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by xvector 2y ago
I am shocked to see the "let's make writing vulnerable code illegal" take be so popular on HN. If you have written any meaningful amount of code, you have written vulnerable code.
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by xvector 2y ago
I'm sure we've literally never written a vulnerable line of code in our lives, right? Security reviews are part of a healthy SDLC. You catch vulnerabilities as part of security reviews as they would be totally unnecessary if peo
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by xvector 2y ago
SWE in security here. Why the heck would I "whistleblow" in a scenario where a vulnerability was internally found, unused, reported to legal, and fixed? That is part of any healthy SDLC. The EU is implying that it is illegal to ac
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by xvector 2y ago
Meh, I've maintained open source projects before and these comments are trivially easy to ignore.
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by xvector 2y ago
In the UK, not only would I pay massive taxes for healthcare, but then I'd also have to purchase private healthcare anyways. The US is far cheaper, even according to OECD metrics (disposable income after all expenses incl. healthcare.)
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by xvector 2y ago
Same experience here. I don't blame the Flipper, though, only my own lack of creativity and energy.
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by xvector 2y ago
> It's been a major talking point [...] doesn't have to be objectively true for people to feel like it is true. Just like everyone always thinks crime is up even when it's down. I'm sorry, but no. It's not just a
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by xvector 2y ago
The system is chronically underfunded (despite the massive amounts of tax revenue it already receives.) Doctors can make much more going private and the public doesn't really feel like paying more in taxes for doctors in the NHS. Plus
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by xvector 2y ago
In the UK you also pay insane taxes and your _median_ citizen in the UK has far less disposable income after all expenses including healthcare, according to OECD metrics. In software engineering specifically, I'd make a third of my c
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by xvector 2y ago
Each society has its own good and bad, and you can't dismiss an achievement because something totally unrelated happens in the same country.
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by xvector 2y ago
Classic example of government overregulation fucking over the regular citizen. I go to two hospitals and am dealing with a medical condition and it's a total nightmare. Each hospital uses the same backend but I have to go through a len
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by xvector 2y ago
When red tape makes drug development and testing impossible, as it did here, the system has ceased to benefit humanity and is causing nothing but stagnation and long-term suffering (by virtue of holding back potentially life-improving or li
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by xvector 2y ago
Wow, the FDA is worse than useless. So much regulatory red tape. These guys had every single reasonable safeguard in place and the FDA kept putting requirement on top of requirement until literally no one would qualify for the study. 20-30
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by xvector 2y ago
The EU? Anyone remember Crypto AG? Switzerland, I guess, but Schengen Area regardless.
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by xvector 2y ago
I really admire people that are willing to go the whole way to daily drive something like the MNT Reform or Linux+Framework. It definitely requires a certain dedication and commitment to a principal.
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by xvector 2y ago
Do you think it was a durability issue or would this have happened to any laptop?
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by xvector 2y ago
EU regulations make it a nightmare to innovate there. While millions of people cheer on "sticking it to big tech," they don't notice how the EU has become a barren wasteland of technological innovation for the past two decade
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by xvector 2y ago
This is 27% of their cash on hand. It simply cannot be spun as "nothing".
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by xvector 2y ago
Unions are not effective at getting you to high comps. They will only get you to a middle of the road comp. The seniority based structure is effectively a penalty on high achievers. Why should a union member be paid more just because they&#
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by xvector 2y ago
Those wages are absolutely not fair in the era of modern tech comp. But IMHO people should just find a different job, there are plenty available that pay better.
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by xvector 2y ago
What app are you using for measurement and local image search? For measurement I found Apple's app disappointing, even on the Pro models it isn't accurate to the scales I typically work with (centimeters.)
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by xvector 2y ago
The throwaway work is worth pennies per piece to me at most. So I probably wouldn't do it at all if it wasn't for the generators. And even when it comes to the generators, I typically just use the free options like open-source d
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by xvector 2y ago
Except they can't do the equivalent for art yet either, and I am fairly familiar with the state of image diffusion today. I've commissioned tens of thousands of dollars in art, and spent many hundreds of hours working with Stable
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by xvector 2y ago
You would replace it with a dummy that unlocks that functionality but looks physically the same.
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by xvector 2y ago
Yeah, this is the main reason I stopped using Reddit when I entered the industry. Taking it a step further - I frankly don't think normal people are positioned to make any decisions or hold any opinions strongly about tech. They are so
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by xvector 2y ago
> Someone retroactively realizes they have the data, and then it does. This simply isn't within the realm of reason. Engineers at Meta have far more impactful problems to solve than attempting to reverse engineer the browsing habi
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by xvector 2y ago
Countless people rely on WhatsApp. Historically, when we have seen WhatsApp go down even for a short amount of time we have seen massive disruption and some loss of life. Emergency services in some locations rely on WhatsApp, most businesse
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by xvector 2y ago
"Acceptable" is debatable. Is the company genuinely trying to fix the issue? Can they demonstrate it (provide PRs, resourcing information, updates, etc?) The real solution is not over-regulating the internet. This is how we end up
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by xvector 2y ago
> Call me a skeptic but this whole charade about privacy aware infrastructure seems more likely to be about plausible deniability rather than genuine compliance. It actually is that difficult. I have worked at a few big tech companies
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by xvector 2y ago
Having actually worked for Meta in both security and privacy capacities, I guarantee you that it's really not that conspiratorial. No one wrote this article with the intention of "trapping privacy-minded tech enthusiasts."

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