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3y ago
Yubico's U2F security key (good for FIDO2, WebAuthn, etc.) is $25, each member of your organization needs only 1 key (if they lose their key, they can get another one from IT, which can remove the old key and enroll the new one for the
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3y ago
Sounds like the next step is some way to define a multi-table view over a more traditional RDBMS (e.g. Postgres), serving as a source of truth, that can be continually exported as a read-only SQLite, so that the SQLite file can be pushed to
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3y ago
One problem with hardware keys is still SaaS vendor support. There is a very narrow path for effective enforcement: require SSO, then require hardware tokens at the SSO level. But even that is difficult to truly enforce, because the IdP oft
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3y ago
Zig isn't an interpreted language; once the code is compiled, the produced artifact doesn't change. Stability doesn't really play a factor there. Sure, the instability of Zig may increase the maintenance costs for Jarred, to
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3y ago
The dynamics of group volunteering are different. When you get together with people to clean up a beach, the cleanup is the proximate reason you're there, but really you're there to meet up with others and socialize, with attendan
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3y ago
> You can't give them carte blanche to the storage because they'll waste it So what? Just buy more. Storage is cheap. It's hard to have a discussion here without understanding the scales involved. Is the problem that they&
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3y ago
> Today those incentives are required because individuals are raised to glorify wealth and success. Nobody becomes a janitor to become wealthy or successful, so wealth and success are not what motivates people today to become janitors. &
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3y ago
> self-managed work My argument is that society has some needs that are unfulfillable if you simply expect that ordinary people will pick up the slack, because it's the kind of work that people find distasteful. Consider when garbag
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3y ago
No. Fundamentally, in a socialist system your compensation is relative to your need, not to the value of the task at hand, regardless of whether that compensation is cash, vacation days, or something else.
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3y ago
> I mean what value have I generated from writing a bunch of code that is used to do some analysis? How is my company/industry providing value to society again? Does somebody pay money for your company/industry's product?
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3y ago
> you're not making the case for it being impossible and you're pointing to something that literally exists now. If it's hard, cool, I'm not afraid of difficult challenges, I honestly believe most people aren't a
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3y ago
You're making my point. Today , under a capitalist economy, these undesirable jobs can be made desirable because of privatization or high or stable income that is offered as renumeration. But under a socialist system that simply assig
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3y ago
> culture that teaches the value of community I don't disagree, but you need to be very careful how you define community. A community that is defined by who is included nearly always cannot escape an implicit declaration of who is e
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3y ago
I would definitely appreciate seeing some docs with quick pointers on setting that up for EKS at least, if not also GKE!
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3y ago
I'm not saying janitorial work isn't an honest profession, I'm saying nobody prefers janitorial work. Nobody in their childhood dreams of growing up and becoming a janitor. Your grandfathers can at the same time be someone
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3y ago
Super interesting. I can clearly see how this improves the caching story compared to vanilla Kubernetes+containerd, and therefore the potential this has to improve autoscaling performance. Of course, it understandably requires the host VM t
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3y ago
> A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. Sometimes, the needs of the c
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3y ago
> CSS-in-JS is a non-starter This used to be true, but there are new libraries like PandaCSS that bring CSS-in-build-time-JS, thus bringing Tailwind-like performance and React Server Components compatibility. https://panda-css
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3y ago
The difficulties involved in managing offshore talent are not solely due to remote work and timezones. And managing LATAM talent doesn't involve timezone issues. Companies that really think that they can benefit from foreign knowledge
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3y ago
> For example, the side-bar of the interface doesn't load properly quite often, and you need to click on "reload" button few times to get it to show up... Well, what can you do? - Yes. Nothing. So... go debug the JupyterL
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3y ago
> This is very bad for labour mobility. It's a hukou system for retirees. This is unfortunately a political requirement for passage. There are very, very few people 60+ who have lived in the same place for 20+ years who are willing
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3y ago
At its core, the true underlying problem is that you can't actually fully control another person's output while still holding onto any genuine agility. The design is going to leave out some Product features, the code is going to d
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3y ago
Single-payer. One government agency is permitted to purchase construction of additional units, and also manage the long-term rental (pricing set at auction) of those units in a rent-to-own model, where "own" means the right to liv
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3y ago
If you have so many flaky tests, and their flakiness is so intractable, that you actually need to come up with SLOs for handling the flakiness to negotiate being allowed to address the flakiness in the test base, then quite frankly, you sho
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3y ago
It's missing from sales, too. Once upon a time, as a salesperson who needed to travel to meet with potential clients, you'd also spend time outside the office - maybe you'd take the client to dinner, maybe the client would ho
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3y ago
> This is not to say you won’t need personnel Ding ding ding, we have a winner! Paying premiums for BigCloud means not paying salaries, not worrying about an outage that could happen while your seniors are on vacation, not needing to set
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3y ago
> and this can kill others, that it gets to be a concern for the law. As this is the crux of your argument, please provide data showing how large motorcycles are so much more lethal for pedestrians compared to cars. Because all the sta
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3y ago
I'll admit, I laughed :D
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3y ago
> skill levels required and potential lethality Why does that matter to the government? It requires skill to use a knife, and if it's mishandled it can cause severe bodily harm; should we require people to get a license to use a kni
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3y ago
That perspective, that scooters are somehow safer, isn't borne out in the data. In city after city we see mounting injuries and deaths, as usage and popularity increase. Consider https://news.sky.com/story/e-scoote
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