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by vinay_ys 4y ago
> ideological reasons might or might not be on those lists What's the ideological reasons here?
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Source? With biometric identity system Aadhaar and 2FA auth for everything I find this hard to believe.
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Little good it did with USB-C. They have a similar language guidelines for USB-C – https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_type-c_language_...
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In 100 years, there won't be need for any sea cables because we would have had 9th generation laser links 100 kilometers above our heads, in the sky.
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For comparison/reference, a typical single 2MW wind turbine platform costs about $3M USD. I would expect a wind park, that has several of wind turbines, to have traditional wired Ethernet connectivity (or 5G private network, in the fut
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
The scam part here is that listen traffic is bot-generated? Irrespective of that, on the payout side, why do you need stolen identities? It is Spotify paying out legitimately, isn't it?
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The maps I care about are Google Maps and Apple Maps and the maps used in school classrooms. If I were to zoom out all the way to world map view in Google/Apple Maps, clearly the intent isn't to do navigation but to get relative g
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
I use signal/whatsapp etc without giving them access to my contacts. I have to type in the phone number (only first time) with whom I want to chat. And that's okay.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Email is a lot less valuable these days, exactly because of how good the spam/categorization filters have become – huge kudos to gmail for this. Phone number on the other hand – it is a nightmare – how every service (office front desk,
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
No doubt, Tailscale people are awesome. From a security perspective, I would design this feature differently. If the capability to change the control server exists, then, rather than hiding it, I would want to see a prominent UI element dis
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Almost all popular open-source software has paying patrons – companies/universities that give time to the individual to work on that open-source project while keeping them gainfully employed. In recent memory I cannot think of any seri
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I don't buy that argument. Browser is plenty capable. Check out https://excalidraw.com Discovered this during pandemic WFH. Since then, this is THE collaborative drawing tool for any design discussions, interviews etc.
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For years, I have refused to install zoom, webex etc clients for exactly this reason. Their installer wants admin user access for no apparent reason. They could have given a simple drag and drop installation app. Instead they want to run an
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boost shared_ptr has been around since 2001. ZeroMQ was started in 2007.
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You get a lot of signals with the approach described below that are highly indicative of how the candidate is going to perform on the job. With a take-home assignment, you get no signals that can predict their on the job performance. -----
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Possession is 9/10th of the law.
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You can always show that message after email is verified. Don't reveal information without verifying the ownership of email or phone number.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
With technology like FIDO Passkey built into newer phones (both iOS and Android), I see passwordless multi-factor attested auth becoming the standard for most services very soon. Then, users will have to do even less to get more security.
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I have seen too many services that ask phone number for account recovery purposes and then end up using it for other purposes for which the user didn't consent. Given how insecure SMS OTP is, I try not to enable that if I can avoid it.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Very long time ago, I worked on a very large code base for a medical imaging platform that ran on multiple operating system platforms and had a shelf-life of 10+ years. The code had two personalities. First was all the scaffolding/fram
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snapd doesn't block your interactivity. You can start typing in your password and login and start to launch your app, meanwhile the user space startup sequence is still running.
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by vinay_ys 4y ago
Oil prices being high is a good thing for acceleration of renewable/green tech. Also, oil prices are a functional geo-politics.
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I have felt this for a while now. They send these cheap prints that have print bleed through from one side of the page to the other, and the print resolution is very poor and makes it very hard to read. The paper itself smells of kerosine.
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I have been guilty of doing this in so many contexts. Obviously with Latex while in college, later with logging libraries, with config libraries, with server frameworks etc. instead of doing the actual functional task at hand, the compulsio
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Why is this project on such a long timeline? I wonder what was the longest critical path in this project plan?
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ADSL2+ can do 22Mbps at 1KM. It can do 10Mbps at 2.8KM. But without mass-manufacturing of the such a switch/access device, it will be expensive.
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This is a bizarre FUD piece.
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While it is useful to have a short comment like this in the code as a quick reminder, such design choices belong in a more detailed technical design document which explores multiple design options and provides rationale for making the final
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Don't forget anonymity with temporary/throwaway devices and handles combined with E2EE PFS protocols can be very powerful to thwart such surveillance.
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All developer activities related to code – refactoring, editing, building etc all happen in a developer's workspace. A workspace can be composed of multiple git repo checkouts. An infrequent activity like renaming a lot of files can be

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