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by ufmace 5y ago
One of the things that bothers me about the startup ecosystem is how much it's oriented around VC. There's nothing wrong with VC, but you also have to understand that they have a specific business model and are looking for only a
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by ufmace 5y ago
Interesting thread! I am a tech professional now, but I started my career working in oil and gas, so I know a lot more about how that industry actually works than most. One of the funny things about tech is that only a small percentage of t
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's kind of like a tax on the entire industry. I've had so many experiences with subscriptions being excessively tough to cancel that I'm very reluctant to start a subscription to anything. Unfortunately, it isn't in ma
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by ufmace 5y ago
This doesn't bother me that much, but what really grinds my gears is how many sites won't let you log in with the correct username and password. I don't care enough about the account to want to set up 2FA, and I'd rather
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by ufmace 5y ago
Maybe you want Ruby instead? I always found Ruby's optional parenthesis to be annoying in stored code, but I gotta admit it's nice on the REPL.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Startup idea? I would totally pay for / use a service that managed and paid all of my subscriptions to various things that also made it so that I could cancel any of them at any time with a single click (okay maybe 2 clicks) on their w
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by ufmace 5y ago
As I understand it, the bigger problem around fusion that we're still working towards fixing is being able to maintain an actively fusioning plasma. All of these Q measurements are around very short runs, sub-second I think. ITER seems
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by ufmace 5y ago
Alas, if Facebook went down for good, they would probably be replaced by something even worse.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Seems like the opposite lesson to me - Telegram is kind of iffy, not sure about the others. The only thing that's been really solid today is Google. So I guess depend on multiple enormous centralized services?
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by ufmace 5y ago
What should I use instead? Seriously. I know that ecosystem fairly well, and have found it pretty effective to develop in. Compared to that, we have vanilla JS, which is okay for a thing or two, but awful to make a full SPA in. Or probably
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by ufmace 5y ago
Interesting to confirm that this has actually been done. I wonder if there's really any process around it. It doesn't seem so bad to do it for something super-specific, like the home address of the victim of a crime, in the timefr
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Micropackages may seem nice at first, but they're a nightmare to manage longer-term mostly due to low-skill project management. Many such packages make breaking API changes, sometimes witho
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by ufmace 5y ago
Probably the worst thing is that the standard library with Node Javascript is tiny. Therefore, you have to pull in a pile of NPM packages to do pretty much anything. The package ecosystem is rather messy for the same reason - there's a
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by ufmace 5y ago
A decent point. It scares me to imagine all the security checks that would be required to make SMS actually secure against these kind of attacks, and then getting everyone to actually follow them.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Well now that you mention it... I had been thinking of Github and Cloudflare, but I actually just checked both of them and they do now allow multiple keys to be registered. So I guess that's gradually getting better. It's still pr
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by ufmace 5y ago
> Hardware tokens with the webauthn protocol It'd be nice, but support for them around the web seems to be mostly terrible. Only a tiny handful of sites support it at all, and most of the ones that do support it don't support m
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by ufmace 5y ago
Interesting. This doesn't sound like that much of a vulnerability itself, but it does help clarify my thinking about SSH security. Basically, SSH with proper configuration banning password auth is just fine and okay to be exposed to th
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by ufmace 5y ago
Another particular headache as you get bigger is that humans are better for accuracy, but less consistent. No matter how specific you think your rules are, there will be edge cases where it isn't clear what side they're on. Differ
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by ufmace 5y ago
There's gonna be a lot of judgement calls here, but I think a local Postgres install is the happy medium. A basic local install is super quick and easy to do, and it also has a lot of good scalability options. SQLite is okay as long as
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by ufmace 5y ago
It seems like it isn't so much "discovered" as that she made the boneheaded decision to talk to the press for an article about the blog that would include her real name and the name of her company. Doesn't like every com
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by ufmace 5y ago
Somehow I suspect that she wrote things a good bit spicier than that her job was boring. And I suspect that her firing wasn't just a result of her boss being so offended that she called the job boring. She probably wrote a bunch of thi
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by ufmace 5y ago
I've mostly found the humans pretty helpful actually, at least at the places I've called. What drives me nuts with most phone support is that it makes you spend 20 minutes wading through a phone tree offering the same automated op
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by ufmace 5y ago
Do you mean ads in the sense of "please buy brand X coffee" or in the sense of "please try some of this machine's delicious coffee"?
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by ufmace 5y ago
Not sure how representative this is of people actually writing code. I run a bunch of websites doing various little things. One is a Wordpress blog. I wanted a blog-like site so that myself and a few non-technical friends could write and pu
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by ufmace 5y ago
I still disagree and say yes. Why does my bare metal Postgres install need optimization? My sites mostly doesn't get much traffic, and it runs fine as-is. It'd be silly to try and optimize it without being able to measure what&#x2
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by ufmace 5y ago
I think the serious issue around this would be not so much that a person in a secure email conversation can easily send a plaintext email, but that a person who does that could also easily include a plaintext copy of the entire rest of the
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by ufmace 5y ago
I tend to agree with this. AWS etc is nice if your scale is big enough that you need to run a big cloud of dozens of servers with complex interconnections for security etc. If a single plain old server with database etc on it will do the jo
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by ufmace 5y ago
Seems it's in the license agreement. What's unusual is that actually matters here. If someone tried to prevent benchmarking Postgresql by licensing terms, someone else would promptly ignore them and do it anyways, since Postgresql
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd say the real issue isn't even getting people there, but being properly prepared for the repair. Would we be able to know 100% everything that went wrong? Would we be sure that the right tools and parts for repair were aboard t
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by ufmace 5y ago
But they all would have broken due to "communication issues"

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