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by ufmace 6y ago
Considering how many $Billions Facebook has, they can pay me if they want me to speak up for them.
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by ufmace 6y ago
What bothers me here is this pattern of personal destruction. It seems that certain people have somehow been declared "unpersons". The tactic is to develop a list of the 6 or so worst-sounding things they've ever done, always
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by ufmace 6y ago
> hosted guests like Alex Jones who say things like Sandy Hook was staged Did you actually listen to that episode? I did, and he explicitly said that he no longer believes that. It's rather ironic that you are arguing that we should
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by ufmace 6y ago
Would be interesting to hear more details on how they pulled that off. I would tend to assume the fast development speed involves using a bunch of existing tech instead of developing new. Maybe it's also unmanned, letting them drop a t
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by ufmace 6y ago
I have a feeling that most positions like that are filled through networking and word-of-mouth if not from internal promotion. Not many companies who want somebody like that are confident that they can determine if they really are that skil
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by ufmace 6y ago
Their point of view seems kind of right to me in that they may be suboptimal design decisions in hindsight, but changing them now will break all existing integrators. If you're going to break everyone anyways, might as well switch to a
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by ufmace 6y ago
Bad actors often set up fake websites. Should computers and phones have mandatory browser filters so you can only go to approved sites? Well they don't, but browsers do spend an inordinate amount of effort trying to make sure that ba
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by ufmace 6y ago
That's a key part of the security landscape that many techie users just don't seem to get. Maybe you'd like to be able to run your own code natively without jumping through a bunch of hoops, and distribute code you wrote with
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by ufmace 6y ago
I don't know if you should quit or not, but I do think you're mostly just psyching yourself out here. I can't see your actual interviews, but I'm just guessing a little based on your example. On the 3 second tweet time q
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by ufmace 6y ago
I haven't written a huge amount of Rust, but I feel like I understand it well enough to not have much of an issue with this. It seems like what Rust really want you to think about is not so much memory management directly, but ownershi
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by ufmace 6y ago
Scott responded to this line of thought already: 'Fifth, if someone speaks up against the increasing climate of fear and harassment or the decline of free speech, they get hit with an omnidirectional salvo of “You continue to spe
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by ufmace 6y ago
This post has better background on what the source of all of this trouble is https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've never seen a language that supported checked exceptions and actually used them consistently for everything. But then that would be kind of awful, because IMO the checked exceptions cases for "I know this will never actually t
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by ufmace 6y ago
I gotta wonder - how in the world can you ever get enough failed SSH login attempts to noticeably affect system performance? I usually have several cloud servers running with a normally secured SSHD running. There's some failed login a
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by ufmace 6y ago
Most of those are good practices for a substantial cloud of servers that are already expected to have sophisticated configuration management. They're easy to set up in that situation, and a good idea too because large clouds of servers
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by ufmace 6y ago
I would think the weirdness is because there are constitutional Due Process requirements to being able to arrest somebody, charge them with a crime, or take away their gun rights. But the Feds can easily lean on the airlines to not let peop
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by ufmace 6y ago
More interesting was that before the current chemical strip-based test, apparently the best way to test for pregnancy was to inject the urine into the leg of an African clawed frog, then see if it laid eggs in the next 24 hours. https:&#x2
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by ufmace 6y ago
Poor support for larger groups, poor support for use on multiple devices
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by ufmace 6y ago
This whole thing smells like a power game to me. I don't know exactly who or what the real power behind this stuff is, but I sure get the feeling that if you present a threat to their worldview, they'll destroy you by trying to as
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by ufmace 6y ago
About the slowness - is it just on launch, or does it keep being slow if the app keeps running? A few hundred ms is indeed a deal-breaker for standard Unix-y CLI app that might be chained with 5 other simple apps. It doesn't seem like
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by ufmace 6y ago
IMO, one of the struggles of the rapid advance of technology in the modern era is that many genuinely new moral situations are coming up. Everybody tries to figure out what should happen in these situations based on somewhat sloppy applicat
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by ufmace 6y ago
I appreciate that it's a little annoying and repetitive, but I think in this case, it really is better, because the business logic for exactly what should be done with each value in the case of a conflict can vary so widely. It's
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by ufmace 6y ago
I got on Google's APP a while ago. Google is great for this specific purpose - if there's one thing you can count on Google for, it's never ever listening to their customers, no matter what.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Wow, that's an amazing story! I wonder how many of these pilots flew fighters or something for the Air Force before they took a job flying airliners. I wonder how a fully automated system like we often think about would handle a situat
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by ufmace 6y ago
Thought about it, and I don't agree that this is a good idea, outside of a few special cases. Test coverage from failing tests - I can't see being concerned about the coverage of a suite that isn't completely passing. If you
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by ufmace 6y ago
Very much so. Even with what actually happened, the narrative also could have been that the forecasters and administration were reckless and irresponsible in ignoring the most accurate forecast model and not ordering evacuation they should
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by ufmace 6y ago
Haven't been around earthquake zones much, but I will say that the pre-hurricane drama is all media hype. They can mostly be ignored, leading you to at least as good of an outcome. IMO, it's well-known that the media will hype up
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by ufmace 6y ago
I lived in Houston for a while. It's true that the Rita evacuation was a disaster, for multiple reasons. Even absent the traffic jams getting out of the city, I had also heard from some friends who did evacuate that there was little ga
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by ufmace 6y ago
I lean the other way, but to each their own. Dunno why you're getting downvoted so hard for not being like everyone else. FWIW though, listening on headphones works perfectly well while walking or on mass transit. Scheduling isn't
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by ufmace 6y ago
In theory it sounds good. But it seems mighty odd that when somebody does original research like that, it's not allowed to be in Wikipedia, because they don't allow original research, but it's fine for the same person to publ

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