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by ufmace 3y ago
Maybe I'm like a Luddite or something, but I feel like I keep hearing about Firebase but still have no idea what it really is or why/how I would use it in a project. I'm just sitting here on my own building projects with most
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by ufmace 3y ago
Yes. I don't think there's anything to be gained from monitoring login logs. The only real use is after you recognize some sort of breach to try and help determine exactly what did or didn't happen.
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by ufmace 3y ago
I agree with this viewpoint. IMO, a lot of these types of threads fill up fast with gimmicky things that sound good at first but do nothing to increase security against realistic threats, plus are at least inconvenient to set up and maintai
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by ufmace 3y ago
IMO, if you're capable of running yt-dlp, it's far better than any website. It's pretty simple to run these download tools as website, but it's expensive in terms of bandwidth and tends to attract legal attention. So a l
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by ufmace 3y ago
I basically agree with all that. I think I'd further say that the way any kind of practical regulation shakes out, it may never make sense for individuals to own self-driving cars. If we are to hold the creator of self-driving systems
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by ufmace 3y ago
Depends on what you're looking to get from it. The most interesting part IMO is how it's so similar to Python along many categories, but also so different. Biggest example is how Ruby just loves Blocks. They're all over the p
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by ufmace 3y ago
Thanks for the good explanation. I'm not at all a pilot, but I'd also like to add a link to a piece I read that illustrates the difference, called 178 seconds to live: https://www.cfidarren.com/r-178seconds.htm Th
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by ufmace 3y ago
https://archive.is/SGOAs
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by ufmace 3y ago
Agreed. Most of the propaganda videos I see around are more like things taken out of context. When you see a battle or atrocity video, it's hard to be sure where it was actually filmed, when it was actually filmed, who each side actual
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by ufmace 3y ago
I really disagree with this type of literalism. Everybody knows nothing is really unlimited. It's marketing aimed at the naive. I have no problem with banging on Google for offering "unlimited" things without telling you what
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by ufmace 3y ago
Seems to me it's more the inverse - Elon bashers trying to find a way to paint everything he's ever done as a dumb failure because they hate some unrelated thing that he did. Not saying the guy is perfect, but if he is a fuckup, y
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by ufmace 3y ago
Seems to me this is probably a later stage thing. Somebody got initial access to a company's systems via such a mechanism to some individual's system. A few more cycles of recon, exploitation, and pivoting later, they may be in a
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by ufmace 3y ago
That's how technological progress works. The first version is expensive and not very good, so it isn't used much. But some use proves that it works, lets the kinks get worked out, and gives the makers funding and incentive to opti
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by ufmace 3y ago
The article title is clickbaity, but the actual point is the proposal of using LLMs to translate large amounts of legacy COBOL systems to more modern languages like Java. Doesn't seem terribly useful to me. I expect you could get a 90%
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by ufmace 3y ago
I would expect AWS to provide custom libraries for basically every language. The cost of a few full-time engineers who are experts at any reasonably popular language is probably pocket change compared to how much even a few companies using
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by ufmace 3y ago
Well that's the thing about it - it mostly appears to be there, but often proves to be immature. Meaning it technically works, but most of them are inflexible, single-person projects that occasionally completely redo their API. They wo
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by ufmace 3y ago
> perhaps Rust is not the right choice to make full-stack web apps This is a good step, but I still wonder if this is the case. I do like some aspects of writing webapps in Rust, but the ecosystem for serious web apps is still woefully i
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by ufmace 3y ago
Very cool to see this finally go out, and especially the new Foundation. I have to wonder though if it's too late though. I gave up waiting for a new Rocket release years ago and have been doing what Rust web work I've been doing
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by ufmace 3y ago
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that anything that gets sold with so many high-pressure sales tactics is going to be a bad deal for you.
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by ufmace 3y ago
This aspect of things really ought to scare everyone a lot more. All of the enormous mega-corporations involved in card processing are so heavily regulated and so dependent on the Federal Government, that it doesn't even take actual la
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by ufmace 3y ago
My impression is rather different. The automatic conversion tools and compatibility libraries were only provided several years and versions into the v3 transition because the community was demanding it so hard and most users refused to do a
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by ufmace 3y ago
Reading between the lines a bit on the existing postings about it, I'm guessing that they were unable to persuade any businesses to actually relax their interviewing standards for candidates who passed the Starfighter tests. Which then
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by ufmace 3y ago
IPv6 is still a mess of compatibility issues, and being an early adopter is not always fun. I had a really weird problem where Youtube videos were unwatchably laggy on my home desktop PC. Gigabit hard-wired connection. Every other streaming
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by ufmace 3y ago
This is really not a good article, and probably not likely to lead to a good discussion, due to the lack of hard information. It's all just speculation by supposedly well connected people on how they might have done it. I don't th
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by ufmace 3y ago
It's a neat idea, but you'd probably have to build it into the OS from ground-up to work. And then a whole ecosystem of development languages and tools built around it. Quite a lot of work to have something anywhere near as functi
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by ufmace 3y ago
This, and a few more dynamics, including: - The better applicants usually have several warm leads and often don't bother with high-effort application processes, since they have a pretty decent chance of getting hired wherever they appl
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by ufmace 3y ago
I think it's more of a progression thing. The config file starts out pretty simple, enough where one of the text file formats is clearly the right solution and code is over-complex. But then it grows and grows, continuing to accumulate
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by ufmace 3y ago
It's a cool project, but I'm not really sure what the point is. I'm doubtful that you could ever match the full expressiveness of Ruby in C++ or any compiled language. If you wanna play with it because it's fun, that&#x2
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by ufmace 3y ago
That's true, but I think if your production web server is running on a system that you expect to have other users log into and do things on while having the Unix permissions prevent them from interfering with the production server, the
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by ufmace 3y ago
I watched it as well. I don't have a strong opinion on what actually happened, but the details in the video of how LHO came to be employed at the book depository and his movements in the days preceding the assassination make it seem pr

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