willeh

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by willeh 5y ago
Perhaps `professional` is too narrow then. I think the power differential is an enabling factor for behaviour like this. While there certainly are creeps in normal dating situations, they are often easier to avoid. This story is very much a
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by willeh 5y ago
This may be a tone-deaf sidetrack but also perhaps an important piece of advice for some. There should be an impenetrable barrier between ones love life and ones professional life. While there are certainly people who have met their signifi
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by willeh 5y ago
Can't tell if you're joking but one of the selling points of Microsofts paid versions of Visual Studio used to be good support for writing classes using UML. Microsoft is the O.g low-code company spending most of the 00s making pe
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by willeh 5y ago
Any benefit that a "buyer of last resort" entails can easily be provided by either government or derivatives markets. Bitcoin takes away resources (energy and semiconductor manufacturing) from socially good things. It is much bett
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by willeh 5y ago
Don't do colo, do a rental dedicated server instead, its almost the same thing but much cheaper in practice, and it won't mean having to travel to a data-center during work hours. If you absolutely want to manage your own hardware
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by willeh 5y ago
There are plenty of regions in Europe that have similar histories and few countries in Europe are really that old, even states with long histories have not had constitutional orders lasting more than 50 years. Finland was a part of Sweden f
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by willeh 5y ago
And India was part of the British empire, Mexico (then called the viceroyalty of New Spain) a part of Spain and the list goes on. Might makes right belongs to a bygone age and people are entitled to self-determination. To decline to stand u
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by willeh 6y ago
I think the many point of the article isn't necessarily that it is easy to construct models in terms of lines of code but that any tweaking of the model is dominated by increases in data-size. Why pay for a PHD when you can invest in m
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by willeh 6y ago
None taken. My comment wasn't necessarily about Free vs Open source software, but about leaders for the free software movement. From my point of view RMS seems like a strong leader from a technocratic perspective, he has written signif
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by willeh 6y ago
I hope that I'm wrong here and there is evidence of actual bots, but as far as I can tell you're making this judgement based on the fact the people signing the RMS support letter have Russian sounding names. First off, yes I don&#
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by willeh 6y ago
I agree, it definitely seems that the phrasing there needs work. Overall I would say most RFCs are well substandard especially when compared to ISO standards which tend to be extremely precise. That being said, interoperability within tech
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by willeh 6y ago
`.well-known` is already used for validation for many things, perhaps most crucially acme-challenge which is used by LetsEncrypt to issue domain validation certificates. LetsEncrypt is trusted by all major browsers at this point so it seem
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by willeh 6y ago
Most importantly Auth0 was beating Okta on execution. Auth0 was leaner and would soon get to feature parity for both use cases. Without this deal they would slowly have lost ground to Auth0.
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by willeh 6y ago
Growing up as the typical nerd, I used to think that trust was something that needed to be eliminated, that other people weren't worthy of trust and that we all ought to be using TOR, bitcoin, I2P. All our chats be over XMPP with OTR m
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by willeh 6y ago
Truly fantastic stuff. I don't really have anything to add other than to say that this made me feel happy about what I do for a living. So much better than reading flamewars camouflaged as blogposts :)
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by willeh 6y ago
3) Is largely not true, the EU is largely heterogeneous when it comes to personal bankruptcy laws. The fact that unsecured consumer loans are as cheap as secured consumer loans (e.g. car loans), in many EU countries, shows that it is very t
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by willeh 6y ago
Encryption means speedy deletion so there is still value encrypting even if the key isn't protected. But that's probably not the reason for Apple always encrypting things with the key of the Secure Enclave. I think the reason for
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by willeh 6y ago
Except if you're using Homebrew where nothing is signed, so signing is not as ubiquitous as you seem to think. But signing is largely a moot point as people will follow the instructions on the website where a clever attacker would simp
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by willeh 6y ago
As opposed to downloading a binary and running it? We don't verify what the binaries we download contain, why do it for a bash script?
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by willeh 6y ago
Never understood forex trading myself, and I'm by no means a trading professional but it has struck me that most Forex brokers seem extremely shady. Seems like an extremely risky asset class with no natural tendency to go up and to the
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by willeh 6y ago
This is purely my personal opinion, but the wikipedia community seems like one of the most toxic communities on the web. The people contributing to WP - the editors - seem more concerned with coming up with Kafka-esque processes to introduc
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by willeh 6y ago
I'm a long time user of Prelude myself and it is absolutely terrific. I like my Emacs to be well Emacs and prelude as opposed to many other configs fits that description perfectly. A huge thanks to bbatsov for saving countless hours of
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by willeh 7y ago
I don't agree with the author that the quality of the team is what determines if a mono-repo is appropriate or not. It doesn't really matter if you use a mono-repo or not, what matters is what individual engineers are empowered to
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by willeh 8y ago
There are definitely use cases for this, for instance you might have some command line application that uses standard io. Sure it might be adapted to have support for web sockets natively, but this of course takes time. And as the old adage
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by willeh 8y ago
> Can you explain to me how the deletion policies work? Disclaimer: The GDPR hasn't been the law of the land for a year, so there is little precedent. It is fairly simple, the GDPR requires that companies that control identifying in
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by willeh 8y ago
I really don't blame the author here, sure there was an issue with the sample code - but come on it was sample code. If someone is implementing user uploads they should really do the due diligence and understand what the sample code do
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by willeh 8y ago
I'd say it is normal. Generally you wouldn't find equations describing some proposed model, instead you would find "equations" describing the statistical observations. This paper, however, isn't empirical. It instea
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by willeh 8y ago
I think he is referring to the fact that you use a fluent builder interface when building protobuf messages so you chain together a bunch of `.setFoo(myFoo).myBar(myBar).build()` to build your protobuf, while in Kotlin it is idiomatic to wr
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by willeh 11y ago
I might be irrational but these "someone on the internet is wrong" style articles are terribly unengaging.
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by willeh 11y ago
Getting an Internal Server Error at https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/polyfills/polyfill.js

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