to play a song where the key matches the lowest string, but many songs are of course played in other keys.
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by ragona 6y ago
Agreed! The fact that you can directly encrypt with RSA has been the source of all kinds of misuse-related issues.
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by ragona 6y ago
This post leaves out a key difference between something like RSA and EC, which is that EC doesn’t actually provide an encryption function. You end up using an integrated encryption scheme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by ragona 6y ago
I’m also an IDE fan, but I love vim plugins for text navigation. For editing a bunch of files like text, I’m likely using vim. But for doing proper application work, refactoring, debugging — I’m with you. I might be good at vim but gdb is a
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by ragona 6y ago
Yikes. I would never work for that person after reading that article. “I started a company and I’m totally wild about it. It is my life. If it is not your life too then you don’t belong here.” Founders are supposed to be obsessed with their
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by ragona 6y ago
My hope and suspicion is that they’re storing a one way hash of the data to create the signature.
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by ragona 6y ago
What I think is interesting is that I suspect they’ll eagerly license this to competitor stores. A palm reader does not turn your local Safeway into Amazon Go, and they know that. Having a slice of every point of sale could be huge; imagine
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by ragona 6y ago
I wonder what percentage play exclusively on iOS though. If big spenders will spend on whatever is convenient it could be easily worth it to stop them from spending on iOS and get the cut back.
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by ragona 6y ago
No, it’s to address “oh well we CAN’T moderate our platform we didn’t build those tools and we couldn’t find any engineers so I guess we’re just stuck then eh??”

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