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by stult 5y ago
As a Decepticon, I couldn’t agree more
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by stult 5y ago
> Whoever spread that “death panels” meme should be forced to write America a check for five hundred billion dollars. Something tells me Sarah Palin doesn't have that much money
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by stult 5y ago
I think I vaguely recall the explanation from a classics course many, many, many years ago, but I can't find a source without investing a ton more effort, so take this with a grain of salt: IIRC, Plutarch wrote the sayings in intention
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by stult 5y ago
I can echo these concerns having been a contractor working on applications in more than one of the DoD cloud platforms, including CloudOne (a subset of PlatformOne, for readers not familiar with the flurry of DoD cloud offerings that have s
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by stult 5y ago
I somewhat disagree with that comment. It’s mostly reasonable, except there are other explanations for why they only show up over training exercises. First of all, these training exercises have the highest concentration of military-grade se
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by stult 5y ago
Personally I have not. I have only had one particularly weird use case where I really needed to deliver a Python executable alongside an Electron app, and made it work with Pyinstaller. We’re actually reworking things to use Pyodide to comp
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by stult 5y ago
Yes, but if you sign the executable with an acceptable certificate (the company’s cert or some other trusted CA), you can install an arbitrary executable usually. Docker would typically be blacklisted, however. In most corporate IT environm
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by stult 5y ago
Desktop/local usage, especially for non technical users or people working in environments where they can’t install docker (eg locked down corporate machine). There isn’t a great way to pass around a single executable or installer for a
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by stult 5y ago
I use this exact set up and it’s great. Only thing I would add is using cookiecutter, which makes adding all these bells and whistles extremely easy.
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by stult 6y ago
I am a bit suspicious of how this result is being presented in the media. The overwhelming bulk of the diagnoses are for anxiety and depression. Which seem like pretty typical reactions to an extreme emotional trauma like hospitalization du
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by stult 6y ago
I mean, NASA is an American government agency paid for with American tax dollars...
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by stult 6y ago
VNC/RDP via Guacamole or some other VDI solution can provide this with relatively little effort. But it sort of defeats the point. Using your local IDE to connect to a container allows for a snappier, more responsive development experi
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by stult 6y ago
From the PDF linked in the article: > if users are allowed to circumvent the policies, then the benefits of Zero Trust will not be realized in that environment. Seems like Zero Trust should not depend on the users cooperating at all. Or
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by stult 6y ago
This has been my experience as well. It can be extraordinarily difficult to design a consistent OO type system to represent things like quantities with units and references, alongside quantities with just units and neither units nor referen
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by stult 6y ago
In well designed software, data ingestion should be easily separable from the core logic of the application. Which is the point the parent comment is making. Some basic best practices would allow you to share your core code without implicat
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by stult 6y ago
Regarding web pages, some people work in highly controlled environments where you only have access to the man pages because you are working on a limited intranet designed for sensitive data, e.g. defense contractors or people working with
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by stult 6y ago
The point is that the outputs of the calculator are fundamentally surprising, in the sense that if any individual programmer could easily know all the expected outputs in advance, they wouldn't need the calculator in the first place. P
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by stult 6y ago
There's a long and rich tradition of scholarship on what constitutes a "good king" in medieval English history that is important (but missing) context for this article. Usually, scholars rate kings in terms of their effective
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by stult 6y ago
It seems pretty evident to me that most successful and popular dynamically and statically typed languages are converging from different directions on a similar set of solutions. Very much reflecting the phenomenon you describe. Some simple
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by stult 6y ago
>IME a lot of developers don't like their IDE heavily coupled to backend servers and environments, but actually prefer the "code editor + useful features" approach Personally, I use VSCode for generic text editing, scripti
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by stult 6y ago
Journals employ copy editors to address just those sorts of mistakes, why should we not hold software to the same standard as academic language? But more importantly, these software best practices aren't mere "grammatical mistakes
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by stult 6y ago
You're comparing one of the strongest economic expansions in US history (1991-2001, brief, small recession, then 2001-2007, stopping at 2005 of course) to a period bookended by two of the worst recessions in US history (2007, 2020). It
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by stult 6y ago
Try washing your lenses with a drop of dish soap. That will help with the fogging. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/853009325/how-to-prevent-glas...
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by stult 6y ago
> Police helicopters don't have hellfire missiles as standard optional armament. I mean, they could. And firefighting planes could be rerigged to disperse chemical weapons, doesn't mean there's anything wrong with them exi
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by stult 6y ago
Whatever your perspective on fad-chasing in software development, some things just suck down through the ages...
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by stult 6y ago
Do you do code reviews on committing to develop? Other companies/organizations generally have develop for work in between releases and merge into develop from feature/bug fix branches (primarily owned by one individual) with pull
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by stult 7y ago
Age is an independent risk factor, and richer countries' populations skew older. More old people means more deaths. Assuming similar environmental conditions and infection rates, Italy will see more critical cases purely as a function
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by stult 7y ago
I definitely agree that much of this argument boils down to a set of poorly fleshed out definitions. Though I would argue that you’ve misrepresented the article’s definitions a bit. The article is asking whether the formal system in questio
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by stult 7y ago
A slightly more charitable interpretation: DoD hired a bunch of loonies to keep Harry Reid happy and they used the opportunity to evaluate whether public information about UFOs could be used to compromise actual SAP research projects (imagi
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by stult 7y ago
Yeah this is just another chain of evidence problem. We trust cops not to plant evidence, so long as they follow strict chain of evidence procedures. It’s an imperfect system but it’s largely effective.

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