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by remus 4y ago
I remember when I started programming this was one of the first quirks that really surprised me, I can just hear myself exclaiming "This is meant to be random! Why do I keep getting the same result?!" I feel strangely vindicated s
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by remus 4y ago
Risk of fraud. Moving the money is not expensive, but if a $10k transaction turns out to be fraudulent then you're on the line for a big chunk of money. If you know your fraud rate is ~1%, then if you charge 1.5% on all transactions th
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by remus 4y ago
Just a single user, but I've found stripe to be stable and boring. Just how I like it!
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by remus 4y ago
> So that would make all research flawed wouldn't it? Because it simply checks that the algorithm is consistent. Let's not assume malice. However, that doesn't make it much better because it means the account abuse quality
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by remus 4y ago
It depends how much money you spend with them. If you shell out for expensive support in GCP you get guaranteed response times, dedicated account reps and so on.
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by remus 4y ago
I'm not sure how you can make that judgement without extra context (that is almost certainly tightly held within google). For example, what actually is the error rate? How does that compare to improper access that is successfully preve
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by remus 4y ago
> It's a bit absurd that something so fundamental as email has essentially no support from a company as large as Google; it's not a bug-free product. I'd be willing to bet that gmail has a couple of orders of magnitude mor
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by remus 4y ago
I think that's always a risk (the old "which idiot wrote this? clearly needs a full rewrite!" followed by the rewriter rediscovering all the bugs the original had fixed), but with a well established language like SQL hopefull
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by remus 4y ago
I guess it's one of those things where the intensity of the radiation is proportional to 1/d^2. If you're holding it in your hand it emits enough radiation to be very unhealthy, but as soon as you put some distance between yo
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by remus 4y ago
> it seems far worse to have status pages fail to reflect actual outages than to have them accidentally report an outage when there isn't one because no one really cares about what the status page says if they're not having iss
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by remus 4y ago
> However going by this news seems like Amazon has more or less given up on their payments ambitions. Could be also due to recent layoffs. This is a big news. Maybe Amazon wants to focus on being good at few things instead of running hun
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by remus 4y ago
> Funding the development of yet another file transfer utility, interesting as this one is, definitely wasn't necessary. Interesting you say that as I thought they explained their motivation pretty clearly. Is there a tool they miss
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> Is there a rationale for the deficiencies laid out in the OP Yes. The previous package had a dependency on the general purpose math/big package which was not constant-time and had a large surface area (that was not required for cr
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by remus 4y ago
> The point of "defense-in-depth" is to add additional layers that mitigate different weaknesses. Maybe making a stronger layer isn't the same as adding an additional layer, but it has the same outcome, so it feels like a
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by remus 4y ago
I don't think that's entirely true. When I've tested codepilot it also knows something about the context in which it's working, so it can use relevant variable names in it's suggestions. To me that's a step bey
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by remus 4y ago
I assume this doesn't improve perf much because you pretty quickly zoom in on a slice of hashes that are not evenly distributed. 37GB feels like a lot of hashes but it's pretty small compared to the space of all hashes, I suspect
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by remus 4y ago
At one place I worked one of the perks was you could buy their products at ~cost, and the way they'd do this is by sending each employee a load of coupons that they could redeem. When I got my coupons through I noticed they looked rema
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by remus 4y ago
> To add to that, how is it a meeting of the minds of the contract cannot be altered by one of the parties? I think that's a mis-interpretation of 'meeting of minds'. The point is that when you sign the contract both parti
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by remus 4y ago
I understand the frustration, but Im not convinced monitoring at large scale is that straightforward. The core question is: what constitutes degraded service? Would you say a service is experiencing downtime every time a 500 response is ser
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by remus 4y ago
I'm not sure what counts as proof, but I think it's fair to point out that comparing a bare metal server to managed cloud storage is not like for like. For example, Google cloud storage offers automatic migration of cold data to t
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by remus 4y ago
Could get very meta if you had a chess engine that knows how to play human chess!
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by remus 4y ago
> I don't think any cloud will ever be able to guarantee to never run out of resources. I agree with this, but clearly there's a disconnect between how often people expect these kinds of issues and how often they actually happe
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by remus 4y ago
I think even the idea of merging changes is a step too far for all but the most technical users. Most user's idea of what it should look like start and end at a word-like UI, so having to introduce the idea of merging different copies
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by remus 4y ago
> Takes about 15-30 seconds to figure out if the person you are talking to understands or is being evasive. In which case you need to adjust and put on kiddy gloves, slow down, and coax information out. Personally I don't find this
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by remus 4y ago
The headline seems a pretty clear example of the employee being treated poorly imo.
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by remus 4y ago
> Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free messages product? Data? But e2e encryption and privacy are primary features… I don’t get it Messenger apps have powerful network effects.
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by remus 4y ago
I think the parents point is that starlink has an actual reason to cap usage (because launching satellites into space is expensive), much more so than traditional providers anyway.
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by remus 4y ago
> Most likely your problem is with the Gerrit "Reviewers by Blame" plugin... I suspect it will also be related to a recent change where every CL needs to be signed off by two google employees. Reducing the number of people who
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by remus 4y ago
Lattice Training | React Native App Developer | Full Time | Remote (European timezones), office in Chesterfield, UK | £50k-60k depending on experience Lattice Training writes data-driven training plans for climbers. We're building an a
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by remus 4y ago
Copying my answer from another comment: The spot price is about supply and demand over an extremely short time period and has dipped below zero because at the moment gas storage in europe is very full, so if you've got a load of natura

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