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by remus 6y ago
I think the parent is jokingly suggesting that google's auth service is going to be buying a largest google one storage plan so they don't run out of quota.
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by remus 6y ago
There's still threads on hacker news today bemoaning the ribbon UI and harking back to the good old days of drop down menus, and how great it was to be a power user back then. If you're after an example of a UI change with minimal
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by remus 6y ago
> Serious blowback happens when you break something for some segment of your users. When you have a billion users changing literally anything breaks things for some portion of your users.
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by remus 6y ago
Turns out hacker news has an indirect dependency on google!
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by remus 6y ago
Smart motorways will readily adjust the speed limit down (often for no discernible reason), but they don't increase the speed limit were it may be appropriate e.g. good weather and very limited number of vehicles on the road.
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by remus 6y ago
> What? Why wouldn't this just be an opt in thing? "Oh cool, I'll set a $1k cap, never gonna spend that on this little side proj." Fast forward a year, the side proj has turned in to a critical piece of the business b
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by remus 6y ago
> ...the companies involved would be going down in a hail of lawsuits and the industry would be scrambling to distance itself. I think this is essentially what will happen here. One of the problems is that the remediation work to correct
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by remus 6y ago
> ...a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those changes. Presumably the law varies depending on country, but in the UK you're absolutely obliged to inform any in
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by remus 6y ago
I think the point here is "...used internal security tools...", Not the particulars of the message she was pushing.
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by remus 6y ago
Just speculating, but it could be to do with the recent ruling that the EU-US Privacy Shield data sharing agreement was invalid https://easygdpr.eu/2020/08/privacy-shield-invalidated-what-... This means that data
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by remus 6y ago
The law varies a lot around the world, but in the UK at least you need a lawful basis for collecting, storing and processing information like that (in the GDPR lingo, special category data). Unless you had very explicit permission from the
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by remus 6y ago
> The Git CLI has become too bloated to use. It will take a month to read through the manual and learn all available commands. A well-designed VSC should not take that long to learn. I think the git cli is a classic example of the 80:20
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by remus 6y ago
For me that begs the question as to why this mechanism exists in the first place, though. Maybe apple will patch this vulnerability but people will find a way to exploit it again. I'm sure there are advantages to system processes avoid
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by remus 6y ago
I don't think that's inefficient as such, that's just the price you pay for data durability. Sure you can buy a high capacity HDD on Amazon for very little, but most people would be pretty sad if/when the hard drive dies
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by remus 6y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. Meta data about your usage can be very revealing in itself. To use an analogy, if someone tracked every location you visited that'd be very invasive, regardless of whether they recorded
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by remus 6y ago
> By that definition, all data is PII. There is no information available on this planet that has not been influenced by people. I think that is a step too far. For example, it seems quite clear that a dataset of daily average temperature
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by remus 6y ago
From the article, there's a backup PIN.
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by remus 6y ago
It may well just be me, but what I find valuable about syntax highlighting isn't the colours per se, but the differentiation between different kinds of token in the language (comments, keywords, argsb etc.) Therefore I don't reall
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by remus 6y ago
I've got a tablet so can actually sign PDFs with a proper signature. None the less, a company the other day insisted that I print out a form, sign it, take a picture of the signed form and send them that. It was almost enough to bin th
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by remus 6y ago
> In comparison, Go does breaking changes from time to time, but it is also a much younger project. In general, comparing a language syntax with an api is hard to draw meaningful conclusions from. Could you give some examples? I would sa
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by remus 6y ago
> It’s not solved, you’re just paying some AWS contractors to do it for you and you assume it’ll be alright. In as much as maintaining infrastructure can ever be 'solved', doesn't paying someone else who does a good job of
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by remus 6y ago
Sure, but it'd be nice if in the meantime Tesla didn't call it 'full self driving', because it's nothing of the sort. It's a pretty good lane assist that requires constant human supervision and only works in a
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by remus 6y ago
2038 called, they'd like to talk.
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by remus 6y ago
Not carting a pocketful of loose change round your entire life. Not an issue for some people, but I really like carrying less stuff.
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by remus 6y ago
> Why not? Does anyone actually want to share filters? Is it even possible to share filters? I admin a few g suite users. A common question I get is "I can't find that email" Which is easily resolved by sending them a sear
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by remus 6y ago
Presumably there will come a point where the cost of purchasing enough ipv4 addresses outweighs the cost of making a project work with ipv6. It'll be an interesting piece of economics to see where that boundary is.
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by remus 6y ago
Poorly implemented IoT devices are a big contributor, but it's possible to design high quality IoT devices that are a net win. That's why big tech companies aren't campaigning against IoT.
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by remus 6y ago
It's hard and expensive controlling enough machines to ddos Google. And Google wouldn't want to work with someone who was ddosing sites for the same reason or doesn't work with the Mafia.
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by remus 6y ago
I think it's important to make the distinction that while you can be friends with your colleagues it's very important to also have friends outside of work. Having friends from work is great, but if you only have friends from work
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by remus 6y ago
> PRISM data was never used to help secure a single conviction. I think it's worth noting that this is also fairly normal for signals intelligence of all types. If you want to use intelligence as evidence in a trial then you have to

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