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by yafbum 3y ago
Cool use of the botnet's capabilities against itself But no arrests announced? I wish the people responsible for this were made an example of, as opposed to being basically free to start over (it seems).
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by yafbum 3y ago
Let me give an example bad abstraction that isn't due to littered conditionals, but still very bad. One time company A had a database, and code that loaded persisted object state from them. Some of the objects could be soft deleted. Ra
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by yafbum 3y ago
I was hesitant about buying a Chevy Bolt EV for similar reasons, but honestly, zero complaints. Well made, pleasure to drive. They did have a battery recall but that was due to defects introduced at an LG factory in Korea IIRC
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by yafbum 3y ago
Very useful for sailing, but also biking, hiking, any kind of outdoor activity. Turns out a certain temperature with 5 mph wind feels very different from the same temperature with 20 mph wind. I like this app for being forward about the wea
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by yafbum 3y ago
> Navigating corporate America as a guess-culture person Another thing that you can do, if you're in a position of some leadership (doesn't have to be management), is recognize others who are maybe not asking as much as they sh
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by yafbum 3y ago
I hear you. I respect the process and practice. I would invite you to ponder what would happen if all the iPhones and iPads in one country were to be bricked overnight by an OTA update - billions of dollars worth of instant economic damage
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by yafbum 3y ago
I'm not saying just write the function and flash the firmware, but it's not like the super rigid certification process doesn't have its nefarious side effects either. My experience is that the more expensive fixes are, the mo
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by yafbum 3y ago
> this cost several millions to redeploy the (one-line) fix to actually check the weight from the sensor was less than the threshold Well maybe this is the other, compounding problem. Engineering complex machines with such a high cost of
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by yafbum 3y ago
As I heard one engineering leader say, "it's okay to make mistakes — once ". Meaning, we're all fallible, mistakes happen, but failure to learn from past mistakes is not optional. That said, a challenge I have frequentl
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by yafbum 3y ago
It's possible that such techniques are unreasonable in low margin companies, and it could also be said that perhaps these engineering techniques have been a factor in allowing Google to keep its margins high as it scaled up by many ord
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by yafbum 3y ago
> I wished many times that they just hired people with management skills from some field completely outside of science, a manager doesn't really need to know the intricacies of the work to do their job well. Having been there too, I
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by yafbum 3y ago
Big +1 on too technical leaders. Seen this a couple times with brilliant engineers who, once they became in charge of 50 different teams, appeared to try to just do the same work they did in one team but "scaled". Put every team i
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by yafbum 3y ago
Doesn't that also say something like, it's an easier road to success if you find the tall way to market and scale, scale, scale once you find it? What is the "wide" success story to take inspiration from?
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by yafbum 3y ago
Could be plenty of reasons, but say you want to support spikey traffic like whatever is related to events, news, realtime information, etc., or highly seasonal stuff like a school portal or selling flowers on mother's day, you want the
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by yafbum 3y ago
He wasn't under strong direct pressure from govt until after fleeing with secret docs. The actions he took after that can't justify his theft and flight abroad. The theft and flight abroad, however, were disproportionate relative
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by yafbum 3y ago
It's pretty debatable whether the entirety of Snowden's actions can be attributed to "reasonable necessity to defend from criminal acts". He could, and did, encrypt his own comms, by which point it looks like he was pret
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by yafbum 3y ago
Obviously he knew that this would not be a widely shared opinion.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Two things can be true. Snowden likely committed acts of treason for which the govt will pursue him. Snowden did pose a threat to US national security interests. If you look at the Schneier essay, he shared privileged info with journalists
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by yafbum 3y ago
As others have said, I was talking about concatenation as opposed to interpolation. Interpolation still has challenges. It's hard to make arbitrary sentences with many placeholders work with agreement. But concatenation is almost alway
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by yafbum 3y ago
Smells: * If you're concatenating sentence bits, you're doing it wrong * If you're formatting numbers, dates, times, or durations by hand, you're doing it wrong * If you're formatting strings with placeholders and y
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by yafbum 3y ago
Why do they have to underbid? Why is somebody is always going to bid lower? This does not really happen in most other industries, which know their cost structures and don't underbid themselves into the ground.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Except that the never gonna happen startups aren't really putting any bidding pressure on Cisco or Intel or whatever...
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by yafbum 3y ago
I don't think you've root caused this yet. There are other areas where studios do not/ cannot behave this way. Take something like electricity or catering, both of which are typically critical to production (even if unglamoro
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by yafbum 3y ago
This looks like a very very small development concerning only 50 workers at one shop. The VFX industry is much larger. IMO it is extra difficult for this field to unionize because so much of the labor either has been offshored or is easy to
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by yafbum 3y ago
This starts out as a fair comparison but evolves pretty quickly towards a one-sided recommendation for Ocaml. I'm quite sure that there are _some_ advantages of Rust that are not listed here and would be curious to learn more about the
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by yafbum 3y ago
This is one of the aspects of "RMB internationalization" strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_of_the_re...
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by yafbum 3y ago
My understanding: business A sells USD 1,000 worth of goods abroad. Customer wires USD 1,000 to bank B to the account of business A as payment for the goods. This money does not go directly to the account of business A. Bank B sends USD 1,0
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by yafbum 3y ago
I have yet to see someone be repeatedly brought back to life by an emergency worker due to a sudden French fries overdose, or live out on the streets because they just can't stop buying churros and spacing out on them.
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by yafbum 3y ago
I think you leave out a couple things here. Externalities: the costs of caring for the addicted are high, and the quality of life in neighborhoods where addicts congregate is horrendous, between violence, insecurity and insalubriousness. I
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by yafbum 3y ago
I feel like when I traveled to Asia, I didn't see any of that. I don't think it's because of better individual self-control (plenty of other addictions, like gambling, alcohol or smoking). But isn't there like death pena

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