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by rualca 6y ago
> I am not sure why it's relevant to point this out. Actually I think it's rather heartless. Don't you have some ideals to strive for? It seems you're talking past the parent comment. The fact that some people are dow
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by rualca 6y ago
> the parent comment asked "why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car" Did George Floyd died in the back of the car? Or did he died after the police officer spent over 8 minutes kneeling on his neck until and after he
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by rualca 6y ago
> they're giving you the bare minimum product at the highest possible price as it it increases profit margins. You can buy a Mac mini with M1 with 8GB of RAM for around 800€, and the same Mac mini M1 with 16GB of RAM for around 1030
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by rualca 6y ago
> The point is that the technology for long life laptops has been ready for a long time. You're desperately moving the goal post to ridiculous places. It's like claiming that walking on the moon is supposed to be considered nor
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) provided you under-volted, under-clocked, and had a high capacity battery. The fact alone that you're talking about using/adding a nonstandard and exceptional battery is more than enough to throw out that claim.
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by rualca 6y ago
> 'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest (...) Does that "exertion" include a grown man kneeling on your neck while you repeatedly and desperately tell him that the knee on his neck is stopping him from breed
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system. This bullshit conspiracy theory should die already. George Floyd had less fentanyl in his system at time of death than over 75% of the people that the police examined during rou
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by rualca 6y ago
> Bug bounties are a different beast. Bug bounties are more than a different beast: they are a strawman. Sneaking vulnerabilities through a code review is even a competitive sport, and it has zero to do with bug bounties.
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by rualca 6y ago
> They plan to go to the Moon, to the Mars etc. The were planning planning and planning all the time. To be fair, I also plan to go to the gym, so I understand their struggle.
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by rualca 6y ago
> Now they appear to be doing it again. It’s a different PHD student with the same advisor as last time. I'd hate to be the PhD student that wastes away half a dozen years of his/her life writing a document on how to sneak bugg
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by rualca 6y ago
> Strangers submitting patches to the kernel is completely normal, where throwing people off is not. Strangers submitting patches might be completely normal. Malicious strangers trying to sneak vulnerabilities by submitting malicious pat
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by rualca 6y ago
Their graduates might not have been directly involved, but it's not possible to ig ore that those graduates were the product of an academic environment where this kind of behavior was not only sanctioned from the top but also defended
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by rualca 6y ago
> However, they proved a big point: how "easy" it is to manipulate the most used piece of software on the planet. What? Are you actually trying to argue that "researchers" proved that code reviews don't have a 10
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by rualca 6y ago
Even their choice of wording ("We are very sorry to hear this concern.") is the blend of word fuckery that conveys the idea they care nothing about what they did or why it negatively affected others.
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) acts as a weird sort of crowd-sourced centralized documentation for programming languages. I see it more as an expert system where problems and their solutions are documented in a queriable way. What stack overflow offers is more
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by rualca 6y ago
> Well now you're deep into Terraform or CloudFormation, setting up API Gateway, building an authorizer, coming up with an API Schema, wiring up everything with IAM, setting up Route 53 and Certificate Manager, building CloudWatch D
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by rualca 6y ago
> For a static site or basic CRUD some alternatives are bog standard HTML, CSS and maybe SSR framework Static sites do not involve any form of tasks being executed: you just serve dumb files and let everything happen client side. I fail
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by rualca 6y ago
> So is the solution to avoid Lambda unless you have to? Don't use it to build regular software, just use it for AWS glue when necessary? That, and also offload some somewhat computationally expensive background tasks. Instead if sc
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by rualca 6y ago
> ...You realize you can do 90% of those usecases on your own hardware, with your own tools, within your own infratructure, with complete visibility into every bit without Amazon right? This statement is a red herring. People don't
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's certainly much cheaper for some use cases but the complexity of the system goes up very quickly, and you're end up having to manage a lot of that complexity using an inferior tool like Cloud Formation (or Terraform). The
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by rualca 6y ago
That pastebin leaves out the fact that C's spartan approach and extreme simplicity allowed C to become the most popular programming language in the world already in the time of K&R, a book still renowned for it's clarity and l
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by rualca 6y ago
> The US has a different culture and has most economically dominant companies. The US's post-WW2 dominance doesn't explain why layers of lower management from the US stationed abroad insist in scheduling 3 weeks worth of work i
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by rualca 6y ago
> Feel free to name any category of professional where working over 40 hours a week isn’t quite normal. YMMV but the only time I ever experienced the myth that "working over 40 hours a week is the norm" was when I started worki
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by rualca 6y ago
> That's not the part of React people are complaining about. The jab at react is a jab at the whole virtual DOM thing which is just a completely unnecessary layer of abstraction in a desktop app. Is it, really? I don't think so
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by rualca 6y ago
Bonds are not currency. That comparison is even invalid as a strawman. I don't understand why I need to point this out. Even if you feel the need to equate crypto-things to bonds, first you need to argue why buying, say, bitcoins can b
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by rualca 6y ago
> None of them seem to have caught the eye of investors. That's the problem with this doublespeak, where people intentionally fool themselves into cognitive dissonance. The whole point of currency is not investment. It's the ex
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by rualca 6y ago
> On top of React, no less -- I really do not understand this blend of jabs. To me it seems like the people complaining about React and React-like frameworks are completely oblivious to the fact that well-designed desktop apps, where UI
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by rualca 6y ago
> Not exactly something users want. Not quite. Users want to get bugfixes and the latest and greatest without being bothered by updates and upgrades and popups and progress bars. Even with automated processes, app update fatigue is a pro
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by rualca 6y ago
> I interviewed at Amazon. Aced all questions, (...) To me that raises a flag on how you may not have a good grasp on what really happened in your interview. You don't ace questions in the onsite interview at Amazon. You are there t
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by rualca 6y ago
> If I interviewed someone who told me they left their previous job because they weren't progressing after raising issues immediately after being hired, that would be a hard no from me. This. OP's tales convey the idea of someo

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