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by remus 4y ago
Yes. I think hn can be a bit of a bubble sometimes. AlloyDB looks cool, for example. Also interesting to see what's coming up in new Android releases given it's the OS with the most users in the world.
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by remus 4y ago
> Adding an explicit up/downvote would capture some additional information, but it would overlap with the above, and most users would ignore the button. I’d guess Google has at some point experimented with this and found it wasn’t w
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by remus 4y ago
This is basically how they started, as they licensed a lot of content for the platform to begin with. The content providers looked at that juicy monthly revenue and decided they wanted a slice of the action, and now we have Netflix, hbo max
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by remus 4y ago
Maybe it's just the problems I work on and the code I write, but I use hash maps all over the place. Having to write my own sounds like a total pain in the ass, it'll almost certainly not be as performant and/or have some sub
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by remus 4y ago
Depends what you mean by a good reason I guess. A lot of very capable mathematicians have put time in to the problem and it's proven to be pretty resistant to a solution. I think problems like this often feel a little incongruous becau
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by remus 4y ago
I've used GCP secrets manager and it worked well. Pretty simple API and the option for providing your own encryption keys if you want it.
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by remus 4y ago
Not to diminish your issue but choosing good defaults for software with a wide range of use cases is hard. One person's blindingly obvious use case is another's niche.
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by remus 4y ago
It may make good business but it doesn't feel very moral to deceive people into spending money they don't need to.
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by remus 4y ago
Personally I wouldn't read too much in to the timing. Although the end result looks small the change affects multiple large projects, each with hundreds of millions of users, and likely has knock on effects in other parts of google. Sp
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by remus 5y ago
While I totally agree with the sentiment it is nice when language developers go out of their way to not break stuff, even when they don't have to. For example the golang team have made efforts not to break certain usages of the unsafe
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by remus 5y ago
It goes both ways. Im sure there are scummy customers out there using it as a tool to not pay businesses money that is legitimately owed.
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by remus 5y ago
> Isn't it odd that Google would sign their own domains? After all, https is about ensuring your sites's authenticity to your visitor via a trusted third-party certificate. Why does it have to be a third party? My understanding
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by remus 5y ago
Good point. I'd agree that totp on phone > totp in pw manager > no totp, so using it in some capacity is definitely better than not using it at all.
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by remus 5y ago
The issue is that if someone gains access to your password manager then they have both your password and your totp secret. The whole point of MFA is that these should be different things.
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by remus 5y ago
I think it's kind of hard to quantify complexity in a way that compares nicely across domains. For example, a lot of the complexity in a browser comes from needing to service ~billions of users across thousands of devices using loosely
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by remus 5y ago
> Of course this doesn't excuse the need for a secure backup of those crucial passwords somewhere Sounds like you need a password manager manager!
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by remus 5y ago
> Are they conversations that a company would consider help further the bottom line? Not at all. I realise this depends on the company and the person, but to me these kinds of conversations are essential. I find all the interesting stuff
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by remus 5y ago
I think price is an important difference between phones and cars. When they started coming out smart phones were expensive, but within reach for a big slice of people. There's a lot of people who don't buy brand new cars because t
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by remus 5y ago
What you're describing is basically a passwordless setup with a poorly designed API (putting loosely defined strings that can have nowhere near enough entropy) and some great tools that have grown up around that API (password managers)
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by remus 5y ago
I wonder whether there's a subset of shell syntax that's stable enough and powerful enough that it could be used as the compilation target whilst avoiding the incompatibilities you mention?
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by remus 5y ago
> How are you assuming a known dictionary and a known word count? And for the other examples, you’re somehow assuming a fully precalculated rainbow table of all possible such PII. Seriously…? Obviously deciphering all messages is not fea
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by remus 5y ago
Don't forget step 4.5: As your search engine tips in to popularity all sites on it are overrun with spammy SEO content as marketers search for the next way to get more eyeballs on their ads.
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by remus 5y ago
> Yeah they had a bunch of dark patterns, but that refund was a pleasant surprise. Hope they still do that. The pessimist in me suspects they only do this to minimise the number of people who go on to complain to regulators and minimise
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by remus 5y ago
Presumably because protos are designed around RPCs while FIDL is designed for IPC and different trade offs make sense in each case.
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by remus 5y ago
I don't think that's the take home here. Viewed across their entire offering I suspect this is a relatively minor pricing change and won't have a big effect on the bottom line. Pure speculation, but I suspect that since Thoma
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by remus 5y ago
> That's like saying Apple raises the prices of the iPhone through new generation of iPhone models, which is not true at all. If the same service gets a higher price, then it's a praise raise. If a new service gets a higher pri
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by remus 5y ago
> You'd think you're hacking away and/or find vulnerabilities all the time, but in reality - at least in my experience -, you spend most of your times fixing the easy stuff and selling the measures to both management and y
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by remus 5y ago
Im interested in this too as my experience is the same as yours. Personally I feel like going in to JS/G apps script is actually a big bonus as it means you avoid some of the really gross stuff that you get in excel (which ime ends up
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by remus 5y ago
It sounds like it's probably an insurer specific thing so I'd check the small print. I'd be very surprised if it was a legislative thing.
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by remus 5y ago
Plus he's said he'll write off the ~£1.5 billion he's loaned to the team. That's a pretty big financial hit.

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