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by saghm 4mo ago
> There's a big problem with name squatting, and nothing is being done about this either. That's not true at all. They changed the policy a few years ago to disallow squatting and you can report a package as not doing anything,
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by saghm 4mo ago
The point they were making is that no matter how smart you are or hard you work, there are factors outside of your control that can prevent you from succeeding. That's not to say being smart or working hard doesn't improve the lik
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by saghm 4mo ago
It's amazing how quickly so much of this thread is people vehemently arguing that this person deserved to be fired for not following proper procedures, but when it's the company not following proper procedures for literally firi
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by saghm 4mo ago
> However, this needs to be taken down, and you need to make sure this does not happen again. It's still up now, so it seems like they do not actually think it needs to be taken down
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by saghm 4mo ago
Superiors like...his manager, who announced the project for him?
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by saghm 4mo ago
Why is the repo still there if it's such an egregious violation of Google's policies?
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Maybe he did some damage? Did it create a security issue, e.g. if someone handed it to a bad llm agent? Maaaaybe. Evidently not enough damage that it's worth deleting the repo
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty telling that comments like the one you replied to are all over this thread, and every time a response like yours is posted, no one seems to have any rebuttal. It's pretty clear that there's plenty of precede
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by saghm 4mo ago
I pretty much agree with you in principle. I'm in the US (not in silicon valley but working in software for over a decade). Given my stance on a lot of things though I don't know how much evidence this is that this view isn't
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by saghm 4mo ago
"Right" is a pretty dubious way of framing it when basically every company works this way. You don't really have any choice in the matter. Passing a law about this wouldn't be removing any rights of individuals any more
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by saghm 4mo ago
Right, there's definitely not a bunch of pressure from the fact that they can throw you in jail for basically anything and probably get away with shooting you if they really wanted that would get in the way of a real meaningful relatio
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by saghm 4mo ago
> "For the first eight or nine years I was the most pulled-over man in America," he said. "It was constant." > Often officers simply wanted photographs. > Other times they invented reasons to start a conversatio
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by saghm 4mo ago
It seems like there's a policy against this. I don't think having rules only apply to rank-and-file members rather than founders is better in the long run.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Wait... is the author operating under an assumption that I control (almost) the whole of my codebase, so there is no need to have the boundaries inside of it? Do you just use all global variables in your code or something? I'm pre
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by saghm 4mo ago
> When you write `int& ref = ptr;` you are dereferencing the pointer with ` ptr` therefore you have promised that it's valid. Yes, that's exactly the problem. "I promise I didn't make a mistake when reasoning abo
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The philosophy of C++ is to not introduce unnecessary overhead, and to trust the programmer. The first part of that is reasonable. The second part is just naive; nobody writes bug-free code, so if your strategy for not having memory co
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't really consider Go a modern language anyhow. It's modern compared to C, but then again, so is Java, and it came out like three decades ago.
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by saghm 4mo ago
Even the best programmers in the world write a lot of bugs. Yes, there's a spectrum, but on the whole we're not particularly good at writing code as a species. We still do it though because it turns out that even buggy code can be
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by saghm 4mo ago
I do use FDE on my laptop, but not secure boot. I guess I'm not particularly concerned about whether someone will load a kernel onto my boot partition and then return the laptop to me. I could always just clear out my boot partition an
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by saghm 4mo ago
> What is the convincing reason that MicroSlop is the trusted party to sign the shim with their (presumably NSA-blessed key)? For OEMs, presumably the stranglehold they have on them via Windows. For users, not much, but none of the ones
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by saghm 4mo ago
I've honestly always kept secure boot off on my machines (which also use Arch). I don't really feel like the level of threat from someone (or me, by accident) booting an image I don't want them to on my hardware is particular
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by saghm 4mo ago
The difference is that while we don't have a viable model for zero crime societies, we do have languages that don't suffer from nearly as many memory safety bugs
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by saghm 4mo ago
I thought some of the timer precision stuff was a specific security measure, not just a privacy one, because of stuff like Spectre[1]: > The branch predictor would then be mistrained by iterating over a very large dataset using bitwise o
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AMD releases FSR 4.1 upscaling for older graphics cards(theverge.com)
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by saghm 4mo ago
Honestly since college I've mostly learned that inheritance is more trouble than it's worth
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by saghm 4mo ago
I was surprised but pleased to see this was a declarative macro rather than a proc macro. While proc macros are more powerful, there's a surprising amount of expressive power in the declarative ones, and I'm fond of playing around
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by saghm 4mo ago
Hopefully still in the "tens" digit!
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by saghm 4mo ago
This is something I've thought about a lot over the years, not in small part because the connection pooling work that I mentioned above was during my first few years out of college where I worked at MongoDB on some of their database cl
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Mike's talk argues that code solutions need not be modelled on the real world, and that different data creates different problems, which need different solutions. I've always found it odd when even fairly smart engineers some
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by saghm 4mo ago
I assume they mean to call the function from two (or more) parts of the code (i.e locations). It's not immediately apparent why this is meaningfully different than what would be possible in Java though, since ostensibly a function is t

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