remus

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by remus 5y ago
You could add something like that, but I suspect the new default behaviour would then break a number of programs (in particular things that use reflect and unsafe). There aren't many guarantees around this kind of usage but in practice
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by remus 5y ago
It definitely fails the "avoid another subscription service" criteria but I've found dmarcian works pretty well for me https://dmarcian.com/ I was considering setting something up myself but it just seemed li
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by remus 5y ago
I'm not an expert but "wings falling off" seems like a pretty catastrophic failure for a typical aeroplane.
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by remus 5y ago
The engineer is part of a larger system though, and imo it's the fault of the system if a mistake from a single junior engineer can cause deaths.
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by remus 5y ago
> So the solution here would be a fine that is also affecting the developer. I'm not sure that's the right thing here. You'd end up with some poor junior dev getting punished for what is essentially a decision by their bos
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by remus 5y ago
It's not actually that unfeasible. A pretty standard first step in complying with a Subject Access Request is to verify the identity of the person you're talking to (wouldn't want to hand over a load of personal data to some
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by remus 5y ago
> All you can choose is the expansion cards which control what ports you get, which is useless. Given the number of people who argue about which ports are the right ones I think it's quite a nice feature.
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by remus 5y ago
Personally I don't think it's that obvious. It seems more like a spectrum of functionality from static html pages to something like google maps, with most things sitting somewhere in the middle.
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by remus 5y ago
Why? From my point of view it's no different from any other 'pretty' domain name.
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by remus 5y ago
Might be because I use the web client? To be honest I haven't put any time trying to get it to work as I've got a simmering resentment about having to waste my time on things like this! On the plus side I've built up a good p
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by remus 5y ago
Case in point: I can't listen to spotify on my laptop if I've got my external monitors plugged in via USB-C. Not a problem with MP3s of course.
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by remus 5y ago
Is that a surprise to anyone? It's literally a service where you upload your data directly to their servers. Businesses have contracts with other businesses to protect them against particular kinds of abuse of this data (e.g. google st
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by remus 5y ago
> The problem is that Gmail tries to solve both problems with one solution and the result just doesn't work even close to reliably. Does it? My understanding is that gmail's spam filter only tried to catch the first kind of mai
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by remus 5y ago
> Email as a whole really is a mess. An outdated protocol with too many bandaids and a fundamentally broken model. Perhaps true at a technical level, but in a practical sense it's vastly successful. Super-quick communication between
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by remus 5y ago
I don't know what their threat model is but it's interesting that they don't seem too bothered about reducing meta data collection potential on the server. I bet you could put together some pretty interesting graphs of who is
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by remus 5y ago
I think these choices are more context specific than is often appreciated. For example > if I have measurements [A: 100, B: 101, C: 105], and then scale the axes to "fit around" the data (maybe from 100 to 106 on thy y axis), i
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by remus 5y ago
I think we are talking past each other a bit, as I completely agree with > it is not necessarily true that something with a complex implementation has a complex interface. In turn, my point is that as a language implementer you only have
528.
by remus 5y ago
> It should be noted that "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" isn't a meaningful reason to exclude something from a language, unless it's a hobby project. If we assume complexity ~= &q
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by remus 5y ago
It's not a requirement to support all of them, unless there's some radical change in the landscape of the web I imagine clients will continue to support HTTP/1.1 for a long time to come.
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by remus 5y ago
I think it's important to remember that tobacco is highly addictive. This makes it harder for individuals to make an informed decision which I think should be a factor in deciding whether to control a particular substance.
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by remus 5y ago
You can probably make a good guess though. If you have conversations at work like bob: "hey come and check out this cool thing I made, I think it could save you a load of time" me: "woah, nice one bob, that's amazing! Le
532.
by remus 5y ago
I don't think status pages are so easy in practice. Me and everyone I know have not had any problems with google calendar today, so who is right? Together we're probably <0.001% of all google calendar users so I don't thin
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by remus 5y ago
> In a real war there would be a much sharper focus on building planes that can fight and win. But that what the enemies of the US are already doing and it’ll be too late for the US when it needs the right planes. I think this is partly
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by remus 5y ago
> ...ongoing effort to misuse the web for fscking web apps nobody wants... You mean things like google maps, gmail and vimeo? They seem pretty popular to me, and significantly improved by the fact that almost anyone with a web browser ca
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by remus 5y ago
> Thinking about it it seems logical that for a search engine that practically speaking has monopoly both on users and as mattgb points out - tonsome degree also on indexing - serving the correct answer first is just dumb: if they can ke
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by remus 5y ago
I think the parent's point was that people say Google 2005 >> Google 2021, but it's pretty hard to make this comparison in an objective way. No doubt Google 2005 was way better than other offerings around at the time.
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by remus 5y ago
You could imagine them using it in their warehouses. I imagine getting good coverage with wifi in a huge warehouse could be pretty expensive, maybe 4G/5G works better?
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by remus 5y ago
Would you feel the same way if someone did a painting of the same scene from memory? What if they were particularly adept at creating photorealistic paintings? How about if someone wrote a very vivid description of the same scene? Would you
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by remus 5y ago
> Otherwise, if a person is generally toxic enough, they will be worked around. While this is generally true the workarounds can and do take time, and while all this is happening there's a lot of space for a person to do significant
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by remus 5y ago
> I’m increasingly fatalistic about computer security. It seems like your options are carefully auditing all dependencies (difficult and maybe impossible if the dependencies are highly technical or the malicious code is sufficiently subt

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