remus

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721.
by remus 6y ago
I'd be interested to know which bits of gmail are slow for you. My personal experience is that it's so fast as to be unnoticeable in the things I do day to day (writing, searching, labeling, moving emails around etc.)
722.
by remus 6y ago
Banks and trading firms have substantial compliance departments that do a lot of the leg work.
723.
by remus 6y ago
OP mentioned they are using one of the sequential UUID variants so this is not an issue.
724.
by remus 6y ago
From the post: > Angle brackets require unbounded parser look-ahead or type information in certain situations So they want to avoid angle brackets so they can efficiently parse source code.
725.
by remus 6y ago
> Insofar as you assume that the attack here is “the NSA compels Google to gather evidence against you”, the lack of just being able to log into the VM doesn’t really change much. For most people (and especially businesses) this is a tot
726.
by remus 6y ago
It's still a full full blown web app but I can highly recommend gitea. It's just a single binary so getting setup is really easy. I run an instance and it literally requires no maintenance.
727.
by remus 6y ago
Presumably running their own website costs less than the 10% cut ebay would take. Given some of the numbers in the article this seems about right: if you've got enough cash flowing through the business to maintain a 40k sq. ft. warehou
728.
by remus 6y ago
type: is another handy one if you know you're looking for a specific file type.
729.
by remus 6y ago
I think this is a fairly cynical take, as having news on the web is also pretty great for users. Imagine if instead of having all news stories a quick search away you instead had to install apps from X different news sources (and inevitably
730.
by remus 6y ago
I think this is a pretty narrow vision of what the web can be. For example, text + hyperlinks excludes things like google maps and youtube, which are quite literally world changing pieces of technology. For sure there is a balance to be str
731.
by remus 6y ago
I think the problem is languages are very versatile and there's almost always several ways of doing things, so nailing down what constitutes a fair comparison is always contentious. To use your analogy, I'd saying comparing two la
732.
by remus 6y ago
> And not all browsers support basic features like Datepickers etc. (I'm looking at you Safari) This is a real pet peeve of mine. Perhaps there is some good reason, but as far as I can tell date pickers work well in chrome and firef
733.
by remus 6y ago
As I understand it (from talking to people who have worked closely with the ICO in the UK) they're basically very understaffed and so prioritise the low hanging fruit e.g. big companies committing the most serious violations.
734.
by remus 6y ago
There's actually 6 lawful bases for processing data https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... though deciding which is applicable in a given situation is not straightforward. The legal basis
735.
by remus 6y ago
Similarly, I don't think we can really hold the US up as some sort of bastion of moral excellence. As a non US citizen you have very little right to privacy and the US government will use this against you (see: forcibly having to unloc
736.
by remus 6y ago
> Why am I using a language with pointers if it doesn't care about being fast? I think there's a big difference between 'I dont care about speed' and 'fast enough'. Go sits pretty firmly in the 'fast en
737.
by remus 6y ago
I think the scale of the products also plays a big part. A $500 hair dryer is really expensive (and for a hair dryer!), but $500 is the kind of money a lot of people have around, or could pull together if they wanted to. If you have a car t
738.
by remus 6y ago
The 'living memory' claim seems a bit far fetched, too. Let's pretend living memory means the last 100 years, that'd mean air pollution levels in 1920 wee so poor you couldn't see Everest from Kathmandu. I'm no
739.
by remus 6y ago
You should be doing some fairly expensive hashing if you're storing the password correctly. Maybe not an issue for a 50k char password, but how about a 50 billion char password?
740.
by remus 6y ago
I'm not sure about the middle east but they're incredibly common in the Mediterranean (Greece, turkey, Spain etc).
741.
by remus 6y ago
On the other hand we're almost certainly heading for a recession so (you would hope) there would be some reticence to over spend on luxuries like holidays.
742.
by remus 6y ago
I guess the question is why would you wait to make savings like that? $10m/month would pay for a small 'cloud cost cutting' team with plenty of change left over.
743.
by remus 6y ago
I wonder with contracts like that whether the short term gains from having people tied in to contracts also has some longer term negative consequences? Fortunately I've not had to work with salesforce before, but if Id just signed a bi
744.
by remus 6y ago
Having two locks can also be a good tactic, especially two locks in a different style e.g. a d-lock and a cable lock. The theory being that a thief would need to have two tools to steal your bike which means it's likely more hassle tha
745.
by remus 6y ago
The resource usage section at the end was really interesting, and surprising to me. 1% of jobs use 99% of resources! It would be interesting to try and understand how this pattern came about and if there's particular engineering decisi
746.
by remus 7y ago
> ...the correlation between number plate and one or a very small number of individuals who have use of the vehicle... It seems analogous to an IP address in that sense, and the courts have ruled that IP addresses are personal informatio
747.
by remus 7y ago
Yes. GDPR was implemented in UK legislation and the government has confirmed this legislation will remain in place after brexit.
748.
by remus 7y ago
Thanks to GDPR, if the data personally identifies you then you sure can.
749.
by remus 7y ago
In some ways I completely agree, but if you ever have to start sending larger volumes of stuff (especially parcels, especially international parcels, and especially international parcels to areas outside north America and the EU) then getti
750.
by remus 7y ago
Microsoft Access. I think the main problem is I keep expecting it to behave like a normal database. Perhaps if you go in without those expectations you'll have a better time? I don't know, and hopefully I'll never have to fin

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