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by ufmace 6y ago
Note that on the military side, I'm a little doubtful that landing a single tank is something any military would try. Tanks are prone to breakdowns and need a lot of logistical support, and so usually operate in platoon size of at leas
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think China has pretty strict limits and taxes on importing vehicles as a way to support local manufacturers.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Pretty meaningless. I'm sure that every fighting organization that has ever existed would love to have more effective weapons.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Hey, I said it's oversimplified. Don't get hung up on trying to categorize yourself as one or the other. You CAN get into another stack or another company if you really want to.
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by ufmace 6y ago
It would be neat, but it's impossible, because Gemini explicitly forbids any request types other than GET, or rather a practical clone of GET that isn't called that because there isn't anything else anyways. Without a POST or
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by ufmace 6y ago
Probably some of that, plus the factors mentioned in Joel's old blog post: In an over-simplified world of Good Developers and Bad Developers, the Good Developers generally don't get fired or quit much, and if they do, can usually
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yup. Very similar language, but good luck going from ASP.NET MVC to Spring Boot without missing a beat. Or from WinForms and WPF to Swing and whatever else is new and hot in Java-land. Not to mention NuGet vs Maven, EntityFramework vs Hiber
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by ufmace 6y ago
Maybe not so easy. In my experience, in any even moderately heavy traffic, if you try to stay that far behind anyone, then other cars will constantly move into that empty space.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm wondering if this could actually be spun into being a good thing. I just looked over the site a little more. The business idea seems to be to have a widget to add to your site that can be used to upload arbitrary files to it. The r
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm not sure there really is a way to have universal good practices, since it really depends on what you're using the information for. For ex - why are you collecting gender? If it's for some kind of medical process, the requ
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've never experienced or even heard of anybody experiencing anything I'd consider abuse in the industry - with "industry" meaning developing software for ordinary businesses. IMO, this is all due to the conditions of th
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by ufmace 6y ago
I find it helps to stick to an office-like routine even when you don't really need to. Like do actually wake up on time, take a shower, perform normal grooming tasks, get dressed in professional clothes, make breakfast, and get online
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by ufmace 6y ago
Have you ever worked on any really large platforms or databases? IME it's pretty common that the idiomatic Arel/ActiveRecord code you might normally write can become hopelessly slow when the query gets complex and the datasets get
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by ufmace 6y ago
Thanks for the honest description of what really happened there. I've also had the experience of needing to rewrite a query that used a bunch of safe ORM statements but was painfully slow into a big, messy raw SQL query that was probab
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by ufmace 6y ago
No, those languages actually enforce type checking at runtime. The libraries for parsing JS that support parsing into a custom type will blow up right there if the provided JSON cannot be parsed into the provided class, not 5 steps later wh
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by ufmace 6y ago
Unfortunately, it turns out to be really tough to handle every possible edge case correctly without a little bit of cronyism. People forget passwords, lose 2FA devices, etc all the time. Many of the usual methods can be hijacked much more e
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by ufmace 6y ago
This is the kind of thing where everything is a judgement call and arbitrary policies applied strictly become absurd and useless. It's very possible that this particular team could stand to put a higher priority on fixing bugs before i
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by ufmace 6y ago
AFAIK, the base algorithms here are custom-fabricated ASICs. If your adversary can custom-fab ASICs to break hashes in your PW manager password in PBKDF2-SHA256, no reason they couldn't make one in whatever harder algorithm you could c
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think the important point is that Bitcoin mining hardware is much more specialized than that. The really crazy fast ASICs are hardwired to do SHA-256 hashes of Bitcoin block headers only and just increment the Bitcoin nonce before repeati
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by ufmace 6y ago
Site is down right now. I'm wondering if there's any mechanism to verify the developer you're paying for help. If I'm going to be paying, how do I know this person is actually knowledgable about my problem domain and goo
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by ufmace 6y ago
This post is getting a bit long in the tooth, at least regarding relatively new and fast-moving ecosystems like Go and Rust. I wonder if the Go team has determined any way to mitigate these long-running GC pauses for apps that don't al
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by ufmace 6y ago
archive.is is nice for seeing paywalled legacy media content
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by ufmace 6y ago
The story certainly didn't mention any attempt by any of them to advocate or help campaign for increased enforcement, prosecution, and restoring bail requirements for such crimes. When nearly all visible agitation is in favor of zero e
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by ufmace 6y ago
Oh they resisted eh? Exactly how? I'm not seeing much of anything in this article, besides getting a security camera reactivated so that they can see a video of who stole their stuff, which will never be followed up on anyways. I want
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by ufmace 6y ago
From what I've read, this varies hugely among the population. Some people seem to not be affected by them at all. Some people are able to use them short-term for pain relief and stop with no drama when the pain subsides. And some peopl
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by ufmace 6y ago
It was definitely starting to feel a little pricey for how terrible their UI is and how little interest they seemed to have in fixing it. What really got me to switch to Bitwarden though was how it started "recommending" that I ch
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by ufmace 6y ago
You're right that you may get a lot of noisy authentication spam texts. Alas, none of the companies involved seem to care. Judging by their popularity, most of their users don't seem to care much either. Is a captcha enough? I&#x2
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think those who think this misunderstand the type of security it is meant to provide. It's not about blocking account takeover attempts. Services mostly don't really care about that, because it doesn't affect the service as
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yup this. In much the same way as things like judging the productivity of software developers by the number of lines of code they write. It sounds like a good idea to the inexperienced, and it may even seem sort of true if you look at it in
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by ufmace 6y ago
> The Therac-25 was the first entirely software-controlled radiotherapy device. As that quote from Jacky above points out: most such systems use hardware interlocks to prevent the beam from firing when the targets are not properly config

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