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by xtajv 3mo ago
1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will. (Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).
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by xtajv 3mo ago
Show the plans, then. Otherwise, we make the reasonable assumption that it's an accident.
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by xtajv 3mo ago
What do you mean, "no mitigation" and "except for kernel updates"? Somebody made a mistake. Somebody found the mistake, and told the maintainers (and even offered a draft patch). The maintainers fixed the mistake and gav
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by xtajv 3mo ago
Well... you're not supposed to roll your own cryptography. Like, don't go thinking that you're going to do better than a NIST contest winner if you need a cryptographic primitive. That goes for protocols as well. And security
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by xtajv 3mo ago
It sounds like they just joined Vercel.
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by xtajv 3mo ago
I would consider it, if I were being paid royalties on the end product, rather than a one-time hourly fee.
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by xtajv 3mo ago
"Don't judge a book by its cover" :)
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by xtajv 3mo ago
Wearing smartglass in the first place is creepy. I have nothing against people who want to wear a bodycam but it becomes creepy when you intentionally hide one in an innocuous-looking object.
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by xtajv 3mo ago
I think about software engineering as virtual construction. In the physical world, we can have police that go after criminals who break down doors. But builders also have a responsibility to install locks. And negligently failing to build a
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by xtajv 4mo ago
Regarding emacs-style kbds in firefox -- I use vimium to remap most actions, and occasionally resort to an additional global keybinding helper app (e.g. BetterTouchTool on macOS).
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by xtajv 4mo ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again, I'm convinced LLMs will be the thing to convince software engineers to get it together and create a licensing board. Somebody wake me up when the ABET SWE PE is back.
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by xtajv 5mo ago
I expect LLM slop to be the thing that finally convinces software engineers to create a licensing board.
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by xtajv 5mo ago
Too much syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Heh, I wasn't suggesting that AI would actually replace decision-making. Rather, I wonder whether attempts to use AI in this way would result in such publicly-embarassing and catastrophic outcomes that software engineers might decide t
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by xtajv 6mo ago
The phrase "don't give them ideas" comes to mind.
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by xtajv 6mo ago
This is the part where you'd normally pull the junior engineer aside and politely give them a stern talking to until they understood what they did wrong. If anybody has suggestions for how to do this with LLMs (short of maintaining CLA
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by xtajv 6mo ago
It occurs to me that software engineering is just about the only engineering field which is neither licensed nor bonded nor insured. I wonder if AI / shadow IT will change that.
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by xtajv 6mo ago
> These dialogs always prompt me to chime in with my solution: make the police be self-insured, backed by their pension fund. I'm curious, what exactly do you mean by "self-insured"? (Is the idea to combine literal insuran
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by xtajv 6mo ago
My understanding is that (nonconsensual) circumcision of infants is quite common in some regions of the planet, and that some impacted individuals wish that this decision had not been made for them without their consent. That seems bad.
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Spot to complain that I missed a spot: (P.S. you can also add a new thread)
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Spot to complain about intersex genital mutilation:
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Spot to complain about female genital mutilation:
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Spot to complain about male genital mutilation:
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by xtajv 6mo ago
(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to compla
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by xtajv 6mo ago
I remember taking a machine learning course in which the instructor explicitly warned us to make wise fiscal decisions, based on the assumption that ML funding follows a hype-driven boom/bust cycle. "Save during the summers and yo
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by xtajv 6mo ago
can confirm. am weird enough to routinely flag as "inhuman". thaaaaaaaaanks
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by xtajv 6mo ago
In hotels of all tax brackets, you usually get a room key. And the salient difference is that CCTV is simply defense-in-depth, not a primary means for authentication.
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by xtajv 6mo ago
Earnest question: if I was feeling lazy and security-conscious at the same time, would I be better off... (A) opening chatgpt.com in qubes (but staying logged out, i.e. never creating a chatgpt account) -or- (B) creating a freemium chatgpt
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by xtajv 8mo ago
[Obligatory: Engineering background. Not an expert] I've always found it a bit odd that we DO define "i" to help us express complex numbers, with the convenient assumption that "i = sqrt(-1)"... but we DON'T ha
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by xtajv 10mo ago
Friendly reminder: The Mayo Clinic is located in Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic does a lot of groundbreaking research, new techniques, ultra-rare diseases... stuff that is super awesome, but nonetheless relatively unlikely to have established b

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