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by rvr_ 5y ago
Power law and asymmetries
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by rvr_ 5y ago
I don't believe life has chapters. We live now. The past only exists if rooted on present's memory. I don't think we can choose what to remember, but we sure can decide what to nourish. Good luck, enjoy the journey.
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by rvr_ 5y ago
We should not blame "the gov" or "organizations". This kind of crap was coded by someone, maybe more than one person. These are the people to blame. Our profession will never be a truly profession until we (developers) a
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by rvr_ 5y ago
For some (maybe many?), consumption of social media fills a huge void. For those who have lasting friendships, frequent social gatherings, nearby (and united) family, quitting social media can be as easy and feasible as the author suggests.
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by rvr_ 5y ago
short answer: composite indexes
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by rvr_ 5y ago
This kind of leak looks like an insider's job. What measures should and org take to avoid this? How does big tech deal with secrecy?
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by rvr_ 5y ago
I am all against standards and engineering boards defining what is right and what is wrong, but at the same time I also favor software developers being held civil and criminal responsibilities for the outcome of their work. It is pretty har
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by rvr_ 5y ago
Here in Brazil its very common for healthcare workers to have a 12h/36h schedule. They work 12 hours and rest one and a half day, in theory. This kind of schedule was heavily pushed by unions and even coded into law. The end result is
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by rvr_ 5y ago
We need to give credit were credit is due. Torvalds deserves it, not because of all the code the he wrote, it was not that much and many others could have done the same, but the process that he developed was (and still is, the key). He mana
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by rvr_ 5y ago
Sure, classic CGI is one process per request, but even on php-fpm or apache prefork/mod_php each process will only work for a given maximum number of requests, thus refreshing periodicaly. Also, if any of these workers is killed (say,
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by rvr_ 5y ago
The language/runtime is very configurable. Some codebases will set strict_type=1 plus error_reporting(E_ALL) eliminating many instances of these kind of problems / footguns.
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by rvr_ 5y ago
And that is also why PHP is so robust: shared nothing. Preforking. Time and memory limits per request. Uncaught errors ends only the current request and so on...
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by rvr_ 5y ago
Looks like apple is using nvme as an infinity swap. This helps explain how 8GB feels enough and will probably be cause of future pain when those chips begin to wear out.
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by rvr_ 5y ago
I am sold. Tau is the law.
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by rvr_ 5y ago
Try https://min.io/ I would 100% go for it if my company was not a https://www.caringo.com/products/swarm customer
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Judge de current situation by ethical standards of the present and judge historic ones with the eyes of those days. Eugenics was, once upon a time, seen like "good stuff" all around the globo, not anymore.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Steam was always a high target for hackers and a low target for law enforcement (who cares about your stolen games?). It makes a lot of sense for them to implement every security method conceivable.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Cutting the middle man => having sex with some random dude who created an FB group.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
It's nice to run a common distro on such tiny resources, but things tend to pile very fast when you add packages because of long (and sometimes unneeded) dependencies chains. That's when more specialized solutions shine (like open
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Good point. This also illustrates how friendship can be asymmetrical and even platonic.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
How many people on earth can find and exploit something like this? Less than 100, maybe less than 1000?
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Do you remember the old days, when desktop apps (many written in Delphi) connected directly to the SGDB, relying on views and stored procedures? This kind of "server-client" software is still very common inside corporate LANs. Sin
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Why should I? the whole idea is error prone. I have seen, many times, in the wild, excessive data exposure thru REST APIs. Lowering the bar does not help.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
And that is how you end up with massive data leaks.
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by rvr_ 6y ago
I like to think that the universe is discrete, composed of "slots", like a big multidimensional array. If you imagine that the discrete universe has some kind of transition, where the properties of a given slot can be transferred
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by rvr_ 6y ago
There is an issue not being discussed here. The guy is almost homeless. He is probably angry and has nothing left to lose. Now think about all the damage he can do by having his open source project being used by so many people and companies
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by rvr_ 6y ago
List of bitcoin uses: - Avoiding bad government - Illegal activities - Ransom payment - Speculation (provides liquidity)
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by rvr_ 6y ago
Here in Brazil we had DST until last year. DST here was called "Summer Time" and it was a complete cargo cult copy of what is done on the north hemisphere. The whole situation was so complicated that only half of the states on the
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by rvr_ 6y ago
The point is: statistically, having above average IQ can give you some advantage. Maybe 5%, maybe 25%. The same advantage can come from many sources, like: be born on the "right" country, have a certain weight, height, skin color,
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by rvr_ 6y ago
I don't believe in 100% original work. Everything is build upon the past. Doing new things will always be some form of doing old things better.

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