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by thraxil 5y ago
As someone who wrote a lot of Perl in the late 90's and early 2000's and moved to Python for scientific work (simulations, etc.) as well as other tasks (web apps, etc), what I saw was: - Perl actually was really popular for a wh
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by thraxil 5y ago
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain isn't frequently recommended because working through it will turn you into a great or even mediocre artist. It's frequently recommended because most people out there without any artistic tr
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yes, but IMHO, IPFS without Filecoin doesn't really innovate in any meaningful way over previous CAS/DHT based distributed filesystems (Freenet, Tahoe-LAFS, etc). Filecoin lets IPFS claim that they have at least tried to solve the
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by thraxil 5y ago
I actually think Netflix's move towards producing their own shows and movies was more of a "pivot" than going from DVD to online streaming (which I don't see as really any different than Blockbuster going from renting VH
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by thraxil 5y ago
I don't know about the others, but IPFS uses Filecoin, which is blockchain based.
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by thraxil 5y ago
I've worked remotely for almost eight years now. Much of that from home; the last couple from a small office space that I rent down the street from home. I worked in open plan offices for about 15 years prior to going remote. Both situ
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by thraxil 5y ago
It works the same on desktop as servers. I don't run anything that requires binary graphics drivers though (got far, far away from trying to use Nvidia on Linux many years ago), so I can't speak to that.
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by thraxil 5y ago
> Offline/alt-cloud backups are probably a lot cheaper than you think, and will win you points during any audit. With the caveat that you're going to have to implement all your access controls, monitoring and compliance mechani
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yes. See Ubuntu Livepatch.
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by thraxil 5y ago
> Screenshots work for your team because you set up and documented a process for managing them, and then taught your auditors about it. Not really. We had no process before talking to the auditors. We told them that we didn't want t
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yes and no. SOC2 doesn't say you need to install an agent, and may not be explicitly prescriptive about whether computers that have access to production data or systems need encrypted drives, screenlocks, etc. But a non-hack SOC2 audit
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by thraxil 5y ago
I'm going to piggyback on your comment because it's one of the more reasonable and informed takes here. I'm currently in the middle of our company's first evaluation window for SOC2 Type 2. I'm not familiar with Dra
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by thraxil 5y ago
> there's some cool stuff going on in the NFT space, e.g. my favorite band has been selling NFTs that come with access to stuff like concert videos and private events. Why do you need NFTs for that though? Bands have been selling ex
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by thraxil 5y ago
Zero knowledge proofs have existed since the 80s. How much longer do we have to wait for this revolutionizing?
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by thraxil 5y ago
Agreed. I've been writing Go since like 2011 and even when I started there was plenty of emphasis on channels as just one of the options along with mutexes and a sense that channels were easier to make correct, but mutexes were easier
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yes and no. I've used Django and Django's ORM for many years (along with others, but Django is probably the easiest for me to discuss). Django's ORM doesn't stop you from using database-specific features (JSON fields, fu
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yeah, honestly even the Standard environment is pretty minimal in terms of lock-in. We deploy Django apps to GAE Standard with Cloud SQL and aside from a few bits in settings.py, there's nothing App Engine specific about it. I can pack
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by thraxil 5y ago
I work for a company that customizes and runs Open edX and you're not wrong.
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I lived in Utrecht for a year and a half and I've been to The Hague a few times. I'm a little confused. I don't remember seeing things any different there than Utrecht and in Utrecht we definitely locked up our bikes. Or do y
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by thraxil 5y ago
I had a pair of those Etymotics (maybe a previous iteration, but they looked exactly like those). I loved them, but I made the mistake of falling asleep with them in with my head propped up on my hand. When I pulled the headphones out, one
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by thraxil 5y ago
I use two 4K monitors. Haven't really had an issue with movement speed. I can pretty easily send the pointer from one side all the way too the other with one flick of my thumb. I use sway/wayland though, so maybe it's differe
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by thraxil 5y ago
I've used an ortholinear keyboard as my main keyboard for the last four years (Keyboardio Model 01 and occasionally Atreus as my travel/backup). Using a regular layout keyboard slows me down for a bit, but that often has more to d
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by thraxil 5y ago
I use the MX Ergo on Linux. Never had to install any drivers. Works perfectly.
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Not all software has a user present when it runs that can make decisions like that. Probably the vast majority doesn't. If an automated update process that runs on thousands of servers encounters an expired certificate, it's not l
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by thraxil 5y ago
I think that's largely because "blow everything up" is arguably the correct thing to do on an expired certificate, at least compared to "silently do an insecure thing". If you visit a website with an expired certifi
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by thraxil 5y ago
There might be some truth to that for middle/upper class SWE types like those who frequent HN that were able to work remotely during the pandemic and just had their expenses lowered. The article is mostly about low wage workers though
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by thraxil 5y ago
Do you realize that "HN" isn't one single monolithic entity that needs to achieve 100% consistency in its views? Like if one person here says "use existing libraries" but then a different person says "don'
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by thraxil 5y ago
Yes! As a former Physics major who was puzzled by tensors for years (despite being relatively comfortable using and manipulating them), I actually had a similar breakthrough reading Fleisch's book and finally "getting" covari
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by thraxil 5y ago
My partner lived and worked in CA in the early 2000's. Moved to NYC in 2004. Had zero ties to CA after that. Switched her driver's license, voter registration, filed and paid taxes in NY, owned and operated a company in NY, had no
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by thraxil 5y ago
I'm a keyboard warrior who only puts on my mask when I'm out in crowded places but I've (more than once) walked all the way home (about 10 minutes) from the grocery store and found myself in my kitchen unpacking my groceries

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