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by ufmace 5y ago
That's my takeaway here as well - no serious issues found, and Telegram actively worked with them to fix their minor theoretical issues, and did all of the fixes before the paper was published and without breaking any clients.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Yup this. I've interviewed a bunch of people and been on a bunch of post-interview discussions of candidates. I've never looked at or asked about side projects, and nobody else has ever mentioned anything about the candidates&#x27
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by ufmace 5y ago
"Freedom of speech" is a political and philosophical principle. It doesn't mean the exact literal text of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and absolutely nothing else. It's going to ring rather hollow to everyo
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by ufmace 5y ago
It seems like there ought to be something gated around the size and market dominance of a platform. If you want to spin up a PHPBB forum for like 1,000 people around some hobby or something, feel free to ban and censor anyone you don't
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by ufmace 5y ago
I thought it was decided by the tech-sphere that TikTok was basically a bulk information-gathering operation for the CCP.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It sounds like this stuff is only mildly dangerous and easy to keep safe with if you know what you're doing. Considering that it's been used as a chemotherapy drug for years, it'd be surprising if it wasn't. Most of the
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd much rather work on projects that used as many standardized common tools as practical to do the job, versus a project where someone did some kind of code golf to try and use as few tools as possible to save some negligible amount o
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by ufmace 5y ago
How do you know that they "continue to be the rule rather than the exception"? Have you done a statistically valid survey of programmers working or seeking work and what their working conditions are? If you are forming an opinion
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by ufmace 5y ago
Obviously they have a creaky WTF-filled unsubscribe mechanism because they have no incentive to build a better one, regardless of how much simpler and cheaper it would be.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Probably more about keeping good relations with his neighbors than actually keeping it secret (while posting on a Youtube channel with over 10 million subscribers). They probably wouldn't be too happy with the noise from explosives and
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by ufmace 5y ago
Any unusual or one-off traits that seem "unique", "fun", "quirky" etc tend to do very badly in the actual real estate market. Often, they are poorly engineered and will be a maintenance nightmare in 20 years. I
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by ufmace 5y ago
I wonder how they handle the support? It's not much use to land and take off warplanes if you can't also transport, load, and service weapons and also refuel the planes and fix any mechanical issues.
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by ufmace 5y ago
The thing with this kind of project, we're not punching out the 10 millionth Honda Civic or something. There's a tremendous amount of stuff here that's never been done before. There's no good way to have an accurate esti
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by ufmace 5y ago
The trouble with robotic repair missions is that it could work pretty well if you knew 100% exactly what was wrong, and exactly what else might go wrong while applying the fix for whatever went wrong. The more potential unknowns, the harder
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by ufmace 5y ago
Uh Fossil Fuels powered the Industrial Revolution and literally created the modern economy. It's true that being popular doesn't necessarily make something good. But it's also true that having some flaws discovered later does
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by ufmace 5y ago
Come up with some innovative ways to monetize, beyond just the usual ads and tracking and dirty tricks to boost engagement. The article has a few decent directions. I'd start with adding an option to set up paid private subreddits. Lik
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't know about Twitter in particular, but it's fairly common for users to log onto accounts for various services on borrowed devices and then log out when they're done. So the device is only partially trusted, or only tru
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by ufmace 5y ago
I've got to disagree with that. If you have the vague beginnings of an idea, it's a heavy burden to type them up into a document that can be distributed widely. Many ideas just won't get a chance to develop into anything if t
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by ufmace 5y ago
The timing does make me suspicious. I'm generally willing to believe he was "suicided" by some shadowy conspiracy. But if that's what happened, why would they do it on the day his extradition was approved? If our secret
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by ufmace 5y ago
Hyundai's interests are broad enough that I really wonder what they intend to do with it. Are they just going to do factory helper robots that are super-specialized and we'll never see? Or will they actually commercially sell some
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by ufmace 5y ago
Not sure what you mean there. I'm saying that one is a necessary consequence of the other. If you want to have your phone really locked down tight such that it won't give up everything to anyone who connects a USB cable to it and
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by ufmace 5y ago
The recent versions of Android seem to have gotten way better on ADB security. It seems to generate a keypair on every computer with ADB and require a user with the unlocked phone to authorize the keypair for each device manually. It also a
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by ufmace 5y ago
At the level of running apps, yes. But unless I'm way behind on my rooting tech, all of the usual methods leave the phone in a state where anyone who connects it to a computer via USB can access everything on it. AFAIK, Android has got
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by ufmace 5y ago
This is bad advice. OP is trying to start/run a business, not fix the world or satisfy somebody's justice quest. It's nice to do if you can, but your first responsibility is to yourself.
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by ufmace 5y ago
If this guy is this much of a headache to order parts from, just imagine how much of a headache he would be to work for.
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by ufmace 5y ago
It varies widely based on the type of app. Most simple apps using standard lib or a few basic crates/packages/gems/etc can indeed be switched over without too much fuss. But if you're using any large frameworks with a to
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by ufmace 5y ago
> "Aircraft carriers will be replaced with cheap drone swarm carriers" I would argue that Aircraft carriers are the size and cost due to large munitions and maintenance constraints. Mostly the need to carry big heavy bombs and
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by ufmace 5y ago
IMO, Ruby Bundler was the first language / ecosystem to really get dependencies right. AFAIK, they were the first to have a lockfile locking the version of each dependency and a Gemfile with flexible version specification for dependenc
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by ufmace 5y ago
Depends on the site. It'd be nice if somebody's individual blog about the cool tech thing they built was accessible to everyone everywhere. If you are a business that can fundamentally only serve customers in city X, then it'
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by ufmace 5y ago
In theory I guess, but I'd bet that basically every SPA is using enough JS libs that the initial load is much bigger than a bunch of halfheartedly-optimized basic HTML. I bet somebody somewhere has written a SPA-style page designed to

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