user1980

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by user1980 5y ago
I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. If I want to find a family doctor, there is a list of 3 clinics with doctors taking patients, in a metro area of 325,000. Older people have "the good doctors" and those doctors aren'
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by user1980 5y ago
To execute what amounted to a no-op on the EVM global computer, this individual deployed this [1] smart contract, and then ran it [2]. The compute cost involved, measured in so-called gas fees, were 0.496 ETH for the contract deployment, an
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by user1980 5y ago
The problem is interruptions, not my ability to focus. The problem is Product demanding estimates, not my ability to estimate in the midst of uncertainty and ask questions to reduce it. The problem is Java, C, or whatever "legacy"
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by user1980 6y ago
"New focus on economics": It was bad enough seeing terrible clickbait in the "Recommended by Pocket" section displayed on every new tab. Now I have to go into settings to opt-out of Sponsored Stories so I don't have
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by user1980 6y ago
Tedious to set up, tedious to maintain. January 31 of this year I got an email telling me that my LE client used the older ACMEv1 protocol, not the newer ACMEv2 protocol. They gave me 4 months notice to update my LE client to something comp
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by user1980 7y ago
End-to-end TLS is dead. It started with PCI compliance. Next up was Corporate IT making sure idiots weren't signing up for Dropbox with their LAN password. Schools: Well, they always used proxies with no expectation of privacy whatsoev
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by user1980 7y ago
Too big to fail: It's not just for banks any more. If LE is compromised a few times and some fraudulent facebook.com or google.com certs leak out, how long before Firefox/Chrome/Edge blacklist their root cert like they did wi
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by user1980 7y ago
> They absolutely do, but batteries have physical limitations that result in lower power output over time. The same can be said of SSD media. It's well-known that flash memory is under-provisioned to allow for inevitable degradation
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by user1980 7y ago
I agree. I'm instantly skeptical of any "X has never occurred" claim: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Let's see some Taleb-esque "skin in the game": Not just the author's toothless footnote
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by user1980 7y ago
Opening up the Network Inspector when loading a single issue in the "new" UI shows a dumpster fire of 128 requests, 5 MB transferred. It's like the paradox of the heap: No one request is abnormally slow (although a 1.1MB slug
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by user1980 7y ago
Would that be similar to how you've "stolen" and re-licensed code from Instagram-API-python[1]? I don't see the MIT licence with Lev Pasha's copyright notice in your repo anywhere. Your code[2]. Their code[3]. [1]
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by user1980 7y ago
Don't worry, if you purchase a domain with a .biz (or 300 other junk-tier tLDs) extension from Amazon Route 53, Gandi still gets paid[1]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/re..
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by user1980 7y ago
I see what you're getting at. A story like this one: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-marines-isis-inspired-... You would ask the question "How far would he have gotten if an FBI agent hadn't got involve
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by user1980 7y ago
How about the 2009 New York City Subway plot[1]? I suppose it's possible that Zazi was a patsy, but if you take the Wikipedia page at face value it seems pretty damning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_New_Y
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by user1980 7y ago
I'd hazard a guess that 0.1% of Java developers are aware that on some operating systems Object.wait() can awaken spuriously. Heck, it wasn't even in the Javadoc until 1.5. And don't even get me started on how you should hand