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by trympet 9mo ago
Yep, hyperscalers go on and on about the "fungible" datacenter capacity in their earning calls as a hedge for a sudden decrease in demand. I could see a scenario where there would be an abundance of GPU capacity, but I’m sure we’d
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by trympet 9mo ago
While I appreciate the build quality and ruggedness of the thinkpads, I’d take the bigger trackpad and better screen of the XPS/precision any day. Or, maybe my employer screwed me by giving a shitty thinkpad SKU (it has a 1080p TN pane
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by trympet 9mo ago
> you can run a useful model on flagship phones today How?
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by trympet 11mo ago
Yikes, thanks. Enjoy this feature while it lasts, I guess. EWS is getting nuked.
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by trympet 11mo ago
Still is
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by trympet 11mo ago
How do you know Thunderbird is using EWS, not MAPI? MAPI is not going away any time soon.
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by trympet 1y ago
lol spot the fed
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by trympet 1y ago
Incidentally, I discovered this article while learning what '[sic]' even means. "The typical editorial usage of sic is to inform the reader that any errors in a quotation did not arise from editorial errors in the transcripti
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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?(english.stackexchange.com)
8 points by trympet 1y ago|3 comments
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by trympet 1y ago
Parent is implying that we're still playing the same game.
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by trympet 1y ago
I’m not much of a YouTuber shill, however, I feel this crowd would enjoy Scott Manley’s video [1] on the subject [1] - https://youtu.be/vGQgmnQ1FtA?si=sylxAkAKj-kT5fUq
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by trympet 1y ago
This is also known as capability-based access control. It was implemented in Project Midori [1] — Microsoft’s flopped managed microkernel OS [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
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by trympet 2y ago
I recently had the pleasure of using XSLT after never having seen it before. I used it to transform a huge 130K line XML manifest with MAPI property metadata into C# source code. It was so simple, readable, and intuitive to use.
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by trympet 2y ago
> Had they made it open source That would have necessitated open sourcing Windows
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by trympet 3y ago
Microsoft eats its own dog food and refers to internal “alpha testers” as customers.
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by trympet 3y ago
Ah yes, you're right. We should be thanking Apple for restricting user choice...
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by trympet 3y ago
> I got the impression that the guide didn't know anything about what they were talking about w.r.t internals or how it's used I got the same impression, and I think it's a fair critique of the video and the presenter. OP
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by trympet 3y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offe... https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/ViewPage/AllDocuments
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by trympet 3y ago
You don't have to take their word for it. See the SOC audit reports for yourself: https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/DocumentPage/6ee23fc7-20d...
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by trympet 3y ago
At big tech companies, "writing a program over a few hours that is reflective of the kind of work that the company actually does" is not really a good, representative performance measure. Often times, you will be solving problems
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by trympet 3y ago
> Windows registry is in itself insecure. Applications can't own perms to their own entries. I think registry entries support DACLs, and permissions can be restricted to SIDs or user accounts. I have no first-hand experience with th
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by trympet 3y ago
My penis enlargement pill newsletter isn't showing up in my customers' inboxes. I could have been a penis-enlargement millionare if it wasn't for your stupid spam filter. What to do?
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by trympet 3y ago
You may want to give dev drive a try https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
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by trympet 3y ago
You should try the Teams preview. Much better in terms of resource usage. https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/new-microsoft-teams/
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by trympet 3y ago
I've used Power Automate in the past to create bots. Worked fairly well.
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by trympet 3y ago
The half-day loop is probably referring to FAANG-style interviews where you have an initial screener (30 mins) and 4-5 subsequent interviews (around 30 mins each).
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by trympet 3y ago
Exactly this. Why do so many people feel entitled to free stuff at the operator's expense? It boggles the mind.
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by trympet 3y ago
You are correct. Maybe I'm missing the point, but everything you mentioned is still applicable even when the data is encrypted.
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by trympet 3y ago
> not doing so would just open them up to to the legal ramifications of data leaks. They can already protect themselves by using pseudonymous IDs, and by not storing SSN and full names on the same system/network as your browsing his
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by trympet 3y ago
I am willing to bet my left nut that they don't encrypt common metadata and telemetry at rest.

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