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by scott_w 2y ago
Then maybe you should see how it’s done in other countries and companies. I’ve worked on hiring and we’ve never once lowered our standards just to get in a black candidate. What I’ve seen done is conscious outreach to increase diversity of
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by scott_w 2y ago
As I’ve said twice now: it was the actual thing that was done (in this case, lowering standards and throwing qualified people to the wolves) that was lazy and stupid, not the umbrella “DEI” itself. That’s because the actual work to get more
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by scott_w 2y ago
You fell into the instant trap I was talking about by equating DEI to “hiring quotas.” That’s a lazy and stupid approach to the problem of increasing opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The solution is, unfortunately, m
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by scott_w 2y ago
I don’t think DEI itself provides the grounds. It’s simply a case of DEI either being implemented in a lazy or stupid way to tick boxes OR it being used as cover by a small number of activists to engage in discrimination of their own. If DE
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by scott_w 2y ago
This is a truly excellent article and shines a light on a real problem and how it affects people in a real way. It’s an example of something that I’d seen rumblings of in left leaning media: that DEI was being implemented in the laziest and
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by scott_w 2y ago
European countries like the UK have consumer protection laws and they get enforced all the time. There’s a few ways: - Act on customer complaints (or consumer protection organisation complaints) - Proactively investigate and check - Require
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by scott_w 2y ago
> Just read through this thread and see how few people are saying anything like "you should still learn how cryptographic primitives work though". It's almost nothing but negativity and discouragement. That’s what the “imp
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by scott_w 2y ago
According to Musk, the First Amendment.
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by scott_w 2y ago
You can’t separate “auditing can reduce chance of breaches” from “using unaudited security critical software when certified alternatives exist can be gross negligence.”
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by scott_w 2y ago
Very few teams have instant deployments. Even fast systems take a few minutes to run. If you can turn off a flag faster (because it’s a DB record), then you should do that.
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by scott_w 2y ago
The very fact it was audited massively reduces the chances it’ll be breached compared to a random JS file that hasn’t been seriously audited. A “please read and tell me the problems” is NOT a security audit.
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by scott_w 2y ago
You do understand “never do it yourself” implicitly applies to a commercial/production context, right? Nobody is stopping you learning or choosing to enter the field (to make it your sole professional focus).
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by scott_w 2y ago
Learning crypto isn’t just a box ticking exercise that you learn it and now you’re qualified to “do crypto” for the rest of your career. I also studied this in university but I know that I don’t spend anywhere near enough time to day to avo
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by scott_w 2y ago
I agree, going from 1 second to 2.5 minutes is a huge negative change, in my opinion. I know publishing a package isn't something you do 10x a day but it's probably a big enough change that, were I doing it, I'd think the pub
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by scott_w 2y ago
The article is very clear in the mechanism: he posits companies are “blindly” colluding by using third party price information to inform their decisions on their own pricing. This isn’t “collusion” because they’re not the picking up the pho
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s not clear from the website but I’ve always been curious if these engines have community built assets that negate the need for real game assets. It would be really nice to sidestep the need to buy the games altogether (legally of course
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by scott_w 2y ago
I don’t get the point of this article. Just reading the samples, I strongly dislike this query builder because it looks flaky and difficult to parse by eye. And the examples get worse and worse. This isn’t an argument against query builders
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think this is a better comparison than what the article gives. I do think it's not quite necessary to go live to all customers to be an MVP, however. Functionality that requires manual input from the company to make it work might b
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by scott_w 2y ago
You still don't need to go too far, there's a fair few farms just outside Ponteland that have grazing sheep and I'll regularly cycle past farmers with their collies on the quad bikes on a Sunday morning.
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by scott_w 2y ago
Yes and it's made worse by using "deciseconds," a unit of time I've used literally 0 times in my entire life. If you see a message saying "I'll execute in 1ms," you'd look straight to your settings!
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by scott_w 2y ago
Your comment was posted in January 2025, after 2024 was the "hottest year on record" with numerous climate-related disasters (hurricanes, droughts) hitting with unseen regularity. https://wmo.int/news/media-ce
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by scott_w 2y ago
> The murder of the united healthcare CEO, or more specifically, the positive reaction towards it, seems rather associated with the left, doesn't it? Not even close. Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh have been blasted by their own fans and
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by scott_w 2y ago
Not OP but I read it as "6 tabs" not "6 YouTube tabs."
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by scott_w 2y ago
Not really: the descendants of the Norman conquest remain some of the wealthiest landowners in England. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-h...
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by scott_w 2y ago
No worries! Our experience is that the hardest part (and it's not trivial) is associating the "anonymous user ID" to the newly logged-in user. Segment has an identify() function (I think Mixpanel has something similar), where
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by scott_w 2y ago
Pretty straightforward: you send an event for which variation your user saw and another when they login, attaching the login method to the attributes. You can use Mixpanel or Heap, which have mechanisms for mapping the non-logged-in user to
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by scott_w 2y ago
Honestly, having run a number of experiments with magic link, I wouldn’t recommend them. We saw our login success drop noticeably. We tried a few different approaches over the course of a quarter but even our best attempt only mitigated the
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by scott_w 2y ago
Quick note: the article header should say “ICO” and not ISO. I didn’t know about this change n in policy from Google but, in summary, it doesn’t change the legal positioning on fingerprinting as something that can fall under PII collection
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by scott_w 2y ago
Lots of places don’t have the best culture, you work with what you’ve got in life. You might be applying for a job and, since they have limited other information, your existing job title is used as signal to figure out if what you’re saying
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by scott_w 2y ago
My experience of speaking to people who make the decisions is that titles are absolutely a social signal that gets people to listen. Now, if what you say is too whacky, or you demonstrate a total lack of ability once given a chance, then yo

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