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by solatic 3y ago
You're making an argument which is a variant of "if I'm not doing anything wrong, then I have nothing to hide." Privacy is a worthwhile value in and of itself, not least of which because different people have different n
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Banks sometimes charge fees to make cash withdrawals from ATMs, even ATMs belonging to the same bank that holds your account (true at least in my personal case, outside the US). If you are paid via direct deposit, you're financially in
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I'll contrast with other commenters here and agree with you. The notion that private ownership of the arts is a good thing is very much a modern idea born of mass production. Most people prefer paintings and sculptures to be in museums
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by solatic 3y ago
> Are you saying that the cancelled orders are due to a management decision/policy, and not a software bug? The first time the order gets cancelled unintentionally, it's a software bug. Shit happens. When a bug happens, managem
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by solatic 3y ago
As an ex-soldier, I'm sympathetic, but it's hard to do that when the military's budget is already so high. Fixing military budgets internally is a multi-pronged problem, with any such proposal taking multiple years to execute
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> There's no foundation to build on, there's no axiomatic knowledge we can rely on. Did you serve in the military? I'm wondering what axiomatic knowledge taught in 12th or 11th grade, exactly, that you think military train
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Mostly agreed. There's sometimes usage as well for cylindrical shapes like rigatoni when making chunkier sauces, and smaller shapes like penne can be made in smaller pots with smaller amounts of water, thus concentrating the amount of
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by solatic 3y ago
SSO centralizes the problem to somewhere that can require hardware-based auth, e.g. passkey, Yubikey, etc. Passwords are fine if they're combined with hardware-based auth. Expecting every vendor to implement passkeys etc. natively is
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Devil's advocate: using an Internet-public domain for internal purposes will publicly expose your internal hostnames if you enable DNSSEC on the Internet-public domain. This is a problem if you're required to enable DNSSEC, e.g. f
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It's a common fallacy that money equates to purchasing power. That is only true so long as there continues to be a market with stable supply and stable prices. After COVID-19, many people had plenty of money, but you simply could not b
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This is Hacker News. Technology, science, business, not politics and certainly not geopolitics. There are many discussions worth having, not all discussions worth having should be on HN.
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> nobody claims it in some time frame You have some nerve to equivocate between an anonymous object bearing no clues as to its ownership and a box with an address label on it signifying exactly to whom the parcel belongs. How do you bl
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Organizations that debate everything and do nothing are afraid of other people being upset with them for doing the wrong thing. Organizations that do nothing until someone else tells them what to build are afraid of sticking their necks out
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Show me where you store the data. If you store it on your phone, then it's not showing up on your other devices. If you lose or break your phone, then your data is gone. There are very few applications for which that's acceptable
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Nobody will ever need to drive further than 640,000 yards!
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YAML is fine for human-maintained configuration. Yeah it has its footguns (like Norway) but if you're actually writing human-maintained configuration then you quickly pick these up with practice and they turn into a non-issue. If your
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by solatic 3y ago
APIs don't live in a vacuum. Sorry, but you can't just ship a service that exposes an API and expect people to use it. It MUST be documented. And no, your auto-generated Swagger/OpenAPI docs don't cut the mustard. If, as
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Define "small" - cost of physical dimensions, independence of operation, or cost of near-zero usage. For example, S3 and Lambda are basically free for usage with near-zero traffic, but of course you give up independence. Arguably
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> and not being able to find an engineer Remember it's not just about being able to find one single engineer - then they become key-person risk. You need multiple engineers to be able to handle the loss of that engineer, either temp
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> because it can’t hire some system administrators? Spoken like someone who has never worked in the public sector. Hiring can easily take 6+ months or more due to an ever-increasing list of requirements that government HR is required to
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by solatic 3y ago
Sounds a lot like NextJS's concept of framework-defined infrastructure: https://vercel.com/blog/framework-defined-infrastructure . A single file that includes both backend and frontend code infers a static bundle
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> to even delete it would cost thousands in API calls raises eyebrow It's a well-known trick (proposed by AWS Support as well) to set S3 lifecycle rules to empty buckets with too many objects to cycle through via List calls. Doesn
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> that means more people are getting an education What you think you mean: more people should get a college education. What you probably actually mean: high school educations, which we provide free of cost in order to educate the citizen
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Honestly, wired networking can be less secure, depending on your threat model. Not everyone lives in some kind of a physical fortress; breaking into someone's house is usually a simple matter of some lock picks that you can buy off the
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^ this. This is pretty much the only thing I would add; when doing an "add to home screen" and going to full screen, it still shows the phone and browser borders, which aren't black. Adding a manifest.json, setting theme_colo
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I would have agreed with you before COVID and the Russo-Ukrainian war. Today, the world is slowly changing direction on globalization. There is increasing understanding, at the national policy level, of the value of more localized supply ch
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Who is "we"? When engineers are not subject to licensure, don't be surprised when management, pushed by bean counters, let the bean counters make the decisions. Subject engineers to licensure, including ethics clauses, includ
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by solatic 3y ago
> raw SQL... winds up having WILDLY inefficient schema and queries that the DB team (me) has to fix later. I won't dispute this, I'll just point out that (a) premature optimization is the root of all evil, (b) because it's
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I'm convinced that this is due to developers over-relying on ORMs instead of delving into raw SQL. I'll give another, different but somewhat related example: consider a worker that works on a batch of rows, and wants to update eac
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> Current employer has really scary hardware behind a VPN to run code on. Previous one ran a machine room with lots of servers. Both expected engineer laptops to be mostly thin clients. That seems obviously the right answer to me. It&#x2

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