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by techslave 6y ago
it’s almost zero. i am forced to replace a credit card due to theft about every 3 years. it’s not a hassle at all. in fact you are forced to replace your card just due to expiry every 1-4 years depending on issuer.
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by techslave 6y ago
it already has. ref: arab spring. perhaps social media was not the proximate cause but it certainly was enabling. even civil war in the US was a good thing. whose to say a next civil war won’t also be.
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by techslave 6y ago
you are mistakenly judging g suite on the individual product requirements. eg how a spreadsheet should function. that’s not what g suite is. all features are MVP and the main selling point is being collaborative.
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by techslave 6y ago
outlook. everything is looks good but littered with bugs and exceptionally weak dev teams behind it.
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by techslave 6y ago
1 git 2 jira
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by techslave 6y ago
google drive isn’t hierarchical and the folders are just a decoration
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by techslave 6y ago
eh? what OTP scheme is asymmetric?
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by techslave 6y ago
credit card number is always safe to give out. you have zero liability, and the fraud detection in the backend is far far far better than what fly by night app of the day does.
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by techslave 6y ago
the emoji selector, yes. everything else you’ve said is downright wrong. all of those are better with keyboard shortcuts and fn keys are better than the touchbar for that. i specifically want to call out moving between tabs. in absolutely n
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by techslave 6y ago
also have you seen what passes for software in the hardware world? i’m talking about EDA. i haven’t used cadence etc but altium is an trash fire and it’s $5k/seat. below that level the tools are even more atrocious. i’m mystified why
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by techslave 6y ago
> OpenSSL [...] What a clusterfuck of a library lol. truer words have never been spoken. my introduction to openssl, i mean after trying to make sense of it on my own, was a website still up today, “flingpoo!”. hard to believe so much of
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by techslave 6y ago
can APIs be selectively disabled in chromium based browsers? if not disabled, replaced with stubs via the extension mechanism? or other method.
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Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns(zdnet.com)
7 points by techslave 6y ago|1 comments
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by techslave 6y ago
thanks for not saying ‘begs’. no, the secure enclave is not available to the user as such. a few crypto primitives are exported. that’s what this uses. there have been any number of such “agents” over the last few years.
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by techslave 6y ago
“having to”? Edge is nice, actually.
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by techslave 6y ago
did you not read the question? it’s 5 ppl and either outside IT or random joe employee 1-2 hrs per week. they are not managing AD and CA infrastructure.
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by techslave 6y ago
in california, if your employer requires you to have a phone for 2FA or other purposes, they must reimburse you at least partially. yubikeys are cheaper. as to being clunky, it’s because your employer doesn’t care about it, so you have the
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by techslave 6y ago
wow. haven’t heard ‘heroine’ in forever. sounds like actress or stewardess. ‘hero’ is probably a better, non-gendered choice.
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by techslave 6y ago
> What other employment requires you to front the boss $25k for the privilege of earning starvation wages? Well, traditional taxi driver, for one.
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by techslave 6y ago
i love graohviz. thank you for all the hard work over the years.
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by techslave 6y ago
> But after I opened one, it really helped my career. I found my last two jobs through it. Selection bias. You may very well have found the same exact, or even better, jobs outside of LI.
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by techslave 6y ago
what is this, reddit? come on
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by techslave 6y ago
i forgot to bring my phone to the toilet yesterday
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by techslave 6y ago
it would be better to catapult packages. it would be easy to code up. most packages can survive it. not having to stop the truck would be a huge carbon saver, would it not?
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by techslave 6y ago
and the stock market is still on a tear...
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by techslave 6y ago
it’s more like blue m&m’s than an actual requirement
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by techslave 6y ago
water is far too cheap for this to work
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by techslave 6y ago
slack notifications are beyond broken as well, so no competition there
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by techslave 6y ago
it’s called hoteling and has been around for at least a decade if not 2, not just a couple of years ago.
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by techslave 6y ago
> This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees. That’s an unfair treatment. Most if not all of those are sunk costs for the remote employee.

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