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by ufmace 5y ago
Reminds me of what we ended up doing at a previous job. We built in-house software for analyzing complex engineering systems. We had some unit tests and developer tests for basic sanity, but it's tough to cover really working with the
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think it makes sense to have a CoC beyond "Don't be a jerk" until you have multiple teams and more complex governance structures.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It worked great when I did it, though I'd put an asterisk on the "without anything planned". I decided I wanted to move to NYC, but on my terms, not anybody else's. So I quit my job and kind of treated planning on moving
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by ufmace 5y ago
It seems unfortunate now, but I'd argue it was pretty reasonable at the time. Unicode is the best attempt I know of to actually account for all of the various types of weirdness in every language on Earth. It's a huge and complex
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's also worth keeping in mind that you will be working with other people who went through this same process. Maybe you're an awesome engineer who works well with teams. If the interview process isn't effective at proving th
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by ufmace 5y ago
Thanks. This is critical context for this case for why requesting this level of verification of evidence, which might be considered a stretch in normal circumstances, is much more justifiable in this case.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It kind of is PR, but you can still take some useful information from it. It does seem pretty plausible that a "gold rush" on Onlyfans-type content is in full swing, and if you want to make more than pocket change and are not alre
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by ufmace 5y ago
I 100% believe that high dislike counts on ideologically favored videos is the real reason. This includes both White House sources and official propaganda regarding Covid-19 and vaccines. (It is undoubtedly propaganda IMO, though note that
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think StringBuilder is faster specifically because it allocates a large buffer. Pretty much every language with growable data structures can already grow any such structure pretty fast, including arrays, maps, and mutable strin
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by ufmace 5y ago
This sounds like a good thing to me actually. If your company's primary language is X and you only have one enthusiast for Haskell (or any other such language), it's a bad idea to let them build critical components in their pet la
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by ufmace 5y ago
The fact is, bringing a drug to market safely is a lot of work. All organizations respond to incentives, both corporations and governments. You can say it would be nice for the Government to do that work, but what is the incentive? In pract
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by ufmace 5y ago
Agreed, I meant the original in a "this is why we can't have nice things" sense. I generally appreciate registered API integrations, but the trouble is, for the most sites that are most problematic for benign automation, they
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by ufmace 5y ago
If you want to go into what the money does, you have to look at the drug approval requirements. The public demands, through regulatory agencies, very thorough, elaborate, and expensive clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy of all dru
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by ufmace 5y ago
What I really enjoy about this thread is all of the completely different perspectives. Lots of people doing anti-abuse research bemoaning that this stuff exists, and lots of people working against what are from their perspective ham-handed
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think you can really judge dogs in general based on statistics like this. We can't read a dogs mind and don't know all of their motivations. You can try and do standardized training and testing, but any particular dog
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by ufmace 5y ago
Probably shouldn't be made an official thing, but it'd be funny to do this on all the various minor manually-adminned sites out there.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's worth remembering again why we don't do this. Even if you fully trust whoever is running the MITM server, being that it's MITMing all of your comms, and it's on a server so it's actually a lot of people'
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by ufmace 5y ago
It seems pretty clear that there's at least some level of genetic component to addiction. It seems likely that this is part of it. Some people, like you I suppose, really genuinely think it's not that big of a deal. Some people, p
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by ufmace 5y ago
The modem firmwares might be old and hairy, but is there any evidence that they have been used to actually compromise phones? All of the investigations that I can recall reading have been exploits in the phone OS application code.
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by ufmace 5y ago
The article seems to focus on what is and isn't good to read. I'd say, don't focus on reading at all, focus on building. Decide to build something that'll need some CSS, and search and read and try things in pursuit of t
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't know the exact timeframe it changed, but I've really noticed the difference around the last few months or so. It feels like it's a lot more common for me to do a search in Google that I would expect to have good resul
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by ufmace 5y ago
Things I actually care about these days that aren't already basically universal: Good screen. Bright and High DPI, and an OS that takes good advantage of that. Good keyboard. I'm gonna type a lot at least sometimes and use Vim, I
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think that's very accurate generally - the CORS Access-Control headers are pretty flexible, and can be locked down to only allow the specific weird thing you want to do. The part where that is kind of true is setting cooki
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by ufmace 5y ago
I've banged my head against some CORS puzzles recently. That's a pretty good guide, but I actually know an extra quirk that was missed: You know that nice "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true" header? In theory, it me
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by ufmace 5y ago
A couple of meters of concrete probably. This might require a new house.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It must have slowed down to almost nothing by whatever means, or it wouldn't have landed softly on a pillow, but obliterated the bedroom. Or the entire house. Or the entire neighborhood. I'm gonna guess it's pretty low-densit
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by ufmace 5y ago
Funny, I just posted on another thread a few days ago how kind of the same thing happened with an old Yahoo account I don't use much. I know the username and password, yet it's impossible to log in. For a while, every time I tried
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by ufmace 5y ago
> but it’s also your employer’s right to mandate it and terminate you if you decline it I don't believe any significant number of employers genuinely want to terminate employees who don't have it. They are being coerced into do
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by ufmace 5y ago
Yes, this. I get the impression that VCs are mostly looking for either ultra-growth no matter the risks or a high-value buyout by one of the tech majors. If you want steady growth and modest profit, your interests will be misaligned and the
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by ufmace 5y ago
I agree that there's a really annoying trend where seemingly every website constantly spams popups to try and get your email address. Or browser notifications now. No, there's zero chance I want your news site or blog to constantl

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