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by ufmace 2y ago
> cheaper than anyone else on the market, but not by some huge margin - half the cost or so, at best. I feel we should point out that none of us know what it actually costs SpaceX to run these rockets. Given that they have very ambitious
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by ufmace 2y ago
It was snarky and ridiculous, yes. But then, so is the implication that subways aren't sufficiently safe due to emotional appeals to incidents that happen a single-digit number of times a year versus the millions of riders every day. G
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by ufmace 2y ago
Out of about 3.5 million riders a day. Meanwhile, nobody pays any attention to the roughly 250 people who die in car crashes every single year in the NYC metro area. If you're so worried about safety, we should ban cars entirely instea
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by ufmace 2y ago
It did say he was supposedly "considering" doing that, not that he actually did it.
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by ufmace 2y ago
I completely agree. I also call "citation needed" on physical keys being replaced.
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by ufmace 2y ago
It actually works quite well, if you use WSL. Ruby itself works okay on bare-metal Windows, but virtually guaranteed any decent size Rails project will use some native gem that's a nightmare to get to build on Windows.
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by ufmace 2y ago
I'd argue that keeping Linux updated is at least as much of a nuisance. Who is keeping a Linux machine updated without regular restarts? I've never heard of that. Yeah, many applications on Windows update themselves. I've nev
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by ufmace 2y ago
The thing about metaprogramming magic in Ruby is that, it can work okay for one thing, but if you have 2 or 3 or more things all using it to do different things, it's very likely they'll conflict and blow up in a way that's r
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by ufmace 2y ago
Well yeah. Which shows that, despite the poor understanding of some in tech of how conventional finance actually works, it's dramatically more secure than any type of crypto at securing large amounts of money for actual users.
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by ufmace 2y ago
I think a lot of people bought some crypto early on when it was really cheap, were kind of sloppy about the security of things, and then left it alone and ignored everything while it went up by 10,000x in value. Now when their account is wo
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by ufmace 2y ago
Yup. If you DON'T have this feature, you're depending on every user who has TOTP 2FA to actually save their backup codes somewhere they can retrieve ~years later or back up their TOTP some other way manually. Naturally, most users
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by ufmace 2y ago
That's what I dropped in to say. I've used most of them, and I think Rake is my favorite. Pretty much all of the others are shell command runners with a couple of extra bits bolted on. Well and good most of the time, but it's
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by ufmace 2y ago
Curious how you did deployment. On the one hand, giving him his own live server on the net seems cool, but that's a bunch more technologies to learn in order to deploy. On the other hand, seems like it would take away from the independ
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by ufmace 2y ago
This article is a much better analysis than anything I'd seen before about the rise and fall of Enron. An attempt to really dig into how and why it appeared to be and felt like an unstoppable rocketship of brilliance at the time that d
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by ufmace 2y ago
I suppose I can see how people are taking this piece that way, but I don't see it like that. It is snarky and ranty, which makes it hard to express or perceive nuance. They do explicitly acknowledge that "a single server can go a
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by ufmace 2y ago
What I mean here is, with print debugging, the setup is usually you have a run or test case that you start, spits out a bunch of text from the prints, and is complete in a second or two. With an interactive debugger, you often end up spendi
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by ufmace 2y ago
Yeah it's a big enough pain point that I'm sure it's been done in at least some places. I'm not really sure it'd be worth the bother and memory consumption etc to set up though. Not when print is dead simple and wor
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by ufmace 2y ago
I've used both print and proper debuggers plenty. I tend to lean on print debugging more these days. The thing about debuggers, in addition to often being a headache to set up, it usually seems tricky and time-consuming to get it to st
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by ufmace 2y ago
This is pretty cool! I'm not sure if I'm the target audience since I have virtually no experience developing Android apps, but I'm giving it a try. It might be helpful to clarify that the intent is everything is solvable usin
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by ufmace 2y ago
That I can agree with. I think Rust strikes a pretty good balance with it though. You can still do those things if you really need to, but it has to be marked `unsafe`. This bounds the unsafety to only the parts of the code that actually ne
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't really agree with that interpretation. In my opinion and experience, it does not restrict architectural choices to the extent that it makes it difficult to develop greenfield projects. It's more that it rules out a relativ
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't really agree with this. I'd phrase it more as, you have to learn to really understand what the borrow checker is trying to do and how it makes you architect your programs and consider that ahead of time. Once you understan
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by ufmace 2y ago
The article here is basically PR from the Tor project. I suspect most reader here would find this relatively high-level technical analysis of the attack more interesting: https://delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass-scan-abus
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by ufmace 2y ago
Why doesn't this apply both ways? Red voters in Blue states are just as likely to stay home because they think their votes won't count. And ditto the other point, Red voters in Red states may not feel like it's worth the both
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by ufmace 2y ago
If you're already using Tor, what's the point of having a VPN too?
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by ufmace 2y ago
I agree. Calling this a "RCE Vulnerability" is ridiculously exaggerated. What's next, are we going to declare web browsers to have a "RCE Vulnerability" because they allow you to download programs from any site whic
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by ufmace 2y ago
I feel like all of this is true, but represents the larger background forces. I think a big factor in why it's hitting relatively hard now is the Musk takeover of Twitter - he laid off a ton of engineers, and nothing much happened. I t
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by ufmace 2y ago
The whole design process for them is based around launches being expensive and taking a long time to plan. It will be very interesting to see what happens when the whole process gets used to launches being relatively cheap and frequent. No
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by ufmace 2y ago
I'm not sure what value adding a DeadManService would have then. Probably simpler to just have the attorney's instructions say, "Hire a technical consultant to carry out the following:".
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by ufmace 2y ago
> You seem to never been in that shoe (from a country no one hires from). Why do you say that? I do have sympathy for people in such countries and circumstances, but this isn't about that. It's about corporate compliance. For b

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