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by rainforest 6y ago
Move fast and break things has its downsides: work that influenced public policy/political debate was retracted after an error in the model was discovered [1], errors have been found in widely cited databases [2]. These are things that
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by rainforest 6y ago
The model isn't predictive though - it's a simulator. If we'd waited until we had enough data to make predictions with it (which I doubt you could given the sheer number of parameters) it'd be too late to use any of the
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by rainforest 6y ago
I believe this model is quite old (at least in some form) so there have been opportunities to review it. I confess I haven't looked, but I haven't heard any defects have actually been identified. If the model stood up to peer revi
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by rainforest 6y ago
Good software development is missing from most academic promotion tracks. "Research Software Engineers" are a recently new thing, which is an admission that academics are not very good at software engineering and supports the noti
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by rainforest 6y ago
When I was in academia I was stuck using the HPC facilities at my institution. I was lucky to get about 30 cores and my jobs took many months to run to get out of the queue (overall I used about a decade of CPU time). I'm quite sure th
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by rainforest 6y ago
I wasn't aware of this, looks like it would solve some of our pain points, thanks! I think the existence of tools like this is a succinct way to say that static/declarative languages are really hard to execute.
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by rainforest 6y ago
One use case that TF really frustrates me with is anything conditional: if I want to do blue/green the best I can do is duplicate the entire infrastructure and wrap my terraform invocations with some brittle script that repeatedly runs
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by rainforest 7y ago
> If you feel the need to put code in your runtime config, that means your design sucks. I would look at Terraform and beg to differ - they started with a simple stringly typed language and had to build a typed language. Still no support
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by rainforest 7y ago
It has a pre-flight script (which isn't supposed to change anything) that installs it (and its browser extensions, and a kernel extension at some point in the past) in the most widely available place the current user has privileges to
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by rainforest 7y ago
To their credit, they seem to be using AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges which doesn't get the user's password, but executes a command as root, which is marginally better than stealing the password like Dropbox did.
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by rainforest 7y ago
Zoom has a web client that "just works" but they only show it as an option after they detect that their native client didn't "just work".
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by rainforest 7y ago
> So yeah, Zoom is (ab)using flaws in macOS to get itself installed with minimum fuss, but it isn't doing it with evil intent. But... why? What other software vendors look at the OS security model from a viewpoint of 'how do we
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by rainforest 7y ago
This is an example. Why would you trust an organisation that engineers "solutions" to security measures but does so without due care and attention leading to a widespread critical security bug?
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by rainforest 7y ago
The videoconferencing industry seems to believe it's necessary to bypass regular OS protections to make the UX "better". For example: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/8/20687014/zoom-securit
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by rainforest 7y ago
Windows Defender also had the same defect [1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...
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by rainforest 7y ago
I think it's too easy to be sucked in by the promise of distributed X or eventually consistent Y. In the past I managed migration of a few services away from Hazelcast as the team started peeling away the nice abstractions they'd
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by rainforest 7y ago
I think the problem isn't the phrasing, it's asking the question at all. It's all too easy to confuse PRs as a quick peer review with an opportunity to vicariously work on something by asking questions that you should have as
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by rainforest 7y ago
The "spineless chicken" Corbyn attack could also have been to muddy the "chlorinated chicken" association too.
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by rainforest 7y ago
James Mahaffey's "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima" is also worth reading - the scope is broader. It covers a period where research reactors were decommissi
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by rainforest 8y ago
> As Holbrook accelerates, the cyclist will push 700 watts for more than a minute to stay inside the draft pocket behind the dragster’s fairing. That’s about what a Tour de France sprinter produces in the final minute of a stage. From h
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by rainforest 8y ago
Not necessarily, but probably an age-driven assumption. The cutlery produced in large quantities was made of stainless steel and exported globally; if it was imported from the UK there's a good chance it was made in Sheffield.
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by rainforest 8y ago
Sheffield has a long heritage of making fine cutlery and tools. It's the reason we still have saw makers here (despite the fact their products cost 10x a mass produced version) and why there's a Master Cutler of the city. A lot of
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by rainforest 8y ago
Their Companies House filings show a charge registered for a loan late last year, presumably a last ditch attempt to keep it running. The filings from the last few years show it was barely profitable. Sounds like it was a very desperate pos
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by rainforest 9y ago
For curiosity's sake, if you're interested you can see how often mileage is reported incorrectly by looking at the MOT data set published by VOSA: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/anonymised_mot_test .
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by rainforest 9y ago
I think it depends, some employers might appreciate being showed evidence that the process they've decided on isn't suitable for reasons they were unable to see.
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by rainforest 9y ago
Coinbase can use (and runs) an exchange to get liquidity. When a user sells their coins, Coinbase goes to an exchange and sells them on, taking a cut.
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Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?(theoutline.com)
1 points by rainforest 9y ago|0 comments
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by rainforest 9y ago
It's odd but it enables a lot of useful things (e.g. magrittr's pipe operators). It's possible to write functions that change their behaviour depending on what name they were called by too.
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Who Is Marcus Hutchins?(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by rainforest 9y ago|0 comments
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by rainforest 9y ago
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but what's the difference between a European sliding saw and a table saw with a sled?

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