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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
I am pretty sure that this is the thread that introduced me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681851 Unfortunately, web.archive.org didn't grab an https version of my main site from around that period. My o
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
FWIW I have been using and relying on Dehydrated to handle LetsEncrypt automation for something like 10 years, at least. I think there was one production-breaking change in that time, and to the best of my recollection, it wasn't a D
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Good to see this. For those that weren't aware, there's been a low-effort solution with https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated , combined with a pretty simple couple of lines in your vhost config: l
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Congress Launches Investigation into Flock [YC S17](404media.co)
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
I think this comes close to the probable near-future outcome, but is missing an important element. Over the last several decades we've seen an enormous transfer and consolidation of wealth from many people into a much smaller number of
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Flock is absolutely designed to facilitate and encourage this kind of abuse. They have extensive data sharing built in to their system while promising agencies that the users "own" the data. My local police department just recentl
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
You can get pretty close to this with VirtualBox, which is one of two reasons I'm still using it. I have multiple VMs running on my laptop. I can attach an external display and resize the VM windows. When detaching the display, the win
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Providing constructive feedback to a candidate is unlikely to have a direct positive impact on the relationship between that specific candidate and that specific company. It's more of ... whatever the opposi
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
This is simply a defense of bad policy couched in unnecessarily dehumanizing language. There is widespread resentment of this and many other common hiring practices in the tech sector, and that is further impacting both the quality of candi
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
That would mean Kagi's selection criteria at this stage is "candidate knows what an LLM is".
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Okay, but basic interpersonal skills are a prerequisite for anybody in a senior or team lead position, or any position that will involve code reviews. I'm sympathetic to how awkward it can feel to provide honest feedback to a candidate
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
The author didn't really ask for a code review, though a lot of people imagining themselves in the position of technical hiring manager are already taking care of that. Anyway: I don't think homework assignments are a valuable mec
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by thaumaturgy 1y ago
Conversely, if you can't handle some straightforward feedback to a candidate that took the time to interview you without violating decorum or hurting their feelings, then how can I expect you to be a good manager or supervisor? How are
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
I worked with this particular "team", in this exact position, for over a year and I cannot recommend strongly enough against it, especially for someone that has just regained their mental health. Those two people should not be i
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Humans are extraordinary machines. We are self-healing, regenerating, low-power, versatile, autonomous, and most of us have a pretty decent array of sensors built-in, along with some communications equipment that's capable of interpret
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Rich Siegel would like a word. There absolutely is a theology of business, and currently it is this: make as much money as possible. Commercial software existed long before the subscription model consumed everything, and it was, and still i
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Sincerely, yes. A lot of talented people are struggling right now, but could take the time and energy they're spending on fruitless job applications and devote it to some modest-scale side project with commercial potential. Worst-case
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Let's not define "environmental impact" solely in terms of carbon emissions and then do a trivial comparison to some mundane activity. Smartphones may have a low carbon emission footprint relative to some other things (numb
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
I'm still daily-driving an iPhone 7, so I sympathize. A few apps have complained about the older OS; so far I've been able to react by deleting the apps. Smartphones cause a truly astonishing amount of waste ( https://ww
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
I think it might be time to turn back the clock a bit and revisit some of the things pg said way back when he was pitching Sam Altman to lead YC and the general reaction was "...who?" 2008: "You could parachute [Sam Altman] i
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
This is pretty similar to some fraud in professional science that's more common than it should be. A few people have started to make it a hobby to detect copy-and-pasted and altered images in published research: Fabrication discovered
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Agh, this is so close to being a really interesting perspective. "Advanced" can mean a couple of different things. I think your comment and Graham Hancock's stuff is using it in the sense of "technologically advanced&q
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
FWIW a few people fly around the web with persistent cookies and localstorage disabled except for selected sites -- once the tab is closed, the data is flushed, and re-opening the tab won't restore it. I'm one of those people. I r
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
> Connecting the internet and a password database together is one of those fundamentally bad ideas. Disagree. I use KeePassXC because I would prefer to have my passwords on my computer, instead of somebody else's computer (and I a
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
I anticipated this reply, either here or elsewhere, and was really hoping it wouldn't arrive. I do a lot of volunteer work too. Guess what? My decisions in those roles are not unimpeachable. Being a volunteer also does not mean you
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Users should be asked if they actually wanted the features in the existing package after all? Why shouldn't users have been asked before changing the existing package? I'm one of those users. If I'm loud, does that mean my
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
If both upstream and a significant portion of users strongly disagree with a maintainer's judgement, then how is their role as maintainer justified? It's KeePassXC's job to secure the software and produce features that fulfil
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
That's largely my recollection too. HyperCard was hugely popular, especially as an introduction to programming for kids, but the Quadra Macs and their kin introduced color and everyone wanted color. HyperCard never got a native update
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
Yeah, this is a pretty standard answer to the same market failures that so many people have been talking about recently. It assumes though that low prices are the best possible benefit consumers might get from competition, and it also assum
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by thaumaturgy 2y ago
I have begun to think of this as a "large population error", and I'm noticing it in a lot of different markets. At small scales, annoying your customers is bad business. You only need to lose a few before it begins to hurt. C

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