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by ufmace 4y ago
Aside from CDs themselves, has anyone noticed a severe lack of CD players these days? I might be off-base, but as far as I can tell, basically no laptop computer and rather few desktops come with any type of optical media drives these days.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Seems like a bit of a hostile interpretation. I'd say it's written to sound interesting to readers. Nobody would click to read and share an article where half the word count was technical details or moralizing about how they'
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by ufmace 5y ago
It strikes me as being kind of like a horoscope - you can apply some bits of it to almost any political movement, but it doesn't really fit anything 100%. Which means it's therefore useless.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Jeez, he's already launched Tesla and SpaceX, why's he gotta solve every problem under the sun before he does something not quite so clear cut. And haven't we already established that no amount of money thrown around is going
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by ufmace 5y ago
> Couldn't he have more noble causes in mind like trying to do the right thing for humanity (e.g. Tesla, SpaceX)? Like what?
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by ufmace 5y ago
I think that do-gooders who have a "Great New Idea" for how to make society better are 1000x more dangerous than any type of drug ever invented. People drunk on alcohol mostly fall asleep harmlessly. People drunk on power and how
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's a rare normal punishment for any single crime. But it's a pretty common escalation for repeated failure to cooperate with the system. A ticket for speeding or running a stop sign might be just a fine. But if you start no-show
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd say a proper union is efficient and useful enough that employees who are free to choose whether to join or not mostly choose to join of their own free will. If you have to force people to join, then maybe it's not actually tha
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd say closer to 50 years myself. But my standard means that we not only have near-perfect self-driving, but we're confident enough in its quality that we're willing to manufacture cars without conventional physical driver c
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by ufmace 5y ago
There's no one perfect solution for the issue. A few things that I've found helpful across many years of work, codebases, languages, and frameworks: What if any frameworks and libraries is it using? Try to identify particularly co
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by ufmace 5y ago
Never used Teams myself, but this sounds more plausible to me. MS stuff mostly works fine, but you need to buy into the ecosystem fully. Usually Unix people try a few MS things, try to use it just like their Unix things, and bash it because
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by ufmace 5y ago
Yup, in a corporate environment, it's often a very rational reason to say, we already know X. The full meaning is, we have a bunch of stuff built in it, we have a dozen experts on it on staff, we have hiring and training pipelines for
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by ufmace 5y ago
I see you're getting a lot of pushback on this. IMO, this guy knows what he's talking about. Not in the sense that it's absolutely correct. In the sense that this is what Russian Nationalists actually believe and think. Keep
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by ufmace 5y ago
I think it makes perfectly good sense for SpaceX. They've always made it clear that their real business goal was colonization of Mars based on optimizing the cost of transport to space via reusability and design for manufacturability.
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by ufmace 5y ago
I think Humans are pretty good at at least recognizing that a particular phrasing doesn't make sense as a literal statement and so must be a reference to something. Often you can get an idea of what it's meant to mean just by cont
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't like the idea of "positive rights" at least as applied to human rights. I don't think it makes sense to consider something a "right" when it requires the active participation of others to provide. Educa
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by ufmace 5y ago
FWIW, I think that this factor: > If the upper class want someplace to send their kids to read poetry and binge drink for 4 years Is the heart of the problem. For a long time, this was basically the core function of universities - to mak
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by ufmace 5y ago
I could see the idea of a written initial interview maybe being okay or useful, but wow, this particular one is awful. I think I'd rather write a bunch about how it's terrible than answer it. This is a full page of huge open-ended
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's also not completely crazy to wonder if this guy discovered the flaw like this, reported it in a way he knew would never actually get to OtherCo, then exploited it himself through a more anonymous channel for real. Then wrote it up
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by ufmace 5y ago
I disagree that it solves the problem I described. For beginner users, every extra tool you set up exponentially increases their setup efforts. They are highly likely to be skipped or bypassed, and it's not like they're contributi
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by ufmace 5y ago
On the level of individual accounts, SMS has proven to be vulnerable to compromise. These attacks are pretty labor-intensive though. On the level of an app or service, SMS 2FA is still a big net gain in blocking account compromise though. I
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by ufmace 5y ago
There is that. I've seen it a lot when trying to tutor beginner programmers. It takes a lot of time for people to get used to every little symbol and space being critically important. It takes even longer to get people used to maintain
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think this idea is aligned with how these types of attacks actually work. The dumb stuff like this is almost entirely automated, nobody will notice enough to be deterred by it. Possibly whoever is running it will get a list of
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by ufmace 5y ago
Because it switches over to the clearnet there, the operator could do stuff like intercept non-https traffic or use a malicious DNS to attempt to MITM https traffic.
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by ufmace 5y ago
> I think the only thing we can say with certainty is that things that have been around long enough (like cast iron, clay cooking ware etc.) is most likely safe, otherwise we would have noticed it by now. Agree, I think this is the most
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by ufmace 5y ago
I did a vaguely similar thing once. We once upon a time had a EMR / Hadoop based process that simply joined a some thousands of files of a few kb-ish from S3 each into one big file totaling 20GB or so. It worked, but took a while. Afte
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't know about Fidelity specifically, but it seems like these days, most of the staff at the in-person bank offices don't do anything but guide you through the same web forms you could fill out yourself.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Yes, the interesting part is that we pretty much all know that the news industry is in a terrible state, with a small fraction of the total money it used to have and terrible incentives attached to most of what's left - whoever posts a
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by ufmace 5y ago
To actually do work on a hobby project, I have to find something about it actually interesting. Building yet another CRUD app in a standard language and framework for a Business Factory may be productive, but it's kind of dull. Meh unl
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by ufmace 5y ago
The curious aspect of this part will be who uploads what when, and why. Supposedly the Ukrainian gov is urging people not to post about their troop movements. I have no idea if that's true or not or if people are following the advice.

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