ridethebike

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by ridethebike 5y ago
The closest this scenario can materialize in real life is being printed in one of Tom Clancy's books. Nobody is going to bomb stuff over this. And as much as I like labeling EU toothless [1] - banning Belarusian airlines is proportiona
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by ridethebike 5y ago
As a war act? What does it mean in terms of practical steps?
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Yes, but, remember mh-17 - the plane with 200 dutch citizens that russians blasted out of the sky in 2014? I'm sure strong response from the EU is coming in any minute now.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
>> If an employee was a member of a fascist party it'd quite literally be illegal to fire them on that basis. I think the moment company starts taking heat on internet/talk shows/etc. for "employing fascists"
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by ridethebike 5y ago
It's only couple of $ so I'll let it slide this time
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I bought bitcoins for two or three hundred bucks. Then price went a bit down, I got spooked and sold it at a loss. So who's laughing now, IRS? Come a get me. P.s. needless to say - sarcasm
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Privileges for doing anything serious (e.g. perform payments or change security preferences) are not stored in JWT, all checks done on server side. In case of emergency (e.g. we suspect user session has been taken over) we lock user account
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Of course, trusting JWT without verifying it first would be madness
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by ridethebike 5y ago
That's more or less what we ended up with. We could choose one the following two extremes: a) Store sessionId as a cookie on the browser, pull all details on backend from cache server - requires network call every time when any tiny u
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Does JWT always imply statelessness? We use JWT to send bunch of public claims around, one of which is session_id which refers to session in backend cache. Are we doing it wrong?
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I was going to say "Over time one just doesn't care anymore" but you did it way better. Thank you for that.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Mind if I asked where did you get this info?
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by ridethebike 5y ago
>> drop a bomb on their electric plant Not gonna happen. Because: a) that would almost surely mean all-out war (in case of Russia/China - with country that has nukes), started by US b) dropping a bomb on electric plant of country
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Do I want security cameras/metal detectors/metal doors and other <s>police state</s> security measures everywhere? No. Do I want to have all that in electrical plants/pipelines/nuclear reactors and other
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by ridethebike 5y ago
My relative tells everyone that "this whole covid panic" is blown out of proportion - he got covid and it was "meh, no worse than flu" for him
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Next level: seeing that process is clearly inefficient but still following and defending it with iron-clad "because this is our process" justification.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Pre-pandemic policy for more efficient utilization of office space. Reasoning: it's never the case that 100% of staff is in the office - there's always be someone on sick leave or vacation or working from home. So let's rent
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by ridethebike 5y ago
>> HR nagging people because they left books on their desk You just reminded me one more reason for me not to return office - we have policy that when leaving for the day employees must remove all extra items [ ] from the desk and put
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Amen brother
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I want to go back to the office for one maybe two days per week
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by ridethebike 5y ago
It does not have to be fully correct UML diagram. But knowing the difference and being able to draw more or less accurate high-level sequence/flow/component diagram is vital skill for skilled developer. >> Programming langua
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by ridethebike 5y ago
UML is totally useless abstraction and all until you somehow need to explain your architecture to 30+ developers/architects on the call.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
UML as "Language to depict diagrams + set of tools on top of it + unified process and all the waterfall-ish bureaucracy around it" - yeah, sure, it's dead in the sense barely anyone uses it in such form. UML as "Language
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by ridethebike 5y ago
When I was in university(mid 2000s) we had this subject called "AI fundamentals" - series of lectures + testing in the end(~2hours per week for 6 months), taught by respected faculty member (or so we thought), it was going to be a
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Same as with this one: >> If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy. There's no logic, it's just catchy sound bite that when said makes some peop
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I think if China didn't manage coronavirus successfully we'd have seen numbers of deaths due to "some winter cold" so large that even communist party wouldn't be able to hide
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by ridethebike 5y ago
You do know that they open sourced ton of stuff, right? Including .net core for example (under MIT license).
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by ridethebike 5y ago
There's russian saying for this: greedy man pays twice.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Milking existing familiar to everyone universes is just more profitable. MCU, as primitive as it is(my apologies to fans), has been best money maker of last decade for a reason.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
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