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by remus 2y ago
The difference here is that the excel errors are systematic so should be more easily avoidable, whereas long hand calcs are more varied and harder to correct.
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by remus 2y ago
Thanks, seems like the devil is in the details. It's a cool piece of work, very impressive browsing the generated maps.
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by remus 2y ago
What's novel/interesting about this? Speaking as an ignorant outsider, it seems like they're 'just' querying existing data and plotting it. Obviously this is a gross simplification, but I'd be really interested
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by remus 2y ago
Some wealthy people who were dodging their tax obligations are no longer able to do so.
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by remus 2y ago
I don't think that really adds up as you've not considered any other tax income, so I dont think you can say "US taxpayers lost $700M"
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by remus 2y ago
> In other words, this is just performing collections, which is straightforward. No bad thing surely? Take the easy wins where you can get them and then go after the harder stuff.
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by remus 2y ago
> For an individual, the answer there might be to limit the usage of the device to your "core" services, and rely on good password hygiene for everything else. What's the advantage here over password + yubikey? Isn't
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by remus 2y ago
> Imagine working on a legacy codebase where the PM holds the dogma of refactoring being a bad thing and expecting you to do it wrong, even micro managing your PRs. I don't think the article said that anywhere? It was just a list of
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by remus 2y ago
Perhaps it's a scale thing, but I get more "oh crap, I just deleted this thing, can you get it back for me?" requests than I do bug reports about soft deleted records showing up incorrectly. Being able to restore records imme
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by remus 2y ago
> "Gov.uk notify" isnt a critical business service. it doesnt need multi-az or multi region failover. Doesn't it depend on the kind of notifications being sent? If I was some government department using this service I&#x27
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by remus 2y ago
> You can have a team of donkeys building a product and the sharpest hackers guarding it. You could do but it's a pretty risky way to run a business. Obviously the real world often gets in the way, but a competent manager would look
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by remus 2y ago
It's a strange disconnect between the quality of the incident response and the extremely basic nature of many of the bugs reported. I mean SECRET_KEY='secret'?! Seriously straightforward stuff.
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by remus 2y ago
From a quick play this is pretty cool! The design choices it made all seemed pretty sensible to me. For example I asked it to create a schema to support a chat application and it came up with something that works pretty well. I then asked i
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by remus 2y ago
> I have a fully staffed team it’s not 5m a year. For a company twice his size. I don't think the numbers OP chose really matter. The point is to do the exercise. Try and work out some numbers on how much the current software is cos
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by remus 2y ago
I think you might be thinking of Rob Pike's project, unless Russ has been involved? https://github.com/robpike/ivy
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by remus 2y ago
I guess it depends on how you define success, but given there's a lot of people writing a lot of go code inside and outside of google over the last 15 years it seems likely it's doing a decent job at solving problems for those peo
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by remus 2y ago
> Another was a parking kiosk. It was never hardened. I guess criminals haven't caught on to this yet. I don't know the details of how the parking kiosks near me are setup, but I can only assume they're put together really
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by remus 2y ago
Unorthodox is maybe a bit strong, but what they're saying is that it's a novel application of an existing technique from another field. Fairly often you will see big breakthroughs like this in maths, where someone has the insight
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by remus 2y ago
> Shouldn't that get caught by the Public Suffix List? PSL is a best-effort sort of thing, so it's good but not definitive. It would be dangerous to rely on it when issuing certs imo.
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by remus 2y ago
> There is nothing culturally bad in a system issuing an error if there is an error. That's true, but if the error says "PANIC! EVERYTHING IS DOWN" when it's not true, then it's asking for an action that's o
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by remus 2y ago
To give a more charitable take, in practice it's easy for noisy alerts to creep in and a tool like this could be a good nudge to dig a bit deeper on that alert and why it's gone from useful to noise.
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by remus 2y ago
The inverse square law does a lot to reduce exposure to radiation and is pretty fool proof. Doesn't seem much point in building more specialised rail cars when off the shelf ones will be relatively cheap (compared to other costs on a p
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by remus 2y ago
> ...considering it a secret is just snake oil. I'd think of it as more a defence in depth measure. It's not a secret, but taking some common sense steps to not spray it all over the place could slow down an attacker, and a lot
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by remus 2y ago
> I was happy enough to use youtube and give google my data on my own terms. I don't think they're really that bothered about your data. They want to show you ads or sell you yt premium.
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by remus 2y ago
> And yet he left office on the appointed day and lost an election. Trump would argue he didn't lose the election, and would still be in power if he had his way. I think we should be making it harder, not easier, for the democratic
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by remus 2y ago
> Most of the time it is just autocomplete on steroids. imo this is kinda underrated, I use it all the time and it's a real time saver for me. It seems to have a good recall for things you've been doing recently, so it'll
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by remus 2y ago
> Projects like the one at Dinorwig (pumped hydro-storage) are more viable solution for excess capacity. I think this is a little simplistic. Pumped hydro is very reliant on finding suitable geography which ultimately limits the potentia
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by remus 2y ago
Not to mention that in reality there is no guarantee you'd end up selling for $250m. $500k now would look pretty damm good if the whole thing tanks and the other 90% of your shares become worthless.
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by remus 2y ago
The same thought struck me when reading the article. Imagine a world where your API was 'send me some SQL, return results' and you'd have the same problems as described.
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by remus 2y ago
> What are you talking about? The AVERAGE CD right now is 5%. My local CU is almost 6%. US bonds are currently ~4.5% - if you consider those unstable, I guess the US economy isn't stable - and if the US economy crashes, wikipedia wi

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