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by tolien 7y ago
Yeah, I was going to say that - the difference between the rigorous research in aviation/medicine and most software projects can be measured in dead bodies. There's plenty of software that really matters though, in the same way
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by tolien 7y ago
> Pilots especially are heavily trained to use checklists for just about everything. Yeah, but it didn't appear out of nowhere. NASA et al did a tonne of research [0, 1] that led up to the idea of using checklists. Likewise Cockpit&
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by tolien 7y ago
That’s not necessarily a problem — coal power being more expensive to run by virtue of a tax on production means there’s an opportunity for renewable energy to undercut it without having to be subsidised directly as the “good” option (c.f.
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by tolien 7y ago
Because you'd probably also change the SMB or DNS name for the machine when you rename it, and that opens a can of worms where you try to work out what's using that reference and change everything that matters. Now renaming the ma
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by tolien 7y ago
Yeah - the GGP is talking about just letting anyone go though: > let anyone onboard with […] sufficient story about buying one > some people might get a free ride As dagw’s comment points out they’re using the pen and paper approach;
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by tolien 7y ago
Not even in recent times; since Lockerbie they’ll offload your bags if you’re not on the flight. If BA put aircraft in the air without any idea who was on them, they’d be rapidly forced to land again with the threat of being shot down.
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China is on track to beat its peak-emissions pledge(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
DeHavilland didn’t do that badly - the last Nimrod (based on the Comet) was retired in 2011. The name disappeared because, like a whole host of British aviation manufacturers (English Electric, Folland, Vickers, Supermarine, Hawker-Siddeley
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Justice John Paul Stevens, Dead at 99, Promoted the Internet Revolution(arstechnica.com)
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Broadcom’s bid for Symantec stalls over price cut(on.ft.com)
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“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law(arstechnica.com)
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ICANN eliminates .org domain price caps despite lopsided opposition(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
They're presumably gaining the other non-performance advantages of Rust over C++ (i.e. the borrow checker etc.) though, so safer and faster is a win. As you say though, they seem to focus on performance but that might just be the aud
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Oracle issues emergency update to patch actively exploited WebLogic flaw(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
> Consider refactoring before taking a step to code rewriting There's got to be a Ship of Theseus argument here, where over the course of time you refactor the whole thing until none of the original code remains. I guess the differe
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by tolien 7y ago
> I wholeheartedly agree with you that taking the time to really connect with an individual so that you can then grapple with their beliefs from a place of deep, shared understanding is more ideal. Ideally, yes, but in the debate about c
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by tolien 7y ago
Oh for sure, and if Safari (including iOS) gets support we'll be golden across the board [1] whereas U2F was until recently pretty much Chrome-only [2]. It just can't happen soon enough! 1: https://caniuse.com/#fea
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by tolien 7y ago
They might be a preference but I don’t see how they can be best practice when they’re barely supported on a lot of platforms - Firefox has some support (but doesn’t work with, for example, Github), no/limited support in Safari, no&#x2F
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by tolien 7y ago
That argument surely holds if you’ve got Google Authenticator and 1Password installed on the same device? If someone gets your vault password and can unlock your phone, you’re toast, but SMS as a second factor is then also compromised so wh
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by tolien 7y ago
Do laypeople know or care about the details of password hashing too, and if not does it matter if they know what TOTP stands for? “Scan this barcode then enter the six digit number from the app; we’ll sometimes ask for the number when you l
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by tolien 7y ago
There’s also been high profile cases where rape trials have collapsed because of evidence from phones which hasn’t been disclosed to the defence, for example the case of Liam Allan [1]. 1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news&
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by tolien 8y ago
> I also never understood why they charge based on upload volume vs total storage, say 1000 notes or pictures, like every other storage provider Every other storage provider charges you by the number of files you store, not their size?
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by tolien 8y ago
I don’t think it’s about tools as much as culture - whether it’s a readme, a wiki or a chat log that’s not full of talk about the weather and scones (no, really), people have to be suitably incentivised to work that way. Something that isn’
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by tolien 8y ago
> It's small teams that were together from the start. Going through the initial setup of a project makes all the difference. When people come later, they lack the intuition that comes with being around when all the structural decisi
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by tolien 8y ago
> Two of the primary reasons people buy Apple products are because of the ecosystem and their standard of quality. Now people are forced out of the Apple ecosystem and must buy a product from 3rd parties that don't have the same qua
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Doubling the Number of Content Processes in Firefox(erahm.org)
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by tolien 8y ago
They’re sending out emails (which is what prompted me to submit this), including: > We recognize that you have chosen to deactivate your account, however, some of the information that you provided us with when filling out your user profi
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Security Issue, February 2019(support.500px.com)
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Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 8y ago
It looks like you don't get a choice now - I signed up online (£1 trial) and got access to the website. Agreed though, the sensible rule would be that method of cancellation matches method of subscription.

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